AAS Presentations

AAS #237 virtual meeting, January 2021

• AAS Giveaways: US-ELTP virtual backgrounds, phone screens, and more!

US-ELTP session (14 January 2021)

• The US ELT Program: Building a Unique Capability for the US Community
      - Patrick McCarthy (NOIRLab)
• US-ELTP User Services: Enabling Transformational Community Research
      - Mark Dickinson (NOIRLab)
• US-ELTP Research Inclusion Initiative
      - Dara Norman (NOIRLab)
• Thirty Meter Telescope Project Status
      - Fengchuan Liu (TMT International Observatory)
• Giant Magellan Telescope Project Status
      - James Fanson (GMTO)
• Discussion

AAS #235, Honolulu, January 2020

Evening US-ELTP open house (5 January 2020)

• The US ELT Program - Patrick J. McCarthy (NOIRLab)
• The US ELT Program: Capabilities - Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO and Carnegie Observatories)
• Revealing the Dark and Hidden Universe with the US ELT Program - Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)

Daytime US-ELTP session (7 January 2020)

• The US ELT Program - Patrick J. McCarthy (NOIRLab)
• Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project - James Fanson (GMTO)
• Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope Project - Michael Bolte (U.C. Santa Cruz)
• US-ELTP: Extrasolar Planetary Systems - Nikole Lewis (Cornell) and Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego)
• Dynamical Searches for Black Holes with ELTs - Jonelle Walsh (Texas A\&M)
• US-ELTP: Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Univ. of New Mexico)

AAS #233, Seattle, January 2019

Daytime US-ELTP session presentations (7 January 2019)

• The US Extremely Large Telescope Program - David Silva (NOAO)
• Extrasolar Planets: Formation, Discovery & Characterization - Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego) & Nikole Lewis (Cornell)
• The First Stars and the Origin of the Elements - Ian Roederer (University of Michigan)
• Origins and Fundamental Physics of Supermassive Black Holes - Jenny Greene (Princeton University)
• Dissecting Galaxy Assembly at Cosmic Noon from 1 Mpc to 100 pc Scales - Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
• The Nature of Dark Matter - Josh Simon (Carnegie Observatories)
• Discovery Frontiers in Time-Domain Astrophysics: Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern University).

Evening US-ELTP open house presentations (7 January 2019)

• The Giant Magellan Telescope - Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO and Carnegie Observatories)
• The Thirty Meter Telescope - Shelley Wright (UC San Diego)
• The US Extremely Large Telescope Program - Debra Elmegreen (Vassar College; AURA)

Updated: 7 June 2021