Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infrared Observatory

August 22, 2013

When: August 22, 2013 3:30PM

Thirty Meter Telescope

I will discuss the scientific capabilities that the Thirty Meter Telescope will provide and some of the areas of study that will benefit from the TMT's capabilities. I'll describe how the telescope design was developed to support a broad range of observing capabilities and how the observatory is being engineered. Finally I'll describe the project organization and, importantly, the avenues through which individuals and institutes can actively participate in the project.

Warren Skidmore

Warren Skidmore has a bachelor of science degree (honors) in physics and astrophysics from Leicester University, master of science degree in astrophysics from QMWC, University of London, and a PhD in astrophysics from Keele University. He has published many research articles within the field of cataclysmic variables, is an experienced and active observational astronomer, and often acts as a referee for astronomical journals. Warren has worked extensively within the TMT site testing group and has developed new methods for assessing the quality of sites for astronomical observations. He continues to work within the TMT systems engineering group as an experimental scientist, assisting the design and development of TMT by investigating the behavior of the telescope subsystems.

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