Highlights of the Glasgow SPIE meeting

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Highlights of the Glasgow SPIE meeting
Astronomical Telescope and Instrumentation
Glasgow, Scotland June 22-24, 2004 1900
attendees 15 Conferences/Programs
Ground-based telescopes
Advancements in Adaptive Optics
Optical IR Detectors in Astronomy Next
meeting in Orlando, FL, May 24-31, 2006
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The LSST was well represented
LSST-related attendees Victor Krabbendam Chuck
Claver Jacques Sebag Larry Daggert Brain
Cuerden Warren Davison Jim Burge Scot
Olivier Kevin Baker Don Sweeney
LSST project status, C. F. Claver, et al
5489-52 LSST structural design, W. Davison,
et al 5495-21 LSST mirror thermal
performance, B. Cuerden, 5495-22 LSST
primary, secondary, and tertiary mirror support
systems, B. Cuerden, 5495-67 Active
control for LSST, J. H. Burge 5489-109
Wide-field science drivers, C.F. Claver
5489-01
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There were numerous reviews of large optical
telescope projects

• LSST
• PanSTARRS (Nick Kaiser, Klaus Hodapp ? ADC )
• Discovery Channel Telescope (Tom Sebring ?
  etendue 50)
• TMT (Jerry Nelson, Gary Sanders)
• OWL (Enzo Brunetto, Roberto Gilmozzi)
• GMT (Matt Johns)
• LBT (John Hill)
• GTC
• ATST
• SOAR
• SALT
• VISTA
• Numerous extremely large telescope proposed
  projects
• US?TMT,GMTEurope?OWL,Euro50JapanChina?CFGT
• Updates on performance of large telescopes
  (VLT,MMT,KECK,HE,)

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Interesting LSST-related meetings and contacts

• Pat Wallace, Rutherford Appelton Lab (UK)
• Ed Graham, U of Fribourg
• OWL site selection based on past/present/future
  
• climate information
• Marc Sarazin, ESO
• Suppliers
• Schott
• Vertex RSI
• SAGEM
• Goodrich
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