Plenary sessions from SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016
SPIE Astronomy plenary talks present the latest research and promising breakthroughs.
Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley and University of Tokyo
Using multi-object spectroscopy to study the birth and the fate of the universe.
Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow
The history and current status of the emerging field of gravitational-wave astronomy.
Monica Grady, The Open University
The dramatic story of the European Space Agency's comet-chaser Rosetta mission.
Richard Ellis, European Southern Observatory
Rapid progress is being made in detailed spectroscopy of the Universe.
George Helou, California Institute of Technology
A look into telescopes of the future and how they will provide a view "into the invisible" and how the Universe came to be in its current state and how it is held together.
Raffaella Morganti, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Innovative instrument designs are being adopted to broaden the capabilities of new radio telescopes.
Andrew Connolly, University of Washington (USA)
The LSST will potentially study the nature of dark matter and dark energy, measure the properties of our Galaxy, and create a census of our Solar System.