Meeting of the IRIS team in Pasadena, CA in Sept 2017 to finalize the preliminary design review phase of the infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS), which is one of TMT's first light instruments
Representatives from TMT’s Wide-Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS) team, including Maureen Savage, Matthew Radovan, and Zheng Cai, members of TMT-China office, and representatives from National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) and its affiliate, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (NIAOT); Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO); Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP); Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (STJU); Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST); and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).
Meeting with Sev1Tech’s experts who will help to develop the conceptual design of TMT Communications and Information System. From left: Eric Chisholm, Vlad Aleksiev, Gelys Trancho, Corinne Boyer, Chris Johnson, Jessica Turner, Hanne Buur, Lianqi Wang, Jason Weiss. Remote participants: Scott Robert, Kim Gillies, Ed Chapin, Malcolm Smith. Image Credit: TMT International Observatory.
Construction of the Center for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) on the outskirts of Bangalore, India.
The Review participants stand in front of CIOMP’s four-meter mirror polishing and metrology center; one of two polishing and metrology centers where the final M3 mirror could be polished. From left to right: Qi Erhui, Hu Haixiang, Zhang Lingtong, Glen Cole, Tim Campbell, Hu Haifei, Liu Zhenyu, Eric Hansen, Luo Xiao, Virginia Ford, Byron Smith, Zhang Xuejun, Scott Shankle, Fengchuan Liu, Yang Fei, Xue Suijian, Shen Zhixia and Zhang Liaming.
TMT Associate Project Manager Ravinder Bhatia
Interactive discussions on TMT Common Software implementation
The whole team in front of ThoughtWorks Office in Pune, India.
TMT Telescope Structure review meeting participants in Japan
The TIO Board of Governors voting to begin the construction phase.
