High in Chile's Atacama Desert, construction of the largest telescope ever created is underway: the Giant Magellan Telescope, ten times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope. Dr. Freedman, head of the international GMT consortium, will discuss the complex teamwork involved in building this extraordinary instrument, and how the GMT will increase our understanding of dark matter and dark energy, the evolution of galaxies, the exciting field of exoplanets, and more. The GMT caps more than a century of leadership by the Carnegie Observatories in telescope technologies and contributions to our knowledge of the universe.
Dr. Wendy Freedman
Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair and Director,
The Carnegie Observatories
Monday, May 5th 2014
Partial funding for Carnegie Observatories' 2014 Astronomy Lecture Series was provided by The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation. The lectures were hosted by A Noise Within [ Ссылка ]. Video production by Neighbors Video Services [ Ссылка ].
