AAS 245

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Events & Presentations

Monday 13 January 2025
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Splinter Session	New Data-Driven Classroom Investigations from Rubin Observatory
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm	Oral session	The Hubble Tension in our own Backyard: DESI and the Nearness of the Coma Cluster
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm	Splinter Session	An Evening with the Maunakea Observatories
Tuesday 14 January 2025
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Town Hall	Rubin Observatory Town Hall
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Special Session	Dark and Quiet Skies: Recent Developments, Environmental Impacts, and Pathways Forward
Wednesday 15 January 2025
11:00 am - 1:15 pm	Splinter Session	The Rubin Observatory and Supermassive Black Holes: A New Era of Discovery - Day 1
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Town Hall	NOIRLab Town Hall
1 pm - 4 pm	Splinter Session	Community Models of Astronomy and Mutual Stewardship Program Implementation
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm	Oral session	Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies: New Probes of Reionization and Stellar Feedback
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Splinter Session	NSF NOIRLab and US Extremely Large Telescope Program Joint Open House
Thursday 16 January 2025
9:30 am - 11:30 am	Splinter Session	A conversation about the Gemini Observatory Strategic Plan for the 2030s
9:30 am - 11:30 am	Splinter Session	The Rubin Observatory and Supermassive Black Holes: A New Era of Discovery - Day 2

Demo Schedule

NSF NOIRLab and US Extremely Large Telescope Program Joint Open House

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET - 8:30 PM ET

NSF NOIRLab and the US Extremely Large Telescope Program (US-ELTP) invite you to our joint Open House! Together, we represent most of the present and future US public access, optical and infrared major ground-based observatories.

US-ELTP is a joint endeavor of NOIRLab and the organizations building the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope.

NOIRLab provides world-leading US public access: the International Gemini Observatory, the NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), the NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), the Community Science & Data Center (CSDC) and the operations of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

We will have two presentations separated by a short interlude to enjoy complimentary light fare and drinks and have conversations with participants and presenters.

(1) In the first session, you’ll get brief updates on NOIRLab activities and then join discussions on topics of interest to the US ground-based, nighttime optical and infrared astronomy community.

(2) In the second session, join us for the latest on the US-ELTP.

Everyone is welcome!

Exhibit Resources and Handouts

Useful links

Gemini Card Game webpage
Globe at Night international citizen science campaign on light pollution
IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Interference
NOIRLab's zero-profit online swag store

Presentations involving NOIRLab staff and Programs

Updated on December 20, 2024, 3:59 am

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