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SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 27 June - 2 July 2010
Town and Country Resort and Convention Center
San Diego, California, USA

The Most Prestigious Astronomy Technical Event—SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010 concluded 2 July.

Highlights from the meeting:

 •The Conference Program, featuring over 2000 papers from the world's top researchers. View the Final Program (PDF). Download the abstracts. 
 •See and hear Plenary Presentations, featuring full length audio and high resolution PowerPoint graphics.
  •Yasushi Suto: Unknowns and unknown unknowns: from dark sky to dark matter and dark energy
  •J. Anthony Tyson: Optical synoptic telescopes: new science frontiers
  •Robert Gilmozzi: ELTs science vision
  •Ewine van Dishoeck: Science with ALMA: a supersharp view of the nurseries of galaxies, stars and planets
  •Mark McCaughrean: The ESA space science and robotic exploration programme
  •Göran Pilbratt: The ESA Herschel Space Observatory: first year achievements and early science results
  •Alfred McEwen: High-resolution imaging of extraterrestrial planetary surfaces
  •Sara Seager: Transiting exoplanets: from ground-based origins to Kepler discoveries and beyond
  •Saku Tsuneta: Hinode: a new solar observatory in space
  •Steven Ritz: Fermi at two years: status and results
  •Abstracts and bios for the presentations listed above
 •The Exhibition, where leading companies display their latest products
 •Printed or CD-ROM conference proceedings


The 2010 meeting focused on the following areas:

Telescopes and Systems
 •Space Telescopes and Instrumentation covering Gamma Ray, UV, Optical, IR and Millimeter Wave
 •Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes
 •Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation
 •Optical and IR Interferometry
 •Adaptive Optics Systems
 •Observatory Operations
 •Systems Engineering
Technology Advancements
 •Systems Engineering
 •Modern Technologies
 •Advanced Software and Control
 •Detectors


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Important Dates

Manuscripts Due
31 May 2010

Hotel Reservations Cut-off
3 June 2010

Pre-Registration Discount Cut-off
11 June 2010


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