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Videos: Plenary talks from SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

Complete plenary talks from the 2010 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation symposium.

16 July 2010

Approximately 2,000 members of the international astronomical instrumentation community gathered in at the Town and Country Resort in late June 2010 for the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation sympsium. Among the presentations they heard were the following plenary talks.

Full-length audio and high resolution PowerPoint graphics are available from the following:

	•	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