New Large Telescopes: Complementing JWST and Opening the time Domain
Tuesday 20 January, 1:30 pm, Curia II
Jeremy Mould (National Optical Astronomical Observatory)


The Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) is a concept for a several-hundred-segment telescope optimized for multi-conjugate adaptive optics in the near infrared. Following the publication of the GSMT Book and the CELT Green Book, the projects are conducting a common design and development phase, in order to meet the objective of the U.S. National Research Council's decadal survey, to bring a 30 meter telescope into operation contemporaneously with JWST and ALMA. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is a concept for a fast survey telescope. Science drivers include weak lensing, supernova cosmology, and the discovery of near earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects. A public-private partnership is pursuing the design and development of LSST, aiming at first light early in the next decade. The data will be made public and will be a major asset to virtual observatories.