Australia and the Giant Magellan Telescope - Dr Jon Lawrence
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2015-07-29

On the 3rd June 2015 the Giant Magellan Telescope Organisation announced that the GMT was beginning construction. The GMT is part of a new class of Extremely Large Telescopes which will push the boundaries of science and engineering. Australia has a 10% share of this world class instrument. On the 20th July the ANU hosted an event to explore Australia’s involvement in this exciting international science endeavour. 

Dr Lawrence is the Head of Instrument Science at the AAO and MANIFEST Project Leader. He discussed MANIFEST, a Fibre Positioner which will be used in conjunction with all of the natural seeing spectrographs on the GMT.