A Decade of Exploration With The Magellan Telescopes
April 26-28, 2011
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California, USA
Motivation
The twin 6.5 meter Magellan telescopes in Chile are widely considered among the best natural seeing telescopes in the world consistently delivering high quality images over extended periods of time.
In their first decade of operations, the telescopes have made important contributions to many areas of astrophysics and cosmology including dark energy, dark matter, early galaxies, IGM, cosmic explosions, AGN and quasars, clusters of galaxies, the Milky Way and Local Group galaxies, extrasolar planets and the Solar System. This three day meeting highlighted scientific results from the telescopes and prospects for future science with the next generation of instruments.
We also took advantage of this opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of Dr. Stephen Shectman who played a central role in the design and construction of the telescopes and continues to play a major role in the development of Magellan instrumentation. Some of Dr. Shectman's many contributions to astronomy were described in a dinner in his honor that was held on the second day of the meeting.
The meeting took place at The Huntington Library in San Marino. There was an opening reception on the evening of April 25th at the main offices of Carnegie Observatories on Santa Barbara Street which gave participants a chance to visit this historic campus.