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SUMMARY:Euclid Update and a look forward to DR1 results
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Professor Andy Taylor. We will also have the Sky in November. \nProfessor Andy Taylor will be bringing us up to date on the Euclid project and anticipating the Data Release 1 which will release all raw and calibrated data\, images\, spectra\, and catalogues covering a massive sky area of approximately 1\,900 deg. This is a follow up from his ASE lecture in June of 2024 \nAndy Taylor is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh\, based at the Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill. He completed his PhD in Cosmology at Imperial College and Queen Mary College London before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 1992. He specialises in observational and theoretical Cosmology\, studying Dark Matter\, Dark Energy\, the Early Universe\, and Gravitation. He has led international teams of scientists observing and analysing the clustering of galaxies\, gravitational lensing\, the cosmic microwave background and the analysis of gravitational waves. His contributions to Cosmology include pioneering the Standard Cosmological Model\, devising a method to ‘see’ Dark Matter in 3D\, and developing fundamental theories and tests of Dark Energy. He currently leads an international team which developed the European Space Agency’s Euclid Dark Energy satellite mission\, leads the Euclid gravitational lensing and UK’s data analysis\, and established the UK’s Euclid Science Data Centre\, based at Edinburgh. He has published over 200 academic papers\, was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2010\, and was awarded the Royal Society of London’s Wolfson Research Award in 2015.
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SUMMARY:The Extremely Large Telescope: all coming together on top of Cerro Armazones!
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Prof. Colin Cunningham\, Honorary Professor\, University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University. We will also have the Sky in December. \nAfter many years of design and development\, the ELT is now more than 70% complete. I will show the incredible engineering that has gone into it\, tell you about the UK Astronomy Centre’s role is in Edinburgh\, and then conclude by predicting some of the amazing science that will be possible when it is complete. \nI started working at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh in 1987 and retired in 2019. My roles included project manager for the SCUBA camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope\, systems engineer for the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory\, and deputy director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre. I first became involved in the ELT in 2005\, leading the instrument design studies in the EU funded ELT Design Study\, and was principal investigator for the UK £80M instrumentation and R&D programme from 2005 to 2016. In 2017 I was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professorship in systems engineering at Edinburgh University. \nImage Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia\nThis drone image\, taken in April 2026\, shows a stunning view above the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)\, under construction atop Cerro Armazones\, a mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The sliding doors are partially open\, showing the top of the telescope’s main structure inside. The catwalks running along the edges of the sliding doors convey the sheer size of the 80-m high dome.
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