Oral Presentation

TMT-China

Author(s): Shude Mao

Presenter: Shude Mao (NAOC)

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is an international partnership to build the next-generation extremely large optical/IR telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. A consortium of Chinese institutes are involved in the effort to participate in many high-tech aspects of TMT. I will briefly review the status of these efforts and outline the opportunities and challenges ahead.