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[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Alan McConnachie, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Now is an exciting time in Canadian astronomy, with several large-scale projects underway. At optical-NIR wavelengths, the main focus is rightly on TMT, with construction set to begin next year. The ELTs will transform astronomy, in terms of the discoveries they enable, in terms

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Rachel Friesen, Dunlap Institute The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a revolutionary new facility in the Chilean Andes for studying the (sub)millimeter sky at angular resolutions as small as ~6 milliarcsec at the shortest wavelengths. A joint partnership between North America (including Canada), Europe and East Asia, ALMA was inaugurated

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] WISH is a concept being developed and will be proposed for Japanese JAXA/ISAS future space science mission whose primary goal is to study the first-generation of the galaxies beyond the epoch of Cosmic Reionization at z=8-15 as well as to conduct an extensive search and light curve monitoring of high redshift

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] The next AID meeting will be an informal, discussion-oriented meeting rather than a talk. The meeting will be a show and tell. The goal of this activity will be to find out what instrumentation work is going on right now and to discuss some of the associated accomplishments and challenges. The

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Jeff McMahon, University of Michigan The Cosmic Microwave background (CMB) permits the measurement of a number of unique and as yet undetected cosmological signals including imprints of the energy scale of inflation and of the sum of the neutrino masses. Measuring these signals requires constant innovation in instrumentation. In this talk,

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Laura Newburgh, Dunlap Fellow The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been an important probe of early Universe cosmology. Measurements of the polarized CMB are poised to map the signature of large scale structure in the CMB and provide constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses and the primordial helium abundance,

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Viacheslav Burenkov, University of Toronto A single photon detector is an enabling technology for numerous applications and experiments in many different branches of physics. As such, the development of single photon detectors is a very active field of research. Recently, superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) have become a prominent detector

[one_half] This special Astronomical Instrumentation Discussion is for registered participants only. The U of T Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory collaborates with business, government and academic institutions on spacecraft projects and the development of new space technologies. As a laboratory at the University of Toronto, its aim is to promote the use of