Dr. Warren Skidmore and colleagues from TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs) receiving the award.
Dr. Warren Skidmore, TMT System Scientist, revealing the Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) award during TMT Science Forum -Nov. 7-9, 2017.
From left: Large granite slab is mined, Granite slab is coarse cut, Transportation of granite to Nanjing, Granite Slab has been ground down to a 5m rotational table, Rear Surface of Granite Table Polished, Large Rotational Gear under Fabrication, Rotational Table Base Structure & Centre Connection, Base being lowered into pit, Base in position.
Setup for NIAOT Continuous Polishing of TMT Segments
Participants of TMT Common Software development in ThoughtWorks office in Pune, India. - January 2018 -
Members of TMT Common Software team gathering in front of ThoughtWorks headquarters in Pune, India. - January 09, 2018
First parts for the USA Segment Support Assemblies, and some of the TMT Project Office team members involved in this program (left to right): Robert Anderson (Lead Quality Assurance Engineer and Work Package Manager), Bryan Smith (Quality Assurance and Testing Engineer), Fred Kamphues (Senior Opto-mechanical Engineer), Pratheep Eamranond (Lead Contracts Specialist), Christina Wong (Associate Contracts Specialist) and Alan Tubb (Associate Opto-mechanical Engineer).
TMT Quality Assurance and Safety engineers Bryan Smith and Robert Anderson, accompanied by IIA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Vineeth Valsan and IIA Optics Engineer Manoj visiting the construction of the new optics facility dedicated to TMT primary mirror segment production.
The mirror blank was stored in a 20 feet container by NYK line, one of Japan’s biggest shipping companies, and transported by sea from Tokyo to Chennai via Singapore. The mirror blank arrived at the Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) on December 1, 2017.
Cross sectional view of TMT enclosure revealing the observatory structure and components.
