Astronomical Projects in Latin America (special session)

Special Session: Astronomical instrumentation, infrastructure, and facilities based in Latin America of major interest to the region

A special session will be dedicated to astronomical instrumentation, infrastructure and facilities based in Latin America, or of major interest to the region. Abstract submissions on these topics are welcome. This session will present some of the most relevant projects in the region. 

Featured projects and their presenters:

• 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), TBD

• CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory), Maria Victoria del Valle

• EHT (Event Horizon Telescope), Laurent Loinard

• LMT-TolTEC (Large Millimeter Telescope),  TBD

• LLAMA (Large Latin American Millimeter/submillimeter Array), Guillermo Giménez de Castro

• LSST-Rubin Observatory, Nelson Padilla

• ngVLA (next generation Very Large Array),  Luis Zapata

• QUBIC (Q-U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology), Beatriz García

• Simons Telescope, Carlos Hervías-Caimapo (TBC)

• SWGO (Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory), María Magdalena González (TBC)