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High Resolution Spectroscopy Workshop in Tucson (1Dec94)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 40, 1 December 1994)

A workshop to discuss new scientific programs to be carried out by high
resolution spectrographs on the Keck, Gemini, and Hobby-Eberly telescopes
was held 13-15 October 1994 at the Radisson Suite Hotel in Tucson. The
workshop was sponsored jointly by The University of California
Observatories/Lick Observatory, The National Optical Astronomy
Observatories and the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas.
Seventy attendees from seven countries met to discuss the impact on high
dispersion spectroscopy of the new very large telescopes that are becoming
available. The meeting began with a review of the high resolution
spectrographs for these telescopes that have either been recently built or are
currently being designed. At the end of the meeting several of the
instrumentalists discussed the impact of the meeting on their thinking. The
majority of the meeting was taken up with a discussion of the astronomy
that will be possible with the new equipment in the fields of: (a) stellar
physics; (b) stellar populations and abundances; (c) the ISM and SNR, and
(d) AGNs and quasars. A feature of the meeting was the presentation of new
data taken with the HIRES spectrograph of the Keck telescope. Summaries
of the various sections of the meeting will be published in the PASP, and
will be available via the NOAO homepage on the World Wide Web.

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Tom Kinman

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