William Harris, University of Toronto

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The Large Optical Telescope (LOT) Project. A consortium of Canadian Universities, governments and industries with international partners to build a telescope of unprecedented power.
CFI · 2004 · Co-investigator
$4,000,000

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The Large Optical Telescope (LOT) Project. A consortium of Canadian Universities, governments and industries with international partners to build a telescope of unprecedented power.

Co-investigatorCFI2004Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Carlberg, Raymond

Keywords: optical-infrared telescope, optics, advanced structures, control systems, opto-electronics, detector systems

$4,000,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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