Original URL: https://artsci.tamu.edu/news/2024/12/northwestern-university-joins-giant-magellan-telescope-international-consortium.html
By Ryan Kallabis (Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation, December 13, 2024)
Officials with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) announced today (Dec. 13) that Northwestern University has joined the international consortium in its quest to construct the $2.54 billion observatory dedicated to exploring the distant universe.
With the addition of Northwestern, which is home to the world-renowned Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the newly founded NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI), the Pasadena, Calif.-based global consortium expands to 15 international research institutions, including Texas A&M University as a founding partner. To read more, see https://artsci.tamu.edu/news/2024/12/northwestern-university-joins-giant-magellan-telescope-international-consortium.html
The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
Information on National AI Institutes is available at aiinstitutes.org.
