Welcome address of the director of the National Astronomical Observatory Y. Kozai Opening Session Pages: 1 - 1
Opening address of the chairman of the Organizing Committee Tomokazu Kogure Opening Session Pages: 3 - 4
Cosmology and large telescopes Satio Hayakawa First Session Astronomy and Large Telescopes Pages: 7 - 17
How the space astronomy has extended the horizon of astronomy Minoru Oda First Session Astronomy and Large Telescopes Pages: 19 - 25
Radio astronomy and very large telescopes Norio Kaifu First Session Astronomy and Large Telescopes Pages: 27 - 29
Structure of the Keck Telescope — An overview Stefan J. Medwadowski Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 33 - 43
Concept and status of the VLT project D. Enard Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 45 - 53
Recent progress on the Columbus Project and the Miror Laboratory program J. R. P. AngelJ. M. HillP. A. Strittmatter Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 55 - 70
The U.S. National 8 m telescope project L. D. Barr Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 71 - 85
The planning of NOAO 8 m telescope enclosure and facilities Woon-Yin WongLawrence D. Barr Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 87 - 101
Progress of the Magellan Project W. A. HiltnerS. A. Shectman Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 103 - 105
The UK Large Telescope project Richard S. Ellis Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 107 - 110
A progress report on the design of the 8 m aperture Optical/Infrared Telescope B. MackD. HarmanC. Garcia Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 111 - 118
A decade of cost-reduction in very large telescopes (The SST as prototype of special-purpose telescopes) Harlan J. Smith Second Session Large Telescope Projects Pages: 123 - 134
Finite element analysis of a meniscus mirror Y. Yamashita Third Session the JNLT Project Pages: 145 - 147
Active optics experiments for thin meniscus mirror Masanori Iye Third Session the JNLT Project Pages: 149 - 157
Mechanical structure of JNLT N. ItohI. MikamiT. Noguchi Third Session the JNLT Project Pages: 165 - 172
Evaluation of the JNLT site Hiroyasu AndoTakeshi NoguchiHiroyoshi Tanabe Third Session the JNLT Project Pages: 183 - 189
Spin-cast ZERODUR mirror substrates of the 8 m class and lightweight substrates for secondary mirrors Hartmut W. HoenessRudolf MuellerFriedrich B. Siebers Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 193 - 197
Large mirror fabrication of low expansion glasses Julie Spangenberg-Jolley Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 199 - 205
Large mirror figuring and testing K. BeckstetteM. KüchelE. Heynacher Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 207 - 214
Large mirror polishing and figuring W. Scott Smith Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 215 - 219
Knowledge engineering application in the problem of supporting a large mirror Masaaki WatanabeYouichi AgeishiKen Nakamura Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 221 - 224
A means for improving telescope derives P. R. Gillingham Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 225 - 230
The design of the Central-Axis Reflector (ZAS) Hermann Hügenell Fourth Session Telescope Engineering and Fabrication of Large Mirrors Pages: 231 - 239
Characteristics of Mauna Kea relating to the Japan National Large Telescope D. N. B. Hall Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 243 - 248
Operational and technological developments for UKIRT T. J. Lee Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 249 - 253
Recent developments at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Robert McLaren Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 255 - 262
Cooperation aspects of international observatories Saeko S. Hayashi Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 263 - 268
The performance of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m telescope Edward J. ManneryWalter A. SiegmundCharles L. Hull Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 269 - 274
Some comments on large telescope astronomy in Britain and Australia Russell Cannon Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 275 - 280
Lessons for new large telescopes from the AAT P. R. Gillingham Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 281 - 286
Some new astronomical facilities in China Wang Shouguan Fifth Session New Plans and Achievements with Existing Telescopes Pages: 287 - 294
Infrared detector for mid-infrared astronomy Tetsuo Nishimura Sixth Session Instrumentation Pages: 325 - 332
Infrared detector arrays and some applications to spectroscopy A. T. Tokunaga Sixth Session Instrumentation Pages: 333 - 343
Adaptive optics for large telescopes Jacques M. BeckersFritz Merkle Sixth Session Instrumentation Pages: 345 - 351
Can the optical very large array be coupled with the JNLT? Isabelle BoscDenis MouradAntoine Labeyrie Seventh Session Interferometry Pages: 355 - 360
Optical interferometer between JNLT and WMKT Syuzo Isobe Seventh Session Interferometry Pages: 361 - 362
The interferometric mode of the European Very Large Telescope Pierre LénaFritz Merkle Seventh Session Interferometry Pages: 363 - 368
Infrared interferometry with single telescopes Alain Chelli Seventh Session Interferometry Pages: 369 - 371