Mathematical and Physical Sciences Dean Winston Ko recently represented the United States at the inauguration of the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. MAGIC's 240-square-meter mirror, the world's largest, will look for gamma rays from black holes and other objects up to eight billion light years away. It may even pick up gamma rays from the Big Bang, the violent beginning of the universe. Eckardt Lorenz, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, adjunct professor at UC Davis and technical coordinator of the project, presided at the event. Daniel Ferenc, associate professor of physics; postgraduate researcher Daniel Kranich and graduate student Alvin Laille are members of the international MAGIC research team.