DESCRIPTION:
We will be meeting on the beautiful campus of the University of California in
Santa Cruz to learn the techniques of adaptive optics and the way they are applied
in practice. With the advent of adaptive optics systems on large telescopes
that are accessible to large user communities (Gemini, VLT, Keck, and many 4m-class
telescopes), there is a need to spread the knowledge of how to use this complicated
technology effectively. In addition to astronomy, the Summer School will address
applications of adaptive optics to vision science. We will be describing system
components, and the general adaptive optics concepts that will be relevant for
both astronomy and vision science. The level of this summer school is appropriate
to graduate students, postdocs, and researchers who are not experts in the field.
SPEAKERS:
Gary Chanan, UCI, Wavefront sensing
Doug Currie, ESO, Photometric analysis of AO images
Rich Dekany, JPL, AO for extremely large telescopes
Don Gavel, LLNL, Modeling of AO system performance
Andrea Ghez, UCLA, Astronomy with AO
Ed Kibblewhite, U Chicago, Laser guide stars
Bruce Macintosh, LLNL, Astronomical AO systems
Don Miller, Indiana University, The human eye
Jerry Nelson, UCSC, Fourier optics and aberrations
Scot Olivier, LLNL, Wavefront compensation devices
Andreas Quirrenbach, UCSD, Atmospheric turbulence
Tom Rimmele, NSO, AO for solar physics
Austin Roorda, U Houston, AO systems for vision science
David Tyler, U Arizona, Deconvolution and Image Reconstruction
David Williams, U Rochester, Vision science with AO