CfAO | Summer School 2004

Summer School on Adaptive Optics 2005

Agenda Available Here!

The CfAO Education Summer Interns will also be presenting. For more information on the Education Interns click here.

"Introduction to Adaptive Optics and the CfAO"	Claire Max, UC Santa Cruz
"Designing a Vision Science Adaptive Optics System"	Don Miller, Indiana U.
"Making the Most of AO or Vision Science" "Ocular Abberations Summary"	Austin Roorda, UC Berkeley
"MEMS Devices and their Application for Adaptive Optics"	Joel Kubby, UC Santa Cruz
"Wave Optics and Adaptive Optics"	Don Gavel, UC Santa Cruz
"Mathimatical Modeling and Optimization" "Intro to Linear Algebra for AO"	Curt Vogel, Montana State U.
"Adaptive Secondary Mirrors"	Guido Brusa, U.Arizona
"Extreme Adaptive Optics Wavefront Control"	Lisa Poyneer, LLNL
"High Contrast Adaptive Optics Imaging"	Anand Sivaramakrishnan, StSCI
"Experience with Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems"	Elinor Gates, Lick Observatory
"Adaptive Optics Under Extreme Conditions "	Glenn Tyler, tOSC
"Adaptive Optics for Communications"	Buzz Graves, AOptix
"Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics and Tomography"	Don Gavel, UC Santa Cruz
"Using Laser Guide Stars"	Erik Johansson, Keck Observatory
"Laser Guide Stars for ELT's"	Mark Ammons, UC Santa Cruz

Session 1
Short Exposure Imaging and Adaptive Optics	Szymon Galdysz
Suppressing Speckle Noise for Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imaging (SDI) at the VLT and MMT	Beth Biller
Adaptive Optics at Udaipur Solar Observatory	Sridharan Rengaswamy
Subaru Adaptive Optics deep imaging of distant galaxies	Yosuke Minowa
AGN High Resolution Spectra	Aurea Garcia Rissman
Segmented telescope cophasing with the Pyramid wavefront sensor	Enrico Pinna
Proposed Ground Layer AO System for Gemini	Dave Anderson
Session 2
Phase Diversity for Multi-Aperture Systems	Matthew Bolcar
Wavefront Amplitude and Phase Correction using Fourier Decomposition for High Contrast Imaging	Amir Give'on
MEMS phase former kit for high resolution wavefront control	Michael Wildenhain
Tomographic Wavefront Reconstruction on the LSST	Stacie Hvisc
Role of fiber relaying laser beam for Laser guide star Adaptive Optics on Subaru Telescope	Ito Meguru
FPGA's: What they are and Why they are useful for Adaptive Optics	Marc Reinig
Control Systems for Adaptive Optics Systems	Vidhya Vaitheeswaran

Contact: Paula at cfao@ucolick.org or phone 831-459-5592
Contact: Julian Christou, Summer School Director, at christou@ucolick.org
Web Site: http://cfao.ucolick.org/