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Mathematical Challenges in Astronomical Imaging

January 26 - 30, 2004

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, January 26, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Session I: New Types of Astronomical Data

9:00 - 10:00

Tim Cornwell (National Radio Astronomical Observatory)

"Mathematical challenges in radio interferometric imaging"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 11:00

Alexandre Refregier (CEA Saclay, France)

"Weak Gravitational Lensing and Shapelets"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Robert Lupton (Princeton University)

"Image Processing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session II: Direct Imaging Techniques/Aperture Masking/

Imaging and Modelling with Sparse Interferometer Data

2:30 - 3:30

Michael Shao (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"Imaging with the Space Interferometer Project"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Gene Serabyn (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"Nulling Interferometry "

5:00 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session II: Direct Imaging Techniques/Aperture Masking/

Imaging and Modelling with Sparse Interferometer Data

9:00 - 10:00

Peter Tuthill (University of Sydney)

"Aperture masking and sparse-aperture image recovery"

10:00 - 11:00

Andrew Fruchter (STScI)

"The Best Undersampled Telescope in the Universe"
Presentation (PDF File)
Additional Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Thomas McGlynn (NASA/GSFC)

"A Practical Perspective on Image Resampling in Astronomy using Interpolation, Redistribution and Clipping"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session III: Point Spread Function Extraction

2:00 - 3:00

Ken Mighell (National Optical Astronomical Observatory)

"Mathematical Challenges of using Point Spread Function Analysis Algorithms in Astronomical Imaging"
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 4:00

Emmanuel Bertin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

"PSFEx: a generic tool for extracting the Point Spread Function in astronomical images"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:00 - 4:30 Break

Session IV: Deconvolution

4:30 - 5:30

Tony Chan (UCLA)

"Some blind deconvolution and super-resolution imaging algorithms"
Presentation (PDF File)


Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session IV: Deconvolution

9:00 - 10:00

Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay, France)

"Image Restoration by Multiscale Methods "
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 11:00

Mark Green (IPAM)

"Differentially Laplacian Statistics, Natural Images and Denoising of Astronomical Images"

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Julian Christou (University of California)

"Deconvolution of Adaptive Optics Images"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:30 - 3:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

3:00 - 4:00

C. Alex Young (NASA)

"Solar Image Analysis: A Multiscale View "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
Additional Presentation Files (A very large 213MB Zip Archive)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Stanley Osher (IPAM)

"Using geometry and iterated refinement for inverse problems. (1) Total Variation Image Restoration"


Thursday, January 29, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session IV: Deconvolution

9:00 - 10:00

David van Dyk (University of California at Irvine)

"Model-Based Count-Limited Image Restoration"

Session V: Imaging with Photon-Limited Data

10:00 - 11:00

Jeff Scargle (NASA Ames Research Center)

"A Procedure and Algorithm for Segmented Signal Estimation in Time Series, Image, and Higher Dimensional Data"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

David Esch (Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

"Evaluation of Uncertainty in Image Restorations "

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:30

Margarita Karovska (Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

"Tools for Multiscale Analysis of Low-count Images"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Seth Digel (Stanford University)

"Imaging the sky above 30 MeV with GLAST"
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, January 30, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session VI: Cosmic Microwave Background Imaging

9:00 - 10:00

Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

"Imaging the Universe with WMAP"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 11:00

Kris Gorski (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

 

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Steven Myers (National Radio Astronomical Observatory)

"Interferometric Imaging and Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session VII: Time-Domain Imaging

2:00 - 3:00

Andrea M. Ghez (UCLA)

"High Angular Resolution Imaging of the Galactic Center "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Maciej Konacki (California Institute of Technology)

"Imaging and Planet Searches"

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