Estimation and Control Problems in Adaptive Optics - IPAM

Estimation and Control Problems in Adaptive Optics

January 22 - 24, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:30-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
baf|Background and Fundamentals
09:00-09:45
Li Chen (University of Rochester)
Adaptive Optics for Vision
09:45-10:30
Marcos van Dam (University of Hawaii)
Fundamentals of adaptive optics and wavefront reconstruction
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Jean-Marc Conan (Onera)
Fundamentals of estimation theory applied to wavefront reconstruction and adaptive optics control
11:45-12:30
Curt Vogel (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Fundamentals of computational linear algebra for inverse problems

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
ws|Wavefront Sensing
14:30-15:15
Andrea M. Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Adaptive Optics Observations of the Galactic Center
15:15-16:00
Lisa Poyneer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Correlation methods for wave-front sensing
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-16:45
Aron Ahmadia (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Parallel Implementation of an Adaptive Optics Simulation Code
16:45-17:00
Donald Gavel (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Wavefront Sensing
17:00-17:30
Brent Ellerbroek (National Optical Astronomical Observatory)
Spatial Frequency Domain Methods
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, January 23, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
eam|ExAO and MCAO
09:00-09:45
Bruce Macintosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Fundamentals of ExAO
09:45-10:30
Lisa Poyneer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Wavefront Control for Extreme Adaptive optics
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Brent Ellerbroek (National Optical Astronomical Observatory)
Computationally Efficient Methods for MCAO Wavefront Reconstruction
11:45-12:00
Piotr Piatrou (Michigan Technological University)
Phase to WFS influence matrix elements cross verification

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:15
Amir Give'on (Princeton University)
Why phase conjugation does not work
12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
clwc|Closed-Loop Wavefront Control
14:30-15:15
Miska Le Louarn (ESO)
Fundamentals of closed-loop wavefront control
15:15-16:00
Donald Gavel (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Kalman filtering techniques
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:15
James S. Gibson (UCLA)
Other predictive/adaptive control methods
17:15-18:00
Luc Gilles (Michigan Technological University)
Closed-Loop Iterative Sparse Layer-oriented MCAO Control Algorithms
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