Mathematical Challenges in Astronomical Imaging - IPAM

Mathematical Challenges in Astronomical Imaging

January 26 - 30, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 26, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:30
Session I: New Types of Astronomical Data
09:00-10:00
Tim Cornwell (National Radio Astronomical Observatory)
Mathematical challenges in radio interferometric imaging
10:00-11:00
Alexandre Refregier (CEA Saclay, France)
Weak Gravitational Lensing and Shapelets
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Robert Lupton (Princeton University)
Image Processing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session II: Direct Imaging Techniques/Aperture Masking/
Imaging and Modelling with Sparse Interferometer Data
14:30-15:30
Michael Shao (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Imaging with the Space Interferometer Project
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Gene Serabyn (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Nulling Interferometry
17:00-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:30
Session II: Direct Imaging Techniques/Aperture Masking/
09:00-09:30
Imaging and Modelling with Sparse Interferometer Data
09:00-10:00
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
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Session III: Point Spread Function Extraction
14:00-15:00
Ken Mighell (National Optical Astronomical Observatory)
Mathematical Challenges of using Point Spread Function Analysis Algorithms in Astronomical Imaging
15:00-16:00
Emmanuel Bertin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
PSFEx: a generic tool for extracting the Point Spread Function in astronomical images
16:00-16:30
Break
Session IV: Deconvolution
16:30-17:30
Tony Chan (King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (KAUST))
Some blind deconvolution and super-resolution imaging algorithms

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:30
Session IV: Deconvolution
09:00-10:00
Jean-Luc Starck (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))
Image Restoration by Multiscale Methods
10:00-11:00
Mark Green (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-15:00
Lunch (on your own)
15:00-16:00
C. Alex Young (NASA)
Solar Image Analysis: A Multiscale View
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Using geometry and iterated refinement for inverse problems. (1) Total Variation Image Restoration

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session IV: Deconvolution
09:00-10:00
David van Dyk (University of California at Irvine)
Model-Based Count-Limited Image Restoration
10:00-10:30
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
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
David Esch (Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
Evaluation of Uncertainty in Image Restorations

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Margarita Karovska (Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
Tools for Multiscale Analysis of Low-count Images
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Seth Digel (Stanford University)
Imaging the sky above 30 MeV with GLAST
17:30-19:00
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, January 30, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session VI: Cosmic Microwave Background Imaging
09:00-10:00
Edward L. Wright (UCLA)
Imaging the Universe with WMAP
10:00-11:00
Kris Gorski (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Title not available
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Steven Myers (National Radio Astronomical Observatory)
Interferometric Imaging and Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Session VII: Time-Domain Imaging
14:00-15:00
Andrea M. Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
High Angular Resolution Imaging of the Galactic Center
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Maciej Konacki (California Institute of Technology)
Imaging and Planet Searches
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