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
8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Light 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
PDF Presentation
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
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session III: Point Spread Function Extraction
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30 Break

Session IV: Deconvolution
4:30 - 5:30

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
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 11:00
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
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

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
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
PDF Presentation
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
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
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Maciej Konacki (California Institute of Technology)

Imaging and Planet Searches