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Tuesday, 12pm - 394 Minor Hall (campus map)

Contact: Gaspard Duchêne (gduchene -at- berkeley -dot- edu)

This bi-weekly seminar aims at bringing together several communities of adaptive optics users and developers across UC campuses to foster rich exchanges of expertise and experience, continuing the tradition that has grown during the existence of the NSF-funded Center for Adaptive Optics. Talks are intended for mixed audiences from the astronomy, vision science and instrument development communities, providing an up-to-date view of what current adaptive optics systems do and how they will improve in upcoming years.

A video feed is now available to attend the seminar remotely from other campuses. Please contact me for technical details if you are interested in joining.

Spring 2013 schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
02/05	John Codona	U. Arizona	Wavefront Sensing with the Differential Optical Transfer Function (dOTF)
03/05	Chris Fassnacht	UC Davis	Taking a sharp look at galaxies and gravitational lenses
03/19	Gerald Westheimer	UCB	Optical Superresolution and Visual Hyperacuity
04/16	Stuart Jefferies	U. Hawaii	High-resolution imaging through strong atmospheric turbulence
05/14	Tommaso Pardini	LLNL	The Adaptive X-Ray Optic project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Fall 2012 schedule

09/25 Ravi Jonnal (UCD): Functional imaging of the cone photoreceptor using adaptive optics
10/02 Changhuei Yang (Caltech): Focusing Light in Biological Tissue by Time-Reversing Light
10/16 Bruce Macintosh (LLNL): The Gemini Planet Imager: Integration status
10/23 Anne Medling (UCSC): Unveiling the Hearts of Major Mergers with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
11/06 Angel Otárola (TMT): Results of the physical modeling of a pulsed laser for the TMT LGS system
11/27 Mark Ammons (LLNL): Microarsecond astrometry with MCAO using a diffractive mask

Spring 2012 schedule

02/28 Dmitry Savranski (LLNL): Detection probabilities in the presence of speckle noise
03/27 John Wisniewski (UW): Diagnosing the SEEDS of planet formation
04/03 Laurent Pueyo (JHU): Towards a more exhaustive understanding of exo-planetary worlds with direct imaging
04/17 Eric Cady (JPL): Control of amplitude errors in the Project 1640 cronagraph
04/31 Elsa Huby (Obs. Paris): FIRST, a high dynamic range imager, mounted on the Shane telescope at Lick Observatory

Fall 2011 schedule

09/20 Al Conrad (MPIA Heidelberg): The LINC-NIRVANA Adaptive Optics System
10/04 Christoph Baranec (Caltech): Robo-AO: autonomous laser adaptive optics for meter class telescopes
10/25 Lisa Poyneer (LLNL): The Gemini Planet Imager's Adaptive Optics system: from design to operation
11/08 Xiadong Tao (UCSC): Adaptive optics microscopy using direct wavefront sensing for deep tissue imaging
11/29 Lianqi Wang (TMT): Efficient end-to-end simulations for the TMT NFIRAOS AO system (Word file with biography)
12/13 John Werner (UCD): Structure-Function Relations Revealed by High-Resolution (adaptive optics - OCT) in vivo Retinal Imaging

Spring 2011 schedule

01/24 Peter Knerr (U. Georgia): Adaptive Optics in Wide-Field Microscopy
01/25 Na Ji (HHMI/Janelia Farm): Pupil-segmented-based adaptive optics for microscopy
02/01 Serge Meimon (ONERA): Recent developments at ONERA's high angular resolution group
02/22 Denis Brousseau (U. Laval): Magnetic liquid based deformable mirrors for all seasons and reasons
03/29 Geoff Andersen (USAF Academy): Holographic Adaptive Optics
04/05 Deqing Ren (CS Northridge): A coronagraph using a liquid crystal array and a deformable mirror for active pupil apodizing and phase correction
04/26 Brian Patton & Simon Rochester (UCB & Rochester Scientific): Atomic Magnetometry at Earth's Field
05/24 Brij Agrawal (Naval Postgraduate School): Adaptive Optics Research Program at NPS

Fall 2010 schedule

09/21 Shelley Wright (UCB): Exploring the capabilities of IRIS: An AO-fed IFU and imager for the Thirty Meter Telescope
10/05 Thayne Currie (NASA GSFC): Adaptive Optics Imaging of Massive Planets and Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companions: Data Reduction Techniques and Recent Science Results
10/12 Michael Hart (U. Arizona): Ground-layer and high-order adaptive optics with adaptive secondary mirrors
10/19 Randy Campbell (Keck Obs.): Keck Observatory AO operations
11/16 Charles Bowers (NASA GSFC): JWST wavefront sensing and control
11/30 Gene Serabyn (JPL): Imaging faint companions within one diffraction beam width of stars with a vortex coronagraph
12/07 Richard Lyon (NASA GSFC): Visible Nulling Coronagraphy for Exoplanets

Spring 2010 schedule

01/12 Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH): Comparative Exoplanetary Science
02/19 Olivier Guyon (Subaru Observatory): A bright future ahead for direct imaging of extrasolar planets
01/26 Curtis Vogel (Montana State University): Modeling and parameter estimation for continuous-facesheet MEMS deformable mirrors
03/02 Susana Marcos (Instituto de Optica (Madrid): Optical and adaptational limits of vision studied using Adaptive Optics
03/16 Katie Morzinsiki (UCSC): Astronomical adaptive optics with MEMS deformable mirrors
04/06 Philip Hinz (U. Arizona): The Promise and Challenges of Adaptive Secondary Mirrors
04/20 Steve Gibson (UCLA): Adaptive prediction and control in adaptive optics
05/04 Dimitri Mawet (JPL): Imaging extra-solar planetary systems with a vortex coronagraph
06/01 Sylvana Yelda (UCLA): The Opportunities and Challenges of AO Astrometry of Stars at the Galactic Center
06/22 Enrico Marchetti (ESO): Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics: the MAD challenge

Fall 2009 schedule

08/25 Justin Crepp (Caltech): Direct imaging detection of low-mass companions orbiting giant stars and binaries
09/29 Scott Stevenson (U. Houston): Eye tracking with AOSLO
10/20 Sasha Hinkley (Caltech): A New High-Contrast Imaging Program for Companion Science at Palomar
11/17 Oscar Azucena (UCSC): Adaptive Optics Microscopy
12/01 Thomas Rimmelle (NSO): Solar Adaptive Optics - conventional and multiconjugate

Spring 2009 schedule

01/27 Jorg-Uwe Pott (UCLA): Modern optical Interferometry, a technological and scientific testbed for ELTs
02/17 Olivier Lai (CFHT): Adaptive Optics at CFHT: the Final Frontier
02/24 Julia Evans (LLNL): Understanding and improving AO system performance
03/10 Franck Marchis (UCB): MAD at Jupiter: Study of Jupiter's upper atmosphere with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator at the VLT/YEPUN
03/24 Michael Helmbrecht (IRISAO): Tour of IRISAO lab and DM bench
04/07 Ethan Rossi (UCB): Sampling of the retinal image in space and time
04/21 Jeff LeDue (UCB): Testing a Holographic Diffuser based Pyramid Wavefront Sensor
05/12 Don Gavel (UCSC): New Adaptive Optics Approaches Leading to Visible Wavelength Adaptive
05/19 Beth Biller (IfA): The NICI Planet Finding Campaign at Gemini South
06/30 Alf Dubra (U. Rochester): Requirements, design of and preliminary results from multi-channel AOSLO

Fall 2008 schedule

09/23 Gaspard Duchêne (UCB): Adaptive optics observations of protoplanetary disks
10/21 Nate McCrady (UCLA): PSF Variation and Crowded Field Photometry with Laser Guide STar Adaptive Optics
10/28 Nicholas McConnell (UCB): The Frontier of Black Hole Measurements
11/18 Eddie Laag (UCR): New Insights from MCAO Experiments in the Lab for Adaptive Optics
12/09 Marshall Perrin (UCLA): Differential Imaging Polarimetry with Adaptive Optics
12/16 Don Miller (U. Indiana): Imaging the thick retina: AO-OCT to AO beacon analysis

Spring 2008 schedule

02/05 Reinhardt Genzel (UCB/MPE): Applying adaptive optics for studying the center of the Milky Way
02/19 Peter Kner (UCSF): Applying adaptive optics to three-dimensional wide-field microscopy
03/04 Hervé Bouy (UCB): Multi-conjugate adaptive optics: first results on the sky
03/18 Lisa Poyneer (LLNL): Signal processing for high-precision wavefront control in adaptive optics
04/01 Máté Ádámkovics (UCB): Meteorology on Titan with ground-based AO from both Keck and VLT
04/15 Michael Helmbrecht (IRISAO): The Iris AO segmenter MEMS DM and its application to AO
04/22 Quinn Konopacky (UCLA): A Keck Laser Guide Star adaptive optics study of very low mass binary stars: using new technology to answer old questions
05/06 Mike Fitzgerald (UCB): AO and image reconstruction
05/13 John Vallerga (SSL): A noiseless, kHz frame rate optical detector for AO: initial test results
05/27 Joe Caroll (MC Wisconsin): Using adaptive optics to understand cone degeneration - a progress report