Planning

Monday, September 23, 2024

Time Event (+)
12:00 - 13:00 Arrival / Registration - Registration desk open for collection of badges, delegate packs, upload of presentation files.  
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) - Tim Morris  
13:20 - 14:40 Laboratory and on sky demonstration of new designs and concepts (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
13:20 - 13:40 › Spatiotemporal statistics of optical turbulence at the ground layer. - Dario Perez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
13:40 - 14:00 › MATTO - The Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Techniques Test Optics - Simone Di Filipo - INAF  
14:00 - 14:20 › The Asgard/BIFROST beam combination instrument for VLTI - Stefan Kraus, University of Exeter, Astrophysics Group  
14:20 - 14:40 › Using a pyramid wavefront sensor off-zero: from theory to practice - Arnaud STRIFFLING, DOTA, ONERA [Salon], Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille  
14:40 - 15:20 Coffee break (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
15:20 - 17:00 Hybrid and multi-stage WFSensing (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
15:20 - 15:40 › Co-phasing of Segmented Mirrors Using the Dispersed Fringe Sensor - Radhika Dharmadhikari, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, University of Calcutta  
15:40 - 16:00 › End-to-end numerical simulations of SAXO+, a two-stage AO system for high-contrast imaging - Charles Goulas, LESIA  
16:00 - 16:20 › The Phasing and Diagnostic Station of the ELT - Thomas Pfrommer, European Southern Observatory  
16:20 - 16:40 › Advances in SPAD array-based time-resolved wavefront sensing - Jean-Pierre Veran, NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics  
16:40 - 17:00 › Phasing tests with the Natural Guide star Wavefront Sensor Prototype for the Giant Magellan Telescope - Cedric Plantet, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri  
17:00 - 17:20 Transfer to Ogden Centre West  
17:20 - 19:20 Poster Session (Ogden Centre West) (+)  
17:20 - 19:20 › Advances in real-time implementation for deep learning wavefront sensors - Benjamin Gonzalez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
17:20 - 19:20 › Comparing the Shack-Harmann and Pyramid wavefront sensors with laser guide stars for 40 m telescopes - Francisco Oyarzun, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM  
17:20 - 19:20 › Diversification of Camera Technology in Support of Varied Wavefront Sensing Applications - Tom Seccull, Oxford Instruments Andor, 7 Millennium Way, Springvale Business Park, Belfast, BT12 7AL, UK  
17:20 - 19:20 › Durham Adaptive Optics (DAO) real-time controller - Barr David, Durham University  
17:20 - 19:20 › Emulating atmospheric surface layer conditions with a forced convector for optical turbulence studies - Pablo Garrido, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
17:20 - 19:20 › Exploring the Axicon for modulation-free Wavefront Sensing using deep learning - Jorge Tapia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
17:20 - 19:20 › Holographic Modal Wavefront Sensing for Active and Adaptive Optics - Raveena Koliyatan Manamparambil, University of Galway  
17:20 - 19:20 › Joint deep learning optics and reconstruction for unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensing - Nicolas Hernandez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
17:20 - 19:20 › Neural Networks for Turbulence Prediction and Characterization in Adaptive Optics - Alejandro Buendía, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)  
17:20 - 19:20 › Piston sensing using multi-shot coded aperture complex wavefront sensing - Bastián Romero, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
17:20 - 19:20 › Single Star SCIDAR: Atmospheric parameters profiling using the power spectrum of scintillation. - Youssef Errazzouki, Laboratoire de Physique des Hautes Energies et Astrophysique (LPHEA) FSSM, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech - Morocco  

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:40 Arrival / Registration - Registration desk open for collection of badges, delegate packs, upload of presentation files.  
09:40 - 11:00 WFS needs for new applications (space debris, FSO comms, ...) (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
09:40 - 10:00 › Investigating The Feasibility of a Thin Diffuser Based Wavefront Sensor - Daniel Leporda, Applied Optics Group, Physics Unit, School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway  
10:00 - 10:20 › Atmospheric optical turbulence as a continuous shared key generator - Lazar Staykov - Durham University  
10:20 - 10:40 › Modelling of a novel point diffraction interferometer wavefront sensor design for laser guide star wavefront phase retrieval - Erin Holdorf, The Australian National University  
10:40 - 11:00 › Wavefront sensing technologies for bioimaging - Yan Feng, Laboratory of Biology, Engineering and Imaging for Ophthalmology (BiiO), Faculty of Medicine, Health Innovation campus, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France  
11:00 - 11:40 Coffee break (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
11:40 - 13:00 WFS for High-Constrast Imaging (HCI) (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
11:40 - 12:00 › Upgrading SPHERE with the second stage AO system SAXO+ - Maud Langlois, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon  
12:00 - 12:20 › Performances of the integrated Mach-Zehnder wavefront sensor for extreme adaptive optics - Maud Langlois, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon  
12:20 - 12:40 › AO performance and optical gain tracking with a polychromatic pyramid WFS - Aurelie Magniez, Durham University  
12:40 - 13:00 › Closing me softly - Handing over from the ELT under mis-registered conditions - Markus Feldt, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
14:00 - 15:20 WFS for High-Constrast Imaging (HCI) (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
14:00 - 14:20 › Developments on LLNL's High Contrast Testbed and Lick/ShaneAO - Benjamin Gerard, LLNL  
14:20 - 14:40 › Pushing high contrast with new wavefront control methods - Valentin Fonteneau, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon  
14:40 - 15:00 › RISTRETTO: Current Status and Error Budget of Its High-Performance Multi-Stage XAO System - Mathieu Motte, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM, DOTA, ONERA [Salon-de-Provence]  
15:00 - 15:20 › Update from the Starfire High-contrast Adaptive Optics Wfs (SHADOW) testbed - Mala Mateen, AFRL/RDS  
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
16:00 - 16:40 WFS for extended objects (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
16:00 - 16:20 › Fusing focal and pupil plane wavefront sensors: Combining the Zernike and Shack-Harmann wavefront sensors for high dynamic, high sensitivity wavefront sensing - Francisco Oyarzun, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM  
16:20 - 16:40 › Exploring the Ingot Wavefront Sensor for Sodium Laser Guide Stars in the laboratory - Tania Sofia Gomes Machado, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Università di Padova, ADONI - Laboratorio Nazionale di Ottica Adattiva Italiano  
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (The Hub, Mount Oswald)  

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:40 Arrival / Registration - Registration desk open for collection of badges, delegate packs, upload of presentation files.  
09:40 - 11:00 Reconstruction methods & AI (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
09:40 - 10:00 › Fourier-type wavefront sensing in linear and nonlinear regimes - Victoria Hutterer, Industrial Mathematics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz  
10:00 - 10:20 › Improved Fourier-plane wavefront sensors for neural network reconstruction - Esteban Vera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  
10:20 - 10:40 › On how to gain 60nm RMS (for the instrument METIS) in AO Control, or: A stable DM fitting avoiding modal truncation - Andreas Obereder, MathConsult GmbH  
10:40 - 11:00 › Towards joint wavefront sensing and scene reconstruction with photonic lanterns: automated characterisation with digital off-axis holography - Adam K. Taras, Astralis-Usyd, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The University of Sydney, Sydney Astrophotonic Instrumentation Laboratory, School of Physics, The University of Sydney  
11:00 - 11:40 Coffee break (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
11:40 - 13:00 Reconstruction methods & AI (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001)) (+)  
11:40 - 12:00 › PO4AO: XAO control with model-based reinforcement learning - Jalo Nousiainen, European Southern Observatory  
12:00 - 12:20 › SLM-based WFS AO Test-bench for Machine Learning; Design and Future Experiments - Deborah Malone, Durham University  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Scott Logic Lecture Theatre (MCS 0001))  
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