Summer School on Adaptive Optics 2007 Presentations

Monday, August 6

Introduction to AO and the Center for Adaptive Optics
Claire Max

Applications of Adaptive Optics
Jerry Nelson

Wave Optics
Don Gavel

Basics of Control Theory
Donald Wiberg

Tuesday, August 7

MEMS Overview
Joel Kubby

Wavefront Sensing for Adaptive Optics
Marcos van Dam & Richard Clare

Wavefront Reconstruction for AO
Marcos van Dam & Richard Clare

Atmospheric Turbulence & Astronomical AO
Matthew Britton

Wednesday, August 8

Labs

Fourier Optics Worksheet

Vision Science Activity

Wavefront Errors due to Atmospheric Turbulence

Thursday, August 9

Adaptive Optics Instrumentation : Vision Science
Austin Roorda

Astronomical Instrumentation for Adaptive Optics
James Graham

Adaptive Optics System Design for Vision Science
Donald Miller

Adaptive Optics System Design : Astronomy
Olivier Guyon

Friday, August 10

Measuring AO Performance
Julian Christou and Don Gavel