Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
02/05	Reinhard Genzel	UC Berkeley / MPE Garching	Applying adaptive optics for studying the center of the Milky Way
02/19	Peter Kner	UC San Francisco	Applying adaptive optics to three-dimensional wide-field microscopy
02/26	Justin Crepp	U. Florida	!!!Canceled!!! High-contrast imaging with a band-limited mask
03/04	Hervé Bouy	UC Berkeley	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	UC Berkeley	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	LLNL	AO and image reconstruction
05/13	John Vallerga	SSL	A noiseless, kHz frame rate optical detector for AO: initial test results
05/27	Joe Carroll	MC Wisconsin - Milwaukee	TBA

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.


Contact: Gaspard Duchêne (Assistant Researcher, Astronomy Department).