Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
01/27	Jorg-Uwe Pott	UCLA	Modern optical Interferometry, a technological and scientific testbed for ELTs
02/17	Olivier Lai	CFHT Observatory	Adaptive Optics at CFHT: the Final Frontier
02/24	Julia Evans	LLNL	Understanding and improving AO system performance
03/10	Franck Marchis	UC Berkeley	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	UC Berkeley	Sampling of the retinal image in space and time
04/21	Jeff LeDue	UC Berkeley	Testing a Holographic Diffuser based Pyramid Wavefront Sensor
05/12	Don Gavel	LAO-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

Events in previous semesters:

Fall 2008
Spring 2008


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, gduchene-at-astro.berkeley.edu).