Scientific Programme

ESO Garching, Auditorium

REGISTRATION: 4th December 2012, 08:30-11:00

Program Overview


The slide sets of the talks will be made available after the workshop through this page.


Day 1, December 4th
08:30-11:00 Registration  
09:15-09:30 A. Russell / E. Fedrigo
Opening/Welcome
09:30-10:20 A. Basden
Session 1: Overview
09:30

N. Dipper

Adaptive Optics Real-time Control in the ELT Era

09:55

E. Fedrigo

Impact of latency and jitter on the performance of the RTC

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break  
10:40-10:50 E. Fedrigo
Administrative information
10:50-12:30
A. Sevin Session 2: Simulations and devices for AO
10:50
V. Lukin Computer simulation of adaptive optical systems
11:15
D. Gratadour Unifying simulation and real-time frameworks to reduce development costs
11:40
P. Morin CILAS Generic Deformable Miror Drive Electronics
12:05
D. Martina Focusing light through complex media by wavefront shaping
12:30-13:30 Lunch at the Max Planck cantine
13:30-14:20 M. Suarez Session 3: FPGA-based RTC designs
13:30

Z. Ljusic

AO RTC using ATCA comliant FPGA board

13:55

R. Biasi

Present Microgate RTCs and perspectives

14:20-15:35

E. Fedrigo

Session 4/1: CPU-based RTC designs

14:20

P-H. Kamp

AO: Isn't there (almost) an app for that?

14:45

H. Tischer

VxWorks on Intel for real time high performance computing

15:10

S. Zampieri

DDS on SPARTA: experience and remarks on a high performance data distribution mechanism

15:35-15:45 Coffee break  
15:45-16:15

E. Fedrigo        

Session 4/2: CPU-based RTC designs

15:45

M. Frigo

Techniques for portable high performance

16:15-16:45

E. Fedrigo        

Panel discussion

16:45-18:00

G. Herriot

Session 5: GPU-based RTC designs
16:45

L. Wang

Studying GPU based RTC for TMT NFIRAOS

17:10

N. Doelman

Real-time control architecture for large scale AO systems - the EELT EPICS case
17:35

A. Sevin

How many GPUs do we really need?
18:30
Bus transfer
 
19:30 Conference Dinner
22:30
Bus transfer
 
Day 2, December 5th
08:30-09:30 Registration
09:00-10:40

C. Boyer

Session 6/1: Algorithms

09:00

C. Bechet

Reducing the Fractal Iterative Method to half an iteration

09:25

I. Shatokhina

Fast new control algorithms for AO on ELT with pyramid WFS

09:50

M. Verhaegen

D-SABRE: A distributed spline based wavefront reconstruction method for large scale wavefront reconstruction

10:15

M. Rosensteiner

CuReD a fast wavefront reconstruction towards the real world

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15

C. Boyer

Session 6/2: Algorithms

11:00

V. Koriakoski

Fast & Furious: a potential wavefront reconstructor for extreme adaptive optics at ELTs

11:25

R. Ramlau

The Kaczmarz algorithm for MCAO

11:50

M. Yudytskiy

Fast wavefront reconstruction with wavelet regularization for MCAO

12:15-13:30

Lunch at the Max Planck cantine


13:30-14:30

Lab visit / open discussion (A. Basden)

ESO staff meeting Council Delegates

14:30-15:45

D. Bello

Session 7/1: Real World Systems

14:30

A. Basden

CANARY and experience gained for real-time control

14:55

M. Suarez

SPARTA status and plans

15:20

L. Pettazzi

A Modular Adaptive Vibrations Cancellation Scheme for SPARTA

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:50

A. Basden

Session 7/2: Real World Systems

16:00

T. Bekerfeld

KAOS - the Kiepenheuer-Institute Adaptive Optics System

16:25

U. Bitenc

Tests of novel wavefront reconstructors on sky with CANARY

16:50-17:30
E. Fedrigo Open Discussion
17:30 Closure of the workshop