Lunch Talks
Next lunch Talks
| Speaker | Date | Time, Place | Abstract |
| Nicolas Muller | 4/06/2013 | 12:00, 231 | Results of the MAD tests |
| Enrico Marchetti | 11/06/2013 | 12:00, Auditorium | ERIS AO system design |
| Andrew Rakich | 19/06/13 | 12:00, Auditorium | Problematic of M2 alignments in telescope and Laser Trackers |
| Steffan Lewis (TBC) | 25/06/2013 | TBC | PARLA commissioning results |
| Elise Vernet | 2/07/2013 | 12:00, Auditorium | Results of the DSM Optical Tests |
| Emmanuel Aller-Carpentier | 10/09/2013 | 12:00, 231 | IM de-Rotation algorithm and performance |
| Johann Kolb | TBD | TBD | Interaction Matrices Calibration on sky |
Previous lunch talks in 2012-2013
| Speaker | Date | Abstract | Slides on intranet |
| Robert Praus (president of MZA) | 16/05/2013 | Expertise of MZA and latest accomplishments | no |
| Miska Le Louarn | 07/05/2013 | Potential of the Intel Xeon Phi for AO simulations | yes |
| Rainer Schoedel | 30/04/2013 | Holographic imaging of dense fields: an efficient; poor man's MCAO | no |
| Paul Hickson | 22/11/2012 | High-resolution Lidar Studies of Mesospheric Sodium | Yes |
| Aglae Kellerer | 14/08/12 | Solar adaptive optics: A general discussion | No |
| Julien Girard | 26/06/12 | Adaptive Optics Activities in Chile | no |
| Rodolphe Conan & Celine d'Orgeville | 28/06/12 | The Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics system of the Giant Magellan Telescope | no |
| Yutaka Hayano | 29/06/12 | Overview on adaptive optics system at Subaru Telescope | no |
| Nicolas Muller | 7/02/2012 | Wave Front Analysis with Laser Guide Stars on ELTs | no |
| Markus Kasper | 30/01/2012 | High contrast imaging of Exo-Planets: theory and applications | no |
| Luc Gilles, TMT | 27/01/2012 | TMT NFIRAOS: simulations and system description | no |
| Gianluca Lombardi, ESO Paranal | 25/01/2012 | Seeing at Paranal | yes |
Availability of the Presentations
Presentations are available on ESO BSCW webpage (internal access)
Lunchs talks in the period 2008-2011
| Speaker | Date | Abstract | Slides on intranet |
| Ron Holzloehner | 15/12/11 | Return Flux of Pulsed Sodium LGS -- an Overview | no |
| Richard Wilson, University of Durham | 12/12/11 | The Paranal SLODAR Optical Turbulence Profiler | no |
| Riccardo Muradore, University of Verona | 29/11/11 | Vibration rejection real-time algorithms for SPHERE, GRAAL & GALACSI | yes |
| Didier Fussen - Institut d'Aeronomie spatiale de Belgique | 21/11/11 | A global climatology of the mesopheric sodium layer from GOMOS data during the 2002-2008 period | yes |
| Roberto Ragazzoni | 16/11/11 | Adaptive Optics on ELTs using Natural Guide Stars on a wide field of view | yes |
| Domenico Bonaccini/ Ron Hoelzloehner | 15/11/11 | First Feed-back from the Wendelstein Experiment in OttoBeuren | no |
| Marc Sarazin | 18/10/11 | Site monitoring for ELT and future plans | no |
| Dimitri Mawet -Paranal | 7/10/11 | Using phase-mask coronagraphy in the Extreme-AO regime at Palomar to image exoplanets: lessons learned | yes |
| Morag Hastie -University of Arizona | 13/09/11 | MMT seconday Mirror results | no |
| Pr. Curtis Menyuk | 27/05/11 | Solitons, Self-Induced Transparency, and Modelocking in Quantum Cascade Lasers | no |
| Enrico Fedrigo | 29/03/11 | SPARTA and SPARTA2: review and perspectives | yes |
| Gerard Rousset | 22/03/11 | Results of Canary test (MOAO prototype) | no |
| Robin Arsenault | 15/03/11 | MACAO VLTI Maintenance | no |
| Simone Esposito | 2/03/11 | The First Light AO system (FLAO) commissioning at the LBT telescope | yes |
| Johann Kolb | 01/03/11 | Site Monitoring; summary of conference in Valparaiso | yes |
| E. Marchetti | 15/02/11 | New High strehl Instrument | yes |
| T. Pfrommer | 8/02/11 | Sodium layer variability measured with the UBC lidar | yes |
| Paola Amico | 1/02/11 | Laser etiquette: navigating your laser politely through telescope forests | yes |
| Natalia Yaitskova | 25/01/11 | Rolled edges and phasing of segmented telescopes | yes |
| E. Aller | 14/12/10 | NAOMI | yes |
| L. Feng | 30/11/10 | Multi-CPU WFS reconstruct | yes |
| Christina Loose | 16/11/10 | Electric Field Conjugation WF Correction | yes |
| C. Bechet | 26/10/10 | Online Update of Interaction Matrix parameters for the AOF | yes |
| J. Kolb | 26/10/10 | Pseudo-Synthetic Interaction Matrix Simulations | yes |
| E. Brunner | 03/08/10 | Principles to parallelize key-parts of FrIM (Fractal Iterative Method) | yes |
| E. Pinna | 14/07/10 | The first light results of the LBT first Adaptive Secondary mirror | yes |
| F. Vidal | 23/03/10 | Calibration, identification and learn & apply method | no |
| R.Conan & O. Lardiere | 2/03/10 | The Victoria University LGS wavefront sensing testbed | no |
| R. Karban | 28/01/10 | MBSE and its application for EELT TCS: background, Report from International Workshop 2010 | no |
| Lowell Tacconi-Garman (USD) & Jakob Vinther (PSD.) | 28/01/10 | The ETCs, AO database for ETCs, and observation preparation tools for AO | no |
| Szymon Gladysz | 23/11/09 | Post-processing of High contrast observations of exoplanets | yes |
| Thomas Pfrommer | 29/09/09 | Measurements of profile variations of Mesospheric sodium layer | no |
| A. Beghi | 20/03/09 | System Theoretic tools in Adaptive optics | no |
| R. Holzloehner | 4/12/08 | Monte Carlo simulations of LGS return flux | no |
Availability of the Presentations from 2008 to 2011
Presentations are available on ESO BSCW webpage (internal access)
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