AO workshop week

Rationale

This is the second version of the successful OPTICON workshop week held in Durham in March 2018 (https://www.dur.ac.uk/cfai/adaptiveoptics/workshopweek2018/) which gathered 80+ researchers, engineers and students.

By gathering a large range of experts in telescope instrumentation, we hope to cover topics ranging from computer-assisted design of astronomical adaptive-optics systems to the post-processing of their observations passing through the on-sky calibration and real-time performance optimisation. We are willing to get contributions pertaining both to the announced and planned 3rd generation instruments for the existing 10m-class telescopes (VLT, Keck, Subaru, Gemini, …) and the next generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (ELT, TMT, GMT). Bench experiments and pathfinders are particularly welcome.

Workshops are arguably the greatest venues for extended scientific and technical discussions between pairs. Following the very positive feedback of the AO community, the opportunity to hold back-to-back workshops on several inter-connected topics made for a unique, interdisciplinary format that was welcome by many participants.

Under the auspices of OPTICON which fosters facility enhancements and community sustainability, we organise a week full of workshops in the beautiful city of Porto from the 30th of March through the 3rd of April 2020.

Programme topics

1. Post-processing and pipelines
2. Turbulence profiling
3. Wave-front sensing & calibration
4. Wave-front reconstruction and control
5. Soft and Hard Real-time control & algorithms
6. Pathfinders: demonstrations in the lab and on-sky

Schedule (tentative)