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

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