Sponsored by the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.
22-25 August, 2011
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.
Downloadable: Participant List, Workshop Program, Photo Album
| 0915 – 0930 | A. K. Kembhavi | Welcome |
| Session 1 | AO Short Course | |
|---|---|---|
| 0930 – 1000 | A. N. Ramaprakash | Motivation for Adaptive Optics in Astronomy |
| 1000 – 1030 | C. Baranec | Brief History of Adaptive Optics (credit F. Rigaut, Gemini Observatory) |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea Break | |
| 1100 – 1140 | N. Law (Video) | A Review of Adaptive Optics Science |
| 1140 – 1210 | S. Tendulkar | Wavefront Sensors, Deformable Mirrors, Lasers |
| 1210 – 1240 | S. Prabhudesai | Adaptive Optics Reconstruction Methods |
| 1240 – 1310 | R. Dekany | Adaptive Optics Systems Engineering |
| 1310 – 1400 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2 | AO in Astronomy | |
| 1400 – 1445 | R. Dekany | Palomar and Keck Adaptive Optics Systems |
| 1445 – 1530 | S. K. Saha | Aperture Synthesis at optical wavelengths |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea Break | |
| 1600 – 1700 | R. Nityananda | Imaging science: the journey from seeing to believing |
| 1700 – 1800 | Recitation, Discussion | |
| 1800 – 1840 | B. Ellerbroek (Video) | Adaptive Optics for the Thirty Metre Telescope |
| Session 3 | Robo-AO Science, Techniques I | |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 – 0940 | C. Baranec | Robo-AO Overview |
| 0940 – 1010 | N. Law (Video) | Robo-AO Science and the Binary Project |
| 1010 – 1030 | T. Morton (Video) | What Robo-AO can do for Kepler |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea Break | |
| 1100 – 1120 | A. N. Ramaprakash | Robo-AO upgrade, plans in India |
| 1120 – 1140 | R. Dekany | Precision Astrometry & Dark Matter |
| 1140 – 1200 | S. Hildebrandt | Tests of Gravity via Astrometry |
| 1200 – 1220 | S. Tendulkar | Companions to White Dwarfs |
| 1220 – 1240 | J. Bagchi | Probing AGNs and mergers at high resolution |
| 1240 – 1300 | C. Baranec | Robo-AO: Commissioning Results |
| 1300 – 1400 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 4 | Robo-AO Science, Techniques II | |
| 1400 – 1420 | M. P. Burse | Robo-AO control hardware |
| 1420 – 1440 | G. Dewangan | Searching for binary super-massive BHs in AGNs |
| 1440 – 1520 | R. Riddle | Robo-AO software, LGS & USSTRATCOM |
| 1520 – 1540 | C. H. Ishwarchandra | Search for high redshift radio galaxies |
| 1540 – 1600 | G. Hallinan | Determining the Individual Component Masses in Brown Dwarf Binaries with Robo-AO |
| 1600 – 1630 | Tea Break | |
| 1630 – 1730 | L. Hillenbrand | A Potpourri of Accretion, Outflow and Activity in Young Suns |
| Session 5 | Robo-AO Future | |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 – 0930 | P. Choi (Video) | The Pomona AO system |
| 0930 – 0950 | R. Riddle | Robo-AO network |
| 0950 – 1010 | R. Dekany | South Pole Robo-AO (SPRITE) & Arctic Robo-AO |
| 1010 – 1020 | Conference Photo | |
| 1020 – 1100 | Tea Break | |
| Session 6 | AO Initiatives in India | |
| 1100 – 1130 | A. K. Gupta | Development of Adaptive Optics Imaging System at IRDE |
| 1130 – 1200 | A. R. Ganesan | Development and characterization of a closed loop Adaptive Optics System for Wavefront Control |
| 1200 – 1220 | A. Omar | AO related work at ARIES Devasthal site |
| 1220 – 1240 | R. A. Bayanna | Prototype Adaptive Optics System at Udaipur Solar Observatory |
| 1240 – 1300 | P. Parihar | Development of Lunar Scintillometer to record ground layer turbulence profile |
| 1300 – 1400 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 7 | Synergies | |
| 1400 – 1430 | V. Bhalerao | NuSTAR: Unveiling the Hard X-ray Universe |
| 1430 – 1500 | S. N. Tandon | Introduction to ASTROSAT |
| 1500 – 1530 | D. Bhattacharya | Science with ASTROSAT & synergies with NuSTAR |
| 1530 – 1630 | Tea Break | |
| 1630 – 1700 | R. Smith | Palomar Transient Factory-2 Instrument and Detector |
| 1700 – 1730 | G. Helou | Palomar Transient Factory-2 Data and Pipeline |
| 1730 – 1800 | S. R. Kulkarni | Shock & Awe: No Transient Left Behind |
| 0700 – 1400 | Visit to IUCAA Girawali Observatory |
