VisionScienceList: Summer School on Adaptive Optics

From: David R. Williams (david@cvs.rochester.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 06:19:33 PDT

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    SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADAPTIVE OPTICS

    LOCATION: University of California, Santa Cruz

    DATE: July 8-14, 2000

    APPLICATION FORM (due May 15th): We will be screening applicants. If accepted,
    you will receive confirmation for registration by May 25th. Please download
    application form from <http://www.ucolick.org/~cfao/aosummer/>.

    SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS:
    Center for Adaptive Optics (NSF Science and Technology Center)
    National Optical Astronomy Observatories

    DESCRIPTION:
    We will be meeting on the beautiful campus of the University of California in
    Santa Cruz to learn the techniques of adaptive optics and the way they are
    applied in practice. With the advent of adaptive optics systems on large
    telescopes that are accessible to large user communities (Gemini, VLT, Keck,
    and many 4m-class telescopes), there is a need to spread the knowledge of how
    to use this complicated technology effectively. In addition to astronomy, the
    Summer School will address applications of adaptive optics to vision science.
    We will be describing system components, and the general adaptive optics
    concepts that will be relevant for both astronomy and vision science. The
    level of this summer school is appropriate to graduate students, postdocs, and
    researchers who are not experts in the field.

    SPEAKERS:

         Gary Chanan, UCI
         Doug Currie, ESO
         Rich Dekany, JPL
         Don Gavel, LLNL
         Andrea Ghez, UCLA
         Ed Kibblewhite, U Chicago
         Bruce Macintosh, LLNL
         Don Miller, U Indiana
         Jerry Nelson, UCSC
         Scot Olivier, LLNL
         Andreas Quirrenbach, UCSD
         Tom Rimmele, NSO
         Austin Roorda, U Houston
         David Tyler, UNM
         David Williams, U Rochester

    ANTICIPATED NUMBER OF ATTENDEES: 95 (including lecturers)

    CONFERENCE FEE:
    $200.00 includes all food and lodging for 6 nights and 7 days, full travel
    support within designated limits (see below), entry to all lectures, final
    program, and proceedings book

    DEADLINE: May 15, 2000

    REQUIREMENTS:
    If you are a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher at an American
    institution, you will be required to pay only the $200 conference fee, and you
    are eligible for travel support. To make a request for travel support, you
    must submit with your application, a one-page written statement on your area
    of research and a brief letter from your advisor. Others may attend but must
    pay the conference fee, travel, and subsistence ($65.00/double per night or
    $79.00/single per night includes lodging and 3 meals a day.)

    OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPANTS:
    The summer school participants are encouraged to bring posters. Please include
    a 1-page abstract.

    WHO TO CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:
    Andreas Quirrenbach, University of California, San Diego qui@cassir.ucsd.edu

    OR:
    Center for Adaptive Optics
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077
    Phone: 831-459-5592
    Fax: 831-459-5717
    Email: cfaoadm@ucolick.org

    WEB PAGE: <http://www.ucolick.org/~cfao/aosummer/>

    ___________________________________
    David R. Williams
    Director, Center for Visual Science
    William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
    University of Rochester
    Box 270270
    Rochester , New York 14627-0270
    TEL 716 275-8672, FAX 716 271-3043



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