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  • Astrophysical needs and high level requirements for AO on ELTs

    • Overall science goals and top level AO requirements for E-ELT
    • Overall science goals and top level AO requirements for the TMT
    • Overall science goals and top level AO requirements for GMT

  • AO systems and instrumental concepts

    • Review of AO systems studied for the E-ELT
    • Adaptive Optics Systems for the Thirty Meter Telescope
    • GMT AO implementation and recent advances in GLAO at the MMT

• Contributed abstracts

  • Astrophysical needs and high level requirements for AO on ELTs

    • Oral talks

      • AO Requirements of MICADO, the E-ELT imaging camera
      • Galactic Centre science with an ELT
      • Spectroscopy of resolved stellar populations beyond the Local Group
      • The physics of galaxy evolution with EAGLE

    • Posters

      • Scientific Impact of the Operating Temperature for NFIRAOS on TMT

  • AO systems and instrumental concepts

    • Oral talks

      • Wide Field AO design rules for ELTs
      • Breaking the FoV vs. thickness rule in MCAO
      • NFIRAOS - first light adaptive optics system for TMT
      • Requirements for AO-ELT operation and AO site monitor
      • ATLAS: The LTAO module of the E-ELT
      • Extreme Adaptive Optics in the mid-IR: the METIS AO system
      • Towards the phase A review of MAORY, the multi-conjugate adaptive optics module for the E-ELT
      • EAGLE multi-object AO concept study for the E-ELT
      • EPICS, the exoplanet imager for the E-ELT

    • Posters

      • A systems approach for the design and development of an integrated Multi-Object Adaptive Optics Wide Field Integral Field Unit Infrared Spectrometer for the European Extremely Large Telescope
      • Calibration of the MCAO Canopus Bench
      • MCAO for the E-ELT: preliminary design overview of the MAORY module
      • Status of a high contrast bench in the framework of the E-ELT
      • Telescope windshake correction with NGS on an ELT. Strategies and first results
      • Tomographic reconstruction strategies for Gemini’s MCAO system.

  • AO simulations

    • Oral talks

      • Models of optical turbulence and wind speed for the Thirty Meter Telescope sites
      • Comparison of Reconstruction and Control algorithms on the ESO end-to-end simulator OCTOPUS
      • Full Physical Optics Sky Coverage Simulation for MCAO and MOAO Systems on ELT’s
      • Closed-loop with laser guide star spot elongation: impact of a maximum a posteriori reconstruction with modeled noise correlations on end-to-end simulations
      • Simulations of Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Systems for the European Extremely Large Telescope
      • Wide Field AO simulation for ELT: fourier and global E2E approaches

    • Posters

      • Extreme adaptive optics simulations for EPICS
      • Fast continuous model of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors for atmospheric tomography on ELTs
      • Modal phase correction for large-aperture ground-based telescope with multi-guide stars
      • MOSP: Monitor of Outer Scale Profile
      • PAOLAC: an embedment of the analytical adaptive optics simulation code PAOLA within the CAOS problem-solving environment
      • SCAO simulation results with a Pyramid sensor on an ELT-like telescope
      • Very low flux adaptive optics using spatial and temporal priors

  • Laser guide stars

    • Oral talks

      • High-resolution results from the UBC-lidar experiment for the Thirty Meter Telescope
      • Building the demonstrator of the Polychromatic Laser Guide Star (ELP-OA) at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP)
      • ARGOS- the LBT Laser AO Facility
      • Low Order modes retrieval for LGSs tomography
      • The Laser Guide Star Facility for TMT: requirements overview and current status of the design
      • New methods and technologies that will enable visible wavelength science with laser guidestar AO on the extremely large telescopes

    • Posters

      • Active Laser Guide Star refocusing system for EAGLE instrument
      • Design of an holographic off-axis calibration light source for ARGOS.
      • End-to-end model for the Polychromatic Laser Guide Star project (ELP-OA)
      • Fratricide effect for LGS AO systems on ELTs

  • Wave front sensing

    • Oral talks

      • Ultra high precision wavefront sensing for Extreme-AO on ELTs
      • Shack-Hartmann tomographic wavefront reconstruction using laser guide star: analysis of spot elongation and fratricide effect.
      • The CAFADIS camera: a new tomographic wavefront sensor for Adaptive Optics.
      • The TMT/NFIRAOS LGS wavefront sensing demonstration bench
      • Concept study of on-instrument wavefront sensors for the TMT IRIS science instrument
      • Detectors for LGS WF sensing on an ELT: characteristics, special features, limitations, technology
      • Characterization of the T/T Conditions at Gemini using Adaptive Optics Telemetry Data
      • A new sensor for laser tomography on ELTs
      • Comparison of centroiding algorithms to optimize Shack Hartmann WFS in the context of ELTs
      • Lessons learned with the Active Phasing Experiment: comparison of four optical phasing sensors on a segmented Very Large Telescope.
      • Sensing Quasi-Static Aberrations of Adaptive Optics Systems On Line with Long-Exposure Phase Diversity
      • Phase retrieval in the focal plane
      • The Self-Coherent Camera: a focal plane wavefront sensor for EPICS
      • Correction of quasi static wavefront errors for ELTs: experimental validation of a two sequential DMs wavefront controller

    • Posters

      • A Direct Measurement of Atmospheric Dispersion in N-band Spectra: Implications for Mid-IR Systems on ELTs
      • A prototype of the laser guide star wavefront sensor for the E-ELT Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Module
      • Characterization and mitigation of Laser—Guide—Star aberrations
      • Focal plane wavefront sensing for segmented telescope
      • Pyramid wave front sensor and laser guide stars for ELT
      • Spot Elongation Effects on Laser Guide Stars-based Wave Front Measurements for the ELTs
      • The impact of Atmospheric dispersion on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes

  • Deformable mirrors

    • Oral talks

      • Pre-focal wave front correction and field stabilization for the E-ELT
      • Adaptive Telescope Mirror developments in the framework of the European "ELT Design Study" project
      • The M4 adaptive unit for the E-ELT
      • Voice-coil technology for the E-ELT M4 Adaptive Unit
      • MEMS Deformable Mirrors for Adaptive Optics in Astronomy
      • Recent Progress on Correcting Components at CILAS
      • E-ELT M5 Field Stabilisation Unit Scale 1 Demonstrator (M5FU1D) and Conceptual Design Status

    • Posters

      • A 1-metre Ni coated CFRP demonstrator for large deformable mirrors
      • Adaptive optics correction of segment aberration
      • Adaptive Optics for ELTs with Low-Cost and Lightweight Segmented Deformable Mirrors
      • Characterization of Influence Function Non-Additivities for a 1024 Actuators MEMS DM
      • Deformable Mirror Modeling and Parameter Identification
      • DM design issues for E-ELT and associated instruments
      • Electromagnetic DM technology meeting future AO demands

  • Real-time control

    • Oral talks

      • Tomography reconstruction using the Learn and Apply (L&A) algorithm: Simulations and tests results at the SESAME bench.
      • A Split LGS/NGS Atmospheric Tomography for MCAO and MOAO
      • Adapting optimal LQG methods to ELT-sized AO systems
      • Computationally Efficient Control Strategy for Large Adaptive Optics Systems
      • Fourier transform wavefront reconstruction for the pyramid wavefront sensor
      • A Real-Time Controller Architecture for the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System on the Thirty Meter Telescope
      • An FPGA Based Computing Platform for Adaptive Optics Control

    • Posters

      • An optimized calibration strategy for high order adaptive optics systems: the Slope-Oriented Hadamard Actuation
      • Control algorithm for tomographic wide field-of-view adaptive optics on an ELT
      • FPGA-based real time control of ELTs adaptive optics system
      • Implementation of a waveform recovery algorithm using a zonal reconstruction algorithm (Hudgin) using FPGAs.

  • Pathfinders

    • Oral talks

      • Calibration schemes in MCAO
      • Solar Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics at the Dunn Solar Telescope
      • CANARY: The on-sky NGS/LGS MOAO demonstrator for EAGLE
      • Experimental results of tomographic reconstruction on ONERA laboratory MCAO bench
      • Laboratory Demonstrations of 10-m Multi-Object Adaptive Optics in V-band and Implications for ELTs
      • The SAXO-SPHERE system, a pathfinder for the future XAO systems on ELTs

    • Posters

      • Segment phasing experiments on the High Order Test bench.

  • Post processing

    • Oral talks

      • Determination of astrometry and photometry of faint companions in the presence of residual speckle noise
      • Suppressing stellar residual light on extremely large telescopes by aperture modulation
      • Use of AO PSF models for the Study of Resolved Stellar Populations

    • Posters

      • Detection threshold in high contrast imaging with partially polarized light
      • Optimal Method for Exoplanet Detection by Spectral and Angular Differential Imaging
      • PSF-reconstruction for the GLAO system ARGOS

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Oral presentations

• Astrophysical needs and high level requirements for AO on ELTs

• AO systems and instrumental concepts

• AO simulations

• Laser guide stars

• Wave front sensing

• Deformable mirrors

• Real-time control

• Pathfinders

• Post processing