Scientific program

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Program - Wednesday, June 12, 2019



SESSION 9 - ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS DESIGN AND MODELLING
9:00 A story of errors and bias: the optimisation of the LGS WFS for HARMONI Thierry Fusco
9:20 Adaptive Optics system overview for the TMT PSI instrument Mark Chun
9:40 An integrated modeling approach to adaptive optics simulations Rodolphe Conan
10:00 Another path for getting ELT-scale pyramid WFS under control ? Eric Gendron
10:20 Status of the SCExAO instrument: recent technology upgrades and path to a system-level demonstrator for PSI Julien Lozi
10:40 Coffee break
SESSION 10 - SCIENCE WITH ADAPTIVE OPTICS
11:10 *Keynote presentation* Progress along the EST MCAO roadmap Luzma Montoya Martinez
11:50 Laser assisted MCAO observations of embedded massive star clusters now and in the future Morten Andersen
12:10 MICADO sci-ops: shaping its adaptive optics systems Richard Davies
12:30 Lunch
SESSION 11 - ADAPTIVE OPTICS DISTRUBANCES CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELLING
14:00 Local turbulence: Causes and effects Olivier Lai
14:20 New achievements in optical turbulenceforecast systems in operational mode Elena Masciadri
14:40 METIS high-contrast performance: the wind driven halo Faustine Cantalloube
15:00 ELT performance report 2018A: expected AO performance with real turbulence profiles Ollie Farley
15:20 Nowcasting the turbulence in Paranal Julien Milli