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Symposium on Seeing

Scientific Sessions

Session 1.

Instrumentation and observations to quantify the magnitude and distribution of atmospheric optical turbulence.

Session 2.

Adaptive optics, interferometry, and other approaches to mitigate atmospheric optical turbulence.

Session 3.

Approaches for modeling atmospheric optical turbulence.

Session 4.

Applications of optical turbulence observations and custom forecasting in telescope astronomy.

Session 5.

Panel lead session to develop a science plan for a field experiment.

Monday, March 19

6:00 pm


Registration
Cocktail Reception

Tuesday, March 20 - Session 1

8:00 am
Coffee and Refreshments
8:25 am
Marc Chun
Introduction to Session 1
Sub-Session 1a: Standard Instrumentation/Calibration

8:30 am

Marc Sarazin
Assembling composite vertical atmospheric turbulence profiles from DIMM, SLODAR and MASS contemporaneous records at Paranal

9:00 am

Andrei Tokovinin
Accurate turbulence measurements with MASS and DIMM

9:15 am

Aglae Kellerer
An instrument to measure the atmospheric time constant

9:30 am

Frank Eaton
Unresolved critical issues of optical turbulence that effect seeing determinations

9:45 am

Zouhair Benkhaldoun
The seeing monitors: Instrumental noise and cross-calibration

10:00 am


Coffee Break

10:30 am

Fumihiro Uruguchi
Current status of the DIMM station at Subaru Telescope

10:45 am

Warren Skidmore
The Thirty Meter Telescope DIMM systems

11:00 am

Sebastian Els
The TMT MASS System: Characterization and Application

11:15 am

Matthias Schoeck
Characterizing the TMT site selection equipment
Sub-Session 1b: New Instruments and Methods

11:30 am

Julien Borgnino
An optical turbulence profiler for the terrestrial atmosphere boundary-layer

11:45 am

Paul Hickson
First results from a Lunar SHABAR at CTIO

12:00 pm


Lunch Break

1:45 pm

Remy Avila
Low Layer SCIDAR: a turbulence profiler for the first kilometer with very high altitude-resolution

2:00 pm

Aziz Ziad
MOSP: Monitor of Outer Scale Profile

2:15 pm

Earl Spillar
SAM: An instrument designed for characterization of the atmosphere for optical experiments

2:30 pm

Marjorie Shoemake
Characterization of atmospheric optical turbulence along two horizontal path and comparison with vertical path turbulence

2:45 pm


Coffee Break
Sub-Session 1c: Site Measurements Campaign & Results

3:15 pm

Mark Chun
The Mauna Kea ground-layer characterization campaign

3:30 pm

Thomas Rimmele
The Advance Technology Solar Telescope Site Survey: Instrumentation, Results and application to adaptive optics systems modeling

3:45 pm

Jesus J. Fuensalida
Statistical turbulence vertical profiles at the Roque de los Muchachos observatory and Teide observatory

4:00 pm

Julio Navarrete
PARANAL DIMM and MASS-LITE Comparison after two years of operation

4:15 pm

Joanna Thomas-Osip
The Seeing and Turbulence Profile at Las Campanas Observatory: GMT Site Testing Progress Report

4:30 pm

Jon Lawrence
Characterising optical turbulence at Dome A on the Antarctic plateau

4:45 pm

Jean Vernin
Site testing at Dome C, Antarctica

5:00 pm


Adjourn

Wednesday, March 21 - Session 2 & 3

8:00 am


Coffee and Refreshments

8:25 am

Francois Rigaut
Introduction to Session 2

8:30 am

Brent Ellerbroek
Special issues in atmospheric monitoring and characterization for future extremely large telescopes

9:00 am

Lianqi Wang
Atmospheric Turbulence Profiling using Multiple Adaptive Optics.

9:15 am

Nancy Ageorges
Comparison of atmospheric conditions as measured by dedicated monitors & as seen on an adaptive optics wavefront sensor.

9:30 am

Szymon Gladysz
Instantaneous Seeing estimates using closed-loop AO images

9:45 am

Matthew Britton
The Anisoplanatic Point Spread Function in Adaptive Optics

10:00 am


Coffee Break

10:30 am

Jeff Stoesz
The widest contiguous field of view at selected sites

10:45 am

Christoph Baranec
Adaptive optics using multiple guide stars

11:00 am

L William Bradford
Statistics of short term seeing at AEOS: Measurements of the short term variability of r0

11:15 am

Eric Steinbring
Two Applications of Turbulence Characterization that Improve Deep AO Imaging with the Laser

11:30 am

Richard Wilson
SLODAR Turbulence Profiling

11:45 am

Francois Rigaut
Real-time sodium layer thickness monitoring with the Altair Laser Guide Star System

12:00 pm


Lunch Break

1:40 am

Steven Businger
Introduction to Session 3

1:45 pm

Elena Masciadri
Optical Turbulence simulations with meso-scale models. Towards a new ground- based astronomy era

2:15 pm

Franck Lascaux
Mesoscale simulations above Antartica for astronomical applications: first approaches

2:30 pm

Omar Cuevas
Analysis of local meteorological conditions in Macon using the MM5 model

2:45 pm

Tiziana Cherubini
TBA

3:00 pm


Coffee Break

3:30 pm

Sara C. Adair
Modeling and Forecasting Optical Turbulence with DEEST.

3:45 pm

Sethu Raman
Influence of Coastal Meteorological Processes on Aerosol Transport

4:00 pm

Dale Barker
High-Resolution Atmospheric Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction in Data Sparse Areas

4:15 pm

Amokrane Berdja
How to Monte-Carlo Simulate the Optical Turbulence Boiling Beyond the Frozen Flow Hypothesis.

4:30 pm

Lewis Roberts
Haleakala Seeing Characterization and Improved Wind Models for Several Astronomical Observatories

4:45 pm

Andrei Tokovinin
Testing turbulence model at metric scales with mid-infrared VISIR

5:00 pm


Adjourn

Thursday, March 22 - Session 4 & 5

8:00 am


Coffee and Refreshments

8:25 am

Brent Ellerbroek
Introduction to Session 4

8:30 am

Douglas Simons
The "Missing Link" Between Meteorology and Astronomy

9:00 am

Konstantinos Vogiatzis
Thermal Seeing Modeling as a Design and Performance Analysis Tool

9:15 am

Bounhir Aziza
Seeing estimation from 200 mb wind speed in the ELT campaign

9:30 am

Herve Trinquet
A new model to forecast seeing and Cn2 profiles from meteorological profiles

9:45 am

Esperanza Carrasco
Climatology of Sierra Negra.

10:00 am

Dennis Crabtree
The Role of Weather Forecasts in Gemini Scientific Operations

10:15 am


Coffee Break

10:30 am


Poster Session

12:00 pm


Lunch Break

1:30 pm


Session 5: Open Discussion

3:30 pm


Closing Remarks/Adjorn


Updated on: Wed, Dec 17 2014 - 1849 UTC
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