Lecture topics
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Preliminary time & place: M/W/F 9:00-10:00 AM Rm 544
Campbell
Weekly lecture topics:
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Jan 22, 24:
Class organization and logistics. Introduction and overview
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Jan 27, 29, 20:Astronomy
crash course
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Feb 03,
05,
07:
History of astronomical telescopes
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Feb 10, 12,
14:
Astronomical optics and astronomical instrumentation
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Wave optics (James
Graham, UCB)
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Perfect and Aberrated
images (James Graham, UCB)
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Geometric Optics
& Two Mirror Telescopes (James Graham, UCB)
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Analysis and detection of starlight
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Feb 19, 21: Science
drivers for ELTs & summary of ELT projects
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Feb 24, 26, 28: Astronomy in a terrestrial setting: absorption and seeing
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Mar 03, 05, 07 & 10: Control theory crash course
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March 10:
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Mar 12, 14, 17: Adaptive optics
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Mar 19, 21, 31:
Structural analysis: statics and dynamics
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Materials for Telescope
Mirrors
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Apr 02, 04 : Telescope structure, pointing and tracking
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Apr 07, 09 & 11 Monolithic and segmented mirrors
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Mirror structure
(James Graham, UCB)
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Fabrication techniques
(James Graham, UCB)
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Optical testing (James
Graham, UCB)
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Apr 16, 18 : Fabrication and testing of large optics
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Apr 21: Mirror
Coatings
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Apr 23: Lasers
for ELT Part 1(Dee Pennington, LLNL)
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Apr 25: Lasers for ELT
Part 2(Dee Pennington, LLNL)
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Apr 28, 30: Site selection, testing and climate modelling
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May 02, 05: Astronomical instruments for ELT
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May 07, 09 Presentation
of student projects
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Jason Cain, Hyuck Choo, Michael Cooper, Marc Davis ,Paul Demorest
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Sina Farsiu, Mike Fitzgerald, Ryan Foley, Josh Goldston
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Yujia Jin, Conor Laver, Carrie Low, Andrew Mihal,
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David Palmer, Marshall Perrin, Robert Vogel
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Eric Wemhoff, Zuobing Xu
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May 12: Summary and conclusions
1/20: Martin Luther King Day
2/17: President's Day
3/07: Charter Holiday
3/24-28: Spring Break
5/13: End of Instruction