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LIOM
Laboratory For Innovation In Opto-Mechanics

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AGENDA
I LIOM International Workshop
Beyond Extremely Large Telescopes 

Hybrid Meeting – IACTEC & Virtual

Day 1 – Feb. 13, 2023

LIOM Kick-off Meeting

Morning Session (Chair: Nicolas Lodieu) – What is LIOM?

  • 10h00–10h15 – Rafael Rebolo: Introductions

  • 10h15–10h30 (virtual) – Alberto Fernández (EU Project Officer): LIOM and ERC

  • 10h30–11h00 – Jeff Kuhn: Technical introduction to ELF and LIOM

  • 11h00–11h30 – Rafael Rebolo: LIOM in the IAC, IACTEC and larger communities

  • 11h30–12h00 – Coffee break

  • 12h00–12h30 – Anselmo Sosa: Overview of LIOM program goals and milestones

  • 12h30–13h30 – Round table introductions

13h30–14h30 – Light Lunch @ IACTEC

Afternoon Session (Chair: Nicolas Lodieu) – LIOM Sustainability

  • 14h30–15h00 – Pablo Redondo: Introduction to IACTEC programmes and its future directions

  • 15h00–15h10 – Jeff Kuhn: Science with ELF

  • 15h10–15h40 – Andrés Asensio Ramos: Machine learning solutions for imaging and wavefronts

  • 15h40–15h50 – Nicolas Lodieu: Small-ELF science goals

  • 15h50–16h10 – Jeff Kuhn & Rafael Rebolo: LIOM prioritizing and achieving goals discussion

  • 16h10–16h30 – Coffee break

  • 17h00–17h20 – Kevin Lewis: Ideas about LIOM public relations and business development

  • 17h20–17h30 – Nayra Rodríguez: IAC Unit of Communication UC3

  • 17h30–17h40 – Héctor Socas: The Science Museum in La Laguna

  • 17h40–18h00 (virtual) – Uzair Mirza: Driving Internet Traffic to LIOM

18h30 – Return from IACTEC to Hotel Nivaria

Day 2 – Feb. 14, 2023

Opening LIOM Meeting: Beyond ELTs

Morning Session (Chair: Rafael Rebolo) – Building Partnerships and Prototypes

  • 10h00–10h30 – Wolfgang Osten: Examples of technology public and private collaborations

  • 10h30–11h00 – Jannick Roland: Industry–academic partnerships that create optical technologies

  • 11h00–11h30 – Pete Worden: Future needs for ground and space large optical receivers

  • 11h30–12h00 – Coffee break

  • 12h00–12h15 – Jeff Kuhn: ELF key technology development needs

  • 12h15–12h45 – Wolfgang Osten: Metrology technology, opportunities

  • 12h45–13h15 – Ye Zhou: Small-ELF design

  • 13h15–13h30 – Nicolas Lodieu: Small-ELF status and goals

13h30–14h30 – Light Lunch @ IACTEC

Afternoon Session (Chair: Pete Worden) – Large telescope projects, quantum and astrophotonics opportunities

  • 14h30–15h00 (virtual) – Roger Angel: LFAST – large aperture telescope concept

  • 15h00–15h30 (virtual) – John Mather & Eliad Perez: Using orbiting starshades and beacons

  • 15h30–16h00 – Round table discussion: LIOM – telescope partnership opportunities

  • 15h30–16h00 – Wolfgang Osten: Metrology concepts, future directions

  • 16h00–16h30 – Coffee break

  • 16h30–16h45 – Luis F. Rodríguez Ramos: Photonic research directions at IAC

  • 16h45–17h00 – Paolo Villoresi: Quantum limits on wavefront sensing

  • 17h00–18h00 (virtual) – Pradip Gatkine: Astrophotonics – directions and opportunities

18h30 – Return from IACTEC to Hotel Nivaria

Day 3 – Feb. 15, 2023

Morning Session I (Chair: Maud Langlois) – LIOM Technologies, Mirrors and Tensegrity

  • 09h30–10h00 – Gil Moretto: Status of “Live mirror” electroactive dynamic mirror project

  • 10h00–10h30 – Ed Kibblewhite: Large telescope concepts and mirror innovation

  • 10h30–10h45 – Jeff Kuhn: Curvature polishing and thin mirror technology

  • 10h45–11h00 – Joe Ritter: Static curvature polishing of optical glass mirror

  • 11h00–11h15 (virtual) – Jean-Fabien Capsal: Future of electroactive polymers

  • 11h15–11h30 – Open discussion of mirrors

  • 11h30–12h00 – Coffee break

Morning Session II (Chair: Gil Moretto) – LIOM Optomechanics: Tensegrity

  • 12h00–12h15 – Ye Zhou: Tensegrity in telescopes

  • 12h15–13h15 – Fernando Fraternali: Current tensegrity research relevant to minimal mass and deployable structures

  • 13h15–13h30 – Open discussion of mirrors and tensegrity

13h30–14h30 – Light Lunch @ IACTEC

Afternoon Session (Chair: Jannick Roland) – LIOM Technologies, Wavefront Measurement

  • 14h30–15h00 – Maud Langlois: High order AO correction in Fizeau telescopes

  • 15h00–15h15 – Ryan Swindle: The DASIE distributed aperture simulator and on-sky experiment

  • 15h15–15h30 – Iciar Montilla: Adaptive optics solutions at IAC

  • 15h30–16h00 – Stuart Jefferies: Wavefront sensing for image restoration

  • 16h00–16h30 – Coffee break

  • 16h30–16h45 (virtual) – Ian Cunnyngham: Supervised Machine Learning Wavefront solutions

  • 16h45–17h15 – Justin Fletcher: End to end learning of sequential wavefront control and image recovery

  • 17h15–17h30 – Luzma Montoya: The EST MCAO program

  • 17h30–18h00 (virtual) – Olivier Guyon: Direct imaging with planned astronomy telescopes

18h30 – Return from IACTEC to Hotel Nivaria
20h00–23h00 – Dinner in La Laguna: Restaurante El Remojo

Day 4 – Feb. 16, 2023

Morning Session (Chair: Wolfgang Osten) – Building a LIOM Roadmap

  • 10h00–10h15 – Mary Barreto Cabrera: Big telescope planning / managing: lessons learned from EST

  • 10h15–10h30 – Discussion of online feedback

  • 10h30–11h30 – All: Milestones discussion

  • 11h30–12h00 – Coffee break

  • 12h00–12h30 – Summary and actions to be taken

  • 12h30–13h30 – Visit to IACTEC

Afternoon – Visit at Teide Observatory

  • 13h30 – Departure from IACTEC to the observatory by bus

  • 14h30–15h30 – Lunch at the observatory

  • 15h30–17h30 – Visit site of Small-ELF

  • 17h30 – Return to Hotel Nivaria

Day 5 – Feb. 17, 2023

Morning Session (Chair: Jeff Kuhn) – Starting LIOM Collaborations

  • 10h00–11h30 – All: Initiate parallel collaborations discussions

  • 11h30–12h00 – Coffee break

  • 12h00–13h00 – Jeff Kuhn: End of meeting: summary and conclusions

13h15 – Return from IACTEC to Hotel Nivaria