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Edinburgh International Conference Centre Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Conferences 26 June–1 July 2016

Exhibition 28–29 June 2016

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DATESConferences: 26 June–1 July 2016 Exhibition: 28–29 June 2016

LOCATIONEdinburgh International Conference Centre Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Present your work in Edinburgh. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation conferences address the latest results in ground- and space-based telescopes, supporting technologies, and instrumentation.

TECHNOLOGIESTELESCOPES AND SYSTEMS• Space Telescopes and Instrumentation:

Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave• Space Telescopes and Instrumentation:

Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray• Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes and

Instrumentation• Optical and IR Interferometry and Imaging• Adaptive Optics Systems• Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes,

and Systems• Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project

Management for Astronomy

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS• Advances in Optical and Mechanical

Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation

• Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy

• Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy

• High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy

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2016 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS:

HIS ITUR AD ASTRA: WITH THESE WE GO TO THE STARSWith these words, James Gregory showed the world his design for a reflective telescope in 1663. Ten years later, he alerted Isaac Newton to his observations of white light being split into colours when passed through a feather – the discovery of the diffraction grating. By 1675 Gregory was Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, so we feel it is appropriate for this major symposium taking place in Edinburgh to take inspiration from Gregory.

We are now constructing reflective telescopes on the ground and in space that are orders of magnitude bigger than anything Gregory envisaged, and designing and building the instruments, many of which are dependent on diffraction gratings. So it seems rather appropriate that we adopt his motto for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 in Edinburgh.

The symposium call for papers spans a broad range of topics, from facilities and instruments in operation or development, to novel technologies and techniques for the facilities of the future. As symposium chairs, we encourage potential authors to submit papers that not only highlight achievements but also demonstrate lessons learnt and problems solved to enable us to improve our collective performance in the future.

The symposium brings together engineers, scientists and industry at a very exciting time and in the beautiful and historic environment of Scotland’s capital city.

We really do use these telescopes and instruments to ‘go to the stars’.

Colin Cunningham UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom)

Masanori Iye National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan)

Allison A. Barto Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States)

Suzanne K. Ramsay European Southern Observatory (Germany)

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COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

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Contents.TELESCOPES AND SYSTEMSAS101 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation

2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (Howard A. MacEwen; Giovanni G. Fazio; Makenzie Lystrup; Edward C. Tong) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

AS102 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Tadayuki Takahashi; Mark Bautz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

AS103 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI (Helen J. Hall; Roberto Gilmozzi; Heather K. Marshall) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

AS104 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V (Fabien Malbet; Michelle J. Creech-Eakman; Peter G. Tuthill) . . . . . . . .7

AS105 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI (Christopher J. Evans; Luc Simard; Hideki Takami) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

AS106 Adaptive Optics Systems V (Enrico Marchetti; Laird M. Close; Jean-Pierre Véran) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

AS107 Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI (Alison B. Peck; Robert L. Seaman; Chris R. Benn) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

AS108 Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI (George Z. Angeli; Philippe Dierickx) . . . . 12

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTSAS109 Advances in Optical and Mechanical

Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (Ramón Navarro; James H. Burge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

AS110 Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV (Gianluca Chiozzi; Juan C. Guzman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

AS111 Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (Wayne S. Holland; Jonas Zmuidzinas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

AS112 High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII (Andrew D. Holland; James Beletic) . . . . 18

General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Submission of Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT TODAY!www.spie.org/as16call

COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

Proceedings

European Southern ObservatoryNational Radio Astronomy ObservatoryRoyal Astronomical SocietyScience & Technology Facilities Council

Australian Astronomical ObservatoryAmerican Astronomical SocietyAssociation of Universities for Research in

Astronomy Canadian Space Agency/Agence spatiale

canadienneCanadian Astronomical SocietyEuropean Astronomical Society

RADIO ASTRONOMYIf your research is connected with radio astronomy and you want to par-

ticipate in this virtual symposium, enter “RADIO” when prompted during the abstract submission. Accepted papers will be cross-listed in the SPIE RADIO ASTRONOMY Virtual Track.


TELESCOPES AND SYSTEMS

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (AS101)Conference Chairs: Howard A. MacEwen, Reviresco LLC (United States); Giovanni G. Fazio, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics (United States); Makenzie Lystrup, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States)

Program Committee: Beth A. Biller, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (United Kingdom); James B. Breckinridge, Breckinridge Associates (United States); Richard W. Capps, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Mark Clampin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Mattheus W. M. de Graauw, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute (Russian Federation); Lee D. Feinberg, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Qian Gong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); James C. Green, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (United States); Matthew J. Griffin, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom); Astrid Heske, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands); Robert A. Laskin, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); David T. Leisawitz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Charles F. Lillie, Lillie Consulting (United States); Jean-Pierre Maillard, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (France); Gary W. Matthews, Exelis Geospatial Systems (United States); Takao Nakagawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan); Jacobus M. Oschmann Jr., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States); Ronald S. Polidan, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (United States); David C. Redding, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Aki Roberge, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Giorgio Savini, Univ. College London (United Kingdom); Bernard D. Seery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); H. Philip Stahl, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Edward C. Tong, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics (United States); Gillian S. Wright, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Toru Yamada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)

The Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 conference is intended to explore the current state of the art of space telescope and instrumentation programs, concepts and technologies from the near-ultraviolet and visible wavelengths through the infrared and millimeter. Currently, a broad range of operating space telescopes and instruments continue to address a range of astrophysical questions, includ-ing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Kepler/K2. The airborne observatory SOFIA initiated prime operations in 2014. ESA has launched and is collecting data from the Global As-trometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (GAIA), a mission that will compile an astrometric catalogue of ~1 billion stars.

Other programs are showing significant progress towards operations and observations. NASA is cur-rently developing two new Explorer class missions, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), the latter to fly on the International Space Station (ISS). The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is well into construction, assembly, and verification and maintaining its scheduled launch date in October 2018. The ESA Euclid mission, which will map the geometry of the dark universe, entered construction with selection of the prime contractor in 2013 and a planned launch in 2020.

NASA has recently produced a Science Definition Study Final Report for the Wide-Field IR Space Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Asset (WFIRST-AFTA) in preparation for the release of funding as JWST reaches program completion. For the longer term, several studies are underway to look at options for future UV/Visible/Near IR large aperture telescopes, such as the High Definition Space Telescope (HDST) study recently released by AURA. The Japanese-led SPICA far-infrared space telescope mission is undergoing redefinition and the ESA Plato mission to observe planetary transits and oscillations of stars is planned for launch in 2024. For the 2020 Decadal Survey, NASA is studying four large mission concepts: Far IR Surveyor, Habitable-Exo-planet Imaging Mission, UV/Optical/IR Surveyor and the X-ray Surveyor.

Finally, private foundations are starting to enter the field of space telescopes for astronomy. The B612 Sentinel mission is continuing to plan development of a low heliocentric space telescope that would detect, track, and characterize near-earth asteroids in orbits at less than 1 AU.

For this Conference, status discussions of the projects identified in the preceding introduction are sought, as well as papers addressing topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:• Near-UV, visible, IR, submillimeter and millimeter

wavelength astronomical space telescopes and instruments including their on-orbit performance

• Highly innovative space telescope and instrument concepts

• Concepts for future large aperture space telescopes

• Exoplanet detection and characterization using space telescopes

• Results from astrobiology and related fields that can help determine the science needed for exoplanet observations and studies

• Innovative space telescopes and instrumentation for solar astrophysics and for studies of the structure and evolution of the solar system as a whole

• Approaches to increasing insight into dark matter and dark energy using space telescopes

• Small mission concepts and technologies• Approaches to mission development and

implementation such as: - technology demonstrations, including on the

International Space Station (ISS)- concepts for piggy backing on other missions

to provide cost effective science- innovative approaches to risk management- student involvement.

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• Enabling system technologies for space telescopes, such as:- formation flying concepts and technologies- deployment, assembly, commissioning and

other space infrastructure- innovative real time metrology and wavefront

sensing and control- interferometric effects- polarization effects, including observation and

mitigation- active and passive cooling methods including

cryocoolers- technologies and architectures for achieving

high thermal stability of large telescopes- system concepts utilizing servicing for

extended mission life- technologies and architectures for performing

dynamic isolation of payloads.• Approaches that leverage programs in other

areas:- synergies with ground-based or airborne

astronomical observatories- synergism with science missions in other

spectral regions- manned exploration missions, goals, and

technologies- astrobiological investigations that may affect

the needs for science observations- earth observation concepts and technologies.

• Ground fabrication, integration, and testing of telescope optics, instruments, telescope structures and observatories including optical and thermal testing

• System modeling of telescopes and space observatories, their assembly and servicing, to enable confident launch of systems too large for end-to-end ground testing.

Technologies for space telescopes and instruments will be of joint interest to many other sessions. We will work towards one or more joint sessions and will coordinate with other conferences to find the most appropriate fits and avoid conflicts among paper schedules.

The events and studies that will determine the future of space observatories for the next few decades are occurring right now, and the active participation of students is particularly important for this conference. Students are encouraged to submit work addressing both science requirements and technology enablers, conventional and unconventional. And opportunities to reach out to other disciplines and to the public at large are sought to increase understanding of the value of space observatories and consequently their basis of support. We look forward to a vigorous response to this Call for Papers from across the space telescope community.

IMPORTANT DATESAbstracts Due: 14 DECEMBER 2015Acceptance Notification Sent to Contact Author:

22 FEBRUARY 2016Manuscript Due Date: 30 MAY 2016Please Note: Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the conference, present the paper as scheduled, and submit a full-length manuscript for publication in the conference proceedings.


Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (AS101 continued)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (AS102)Conference Chairs: Jan-Willem A. den Herder, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands); Tadayuki Takahashi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan); Mark Bautz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)

Program Committee: Hisamitsu Awaki, Ehime Univ. (Japan); Didier Barret, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France); Marcos Bavdaz, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands); Angela Bazzano, INAF/Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziale (Italy); Steven E. Boggs, Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States); João Braga, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil); Jin Chang, Purple Mountain Observatory (China); Marco Feroci, INAF - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (Italy); Luigi Gallo, Saint Mary’s Univ. (Canada); Neil A. Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); James C. Green, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (United States); Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology (United States); Margarita Hernanz, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain); Caroline A. Kilbourne, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Olivier Limousin, CEA-Ctr. de SACLAY (France); Hironori Matsumoto, Nagoya Univ. (Japan); Mark L. McConnell, The Univ. of New Hampshire (United States); Kazuhiro Nakazawa, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Kirpal Nandra, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Germany); Shouleh Nikzad, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Takaya Ohashi, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. (Japan); Giovanni Pareschi, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy); Biswajit Paul, Raman Research Institute (India); Mikhail N. Pavlinsky, Space Research Institute (Russian Federation); Paul S. Ray, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States); Vincent Tatischeff, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France); Hiroshi Tsunemi, Osaka Univ. (Japan); Martin C. Weisskopf, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Richard Willingale, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom); Jörn Wilms, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany); Shuangnan Zhang, Institute of High Energy Physics (China)

Observation of the hot universe, from 105 K upward, has a vital impact on some of the most fundamental questions in astrophysics today. Hot plasmas, from the sun and stellar coronae, to the cores of gamma ray bursts, expose the underpinning physics of observable phenomena: the evolution of largescale structure and nucleosynthesis; the interaction be-tween galaxies and super-massive black holes; the behavior of matter under extreme conditions; the fate of the “missing” baryons; and the life cycle of stars.

Previous and currently operating space telescopes, such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, FUSE, INTEGRAL, GALEX, RXTE, Hinode, SDO, Swift, Suzaku, FERMI and NuSTAR have revolutionized our view of the hot universe; future missions, e.g., ASTROSAT, SRG, ASTRO-H, SVOM, HXMT and NICER promise new discovery space. It is expected that early results and instrument performance of some of these missions can be presented at the meeting. After this “golden age” the ESA large scale mission Athena will be the observatory for the next decade (scheduled launch date 2028). However, focused, small and mid-sized missions should complement Athena and full cover-age of the UV to gamma-ray wavelength is equally important to advance science. In addition it is cru-cial to explore and develop technology beyond the Athena mission. Technology which will need to be advanced includes large format cryogenic imaging spectrometers, CMOS image arrays, pore optics, adjustable and active optics, multi-layers, x-ray pola-rimetry, x-ray interferometry, hard x-ray and gamma ray imaging systems.

This conference invites the community to contribute to the discussion of new observatories in the UV to gamma-ray band. The conference will cover, among others, the following issues: major questions in astrophysics that will drive the design of new obser-vatories; lessons learned from existing observatories, both technical and astrophysical; approved and proposed new observatories; technologies in optics and focal planes; and novel concepts.

Papers are solicited on but not restricted to the following topics: • Astrophysical science drivers for new

observatories • Observational tools required to support the

science aims of new major observatories • Current missions in UV, x-ray and gamma rays,

and their impact on new science and future observatories

• Approved missions still to be launched: their status and potential impact on the field

• Proposed small and medium missions and their role in the overall picture of high energy astrophysics

• Proposed large facilities in UV, x-ray and gamma-rays

• Technology for future observatories: the latest developments and their potential impact on the capability of new missions

• Calibration of current and future missions • Novel concepts for research beyond our current

time horizon (~2025) • End to end simulations of new facilities.


Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI (AS103)Conference Chairs: Helen J. Hall, National Association of Professional Women (United States); Roberto Gilmozzi, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Heather K. Marshall, DKIST/National Solar Observatory (United States)

Program Committee: Matthew Colless, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National Univ. (Australia); Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Lab. d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France); Frank W. Kan, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (United States); Victor L. Krabbendam, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (United States); Jeffrey R. Kuhn, Univ. of Hawai’i (United States); Göran Sandell, SOFIA / USRA (United States); Jason Spyromilio, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Tomonori Usuda, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Yongtian Zhu, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (China)

This conference is the latest in the series on Ground Based and Airborne Telescopes. Progress in the field continues at an exciting pace: several large ground-based and airborne facilities have recently continued science operations, including the Sardinia Radio Tele-scope (SRT) with an Educational & Public Outreach, the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) is doing early science and telescopes adjustments, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is in Cycle 3 and releasing their verification data, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is doing their Data Release 1, SkyMapper, the New Solar Telescope (NST) is doing cool science out of this telescope, and the Stratospheric Obser-vatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has Cycle 4 proposals in and completed a 2nd Southern Deploy-ment. Many existing facilities have undergone recent upgrades to keep their capabilities competitive, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) which is initiating a Dark Energy Experiment and new tracker.

Construction has begun on the Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKist) which is progressing wonderfully. We have early starts on the Giant Ma-gellan Telescope (GMT) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) which is finishing its mirrors. Other large telescopes are early starts including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea, CCAT, and the Square Kilometer Array SKA. And new facilities are being developed to detect gamma rays by observing Cherenkov radiation.

Papers are solicited on the planning, design, con-struction and performance of existing and future ground-based and airborne telescopes for observing in the optical, infrared, submillimeter, millimeter and radio wavelength bands. Specific topics include: • Project reviews • Upgrades to existing telescopes/observatories • Models for international collaboration on large

projects • Site characterization, testing and development • Observatory facilities and physical infrastructure • Aolar telescopes • Eadio telescopes • Millimeter wavelength telescopes and arrays • Relescopes for synoptic and survey observations • Telescopes for airborne applications • Telescope arrays for monitoring programs or

transient-event detection • Concepts for future telescopes • Telescope optical designs • Telescope design for IR optimization • Radio telescope/antenna designs • Design of fast steerable Cherenkov telescopes • Design of telescopes to operate in extreme

environments, including Antarctica

• New designs or new technologies for better and/or cheaper telescopes

• Mass production of observatory components and subsystems

• Enabling technologies for extremely large telescopes

• Design and analysis of telescope structures for seismic loads

• Wavefront control, segmented mirror alignment and phasing systems

• Characterization and control of the local thermal environment and local seeing

• Design of telescope baffling to reduce scattered light

• Observatory design to control wind buffeting • Measurement and control of telescope vibration • Assembly, integration and verification, lessons

learned during commissioning • Industrial perspectives, design and fabrication

challenges • Design and implementation of safety systems • Telescope design for reliability and

maintainability • Design of image orbiting objects • Telescope performance measurement.



Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V (AS104)Conference Chairs: Fabien Malbet, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (France); Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (United States); Peter G. Tuthill, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)

Program Committee: Ellyn K. Baines, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States); Fabien Baron, Georgia State Univ. (United States); Jean-Philippe Berger, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Elliott P. Horch, Southern Connecticut State Univ. (United States); Takayuki Kotani, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Lucas Labadie, Univ. zu Köln (Germany); Keiichi Ohnaka, Univ. Católica del Norte (Chile); Claudia Paladini, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); Jayadev K. Rajagopal, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (United States); Andrew Skemer, The Univ. of Arizona (United States); Isabelle Tallon-Bosc, Ctr. de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon (France)

Optical and infrared interferometry continues to rapidly develop and produce new scientific results. As astronomy in general goes through a transfor-mative phase, we encounter both opportunities and challenges. The primary goals of this conference are to allow the attendees to learn firsthand about the ex-citing capabilities found in facilities across the globe and to discuss the future prospects for interferometry in technology and instrumentation. The SPIE meeting continues to play a unique role: the singular venue that brings together interferometrists from the world over. No other conference can match the depth and breadth of interferometry coverage to be presented in Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 June to 1 July, 2016.

For our previous meeting (Montreal, 2014) the key themes were the increased scientific productivity, the emergence of new instrumentation and the wid-ening of interferometry’s audience even in the face of shrinking budgets. Closure-phase measurements and nulling results of the large aperture telescopes continue to help push astrophysical investigations of fainter objects. New calibration methods and re-construction techniques are yielding unprecedented imaging and astrometric precision, opening new avenues for stellar astrophysics, studies of active galactic nuclei, and extra-solar planet detection. New instrumentation will bring all these aspects together in the very near future, with increased access to non-specialists in interferometry thanks to general user facilities and data reduction software.

However, future investments in interferometric proj-ects are not guaranteed beyond 2015 due to the large costs of general astronomical facilities like ALMA or ELTs. This is an opportunity for significantly increasing the impact of optical and IR interferometers but the facilities have to be upgraded or new missions have to be proposed to exploit the available budgets and to provide complementary scientific insight. These new projects have to be supported by technology devel-opments in terms of detectors and photonics systems.

This conference will primarily focus on the latest inno-vations in technology and engineering for ground- and space-based interferometry in the optical and infrared, including new instrumentation, techniques and soft-ware. Scientific results will be highlighted, with priority given to findings that push current facilities to their limits, exploit innovative techniques and technologies, or embrace new areas of astrophysics made possible with milli- and microarcsecond angular resolution.

While attendees will enjoy invited talks on recent technological and scientific breakthroughs as well as provocative panel discussions, most conference time will be scheduled based on the response to this Call for Papers.

We solicit contributed papers on these and related topics:

• Observing techniques in astrometry, imaging, nulling, aperture masking, speckle interferometry, precision calibration, high-dynamic range methods, absolute or differential phase and closure phase, polarimetry, double Fourier techniques, intensity interferometry.

• Technologies such as new detectors, fiber optics, integrated optics, single-mode filtering, achromatic phase delays for nulling, delay lines.

• Critical subsystems including wavefront control, fringe tracking, cryogenic mechanisms, control algorithms, star tracking, beam combination, picometer metrology, vacuum systems.

• Space interferometry especially new mission concepts, cost-effective designs, pathfinders, and connection with the FIR space community.

• Data processing and analysis, robust data calibration, image reconstruction algorithms, publicly-available tools, data interpretation and modeling.

• Facility issues including long-term monitoring, performance characterization, auto-alignment, data archive, vibration mitigation and control.

• Current and planned facilities and instruments, including next generation instruments and possible improvements or revamping of current facilities.

• Introspection and brainstorming for the long-term future of interferometry, science and technical opportunities, new directions in times of limited funding. Preparation for the 2020 decadal activities in the US and similar efforts in other countries.

In several important domains, the distinction between interferometry and adaptive optics has been dissolving for some years. The newest generation of extremely large telescopes occupy some middle ground where interferometric concepts, such as cophasing, or aper-ture synthesis by sky rotation are routinely used in the designs. On the other hand, the field of high resolution imaging with a single aperture, traditionally aperture masking or speckle interferometry, has been powerfully augmented by the advent of high-performing adaptive optics. This is why we anticipate having a special joint session with the AO conference.

We expect a large number of submitted abstracts and the program committee will actively assign contributed papers to be either oral or poster, unless the author requests poster presentation. Students who received or expect to receive their Ph.D.s after January 1, 2015, should include the word “THESIS” in their abstract titles to be eligible for the “Best Disser-tation” prize to be awarded during the conference.

All presenters will be asked to provide a manuscript in advance of the meeting for publication in a pro-ceedings volume to be published on the SPIE Digital Library soon after the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS


Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI (AS105)Conference Chairs: Christopher J. Evans, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Luc Simard, National Research Council Canada (Canada); Hideki Takami, Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (United States)

Program Committee: Rebecca A. Bernstein, GMTO Corp. (United States); Julia J. Bryant, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia), Austrailian Astronomical Observatory (Australia); Armando Gil de Paz, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain); Mihalis Mathioudakis, Queen’s Univ. Belfast (United Kingdom); Ian S. McLean, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States); Kentaro Motohara, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Livia Origlia, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy); Erin C. Smith, NASA Ames Research Ctr. (United States); Joël R. D. Vernet, European Southern Observatory (Germany)

Instrument development for the current generation of large, ground-based observatories is continuing to open new parameter space for astronomical breakthroughs. We are now seeing the exciting sci-entific harvest from second-generation instruments on 8-10m class telescopes, with plans in place to keep growing the capabilities of these world-lead-ing facilities. Equally, innovative instrumentation on smaller telescopes, including solar observatories and airborne platforms, is continuing to provide novel scientific opportunities, while often also serving as technology pathfinders for larger telescopes.

Meanwhile, the past two years have witnessed an im-portant milestone for ground-based astronomy, with three optical/infrared Extremely Large Telescopes moving into the construction phase. With primary apertures in excess of 20m, this next generation of observatories will provide an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and spatial resolution. Considerable effort is now underway in the design and prototyping of their first-generation instruments, so that we’re ready to exploit these fantastic facilities when they become operational in the 2020s.

As the latest in the successful series of conferences on ground-based and airborne instrumentation, papers (oral and posters) are invited on the design, development and performance of optical/infrared instrumentation. In particular, we welcome contri-butions on the performance and lessons learned from completed projects, and discussion of future technical challenges. Areas of interest include:• Performance and results from recently

commissioned instruments; • Design/prototyping of instrumentation for

current observatories (incl. solar/airborne); • Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes; • New technologies which may be transformative

in future instrument design.

Given considerable oversubscription to previous con-ferences in this series, it will probably be necessary to limit the number of oral talks and maximize the use of poster presentations at the meeting, which are nonetheless both productive and enjoyable. Preference for oral talks will be given to complete (or near-complete) instruments, and mature designs. Larger groups submitting more than one paper on a major project should reserve most of their oral pre-sentation time (if granted) for an overview. Papers on innovative designs for instrument sub-systems may be submitted, but please explain in your abstract the novel nature of the work. Given the large over-sub-scription, authors may wish to consider submitting sub-system papers to one of the parallel specialist conferences.

AUTHORS PLEASE NOTE: Final placement in an oral or poster session is subject to the discretion of the program committee. Instructions for oral and poster presentations are available online. All oral and poster contributions are included in the proceedings, and both require presentation at the meeting and submis-sion of a manuscript. All authors should plan to attend the poster sessions, and poster authors should be in attendance at their poster during the reception times (to be determined).





Adaptive Optics Systems V (AS106)Conference Chairs: Enrico Marchetti, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Laird M. Close, The Univ. of Arizona (United States); Jean-Pierre Véran, National Research Council Canada (Canada)

Program Committee: Antonin H. Bouchez, GMTO Corp. (United States); Celine D’Orgeville, Australian National Univ. (Australia); Brent L. Ellerbroek, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (United States); Simone Esposito, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy); Thierry Fusco, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, ONERA (France); Olivier Guyon, Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Yutaka Hayano, TMT-J Project Office, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Caroline Kulcsar, Institut d’Optique (France); Anne-Marie Lagrange, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Grenoble (France); Jessica R. Lu, Univ. of Hawaii (United States); Bruce A. Macintosh, Stanford Univ. (United States); Pierre-Yves Madec, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Elena Masciadri, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy); Claire E. Max, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (United States); Richard M. Myers, Durham Univ. (United Kingdom); Laura Schreiber, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy); Dirk Soltau, Univ. Freiburg (Germany); Mitchell Troy, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Elise Vernet, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Peter L. Wizinowich, W. M. Keck Observatory (United States)

As a consolidated tradition the 2016 symposium will include again the conference dedicated to the Adaptive Optics (AO) systems. Since our last event in 2014 the operation of current state-of-the art AO systems has continued to improve steadily, partic-ularly in the field of extreme AO, leading to many AO-related science papers and significant discover-ies. Meanwhile, considerable effort has been under-way to progress the design, the construction and the deployment of the next generation AO systems. This is especially true for the AO systems planned for the future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with major partnerships making financial commitments towards construction.

This conference will provide a global overview of the state of the art in the field of AO. It will highlight the efforts of our community to improve capabilities and performance, with the goal of delivering the best astronomical scientific results both with current, and future, systems. Such a challenging goal can only be achieved by having a global perspective, including component technologies, such as: fast low-noise de-tectors; high-density and/or high-stroke deformable mirrors; high power lasers; advanced wave-front sen-sors and laser guide star facilities. Moreover, the con-ference will highlight AO systems utilizing the latest components. We will also feature: characterizations of atmospheric disturbances including vibrations, and other observatory-related effects; advanced con-trol algorithms to reject these disturbances and their implementation on real-time platforms; high-fidelity system modeling, including science-based metrics such as astrometric, high-contrast and photometric accuracy; dedicated lab and field tests to validate new components and new concepts; and strategies to optimize the AO assisted observations. The con-ference will cover with exhaustive sessions all the topics above mentioned by means of invited survey talks and more specialized presentations and posters in order to ensure state-of-the-art developments are well represented.

Synergies between other conferences will be identi-fied to share the useful information for having a better insight on the technical issues to tackle to make AO observations successful. Recent lessons learned and the future plans for ever closer integration of AO systems into science instrumentation, particularly on ELTs, will be discussed.

Besides the hardware aspects, the conference will also report on the development of integrated ob-serving strategies that increase the quality, quantity and range of astronomical science accomplished using AO. This includes ‘quantitative astronomy’ such as high contrast imaging, precision astrometry, and photometry. We expect to see presentations on new results, and also concerning the instrument calibration, data reduction and atmospheric profiling methods that have made them possible.

Papers are solicited in all areas of astronomical AO with emphasis on the areas described above. We will endeavor to provide the correct mix of invited talks, oral/poster talks, and panel discussions to cover each topic properly and still ensure a global view. This promises to be another exciting, and important, AO conference, and we are looking forward to seeing you (and hearing from you) in Edinburgh!

CALL FOR PAPERS


Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI (AS107)Conference Chairs: Alison B. Peck, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (United States); Robert L. Seaman, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (United States); Chris R. Benn, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (Spain)

Program Committee: David S. Adler, Space Telescope Science Institute (United States); Lori E. Allen, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (United States); Todd Boroson, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (United States); Dennis R. Crabtree, National Research Council Canada (Canada); Suzanne R. Dodd, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Andreas Kaufer, European Southern Observatory (Chile); Nicole M. Radziwill, James Madison Univ. (United States); Arnold H. Rots, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics (United States); Christian Veillet, Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (United States)

This conference provides a forum for discussion of a broad range of issues relevant to operation of ground-based and space observatories, including observing/support models, calibration, data-reduc-tion/archiving, quality control, engineering and infra-structure, fault-handling, productivity and staffing.

MOTIVATIONWhile every ground and space observatory has its own individual and unique characteristics, each shares with the others a common need to execute technical and science operations in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. This need is driven by the upward pressure from users for more services and capabilities in opposition to the downward pres-sure by funding agencies to contain or reduce costs. Tension at the interface between users and funders is particularly acute in this time of global economic turmoil. At the same time the technical and logistical challenges are growing with the systems and network complexity of new observing modes, coordinated multi-facility and multi-messenger observing cam-paigns, fully or partially robotic facilities, integrated instrument pipelines and science archives, and the need to integrate more complex cyber-infrastructure such as the Grid and the Virtual Observatory. The subtle intricacies and mega-scales of new instru-mentation will demand correspondingly creative operations modalities.

Building on previous successful conferences, we in-vite the observatory operations community to gather to discuss lessons learned, progress made and future initiatives. As before, we are particularly interested in discussions of what works versus what does not work, as well as what was planned versus what actu-ally happened. Discussion of the interplay of science operations, technical operations, data management operations, and observatory development is par-ticularly encouraged - especially as it impacts the maximization of science value return. The interplay of available funding, delivered capabilities/services, and user expectation management and how that informs observatory operations models is another important discussion topic. An additional topic of this conference will be the rising support challenge of time-domain investigations. Demand for such support is steadily increasing, driven by the desire to study rare, random events as well as long-term, synoptic phenomena. Such studies are particularly challenging when they require coordination, often unpredictable, between multiple space and ground based observatories. While this trend has recently been driven by space-based detections of gamma ray bursts, the startup of ground-based time-domain survey facilities (ramping up to the Large Synoptic

Survey Telescope in the second half of this decade) will quickly take this challenge to a new level. Progress reports from new facilities coming on-line and existing facilities facing major new operational challenges are particularly welcome.

We envision a two to three day conference, depend-ing on submission pressure. Both oral and poster contributed presentations are solicited. Preliminary topics are presented below as guides but we en-courage abstracts related to any area of observatory operations.

OPTIMIZING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY• proposal submission, evaluation, and selection:

processes and strategies • defining effective operations products and goals • productivity and efficiency metrics: ‘lies, damn

lies, and statistics’ • observation execution efficiency: maximizing

science target integration time • orbit and site selection strategies - impact on

observing and calibration efficiencies• adapting and building on previous innovations in

hardware, software and strategies• calibration standards: quality, re-use, the

challenge of increased sensitivity • calibration strategies: pre- vs post-launch, and

dealing with the effects of weather, atmosphere, and on-orbit conditions

• coping with random events: the impact of atmospheric and space conditions

• fundamental limits to calibration accuracy: physics, process, or variability

• fault analysis and resource allocation to minimize lost time

• queue operations, dynamic scheduling and remote observing: case studies and lessons learned

• engineering and technical support models; staffing requirements, safety concerns and costs

• transitioning from construction to operations: plans versus steady-state reality

• the future: the impact of evolving technology on models, plans, and budgets.

OBSERVATORY OPERATIONS IN THE ERA OF MASSIVE DATA• science product definition: what is good

enough? • science product creation: the observatory or the

community?• science product models, staffing requirements,

and costs



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• science product archiving and curation; in particular, planning and creation of legacy data sets

• end-to-end information management systems: from proposal to product

• user support models: staffing requirements, training and costs

• distributed QA and user support management • system performance monitoring: what is good

enough? • operating survey telescopes and innovative

operations of small aperture telescopes • the role of the virtual observatory• establishing and maintaining data centers and

bibliographic databases: costs and benefits, lessons learned.

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PROCESS COORDINATION FOR THE TIME DOMAIN• timekeeping infrastructure for evolving

standards• space- and ground based optical, radio and

non-EM transient discovery and follow-up • observatory operations for target-of-

opportunity modes • transient event alert publishing in the Virtual

Observatory • systems architectures for transient follow-up

observing • integrating data management into time domain

workflows • coordinated scheduling for multi-wavelength

and multi-observatory collaborations.


Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VI (AS108)Conference Chairs: George Z. Angeli, LSST Corp. (United States); Philippe Dierickx, European Southern Observatory (Germany)

Program Committee: Simon C. Craig, National Solar Observatory (United States); Sebastian G. Els, European Space Astronomy Ctr. (Spain); Gary E. Mosier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Richard M. Prestage, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (United States); Scott Roberts, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (Canada); Hermine Schnetler, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Masahiro Sugimoto, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Mitchell Troy, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)

The objective of the conference is providing a fo-rum for the highly interconnected fields of project management, systems engineering, and system modeling. We call for papers on programmatic and technical management techniques and tools, as well as on results and achievements of the applications of these tools in real life projects and challenges.

Managing science projects - like the development and construction of astronomical telescopes and instru-mentation - is particularly challenging, as it requires delicate balancing of efficient project management, proper interpretation of and response to science priorities. The deployed management framework and techniques may depend on the size of the project, but the underlying target remains the same: within bud-get, the timely delivery of a product that meets the expectations of the respective science community.

Throughout this distributed process, systems engi-neering maintains tools – models – that enable it to focus on the behavior and performance of the entire system as it unfolds through the integration of its parts. Models are essential to validate performance allocations and propagate use cases through complex designs, either at the subsystem or the complete system level. Modeling is also vital for predicting and verifying the performance of the design being devel-oped, and increasingly as an essential means – in fact the only practical means in some cases – of verifying the performance of the as-built system. Simulation results are critical parts of developing system inte-gration and test plans, as well as in understanding unexpected behavior during implementation and commissioning.

Papers are invited covering any aspect of these fields relevant to astronomical technology projects ranging from small to large, collaborative or inter-national endeavors, operating in the optical, IR, and radio frequency bands. Contributions are welcome about ground- and space-based astronomy facilities, instrumentation, interferometry, and adaptive optics projects.

The topics covered may include (but not be limited to) the following areas:• Project management• Status updates on management aspects of

projects• Configuration and change management• Financial models, cost estimation, contingency

management• Scheduling, critical path management• Scientific oversight• Operations design and life cycle management• Risk management• Quality management• Reliability, availability, and maintainability.• Systems engineering• Status updates on systems engineering aspects

of projects• Concepts Of Operation (CONOPS)• Architectures, system trade-offs, physical,

functional, and behavioral decompositions• Performance management, engineering (error)

budgets• Requirements engineering• Interface management• Model-based systems engineering (MBSE)• System integration (AIT, I&T, system verification)• Commissioning and system validation.• Modeling• End-to-end simulations: performance and/or

behavioral • Integrated simulations: structural-optical-

control, structural-thermal-optical, and/or aero-thermal-optical

• Optical performance estimates, active and adaptive optics models

• Model validation.



TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS

Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (AS109)Conference Chairs: Ramón Navarro, NOVA Optical & Infrared Instrumentation Group at ASTRON (Netherlands); James H. Burge, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)

Program Committee: Daniel R. Blanco, MMT Observatory (United States); Myung Kyu Cho, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (United States); V. Alfonso Feria, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Virginia G. Ford, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (United States); Roland Geyl, REOSC (France); Roger Haynes, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (Germany); Emmanuel Hugot, Lab. d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France); Huub Janssen, Janssen Precision Engineering B.V. (Netherlands); Ralf Jedamzik, SCHOTT AG (Germany); Matthew A. Kenworthy, Leiden Observatory (Netherlands); Hélène T. Krol, CILAS (France); David M. Montgomery, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Andrew T. Sarawit, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (United States); Robert R. Thomson, Heriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom); Jinxue Wang, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems (United States)

Following the success of the SPIE Modern Technol-ogies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation conferences in previous years, this conference will continue to provide an opportu-nity and a forum for optical and opto-mechanical engineers and scientists to present and discuss advances and innovations in optical fabrication, optical devices, metrology, new materials, structures and mechanisms for space and ground-based astro-nomical telescopes, instrumentation and supporting facilities. Papers on novel techniques and devices are particularly encouraged, for instance new ideas for exploitation of photonic technologies in this field. The main emphasis of this conference will be on the optical and opto-mechanical aspects of components and subsystems; papers related to overall systems are covered elsewhere.

Potential main topics to be addressed in this con-ference include, but are not limited to the following: • Telescope Structures and Domes, Lightweight

Structures for Space Applications• Active Structures, Active and Adaptive Optics

and actuators• Technologies for Cryogenic Instruments• New Materials• Fabrication of Mirrors, Lenses and Windows• Test and Metrology of optical components and

optical systems• Coatings, Dichroics and Filters• Gratings and Dispersers • Polarimetry• Optical Fibers, Waveguides and Integrated

Photonics• Spectroscopy • High Contrast Imaging and Coronagraphy

Sub-topics include• novel technologies and concepts for instruments

and telescopes• smart focal planes for MOS systems: pick-off

arms, starbugs• immersion gratings manufacturing, VPH and

CGH manufacturing, grating testing• IR and visible filter manufacturing, optical

coatings (AR and reflective coatings)• polarimetry and polarization optics, liquid

crystal spatial light modulators technology• Slit, Integral Field and Multi Object

Spectroscopy, integrated miniature spectrometers

• atmospheric dispersion correctors• IFU systems: lenslets array, image slicers, optical

fibers• cryo-coolers, cryomechanisms, cryogenic optical

mounts, cryogenic adaptive mirrors• vibration control and vibration damping systems

• technologies for gravitational waves detection• technologies for solar telescopes and

instrumentation• simulators, actuators and motors for space cryo-

vacuum• novel and conventional antenna/telescope

structural configurations• smart structures, space frames, telescope

enclosures• primaries for optical/IR telescopes, segmented

and monolithic• reflector panels for radio telescopes• optical beamforming techniques and photonics

integration• light-weighting of optical components, use of

composite materials, membrane mirrors• use of additive manufacturing techniques• bearing systems: wheel-on-track, hydrostatic,

roller bearings, flex-pivots, other• contamination control, cleanliness, outgassing• straylight suppression and infrared black paint• design techniques for optical and opto-

mechanical systems• applications of astronomical technology in other

fields

Mechanisms for space telescopes are especially chal-lenging due to reliability requirements and limited transportation volume and mass. These mechanisms must be operated in the space cryo-vacuum and combined with actuators and sensors to ensure correct optical performance. Space focal plane instruments combine many observing modes in a very limited volume and therefore require a diversity of precise optical mechanisms to be operated with a minimum of power and often in a cryogenic envi-ronment. As we embark on developing the structures and mechanisms for these sophisticated and ever more complex telescopes and their instrumentation, it is appropriate that we examine the state-of-the-art, the lessons learned, the new tools available, and explore what may lie ahead for the future of this ever-growing area.

The new generation of survey and giant telescopes such as LSST, the E-ELT, the TMT and the GMT requires very large or very fast mirrors. Moreover, realizing these telescopes relies on mastering major design and technological challenges, one of which is the production of giant segmented primary mirrors. They can consist of close to a thousand large seg-ments, which need to be reliably manufactured and tested. This requires an efficient series production



process with a high degree of standardization. Both the optical fabrication and metrology of these mirrors are very demanding tasks and an interdisciplinary approach between the astronomers, optical and mechanical designers as well as production engineers is necessary.

The new generation of gravitational-wave obser-vatories such as VIRGO, LIGO and eLISA require various technology developments, ranging from vibration isolation systems to low-wavefront optical components and detectors. Photonic techniques are used for data transport and beamforming in radio astronomy.


Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (AS109 continued)

Novel materials may provide cost- and perfor-mance-effective alternatives to classical ones, the high cost of applying new materials can be offset by benefits of mass-production. New coating techniques may provide major efficiency breakthroughs as well.

The instrumentation associated with these telescopes is very challenging, requiring new approaches to de-sign, manufacture and verification. Adaptive optics is often an integral part of both the telescope and the instrument, which has made the telescope-instru-ment interplay much more important. For the next generation of ELTs, this integral functionality will put extra demands on system-level opto-mechanical engineering for the integrated telescope-instrumen-tation system.

Special trophies, sponsored by NOVA (the Neth-erlands Research School for Astronomy), will be awarded for the best student presentation, the best oral presentation and the best poster presented at this conference.

VENUEEdinburgh International Conference Centre 150 Morrison St, Edinburgh EH3 8EE, Scotland, United Kingdom+44 131 300 3000The EICC is situated at the heart of Scotland’s ele-gant and historic capital city, within 10 km (6 miles) of Edinburgh International Airport. When it comes to inspirational cities, few can rival Edinburgh. The blend of UNESCO World Heritage architecture and world-class entertainment makes Edinburgh a breath-taking city to visit.

REGISTRATIONRegistration will be available February 2016All participants, including invited speakers, con-tributed speakers, session chairs, co-chairs, and committee members, must pay a registration fee. Authors, coauthors, program committee members, and session chairs are accorded a reduced sympo-sium registration fee.

Fee information for conferences, courses, a registra-tion form, and technical and general information will be available on the SPIE website in October 2015.

HOTEL INFORMATIONOpening of the hotel reservation process for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016 is scheduled for February 2016. SPIE will arrange special discounted hotel rates for SPIE conference attendees.

The website will be kept current with any updates.

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTSA limited number of SPIE student travel grants will be awarded based on need. Applications must be re-ceived no later than 18 April 2016. Eligible applicants must present an accepted paper at this meeting. Offer applies to undergraduate/graduate students who are enrolled full-time and have not yet received their PhD.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV (AS110)Conference Chairs: Gianluca Chiozzi, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Juan C. Guzman, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)

Program Committee: Alan Bridger, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Tom Donaldson, Space Telescope Science Institute (United States); Jorge F. Ibsen, European Southern Observatory (Chile); Kim K. Gillies, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (United States); José M. Filgueira, GMTO Corp. (United States); Bret Goodrich, National Solar Observatory (United States); Shui Hung Kwok, W. M. Keck Observatory (United States); Richard M. Prestage, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (United States); David L. Terrett, RAL Space (United Kingdom)

This conference provides a forum for the engineering aspects of designing, building, implementing and commissioning software and cyberinfrastructure for ground-based and space observatories. The conference will discuss the directions of software for telescope and facility control systems, observation planning and execution, and data or workflow man-agement, as well as topics related to software and systems engineering.

The observing facilities under design and construc-tion in the era of giant telescopes demand novel solutions to address the complexity of control sys-tems and the exponential increase in data collection, storage and access volumes. The community is also developing a large number of smaller but no less rel-evant projects with strong requirements for remote and/or robotic/autonomous operation.

In all cases there is a strong interest in adopting commercial off the shelf solutions for the control systems, cloud technologies for data management/analysis and web-based or mobile technology for users’ interaction. These solutions promise to address projects’ challenges with significant cost savings and allow a more efficient obsolescence management with respect to previous approaches.

This conference will offer an opportunity to compare the approaches adopted, exchange experiences, identify the most promising technologies, and de-velop opportunities for collaboration.

Software and Cyberinfrastructure in Astronomy complements many of the other conferences in the program, focusing on the realization through soft-ware engineering of the innovative ideas discussed there. The conference on Observatory Operations is an excellent example of the development of high level requirements for observing and support models, calibration, data reduction, archiving and data qual-ity control. These needs are translated by software engineering into specific design and implementation requirements and then implemented via both existing and emergent software techniques.

New projects now have the opportunity to benefit from the lessons learned from the major projects of the past decade. This conference especially en-courages contributions of lessons learned and new developments in the areas of effective maintenance, obsolescence management, and the convergence of ground- and space-based technologies.

We anticipate organising the following sessions for which we invite the submission of contributions:

PROJECT OVERVIEWS AND PROGRESS REPORTS• Session focus:

- Current project reports- New, planned and proposed projects- Lessons learned/Success and failure analysis

• Sample topics: - Case studies, costs and efforts estimation- Upgrades and migration strategies- Obsolescence management

PROJECT MANAGEMENT• Session focus:

- Management of astronomical software projects

• Sample topics: - Requirements collection, management

experiences and strategies- Risks analysis and mitigation approaches- Challenges of multi-disciplinary, multi-

cultural, geographically distributed software development teams

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION• Session focus:

- Emerging and enabling technologies- Innovative software architectures, designs and

industrial trends• Sample topics:

- Software development processes, best practices and lessons learned

- System integration, testing and verification- Configuration management and quality

assurance processes- Coexistence of new software development

methodologies with more traditional (e.g. waterfall) approaches, earned value management, and so on

- Challenges of development in an environment which encompasses academia, state of the art development, and the need for industrial-scale products



CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND PARALLEL COMPUTING, BIG DATA• Session focus:

- Evolution of cyberinfrastructure- National and international infrastructures- Social media and astronomy- Cyber security

• Sample topics:- Facility infrastructure (power, network,

virtualization)- Software infrastructure techniques,

deployment and operation tools (such as Jenkins, docker or others).

- Applications and lessons learned in high performance computing

- Data products archiving and curation- Mobile apps and cloud computing- Web services and autonomous software

agents- Innovative network and computer

architectures


OBSERVATORY, TELESCOPE AND INSTRUMENTATION CONTROL• Session focus:

- Control systems in the era of giant observation facilities

- Autonomous and remote operations/Automated observing

• Sample topics:- New approaches to control system design

- Case studies of autonomous and unattended systems

- Innovative real-time software and hardware for control and data acquisition

- Highly distributed and high latency control and data acquisition

- Architectures for high rate, high volume data flow

- Architectures based on the adoption of industrial off-the-shelf components

- Design and implementation of systems for performance monitoring

- End-to-end hardware simulation, testing without the final hardware

The final program will be based on the most infor-mative and relevant submissions and will include a Lightning Talks session and roundtable, discussion and collaboration events.

Given the limited number of available slots for oral presentations, authors are strongly invited to provide complete and detailed information in the submission form, both concerning the author’s biography and the contents of the paper. Indication of the prospective session and of the time foreseen for the presentation are welcome.

Prizes will be awarded to the best oral presentations and posters.

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV (AS110 continued)

RADIO ASTRONOMY

If your research is connected with radio astronomy and you want to participate in this virtual symposium, enter “RADIO” when prompted during the abstract submission. Accepted papers will be cross-listed in the SPIE RADIO ASTRONOMY Virtual Track.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (AS111)Conference Chairs: Wayne S. Holland, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom), Univ. of Edinburgh (United Kingdom); Jonas Zmuidzinas, California Institute of Technology (United States)

Program Committee: Jian-Rong Gao, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands), Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); Kent D. Irwin, Stanford Univ. (United States); Karl Schuster, IRAM-Domaine Univ. de Grenoble (France); Gordon J. Stacey, Cornell Univ. (United States); Neil A. Trappe, National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland); Carole E. Tucker, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom); Christopher K. Walker, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)

The far-infrared to the millimeter region of the Electromagnetic Spectrum contains a wealth of information about the Universe at early epochs. Observations of cold gas and dust uniquely probe the earliest stages in the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets, with, for example, the blackbody emission of a 10 K source (or a 40 K source at redshift ~3) peaking at around a wavelength of 300 µm. At longer millimeter wavelengths the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect provide remarkably powerful tools for probing the history of the Universe, and determining its large-scale structure and mass/energy content.

Over the past few decades the advancement in both telescope and instrument technology has seen ex-traordinary discoveries ranging from the discovery of ultraluminous, high-redshift galaxies responsible for the majority of the far-IR background, to the vast clouds of cold dust around nearby stars believed to be harboring planetary system perhaps like our own Solar System. In recent years new space facilities, such as the Herschel Space Observatory and the Planck Surveyor, have imaged vast molecular clouds pin-pointing regions of new star formation, discov-ered new and exotic molecules in space, and have led to high-precision measurements of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies. Furthermore, the new ALMA interferometer is now making high spatial resolution measurements, on a par with the Hubble Space Telescope, providing exquisite detail of the most interesting objects hitherto unseen.

The full exploitation of new facilities, whether they be multi-element interferometers or single-dish tele-scopes, places new demands for continuing instru-ment and detector development. For imaging arrays, the pixel count continues to grow to thousands of pixels and beyond. Adaptations of the basic detector technologies to produce polarimetric focal planes and ultra-low-noise devices for the demanding space environment continue to be of primary importance. Meanwhile, heterodyne receivers continue pushing forward to better sensitivity, more functionality, mass production, and terahertz frequency operation.

This conference aims to bring together astronomers, physicists, and engineers working on detectors and low-noise instruments for the far-infrared/submm/mm wavelength range. It will cover current and future imaging and spectroscopic arrays, both bolometric and heterodyne, for ground-based and space-borne telescopes, the physics of semiconducting and super-conducting detectors and readouts, the optimization of long-wavelength optical systems, new develop-ments in coherent receivers and spectrometers, and the design and optimization of components such as optics, filters, and local oscillators. In addition to these component technologies, the conference will examine instrument architectures as well as recent application examples.

Oral and poster contributions are welcome from academic, industrial, and government laboratories in the following subject areas:• performance requirements: science drivers and

fundamental limits;• instrumentation (imaging, polarimetric, and

spectroscopic): design and construction• instrument performance: validation in the

laboratory, on-sky commissioning, and scientific results;

• detectors: fundamental physics, design, fabrication techniques, performance, and numerical modeling of results;

• receiver technologies: mixers, MMICs, local oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, arrays and packaging;

• signal read-out: electronics, multiplexing techniques and back-end spectrometers;

• optical design: optical physics and simulations, optical layouts, test facilities, and performance demonstration;

• optical components: materials, filters, waveguide elements, shielding, low-temperature material properties, and numerical modeling;

• other associated technologies: mechanical design, mechanisms, coolers, and cryogenics;

• observing techniques: observing strategies, sky noise removal, atmospheric phase measurement and compensation, data acquisition and reduction;

• emerging concepts: new generation devices;• industrial and commercial applications of

far-infrared, submillimeter and millimeter technologies developed for astronomy.


High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII (AS112)Conference Chairs: Andrew D. Holland, e2v Ctr. for Electronic Imaging at The Open Univ. (United Kingdom); James Beletic, Teledyne Imaging Sensors (United States)

Program Committee: Megan E. Eckart, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Gert Finger, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Michael E. Hoenk, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Paul Jorden, e2v technologies plc (United Kingdom); Didier D. Martin, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands); Satoshi Miyazaki, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Peter C. Moore, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (United States); S. Harvey Moseley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States); Robert H. Philbrick, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States); Roger M. Smith, California Institute of Technology (United States); Tadayuki Takahashi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan); Hiroshi Tsunemi, Osaka Univ. (Japan)

High energy, optical, and infrared detectors are critical to the performance of astronomical obser-vatories. Improvement in these detectors is critical to improving the sensitivity and quality of imaging and spectroscopic data collected on astronomical objects. In the next decade, increasingly larger focal plane arrays will be central to many new instruments and observatories. For high energy detectors, new detector technologies enable new observatory con-cepts. For optical detectors, nearly perfect arrays have been achieved using CCD detectors. Some CCDs now achieve reflection limited QE from UV to ~900nm, 2 electrons readout noise, high linearity, large dynamic range, and hundreds of millions of pixels in large mosaic focal planes, however recent telescopes performing precision measurements are uncovering new subtle effects in these detectors. Optical CMOS-based detectors while not extending their QE as far to the red, are beginning to appear in backside illuminated form and have the promise of achieving CCD performance, while offering lower power and lower noise at high frame rates, and added functionality such as flexible and complex region of interest readout. This conference will explore the latest developments in both of these technologies. Meanwhile, infrared detector performance continues to improve and infrared arrays are now being made larger, faster and with lower noise: 16 megapixel arrays have been demonstrated, quantum efficiency is over 80%, and readout noise can be as low as 3-5 electrons with multiple sampling. Furthermore, ava-lanche photodiodes made of HgCdTe are improving and single photon counting is now possible.

This biennial conference provides a leading forum for the presentation of the latest advancements in high energy, optical, and infrared detectors. Research groups and manufacturers are encouraged to provide up-to-date reviews of their work in the field. The conference will cover new detector technologies currently under development for near-term space missions and ground-based applications, goals for long-range technology development, lessons learned from existing flight detectors and detector calibra-tion, radiation and reliability issues. This conference will allow ample time for discussion and interaction between participants.

Contributions are sought in the following areas: • Si CCDs • Si CMOS detectors (monolithic and hybrid) • hybrid CMOS infrared sensors (HgCdTe, InSb,

Si:As, InGaAs) • new detector materials (e.g. strained layer

superlattice) • cryogenic detectors • advancements in detector design and

fabrication • status reports from detector manufacturers • in-orbit performance and calibration issues • techniques in detector calibration and

characterization (e.g. for massive focal planes) • detector-induced errors which limit precision

astronomy, such as planetary transits (high precision photometry), gravitational weak lensing (PSF shape measurement) and astrometry

• radiation background and damage effects • multiple technology focal planes • advancements in avalanche photodiode

technologies (Si and HgCdTe) • novel detector designs • detector mosaic technologies • advancements in detector electronics • unique applications of high energy, optical, and

infrared detectors • exploitation of these new detector technologies

into other scientific fields.





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