AAS 233rd Meeting

Our lab attended the 233rd AAS Meeting in drizzly Seattle, Washington in early January. Dean Keithly presented his poster titled “Blind Search Single-Visit Exoplanet Direct Imaging Yield for Space Based Telescopes.” Jacob Shapiro presented his poster “Optical Design of a Large Segmented Space Telescope.” Dmitry Savransky presented a talk titled “Simulating Known Exoplanet Orbits for WFIRST CGI Imaging.” Gabriel Soto presented a poster titled “Navigation and Orbit Phasing of Modular Spacecraft for Segmented Telescope Assembly about Sun-Earth L2.”

Congratulations Dr. Garrett

Daniel Garrett successfully defended his thesis, titled “Exoplanet Direct Imaging Detection Metrics and Exoplanet Populations” on November 20th, 2018. A copy of his presentation can be seen here.  Congratulations to Dr. Garrett and the very best of luck in all of his future endeavors.

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018

We attended the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference on June 10th in Austin, TX. Dmitry Savransky presented a talk on his paper “Mining the GPIES Database.” Dean Keithly presented a poster for his paper “Scheduling and Target Selection Optimization for Exoplanet Imaging Spacecraft.” Jacob Shapiro presented a poster for his paper “Common Spatial Pattern Filtering for Imaging of Circumstellar Disks.” Gabriel Soto presented a poster for his paper “Optimal Starshade Observation Scheduling.”