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Conferences and Courses: 10–15 June 2018Exhibition: 12–14 June 2018Austin Convention Center Austin, Texas, USA

Present your recent breakthroughs to other experts in AustinSPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation has everything you need to successfully present and publish your latest research results.

12 Conferences in 2 major tracks

TELESCOPES AND SYSTEMSspace, ground, and airborne telescopes and instrumentation · interferometry and imaging · adaptive optics · observatory operations · modeling, systems, and project management

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTSoptical and mechanical technologies · software and cyberinfrastructure · detectors and instrumentation

2,200 papers on the latest innovations and technology developments.

2,400 scientists and researchers, engineers, and program managers.

Abstracts are due 13 November. Plan now to present in Austin.

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Symposium Chairs:

Present and publish the most prestigious event for developers of ground-

and space-based telescopes, the supporting technologies, and the latest

instrumentation. The symposium brings together engineers, scientists and

industry at a very exciting time and in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas. Authors

are encouraged to submit papers that not only highlight achievements but also

demonstrate lessons learned and problems solved to enable us to improve our

collective performance in the future.

Join your peers where collaboration brings ideas to life and technology to

market. Hear the work, network with leaders in the field, and see the applications

of the future. We look forward to seeing you in Austin!

Plan to Participate

Allison A. BartoBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States)

Suzanne K. Ramsay European Southern Observatory (Germany)

COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS:

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THE EVENT FOR DEVELOPERS OF GROUND- AND SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES, THE SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES, AND THE LATEST INSTRUMENTATION

TELESCOPES AND SYSTEMSAS101 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation

2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (Lystrup, MacEwen, Fazio) . . . . 3

AS102 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (den Herder, Nikzad, Nakazawa) . . . . . 5

AS103 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII (Marshall, Spyromilio) 6

AS104 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI (Creech-Eakman, Tuthill, Mérand) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

AS105 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII (Evans, Simard, Takami) . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

AS106 Adaptive Optics Systems VI (Close, Schreiber, Schmidt) . . . . . . . . . 9

AS107 Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII (Peck, Seaman, Benn) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTSAS109 Advances in Optical and Mechanical

Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (Navarro, Geyl) . . . .14

AS110 Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV (Guzman, Ibsen) . .16

AS111 Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (Zmuidzinas, Gao) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

AS112 High-Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII (Holland, Beletic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Exhibition/Sponsorships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21Submission of Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Contents

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GET LASTING VISIBILITY FOR YOUR RESEARCH

Present and publish with SPIE.When you share your research at an SPIE conference and publish in the SPIE Digital Library, you are opening up opportunities for networking, collaborating, and promoting your work.

Proceedings of SPIE are covered by major scientific indexes and search services, including Web of Science, Scopus, Inspec, Ei Compendex, Astrophysical Data Service (ADS), CrossRef, and Google Scholar.

Your paper becomes globally available to the research community.

RADIO ASTRONOMYIf your research is connected with radio astronomy and you want to participate in this virtual sympo-sium, enter “RADIO” when prompt-

ed during the abstract submission. Accepted papers will be cross-listed in the SPIE RADIO ASTRONOMY Virtual Track.

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (AS101)Conference Chairs: Makenzie Lystrup, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (USA); Howard A. MacEwen, Reviresco LLC (USA)

Conference Co-Chair: Giovanni G. Fazio, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics (USA)

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

The Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018 con-ference is designed to explore the current and fore-seeable state-of-the-art of space telescope and in-strumentation programs, concepts and technologies from the near-ultraviolet and visible wavelengths through the infrared and millimeter regions. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Spitzer Space Telescope, Kepler/K2, and the airborne SOFIA pro-grams are continuing observations and/or reviewing science proposals for new observation cycles. ESA has launched and is collecting data from the Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (GAIA), a mission that will compile an astrometric catalogue of ~1 billion stars with a second data release in April 2018.

Other programs are showing significant progress to-wards operations and observations. The NASA Tran-siting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is due for launch and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Ex-plorer (NICER), recently launched to the Internation-al Space Station (ISS) is expected to be conducting observations during and well after the Conference. The Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS), an ESA S-mission (small mission) will be launched in 2018 to perform high precision photometry of transiting exoplanets. At the larger sizes, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is well into prelaunch verification as it moves towards 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 now has a planned launch in 2020. And the Wide Field IR Space Telescope (WFIRST) is cur-rently undergoing a detailed cost review, expected to last for a few months and help to finalize the design and performance of the next large NASA astrophys-ics mission after JWST, while the ESA PLATO mission to observe planetary transits and oscillations of stars is scheduled for down-select in 2018 and launch in 2024.

To support preparations for the next generation of space-based astrophysics missions, NASA is con-ducting four detailed mission concept studies of Strategic Missions and seeking concepts from across the community for smaller, Probe class missions. The Strategic Missions are meant to cover most of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are the Lynx (X-Ray and Gamma Ray), LUVOIR (Near-UV through Visible to Near-IR), HabEx (Habitable Exoplanets Imaging), and ORIGINS Space Telescope (OST, a Far-IR telescope mission). The NRC Decadal Survey Committee will use these studies in formulating their recommendation for the next generation of missions. In roughly the same time frame, a decision will have been announced concerning the next ESA M4, one of whose prime candidates is ARIEL (Atmospheric Re-mote-sensing Exoplanet Large Survey).

For this Conference, status reports on projects of all sizes and the science questions that they address are sought, as well as papers addressing topics that in-clude, but are not limited to, the following issues and opportunities: • The science cases for space-based astronomy

and astrophysics – Near-UV, visible, IR, submillimeter and

millimeter wavelength astronomical space telescopes and instruments

– 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

– Approaches to increasing insight into dark matter and dark energy using space

– The formation and evolution of galaxies, stars, and planets

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• Approaches to mission development and implementation – System modeling of telescopes and space

observatories, their assembly and servicing, to enable confident launch of systems too large for end-to-end ground assembly and testing and/or too large to launch on a single launch vehicle

– Technology demonstrations, including on the International Space Station (ISS)

– Collaborative flights with other missions to provide cost effective science telescopes

– Small mission concepts and technologies – Innovative approaches to risk management – Student involvement

• Enabling and enhancing technologies for space telescopes – Formation flying concepts and technologies – Deployment, assembly, commissioning and

other space infrastructure – Innovative real-time metrology and wavefront

sensing and control – Interferometric instruments effects – Polarization effects, including observation and

mitigation – Innovative optical designs that reduce the

number of reflective surfaces – 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 – Opportunities presented by crewed missions,

infrastructure, and technologies – Astrobiological investigations that may affect

the needs for science observations – Innovative space telescopes and

instrumentation for studies of the local solar system

– Earth observation concepts and technologies

Finally, the events and studies that will determine the future of space observatories for the next few decades are occurring right now, and the active par-ticipation of students is particularly important for this conference. Students are encouraged to submit work addressing both science requirements and tech-nology enablers, conventional and unconventional. Opportunities to reach out to other disciplines and to the public at large are sought to increase under-standing 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.

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (AS101 continued)

GET ADDITIONAL EXPOSUREDon’t miss this opportunity to further promote your important work.

RADIO ASTRONOMYIf 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.

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (AS102)Conference Chairs: Jan-Willem A. den Herder, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)

Conference Co-Chairs: Shouleh Nikzad, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); Kazuhiro Nakazawa, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)

Program Committee: Hisamitsu Awaki, Ehime Univ. (Japan); Didier Barret, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France); Marshall Bautz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA); Marcos Bavdaz, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands); Steven E. Boggs, Univ. of California, Berkeley (USA); Jin Chang, Purple Mountain Observatory (China); Wei Cui, Tsingua Univ. (China), Purdue Univ. (USA); Marco Feroci, INAF - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (Italy); Luigi Gallo, Saint Mary’s Univ. (Canada); Varoujan Gorjian, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); James C. Green, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (USA); Walter M. Harris, The Univ. of Arizona (USA); Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology (USA); Margarita Hernanz, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain); Brian D. Jackson, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands); Caroline A. Kilbourne, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Olivier Limousin, CEA-Ctr. de SACLAY (France); Grzegorz M. Madejski, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology (USA); Hironori Matsumoto, Nagoya Univ. (Japan); Mark L. McConnell, The Univ. of New Hampshire (USA); Kirpal Nandra, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Germany); Takaya Ohashi, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. (Japan); Stéphane Paltani, Observatoire de Genève (Switzerland); 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. (USA); Taro Sakao, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan); Hiroyasu Tajima, Nagoya Univ. (Japan); Tadayuki Takahashi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan); Vincent Tatischeff, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France); Hiroshi Tsunemi, Osaka Univ. (Japan); Sarah E. Tuttle, Univ. of Washington (USA); Martin C. Weisskopf, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Richard Willingale, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom); Jörn Wilms, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany); Shuangnan Zhang, Institute of High Energy Physics (China); William W. Zhang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)

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 ob-servable 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. These topics require state-of-the art instru-ments on satellites in the UV to gamma-ray domain. In addition, many energetic phenomena including accretion and ejection processes near black holes and various types of transient phenomena exhibit high-energy radiation.

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; Current missions, including ASTROSAT, HXMT and NICER will be able to present their first results. In the future other missions including SRG, XARM, SVOM, PIXE and the Einstein Probe will be re-alized and their expected performance including the calibrations can be presented. At the end of the next decade the ESA large scale mission Athena will be the observatory of choice. However, focused, small and mid-sized missions should complement Athena and full coverage of the UV to gamma-ray wave-length range is equally important to advance science. This may range from a new generation of X-ray tim-ing instruments, hard X-ray telescopes, gamma-ray instruments, UV instruments or all sky monitors. In addition it is crucial to explore and develop technol-ogy beyond the Athena mission. Technology which will need to be advanced includes large format cryo-genic imaging spectrometers, CMOS image arrays, pore optics, adjustable and active optics, multi-lay-ers, x-ray polarimetry, 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 as-trophysics that will drive the design of new obser-vatories; lessons learned from existing observatories, both technical and astrophysical; approved and pro-posed new observatories; technologies in optics and focal planes; and novel concepts.

Papers are solicited on but not restricted to the fol-lowing 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

NEW FOR 2018:• Prospects of nano-satellites • AHEAD: A European initiative for Integrated

Activities for the High-Energy Astrophysics Domain

• Outreach and educational activities for current missions and for high-energy astrophysics

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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII (AS103)Conference Chairs: Heather K. Marshall, DKIST/National Solar Observatory (USA); Jason Spyromilio, European Southern Observatory (Germany)

Program Committee: Bruce C. Bigelow, GMTO Corp. (USA); Emanuela Ciattaglia, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Matthew Colless, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National Univ. (Australia); Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Lab. d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France); Helen J. Hall, National Association of Professional Women (USA); Frank W. Kan, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (USA); Victor L. Krabbendam, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (USA); Jeffrey R. Kuhn, Univ. of Hawai’i (USA); Amir Sadjadpour, Thirty Meter Telescope (USA); Göran Sandell, SOFIA / USRA (USA); Tim Stevenson, SKA Organisation (United Kingdom); 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, where progress in the field continues at an exciting pace. The next generation of extremely large telescopes is under-way: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) are all involved in site prepa-ration and placing major subsystem contracts.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometer (MROI) are all well along in construction, with other projects such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), Cheren-kov Telescope Array (CTA), Tokyo Atacama Observa-tory (TAO), CCAT Prime, Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), Next-Generation VLA, and the Eu-ropean Solar Telescope (EST) proceeding along the development, prototyping, and design pipeline. We also welcome colleagues undertaking astronomy projects in locales from Central America to the Mid-dle East, Africa to East Asia. Meanwhile scientists and engineers are conceptualizing facilities which will provide extraordinary research opportunities for the next generation of astronomers.

The Five-Hundred meter Aperture Telescope (FAST) and Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) are in commis-sioning and early science, with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) continuing to expand their scientific capa-bilities and output. Major maintenance and retrofit projects are being undertaken from Mauna Kea to Roque de los Muchachos to the Andes, with facilities such as Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Mayall, Blanco, and Gemini making major infrastructure investments to support research initiatives for topics such as Dark Energy and Adaptive Optics.

Papers are solicited on the planning, design, con-struction, commissioning and performance of exist-ing and future ground-based and airborne telescopes and arrays observing in the optical, infrared, submil-limeter, millimeter and radio wavelength bands. Spe-cific topics include:• project reviews • concepts for future telescopes and pathfinder

projects • opto-mechanical system and component design,

prototyping, and implementation • telescope structures • observatory enclosures • observatory facilities and physical infrastructure,

including safety systems • site characterization, testing and development • designs or new technologies for better and/or

more affordable telescopes – enabling technologies – mass production – design for reliability – design trade studies – metrology and alignment

• major maintenance and facility upgrades, including modifications for remote operations, AO, or new research initiatives

• design for extreme environments • industrial perspectives • assembly, integration and verification, lessons

learned during commissioning • transition from commissioning to operations

We also look forward to an integrated session on modeling as a driver of observatory design with the Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Man-agement Conference on mutually interesting and relevant topics including:• telescope and subsystem performance modeling

and measurement, including vibration • wavefront control, segmented mirror alignment,

and phasing systems • characterization and control of the local thermal

environment, seeing, wind buffeting • design and analysis of observatory structures for

extreme survival, including seismic events

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Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI (AS104)Conference Chairs: Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (USA); Peter G. Tuthill, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia); Antoine Mérand, European Southern Observatory (Chile)

Program Committee: Ellyn K. Baines, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Fabien Baron, Georgia State Univ. (USA); Jean-Philippe Berger, European Southern Observatory (Chile); Elliott P. Horch, Southern Connecticut State Univ. (USA); Takayuki Kotani, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Lucas Labadie, Univ. zu Köln (Germany); Fabien Malbet, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (France); Keiichi Ohnaka, Univ. Católica del Norte (Chile); Claudia Paladini, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); Stephanie Sallum, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (USA); Isabelle Tallon-Bosc, Ctr. de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon (France)

The year 2018 marks exactly 150 years since Fizeau first suggested harnessing the nascent technology of interferometry for the study of the stars. The scale and ambition of optical and infrared interferome-try today would be all but unrecognizable to such early pioneers. The half-century since the advent of the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer has witnessed a spectacular flowering, from awkward prototypes into powerful mature science-capable facilities. For the last few decades, topically focused SPIE meetings have continued to play a unique role in fostering our field: this is the singular venue that brings together interferometrists from the world over. No other conference can match the depth and breadth of coverage of the interferometry world to be presented in Austin, Texas, 10 to 15 June, 2018.

Against a background of a challenging funding en-vironment worldwide, our previous meeting (Ed-inburgh, 2016) showed very exciting progress in overcoming some of the most firmly entrenched ob-stacles that have long plagued the field. In particular, widespread scientific relevance to a broad cross-sec-tion of the astronomical community has long been hampered by the issue of sensitivity. Progress on several fronts, such as the roll-out of active/adap-tive wavefront correction, as well as dramatic en-hancements in low-noise detector technologies, now promises to finally unleash “stellar interferometry” from its traditional niche within stellar physics, per-haps calling for our community to rethink its identity as working in “astrophysical interferometry.”

Challenges remain a part of the backdrop as astron-omy becomes ever more global with few prospects for widespread growth in funding avenues, the bulk of which continue to be dominated by major facilities and missions. The primary goals of this conference are to allow the attendees to learn firsthand about the exciting capabilities found in facilities across the globe and to discuss the future prospects for inter-ferometry in technology and instrumentation. It will primarily focus on the latest innovations in technol-ogy and engineering for ground- and space-based interferometry in the optical and infrared, including new instrumentation, techniques and software. Sci-entific results will be highlighted, with priority given to findings that push current facilities to their limits, exploit innovative techniques and technologies: the results should particularly serve to illustrate novel observations or analytical techniques.

Invited talks and panel discussions will feature in the program, however most time will be competitively al-located 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, cryogenics, control algorithms, star tracking, beam combination, picometer metrology, vacuum systems.

• Space (or near-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 Astrophysics decadal activities in the US and similar efforts in other countries.

We expect a large number of submitted abstracts and the program committee will actively assign con-tributed 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 Janu-ary 1, 2017, should include the word “THESIS” in their abstract titles to be eligible for the “Best Disserta-tion” 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.

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Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII (AS105)Conference Chairs: Christopher J. Evans, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Luc Simard, NRC - Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics (Canada), Thirty Meter Telescope (USA); Hideki Takami, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (USA)

Program Committee: Rebecca A. Bernstein, Carnegie Obervatories (USA), GMTO Corp. (USA); Julia J. Bryant, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia), Austrailian Astronomical Observatory (Australia); Armando Gil de Paz, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain); James E. Larkin, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (USA); Kentaro Motohara, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Livia Origlia, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy); Rolf Schlichmaier, Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Germany); Erin C. Smith, NASA Ames Research Ctr. (USA); Joël R. D. Vernet, European Southern Observatory (Germany)

Instrument development for large ground-based observatories is continuing apace, with second and third generation instruments on the 8-10m class tele-scopes yielding a rich scientific harvest. In parallel, there has been considerable investment over the past few years to develop novel survey facilities, rapid-re-sponse instruments, and technology pathfinders on smaller telescopes, including at solar observatories and on airborne platforms. Work is also ramping-up on plans for the future `Extremely Large Telescopes’. With primary apertures in excess of 20m, this next generation of observatories will provide an unprec-edented combination of sensitivity and spatial reso-lution, bringing both opportunities and challenges in instrument design and construction.

As the seventh installment in this successful series of conferences on ground-based and airborne in-strumentation, papers (oral and posters) are invit-ed on the design, development and performance of optical/infrared instrumentation. The aims of the conference are to provide: i) an overview of the per-formance and lessons learned from instruments in operation; ii) discussion of the design of proposed instruments and/or those already in development; iii) a forum for exchange of technical information on achievements and problems among instrument builders, from across both academic and industrial partners. Areas of interest include: • Performance and results from recently

commissioned instruments; • Design/prototyping of instrumentation for

current observatories (incl. solar/airborne); • Rapid-response instruments (gravitational wave

follow-up, supernovae, γ-ray bursts); • Ground-based instrumentation in support of

space missions; • Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes; • Instruments designed with adaptive optics

incorporated in the overall system; • New technologies which may be transformative

in future instrument design.

Given the large oversubscription for oral presen-tations at past conferences in this series, we will have to assign some as poster presentations1, which are nonetheless both productive and enjoyable. Preference for 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.

1Final placement in an oral or poster session is subject to the discretion of the program committee. Instruc-tions 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 submission of a manuscript. All attendees should plan to attend the poster sessions and poster authors should be present at their poster during the reception times (to be determined).

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Adaptive Optics Systems VI (AS106)Conference Chairs: Laird M. Close, The Univ. of Arizona (USA); Laura Schreiber, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy); Dirk Schmidt, National Solar Observatory (USA)

Program Committee: Christoph Baranec, Univ. of Hawai’i (USA); Thomas Berkefeld, Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Germany); Antonin H. Bouchez, GMTO Corp. (USA); Brendan P. Bowler, The Univ. of Texas at Austin (USA); Simone Esposito, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy); Thierry Fusco, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, ONERA (France); 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); Miska Le Louarn, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Jessica R. Lu, Univ. of California, Berkeley (USA); Pierre-Yves Madec, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Elena Masciadri, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy); Dimitri Mawet, California Institute of Technology (USA); Benoit Neichel, Lab. d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France); Mamadou N’Diaye, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (France); Tim J. Morris, Durham Univ. (United Kingdom); Elise Vernet, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Peter L. Wizinowich, W. M. Keck Observatory (USA)

The 2018 symposium will include again a conference completely dedicated to Adaptive Optics (AO) sys-tems. Since our last event in 2016, the operation of current state-of-the art AO systems has continued to improve steadily, particularly in the field of extreme AO, leading to many AO-related science papers and significant discoveries (narrow FOV, high-contrast science). Also, complex multi-laser guide star facil-ities are starting to produce exciting results (wide FOV, nearly full sky coverage science). Meanwhile, considerable effort has been underway 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 Ex-tremely Large Telescopes (ELT/TMT/GMT) including the next generation of Solar Telescopes.

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 control algorithms to reject these disturbances and their implementation on real-time platforms; high-fi-delity system modeling, including science-based metrics such as astrometric, high-contrast and pho-tometric accuracy; dedicated lab and field tests to validate new components and new concepts; and strategies to optimize the AO assisted observations. The conference will cover with detailed sessions on all the topics above 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 concurrent Austin confer-ences will be identified to optimize, where possible, the conference schedule. 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 us-ing AO. This includes ‘quantitative astronomy’ such as high contrast imaging, precision astrometry, and photometry. We expect to see presentations on new results, instrument calibration, data reduction and at-mospheric profiling.

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

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Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII (AS107)Conference Chairs: Alison B. Peck, Gemini Observatory (USA); Robert L. Seaman, Lunar and Planetary Lab., The Univ. of Arizona (USA); Chris R. Benn, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (Spain)

Program Committee: Raffaele D’Abrusco, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Chandra X-ray Center (USA); David S. Adler, Space Telescope Science Institute (USA); Todd Boroson, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (USA); Dennis R. Crabtree, National Research Council Canada (Canada); Antonio Chrysostomou, SKA Organisation (United Kingdom); Daisuke Iono, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Andreas Kaufer, European Southern Observatory (Chile); Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); Christian Veillet, Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (USA); Beth Willman, LSST/University of Arizona (USA)

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 and quality control, interactive archiving and data rights, engineering and infrastructure, fault-han-dling and staffing.

MOTIVATION While 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 effi-cient and cost-effective way possible. We all share the goal of providing outstanding capabilities and reliable services to our users while operating within the constraints imposed by tight budgets and lim-ited staffing. 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 ob-serving campaigns, fully or partially robotic facilities, integrated instrument pipelines and science archives, and the need to integrate more complex cyber-infra-structure such as the Grid and the Virtual Observa-tory. The subtle intricacies and large scales of new instrumentation naturally lead to 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 particu-larly encouraged - especially as it impacts the max-imization 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 confer-ence will be the rising support challenge of time-do-main investigations. Demand for such support is steadily increasing, driven by the desire to study rare, random events as well as exoplanets and long-term, synoptic phenomena. Such studies are particularly challenging when they require coordination between multiple space and ground based observatories. While this trend has previously been driven by space-based detections of gamma ray bursts, the startup of ground-based time-domain survey facilities (ramp-ing up to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) are quickly taking this challenge to a new level. Progress reports from new facilities coming on-line and exist-ing facilities facing major new operational challenges are particularly welcome.

We envision a three to four day conference, depend-ing on submission pressure. Both oral and poster contributed presentations are solicited. We encour-age abstracts related to any area of observatory op-erations and list some examples of possible topics below.

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

processes and strategies • Time allocation, user support and QA strategies

for multinational partnerships• Defining effective operations products and goals • New 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 BIG DATA • Science product creation: the observatory or the

community? • Science product definition: what is good

enough? • Science product models, staffing requirements,

and costs • Science product archiving and curation; in

particular, planning and creation of legacy data sets

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

• User support models: staffing requirements, training and costs

• System performance monitoring: what is good enough?

• Operating survey telescopes and innovative operations of small aperture telescopes

• Optimizing large survey follow-up studies; exoplanets, near Earth objects, other Solar System targets

• The role of the virtual observatory • Establishing and maintaining data centers and

bibliographic databases: costs and benefits, lessons learned

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.

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

Program Committee: Roberto Biasi, Microgate S.r.l. (Italy); Sebastian G. Els, Sebastian G. Els, Gulf Solutions (United Arab Emirates); James L. Fanson, GMTO Corp. (USA); Robert Karban, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); Gary E. Mosier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Richard M. Prestage, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA); Scott Roberts, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (Canada); Masao Saito, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Hermine Schnetler, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Masahiro Sugimoto, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Albert Tomàs, NTE-SENER S.A. (Spain); Mitchell Troy, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA)

The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the highly interconnected fields of project man-agement, systems engineering, and system model-ing. We call for papers on programmatic and techni-cal 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 instrumentation - is particularly challenging, as it requires delicate balancing of efficient project man-agement, proper interpretation of and response to science priorities. The deployed management frame-work and techniques may depend on the size of the project, but the underlying target remains the same: within budget, 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 en-tire system as it unfolds through the integration of its parts. Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) enables projects to consider and analyze all aspects of the system in a unified environment. Models are essential to validate performance allocations and propagate use cases through complex designs, either at the subsystem or the complete system level. Sys-tem modeling is also vital for predicting and verifying the performance of the design being developed, and increasingly as an essential means – in fact the only practical means in some cases – of verifying the per-formance of the as-built system. Simulation results are critical parts of developing system integration and test plans, as well as in understanding unexpect-ed behavior during implementation, assembly/inte-gration, 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 from 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 • Financial models, cost estimation, contingency

management • Scheduling, critical path management • Scientific oversight • Operations design • Product Data and Lifecycle Management (PDLM)• Project risk management • System integration (AIT, I&T, AIV) • Commissioning and system validation. • Quality management • Safety

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING • Status updates on systems engineering aspects

of projects • Concepts of Operation and Operations Concepts

(ConOps and OpsCon) • Architectures, system trade-offs, physical,

functional, and behavioral decompositions • Model-based System Engineering (MBSE)• Performance management, engineering

(performance and resource) budgets • Configuration and change management • Requirements engineering and verification• Interface management • Technical risk management• Reliability, availability, and maintainability.

SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATIONS• End-to-end simulations: performance and/or

behavioral • Integrated simulations: structural-optical-

control, structural-thermal-optical, and/or aero-thermal (fluid-dynamics)-optical

• Optical performance estimates, active and adaptive optics models

• SysML based modeling• Engineering Data Exchange and Propagation

between different tools and models• Model verification and validation• Modeling standards, patterns, frameworks, and

best practices• Trade space exploration• MBSE environments and software

infrastructures

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JOINT SESSIONWe also look forward to a joint session on modeling as a driver of observatory design with the Ground Based and Airborne Telescopes Conference on mutu-ally interesting and relevant topics including:• telescope and subsystem performance modeling

and measurement, including vibration• wavefront control, segmented mirror alignment,

and phasing systems• characterization and control of the local thermal

environment, seeing, wind buffeting• design and analysis of observatory structures for

extreme survival, including seismic events.

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Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (AS109)Conference Chairs: Ramón Navarro, NOVA Optical & Infrared Instrumentation Group at ASTRON (Netherlands); Roland Geyl, Safran Reosc (France)

Program Committee: Magomed A. Abdulkadyrov, JSC Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory (Russian Federation); Daniel R. Blanco, MMT Observatory (USA); Myung Kyu Cho, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA); Yutaka Ezaki, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Japan); V. Alfonso Feria, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); Virginia G. Ford, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (USA); 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); Dae Wook Kim, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (USA); Hélène T. Krol, CILAS (France); David M. Montgomery, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Mikhail Sachkov, Institute of Astronomy (Russian Federation); Andrew T. Sarawit, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (USA); Yoshinori Suematsu, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan); Robert R. Thomson, Heriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom); Jinxue Wang, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems (USA); Yongtian Zhu, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (China)

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 opportunity and a forum for optical and opto-mechanical engi-neers and scientists to present and discuss advances and innovations in optical fabrication, optical devic-es, metrology, new materials, structures and mech-anisms for space and ground-based astronomical telescopes, instrumentation and supporting facilities. Papers on novel techniques and devices are particu-larly encouraged, for instance new ideas for exploita-tion 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 confer-ence 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 • extreme aspheres and freeform optics, design,

manufacturing and testing• metal optics, ceramic optics• 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

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Mechanisms for space telescopes are especially challenging due to reliability requirements and lim-ited transportation volume and mass. These mech-anisms must be operated in the space cryo-vacuum and combined with actuators and sensors to ensure correct optical performance. Space focal plane in-struments 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 environ-ment. 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 ev-er-growing area.

The new generation of survey and giant telescopes such as LSST, the 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 segments, which need to be reliably manufactured and tested. This requires an efficient series production process with a high degree of standardization. Both the op-tical fabrication and metrology of these mirrors are very demanding tasks and an interdisciplinary ap-proach between the astronomers, optical and me-chanical designers as well as production engineers is necessary.

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

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 tech-niques 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 en-gineering for the integrated telescope-instrumenta-tion system.

Special trophies will be awarded for the best student presentation, the best oral presentation and the best poster presented at this conference.

SPONSORED BY: NOVA The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy

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Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV (AS110)Conference Chairs: Juan C. Guzman, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia); Jorge Ibsen, European Southern Observatory appointed to Atacama Large MIllimiter/Submillimiter Array (Chile)

Program Committee: Alan Bridger, UK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom); Gianluca Chiozzi, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Tom Donaldson, Space Telescope Science Institute (USA); Kim K. Gillies, Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. (USA); José M. Filgueira, GMTO Corp. (USA); Shui Hung Kwok, W. M. Keck Observatory (USA); David L. Terrett, RAL Space (United Kingdom)

This conference provides a forum for the engineer-ing aspects of designing, building, implementing and commissioning software and cyberinfrastructure for ground-based and space observatories. The con-ference 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 novel software engineering approaches.

The observing facilities under design and construc-tion in the era of extremely large telescopes must address the increasing complexity of control systems and the exponential growth in data collection, stor-age and access volumes. At the same time, a number of small to medium size projects have introduced innovative concepts for remote, robotic and auton-omous operation, which are relevant and beneficial to larger projects.

In all cases, there is a strong interest in adopting commercial off the shelf solutions for the control systems, cloud technologies for data management as well as big data techniques for data analysis of large volumes of operational/housekeeping data and web-based or mobile technologies for users’ interaction. These solutions promise to address projects’ chal-lenges with significant cost savings and allow a more efficient obsolescence management with respect to previous approaches.

This conference focuses on the realization of proj-ects through the application of software engineering, while the Observatory Operations conference, is con-cerned with the development of high level require-ments for observation modes, calibration, data re-duction and archiving, as well as data quality control. The main audience of this conference is the software practitioner, who translates these high-level require-ments into functioning tools, effective workflows and productive processes.

New projects now have the opportunity to benefit from the lessons learned from the major projects of the past decade. This conference especially wel-comes 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 invite submissions for the following sessions:

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

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

– Evolution of cyberinfrastructure – National and international infrastructures – High-performance Computing (HPC)– Machine learning and/or other “big data”

technologies applied to operational (non-scientific) data

– Cyber security • Sample topics:

– Facility infrastructure (power, network, virtualization)

– Software infrastructure techniques, deployment and operation tools such as containerization, use of public or private cloud infrastructure and I/P/SaaS

– Applications and lessons learned in high performance computing

– Data products archiving and curation – Web/mobile application frameworks– Web services and autonomous software

agents – Applications using accelerator technologies

(Xeon Phi, GPU, FPGA)

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 prospec-tive session and of the time foreseen for the presen-tation are welcome.

Submit your abstract today: www.spie.org/AS18call

Save the dateABSTRACTS DUE:

15 November 2017Midnight all time zones

AUTHOR NOTIFICATION:

23 February 2018The contact author will be notified of acceptance by email.

MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE:

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PLEASE 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.

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TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS

Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (AS111)Conference Chairs: Jonas Zmuidzinas, California Institute of Technology (USA); Jian-Rong Gao, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands), Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)

Program Committee: Masashi Hazumi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK (Japan); Kent D. Irwin, Stanford Univ. (USA); Karl Schuster, IRAM-Domaine Univ. de Grenoble (France); Gordon J. Stacey, Cornell Univ. (USA); Neil A. Trappe, National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland); Carole E. Tucker, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom); Christopher K. Walker, The Univ. of Arizona (USA)

The far-infrared to the millimeter region of the Elec-tromagnetic Spectrum contains a wealth of informa-tion about the Universe at early epochs. Observa-tions of cold gas and dust uniquely probe the earliest stages in the formation of galaxies, stars, and plan-ets, 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 millime-ter 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 struc-ture 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 detec-tor 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 fu-ture imaging and spectroscopic arrays, both bolo-metric and heterodyne, for ground-based and space-borne telescopes, the physics of semiconducting and superconducting detectors and readouts, the optimi-zation of long-wavelength optical systems, new de-velopments 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 aca-demic, 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.

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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 (USA)

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

High energy, optical, and infrared detectors are criti-cal to the performance of astronomical observatories. Improvement in these detectors is critical to improv-ing the sensitivity and quality of imaging and spec-troscopic 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 detec-tor technologies enable new observatory concepts. 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 more than a billion pixels in large mosaic focal planes, however recent telescopes performing precision measurements are uncovering new subtle effects in these detectors. Optical CMOS-based de-tectors 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 confer-ence will explore the latest developments in both of these technologies. Meanwhile, infrared detector performance continues to improve and infrared ar-rays 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 sam-pling. Furthermore, avalanche 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 pro-vide 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, SLS)• cryogenic detectors • advancements in detector design and

fabrication • status reports from detector manufacturers • on-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, InGaAs, 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.

Submit your abstract today: www.spie.org/AS18call

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HOTEL INFORMATIONOpening of the hotel reservation process for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018 is scheduled for the beginning of February 2018. SPIE will arrange special discounted hotel rates for SPIE conference attendees.

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STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTSA limited number of SPIE student travel grants will be awarded based on need. Applications must be received no later than 2 April 2018. 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.

REGISTRATIONAvailable February 2018All participants, including invited speakers, contributed speakers, session chairs, co-chairs, and committee members, must pay a registration fee. Fee information for conferences and courses, a registration form, and technical and general information will be available on the SPIE website in February 2018.

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CLEARANCE INFORMATIONIf government and/or company clearance is required to present and publish your presenta tion, start the process now to ensure that you receive clearance if your paper is accepted.

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The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) publishes peer-reviewed papers reporting on original research in the development, testing, and application of telescopes, instrumentation, techniques, and systems for ground- and space-based astronomy.

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• Commercial papers, papers with no new research/development content, and papers where support-ing data or a technical description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this conference.

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