Program and Events

Symposium on Seeing

Scientific Sessions
Session 1.	Instrumentation and observations to quantify the magnitude and distribution of atmospheric optical turbulence.
Session 2.	Adaptive optics, interferometry, and other approaches to mitigate atmospheric optical turbulence.
Session 3.	Approaches for modeling atmospheric optical turbulence.
Session 4.	Applications of optical turbulence observations and custom forecasting in telescope astronomy.
Session 5.	Panel lead session to develop a science plan for a field experiment.

Poster Session (Thursday, March 22 10:30am - 12:00pm)
Session 1a - Standard Instruments and Calibration)
Manuel Nunez	Intercalibration between DIMM units
Antonia M. Varela	On the use of satellite data for Atmospheric Extinction Studies
Jesus J. Fuensalida	Dome seeing subtraction from G-SCIDAR measurements
Begola Garcia-Lorenzo	Evaluation of projection effects when determining the velocity vector of turbulence layers velocity from G-SCIDAR observations
Begola Garcia-Lorenzo	Determination of the velocity vector of turbulence layers from G-SCIDAR
Session 1b - New Instruments and Methods)
Antonia M. Varela	DIMMA: the First Unmanned Differential Image Motion Monitor
Michael Thomsen	An automatic Mass-Dimm system at Palomar Observatory (Poster)	PDF File URL
Rodriguez Hernandez	The hybrid Shack-Hartmann/G-SCIDAR instrument (Poster)
Andrei Tokovinin	Characterizing ground-layer turbulence with a simple lunar scintillometer	Power Point
Jose M. Delgado	A G-SCIDAR instrument for the inter-calibration of the atmospheric turbulence between the Roque de los Muchachos and Paranal observatories
Zouhair Benkhaldoun	From the simulated annealing method to Single Star Scidar
Session 1c - Campaigns and Results
John McHugh	Turbulence measurents over Mauna Kea
Sebastian Egner	Generalized Scidar measurements at Mt. Graham	PDF File
Yusufjon Tillayev	Preliminary results of site testing campaigns at Samarkand and Suffa observatories in Uzbekistan
Benkhaldoun Zouhair	Some observing campaigns with Single Star SCIDAR
Pablo Recabarren	Site testing in the northwest of the Argentina	Power Point
Steven Crawford	The Past, Present, and Future of Site Testing for the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
Antonia M Varela	Climatology at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory: tropospheric and ground level regimes
Session 3
Abdelouahed Abahamid	Preliminary study of the seasonal variation of optical seeing above Ouka?meden site in the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains
Darielle Dexheimer	Analysis of diurnal and seasonal variation of Fried's coherence length, isoplanatic angle, and greenwood frequency
El Arbi Siher	Atmospheric conditions by dust pollution over ELT sites
Amokrane Berdja	How to Monte-Carlo Simulate the Optical Turbulence Boiling Beyond the Frozen Flow Hypothesis
Session 4
Gianluca Lombardi	El Roque de Los Muchachos site characteristics	PDF File

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Program and Events

Symposium on Seeing

Scientific Sessions

Poster Session (Thursday, March 22 10:30am - 12:00pm)

Session 1a - Standard Instruments and Calibration)

Session 1b - New Instruments and Methods)

Session 1c - Campaigns and Results

Session 3

Session 4