AstroTechTalk – att

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The AstroTechTalk (ger) offers a place to discuss, for all interested colleagues and especially for the technical departments, the project leaders, the administration and the scientists as the ultimately users:

status of instrumentation projects
scientific tasks and features of the instruments in construction or planned
new possible involvements
technical innovations and developments
technical problems and their solutions
logistical problems and their solutions
how to improve operation and observation
project standards.

New Time: Always Mondays 15:00 - 16:00

Location: Hybrid -> MPIA Hoersaal + Video-Link

Link: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/62627094341?pwd=SzlxYVJPNFgrZEdKVVpHS2xNbENTdz09

Outline:

Announcements (news, visitors, etc.) (mainly in German)
Talk of about 30 min about a selected topic (German or English, will be announced)
Follow up discussion and questions (German or English, depending on the speaker)

Proposals for talks: Please send an email to "huber -at- mpia.de" or "naranjo -at- mpia.de" - alternatively you might reach us by phone (06221-528331 or -290) or in person (room 111 or 018) at MPIA.

Date	Speaker	Topic
25.09.2023	Hugo Coppejans & Horst Steuer	Real Time Computing in Adaptive Optics Systems - Part 2 Adaptive Optics is used in astronomy to correct for distortions of the incoming light into a telescope. Adaptive optics system generally consist of three core components: deformable mirrors, wavefront sensors and real time computers (RTC). In this talk we will focus on the RTC in particular on the one we are currently working on for METIS. What is the task of the RTC in the control loop and what can the RTC actually 'see'? What are the main data products and which computational steps does it have to do to produce them? What is a mode? How fast does the RTC have to be and what does 'Real Time' mean? How did we get the RTC to be fast enough and what are the main differences between a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU)? We will address these and other questions in a graphic way. Presentation: English Slides: English Questions: German, English
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09.10.2023	Institutional Review
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25.12.2023	Holiday	Christmas