CfAI Highlights
News, Events and Highlights
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Space Applications Summer School 2023
CfAI hosted the first Postgraduate Summer School on Space applications in Science and Industry funded by STFC
CfAI optics shed light on the unusual carbon balance at Mars
CfAI has participated in the optics for the NOMAD instrument, a crucial component of the TGO missions and that this instrument is making groundbreaking discoveries.
Our pioneering projects in solar and space technologies awarded funding from UK Space Agency
Our scientists and engineers are at the forefront of global innovation. Experts from our world-leading Physics Department are leading on two pioneering projects.
Durham University and Viasat Collaborate to Advance Free-Space Optical Communications Networks
Leveraging a £200k investment from Viasat, Durham University will focus on developing free-space optics (FSO) turbulence channel characterisation for optical feeder links
European AO Summer School
We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2023 European Adaptive Optics Summer School.
CfAI researcher Ryan Griffiths is invited to AO4ELT
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes is the largest conference in the field. 6 CfAI researchers will be presenting their work this year.
FOAMAS 2023
CfAI members will participate to a workshop in Chiang-Mai Thailand organised by NARIT on Freeform Optics between the 27th and 30th of May 2023.
Katy Hartley is interviewed for TvCanaria
CfAI's Katy Hartley has been interviewed by TvCanaria, for her ground-breaking work demonstrating the first on-sky scintillation correction.
CfAI's Lily Westerby-Griffin and Fionagh Thomson talk about astronomical instrumentation with Durham University Orchestral Society
Durham University Orchestral Society collaborated with the Durham Physics astronomer’s and instrument scientists in a performance of Holst’s The Planet Suites.
CfAI Senior Optical Engineer awarded Young Female Scientist Talent of Spain 2022
Dr Ariadna Calcines awarded the Young Female Scientist Talent Prize is awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain.
COAT 2023
Communication and Observations through Atmospheric Turbulence conference to be held in Durham, March 2023
SHIMM at Paranal
Lisa Bardou and Ryan Griffiths test the SHIMM instrument at Paranal, Chile