Spring School on Optical Information Processing 2006
 Hosted by: Department of Computer Science
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
A Spring School on Optical Information Processing will take place at NUI Maynooth on 20th and 21st of April 2006. This multidisciplinary school is aimed at PhD students in applied optics. The lecturers will be Chris Dainty (Professor, Experimental Physics, NUIG) with title "Adaptive Optics," John Sheridan (Senior Lecturer, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UCD) with title "Fourier Optics," and Thomas Naughton (Lecturer, Computer Science, NUIM) with title "Analog Optical Computing."

Update! Final list of participants Photo: Conor McElhinney

Organiser: T. Naughton, with greatly appreciated assistance during the two days from Conor McElhinney (CS, NUIM), Niall Murphy (CS, NUIM), Aoife Cuddihy (EP, NUIM), David Monaghan (EE, UCD), and greatly appreciated funding for accommodation and meals from Alison Farrell at the Quality Promotion Office, NUI Maynooth

Travel details: the School will take place in the Callan Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth: travel directions; map of south campus (x denotes accommodation check-in); map of north campus (x denotes location of lectures, x denotes closest car park for day travellers); large map of south campus; large map of north campus

Within the Callan Building, lectures will take place in CS Lecture 1 (see location). The timetable is as follows:

Thursday 20.4.2006
09:00 - Fourier Optics
11:00 - Coffee/Tea (provided)
11:30 - Fourier Optics (cont.)
13:00 - Lunch (provided)
14:00 - Analog Optical Computing
16:00 - Coffee/Tea (provided)
16:30 - Analog Optical Computing (cont.)
18:00 - End of lecture
19:00 - Dinner (provided)
 Friday 21.4.2006
09:00 - Adaptive Optics
11:00 - Coffee/Tea (provided)
11:30 - Adaptive Optics (cont.)
13:00 - Lunch (provided)

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