About AO4ELT

Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes

Adaptive Optics (AO) is one of the major challenges that the future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) face, and it’s essential to reach their scientific goals in terms of accuracy and sensitivity.

It’s crucial for the entire scientific community working on the topic to gather and share ideas about the latest advances in this field. This is achieved through the biannual Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes conference, which has been held every two years since 2009.

After the success of the 7th edition of the AO4ELT conference organized by ONERA’s Optics Department and the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory, the Optoelectronics Laboratory (OPTOLAB) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), have joined the AO4ELT organization to host the 8th edition of the conference (AO4ELT8).

The event will be held in the city of Viña del Mar, Chile, from October 27th to 31st, 2025.

Keynote conference themes

Main Topics

ELT Science with AO
Current designs of ELT AO systems
AO pathfinders and new concepts
Wavefront sensing
Wavefront resconstruction and control
Wavefront correctors
AO simulations
Post-processing of AO data
Deep learning for AO

And more…

AO4ELT8 Important Dates

23 April 2025

9 May 2025

My heading is awesome

15 May 2025

Registration opening

15 june 2025

30 JUNE 2025

Acceptance notification

29 August 2025

Early bird deadline

SEPTEMBER 2025

Program avaliable

27-31 OCTOBER 2025

AO4ELT8 Conference

Meet Our Organization

Learn about the teams of experts driving the success of AO4ELT8.

Conference Chairs

Dr. Pascale Hibon

European Southern Observatory

Dr. Gaetano Sivo

NOIR Lab

Dr. Esteban Vera

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Scientific organizing committee

Nelly Cerpa – SOC Chair

Noelia Martínez

Cedric Plantet

Sandrine Thomas

Julien Lozi

Maaike Van Kooten

Valentina Viotto

Sebastiaan Haffert

Benoit Neichel

Charlotte Bond

Carlos Correia

Iciar Montilla

Maissa Salama

Tim Morris

Gilles Orban De Xivry

Cedric Taïssir Heritier

Universidad de Los Andes, CL

ANU, AU

INAF, IT

NOIR Lab/Vera C. Obs, US

NAOJ, US

NRC, CA

INAF, IT

University of Leuden, NL

LAM, FR

UK ATC, UK

University of Porto, PT

IAC, ES

University of California, USA

Durham University, UK

University of Liege, BE

ONERA/LAM, FR

Local organizing commitee

Antonia López, PUCV, CL – LOC Chair
Amira Gallegos, PUCV, CL
Jorge Tapia, USM, CL
Darío Pérez, PUCV, CL
Felipe Pedreros, ESO, DE
Pierre Haguenauer, ESO, DE
Angela Cortes, ESO, DE

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