Hi , the next meeting of the Galway Astronomy club takes place on Monday the 25th of October at the Forster court Hotel, Galway City , for this we welcome Chris Dainty who is Proffessor of Photonics at Imperial College London and a Science Foundation Ireland Professor of Experimental Physics at The National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professor Dainty has been active in teaching optics and physics throughout his career, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in continuing education.
He has supervised 33 PhD Theses and currently has 14 PhD students. Professor Dainty has been active in teaching optics and physics throughout his career, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in continuing education.
His research interests are in optical imaging, scattering and propagation. In these areas he has published books: 'Scattering in Volumes and Surfaces' (1989, co- edited with M Nieto-Vesperinas), 'Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena' (1975, 2nd Ed. 1984, editor) and 'Image Science' (1974) which he co-authored with Rodney Shaw. His current research is in four main areas: (i) adaptive optics applied to vision science and other applications, (ii) smart optics, (iii) the characterisation of atmospheric turbulence and (iv) light scattering from dense media and surfaces.
Ronan Newman
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