Institutional Members

The membership and participation in the Center for Adaptive Optics fall into three basic categories. Researchers at the participating member institutes can apply directly to the Center for project funding subject to peer review:

• University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Center for Adaptive Optics (Headquarters)
• University of California, Berkeley
  • Astronomy Department
  • School of Optometry
  • Vision Science Program
• University of California, Irvine
  • Astronomy Department
  • Optics at UC Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
  • UCLA Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• University of Chicago
  • ChAOS – Chicago Adaptive Optics System
  • Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• University of Houston
  • College of Optometry
• University of Rochester
  • Center for Visual Science
  • Institute of Optics
• Indiana University
  • School of Optometry
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Montana State University
  • Center for Computational Biology
  • Mathematical Sciences
• California Institute of Technology
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  • Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences
  • Thirty Meter Telescope
  • Tech Astronomy Department
• Maui Community College
  • Maui Community College Space Grant Program
• University of Waterloo
  • Department of Physics & Astronomy
  • School of Optometry

In addition, the Center is working closely with other U.S. Government sponsored Laboratories and Institutes

• Doheny Eye Institute
• Gemini Observatory
• Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (Canada)
• Maui Community College
• National Solar Observatory
• Schepens Eye Research Institute
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• W.M. Keck Observatory
• University of Waterloo (Canada)
• UC Davis - Visual Psychophysics Laboratory

as well as with Industrial Associates

• ALU LIKE
• Ball Aerospace
• Bausch & Lomb
• Boston Micromachines
• Iris AO
• Lucent Technologies
• Lockheed Martin
• Maui Economic Development Board
• MEMS Optical