About the Lab
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) is a research laboratory at Princeton University led by Professor Jeremy Kasdin and comprising of an interdisciplinary group of faculty,...
Instructor: Robert J. Vanderbei
Description/Objectives: Optimization of deterministic systems, focusing on linear programming. Model formulations, the simplex method, sensitivity analysis,...
Motivated by the desire to image exosolar planets, recent work by us and others has shown that high-contrast imaging
can be achieved using specially shaped pupil masks. To date, our masks...
Pupil mapping is a promising and unconventional new method for high contrast
imaging being considered for terrestrial exoplanet searches. It employs two
(or more) specially designed aspheric...
