3 - 7 August 2025
San Diego, California, US

Astronomical Applications

The biennial astronomy symposium on current and emerging applications for ground and space telescopes and other optical technologies

Astronomical Applications

Announcing the creation and addition of a new Symposium within SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025. This Symposium will serve as complementary to the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation event and will run in odd-numbered years.

Review the six conference topics and submit an abstract.

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Conference topics


• UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts
• Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems
• UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy
• Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy
• Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets
• Space Systems Contamination: Prediction, Control, and Performance

2025 Symposium Chairs


Allison Barto

BAE Systems, Inc.
(United States)

Daewook Kim

The Univ. of Arizona
(United States)

2025 Symposium Co-chair


Suresh Sivanandam

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics
(Canada)