SUMMARY

Adaptive optics - an entire area of applications for minimum/maximum search methods for optical systems.

To date mostly simulated annealing, some parallel gradient descent.

Applications to astronomy and to medicine.

Additional image sharpening methods can be used, not under discussion today.

Today's question - since we have many experts in simulation - any other optimization ideas?????

Must be hardware realizable, e.g. genetic algorithm that needs multiple realizations (Adler and Berengoltz) no good for telescope.

Discussions here .