Internship Subjects

Practical internships for students of technical colleges (4-5 months)	Thesis supervisor
Mechanical and cryogenic engineering
Development of a high-cooling power Liquid Nitrogen continuous flow cryostat	M. Accardo
Test bench for vacuum systems of ELT instruments	M.Haug
Re-design, manufacturing, assembly of LGS cover structure	R. Guzman
Electronic Engineering
Electronic control for the Laser Guide Stars	Françoise Delplanke-Ströbele Ivan Guidolin
Research internships for students of master studies at universities (5-6 months)
SW engineering
Design and development of a Simulation Framework for test and integration of telescope control systems.	N.Kornweibel
Application Framework Code Generation from SysML models	N.Kornweibel
Use and extension of OpenMBEE for use in realizing an Application Framework design in SysML	N.Kornweibel
Construction of a high bandwidth network sniffer based on commodity network cards for the verification of systems on the ELT real-time control network	N.Kornweibel
Study and prototyping the advantages of TSN extensions on Linux for time based traffic scheduling in the context of the M1 LCS deterministic network	N.Kornweibel J. Argomedo
Investigate control software architecture alternatives to state machines	H. Sommer
Investigate XDP sockets as lightweight alternative to DPDK	H. Sommer N. Benes
Optical engineering
Photonic Spectrograph	O. Pfuhl
Detector characterization for the Phasing- and Diagnostic Station of the ELT	O. Pfuhl
STOP analysis (Structural, Thermal and Optical Performance analysis) of astronomical instruments: modelling and testing.	P. La Penna
Optical Reverse Optimisation of astronomical instruments.	P. La Penna
Computation of the atmospheric dispersion effect on the Point Spread Function of a telescope and astronomical instrument	P. La Penna
Computation of the Strehl ratio of a measured Point Spread Functions.	P. La Penna J. Kolb
Techniques for precision alignment and modelling of optomechanical systems through laser metrologies	S. Lévêque
Optical testing using a Spatial Light Modulator as a Programmable Computer Generated Hologram	S. Lévêque
Electronic Engineering
Electronic control for the Laser Guide Stars	Françoise Delplanke-Ströbele Ivan Guidolin
Automation of an astronomical CCD testbench using Python	E. Müller
Adaptive optics and laser guide stars
Machine Learning for High-Contrast Imaging	M. Kasper
Atmospheric induced image motion correction, using Laser Guide Stars	D. Bonaccini Calia
Mechanical engineering
Study of the correlation between interferometric tests, force field measurement, modelling, and as built characteristics of the ELT M1 segments during polishing	M. Cayrel
Modelling, analysis and test support related to vibration and control/structure interaction for the ELT telescope structure and hosted units	Pablo Zuluaga Babak Sedghi Michael Mueller