This page contains a variety of presentation material, principally talks given by Professor Craig Mackay.  They are principally in PDF format and the material they contain may be used freely by anyone for non-commercial purposes provided the source is properly acknowledged.  Should anybody wish to have copies of movies or other PowerPoint related material in a different format please contact Professor Mackay directly at cdm <at> ast.cam.ac.uk. In many cases, movies and other images can be found on other pages of the Lucky Imaging website and they may be copied directly from their and used under the same conditions given above.

• High-Resolution Imaging in the Visible on Large Ground-Based Telescopes: the Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager, talk given by Jonathan Crass at the SPIE meeting in Montreal, June 2014.
• Fast Photometric Imaging for Enhanced Angular Resolution in the Visible, talk given by Craig Mackay at the speed and sensitivity meeting in Galway, 15 May 2014.
• Microlensing Studies in Crowded Fields, 30 minute talk given to the Cambridge Exoplanets group by Craig Mackay on 7 May 2014.
• High-Efficiency Lucky Imaging, 30 min talk given by Craig Mackay to the Institute of Astronomy, 22 January 2014.
• Microlensing Studies in Crowded Fields, paper presented by Craig Mackay at the first International conference on gravitational microlensing in Doha, Qatar, February 2013.
• FromDaguerrotype to CCDs-How Photography Changed Astronomy, talk given by Craig Mackay at the European AstroFest 2013  meeting in London in February, 2013.
• Taking the Twinkle Out Of Starlight, a popular talk given by Craig Mackay on behalf of a medical charity in November, 2012.
• AOLI-- Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager: Diffraction Limited Imaging in the Visible on Large Ground-Based Telescopes, 5 July 2012, talk given by Craig Mackay at the Amsterdam SPIE Astronomical Telescopes Instrumentation meeting.  Describes a general overview of the status of AOLI.
• Photon Counting EMCCDs: New Opportunities for High Time Resolution Astrophysics, 1July 2012, talk given by Craig Mackay at the Amsterdam SPIE Astronomical Telescopes Instrumentation meeting.  Principally talks about EMCCDs, their care and feeding, SPIE 8453-1.
• The AOLI Low-Order a Non-Linear Curvature Wavefront Sensor, 2 July 2012, talk given by Jonathan Crass to the Amsterdam SPIE Astronomical Telescopes Instrumentation meeting.
• Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible On Large Ground-Based Telescopes, 22 March 2012. Talk to the Open University includes some history of CCD astronomy.
• The Science of Astronomical Imaging: 13 January 2012: Talk given at the Royal Astronomical Society in London as part of a meeting on The History of Astronomical Imaging
• Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Devices: 5 December 2011.  Talk given via the Rochester Institute of Technology as part of their Virtual Digital Workshop
• High-Resolution Imaging from the Ground for Planetary Science:12 July 2011. Talk given to the RoPACS meeting in Cambridge.
• Astronomical Reflections on Richard Gregory: 8 July 2011.  Talk given at the Royal Institution, special meeting in celebration of the life of Richard Gregory.
• Lucky Imaging AstrometricFollow-Up: 30 June 2011.  Talk given as part of the GAIA Science Alert Workshop At the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Also a full recording of the talk with the powerpoint presentation Click Here.
• Revolution in Retirement: John Baldwin and Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible On Ground-Based Telescopes.  25 May 2011.  Talk given as part of the celebrations of the life of John Baldwin, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
• Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible On Large Ground-Based Telescopes: 22 March 2011.  30 min talk on Lucky Imaging at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.
• The Extraordinary Impact of Astronomy on Imaging Technologies: 13 October 2010.  Talk given at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh about applications of astronomy to a variety of scientific disciplines including life science (DNA sequencing, protein electrophoresis, immunology), physical science (x-ray imaging, electron beam imaging, materials inspection), ophthalmology and surveillance.
• From Atoms to Galaxies: the Art of Scientific Imaging: 21 July 2010.  Popular talk to an audience of artists and designers.
• Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible On Large Ground-Based Telescopes: 21 June 2010.  Talk given at the IAC, la Laguna and at the ING, la Palma about the new proposed instrument, AOLI (Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager).
• Taking the Twinkle out of Starlight: Space Telescope Resolution Images from the Ground: 10 March 2010.  Talk to the Cambridge University Astronomical Society.
• High-Speed Photon Counting Cameras in Astronomy:14 October 2009.  Talk given at the ESO Detector Workshop.