| 1 | Tue | May 12 | Review of Geometrical Optics |
| 2 | Thu | May 14 | Trigonometric raytrace |
| 3 | Tue | May 19 | Trigonometric raytrace in Excel and Matlab |
| 4 | Thu | May 21 | Fitting polynomials to OPD fans |
| 5 | Tue | May 26 | Spherical aberration and orthogonal polynomials |
| 6 | Thu | May 28 | Coddington Equations and off-axis aberrations |
| 7 | Tue | June 2 | General raytrace |
| 8 | Thu | June 4 | OPD, Differential raytrace |
| 9 | Tue | June 9 | Introduction to CODE V |
| 10 | Thu | June 11 | Triplet Lens |
| 11 | Tue | June 16 | Energy distribution, point spread function |
| 12 | Thu | June 18 | Design work |
| 13 | Tue | June 23 | Telephoto/Wide-angle lens |
| 14 | Thu | June 25 | Resolution limits, bar targets, MTF |
| 15 | Tue | June 30 | spurious resolution, geometrical OTF |
| 16 | Thu | July 2 | Double-Gauss lens |
| 17 | Tue | July 7 | Two-mirror telescopes |
| 18 | Thu | July 9 | Eye-pieces |
| 19 | Tue | July 14 | Anamorphic systems |
| 20 | Thu | July 16 | Tilted/Decentered Systems |
| 21 | Tue | July 21 | Prisms |
| 22 | Thu | July 23 | |
| 23 | Tue | July 28 | |
| 24 | Thu | July 30 | |
| Fri | July 31 | Exam |
Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 13 May 2009