{"id":2934,"date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/the-1st-nasa-datanaut-from-loft-maham-aftab\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"the-1st-nasa-datanaut-from-loft-maham-aftab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/the-1st-nasa-datanaut-from-loft-maham-aftab\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1st NASA Datanaut from LOFT, Maham Aftab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Congratulation, Maham Aftab, for being the first <a href=\"https:\/\/open.nasa.gov\/blog\/nasa-datanauts-2017-application-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Datanaut<\/a> from LOFT group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/Maham_NASA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt='Maham_NASA' class=\"size-medium wp-image-2318 alignleft\" height=\"225\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/Maham_NASA-300x225.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/Maham_NASA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/Maham_NASA.jpg 320w\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile attending virtual events and coding tutorials at Datanauts, I have been developing a polynomial set and a corresponding data analysis method that allows optical wavefronts or surfaces to be reconstructed from their measured gradient data. This will be especially useful for freeform and high spatial resolution surfaces, such as telescope mirrors; as this method allows for thousands of polynomial terms to be generated and used, even with limited computing resources.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Maham Aftab<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulation, Maham Aftab, for being the first NASA Datanaut from LOFT group. \u201cWhile attending virtual events and coding tutorials at Datanauts, I have been developing a polynomial set and a corresponding data analysis method that allows optical wavefronts or surfaces to be reconstructed from their measured gradient data. This will be especially useful for freeform and high spatial resolution surfaces,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-loft-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}