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			------ Jaren N. Ashcraft ----------------------
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			Jaren Ashcraft
			   
			   
			  ** About ** 
			
			NHFP Sagan Fellow, UC Santa Barbara
			Ph.D., M.S., Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
			B.S., Optical Engineering, University of Rochester
			curriculum vitae

			  ** Contact ** 
			
			(808)-854-7542
			jarenashcraft@ucsb.edu

			  ** Research ** 
			
			Polarization Aberrations in Astronomical Telescopes
			GSMTs I 2023 
			
			Gaussian Beamlet Decomposition for High-contrast Imaging
			2024 | 2023 | JATIS Cover
			
			The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB)
			2022a | 2022b | 2024a | 2024b | 2024c |
			
			The Versatile CubeSat Telescope
			2021 

			  ** Open-source Tools ** 
			
			Poke: Ray-based Physical Optics
			2023 | GH Repository | Docs
			
			Katsu: Mueller Matrices and Polarimetric Data Reduction
			GH Repository 
			

			  ** Resources ** 
			
			 Public Talks