Is The Imaging Problem Identical in All Wave Bands?

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One aim of this meeting is to tempt us to study methods of imaging in wavebands outside our own. This might seem perverse since the imaging problems in the radio and optical/IR regions appear at first sight to differ profoundly in several ways: the rapid evolution of radio imaging over the last forty years has been largely ignored in optical imaging whilst the well developed theory and measurements of atmospheric fluctuations for the optical regime have been disregarded by radio astronomers; there have been long and exacting searches for the best sites for optical telescopes, but rarely for radio telescopes; the instrumental techniques appear to differ in many and complicated ways.