Final Programme
| Monday, April 4th, 2005 | |||
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| 08:15 | Registration | ||
| Chair: F. Delplancke | |||
| 09:00 | Welcome | B. Leibundgut | 0-1
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| 09:20 | Topical Talk: The Power of Interferometry | F. Paresce | 0-2
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| 09:55 | Topical Talk: The early history of the VLTI (invited) | P. Léna | 0-3
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| *** Science 1. Stars I: stellar diameters, limb darkening, flattening, surface structures...*** | Chair: J. Davis | ||
| 11:00 | Stellar diameters: breaking the barriers (review talk, invited) | A. Richichi | 1-1
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| 11:30 | The Effects of Rotation in Altair and Vega (invited) | D. Peterson | 1-2
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| 12:00 | Rapid rotation across the HR-Diagram with VLTI: Achernar and Altair | A. Domiciano de Souza | 1-3
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| 12:20 | Multi-wavelength interferometry of evolved stars with VLBA and VLTI (invited) | M. Wittkowski | 1-4
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| 12:40 | Lunch |
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| *** Science 2. Stars I: stellar diameters, limb darkening, flattening, surface structures...*** | Chair: C. Hummel | ||
| 14:00 | The impact of interferometry on the understanding of late-type stars (invited) | G. Perrin | 1-5
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| 14:30 | Limb-Darkening Observations: Getting Warmer (invited) | J.P. Aufdenberg | 1-6
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| 15:00 | Fundamental Parameters of Low and Very Low Mass Stars Determined by Long-Baseline Interferometry (invited) | D. Segransan | 1-7
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| 15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 | Cepheid Distances from Interferometric Measurements (invited) | P. Kervella | 1-8
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| 16:30 | The K-band luminosity profile of R Leonis probed by VLTI-VINCI | D. Fedele | 1-9
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| 16:50 | Cepheid observations with FLUOR/CHARA Array: Polaris and Delta Cep at 300m baseline | A. Mérand | 1-10
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| 17:10 | Cepheid observations with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer: l Car and beta Dor | J. Davis | 1-11
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| 17:30 | The Circumstellar Environment of Evolved Stars as seen with the VLTI | K. Ohnaka | 1-12
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| 17:50 | Poster summary presentations | ||
| 18:15 | Welcome Reception - Poster Session | ||
| 19:30 | |||
| Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 | |||
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| *** Science 3. Stars II: Circumstellar matter, IR objects (including exotic objects such as Eta Car) *** | Chair: W. Danchi | ||
| 08:30 | Evolved Stars: Interferometer baby food or staple diet? (review talk, invited) | P. Tuthill | 2-1
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| 09:00 | The Vicinity of the Monster Eta Car at High Spatial Resolution (invited) | O. Chesneau | 2-2
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| 09:30 | Eta Car: What we have Learned from HST and the VLT Spectroscopy & Implications for VLTI (invited) | T. Gull | 2-3
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| 09:50 | Spectral observations of hot massive stars (Eta Car, Be stars,...) including closure phase and differential phase constrains | R. Petrov | 2-4
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| 10:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:40 | Spatially resolved mineralogy of circumstellar dust (invited) | R. Waters | 2-5
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| 11:10 | R CrA - a circumstellar case study for VLT interferometry | S. Correia | 2-6
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| 11:30 | The chaotic winds of AGB Stars: observation meets theory | P. Woitke | 2-7
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| 11:50 | Observations of 51 Ophiuchi with MIDI at the VLTI | C. Gil | 2-8
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| 12:10 | Mid-Infrared spectrally-dispersed visibilities of WC and WN type Wolf-Rayet Stars Observed with the MIDI Instrument on the VLTI | D. Wallace | 2-9
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| 12:30 | The B[e] star Hen 3-1191 resolved by interferometry | R. Lachaume | 2-10
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| 12:50 | Lunch | ||
| *** Science 4. Stars III: Binaries and Multiples (including low mass companions and young stars) *** | Chair: C. Leinert | ||
| 14:00 | Binaries: a main staple of interferometry (invited) | C. Hummel | 3-1
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| 14:30 | Proto-planetary disks as seen by interferometry (review talk, invited) | A. Dutrey | 3-2
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| 15:00 | PMS Binaries: the promise of IR interferometry (invited) | M. Simon, G. Schaefer | 3-3
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | Studying YSO Disks with Infrared Interferometry (invited) | R. Akeson | 3-4
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| 16:30 | FU Orionis - The MIDI perspective | S.P. Quanz | 3-5
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| 16:50 | MIDI study of the Herbig Ae star HR5999 | T. Preibisch | 3-6
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| 17:10 | Disentangling the wind and the disk in the close surrounding of the young stellar object MWC297 with AMBER/VLTI | F. Malbet | 3-7
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| 17:30 | Interferometry of M8E-IR with MIDI - Resolving the dust emission | M. Feldt | 3-8
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| 17:50 | Poster summary presentations | ||
| 18:10 | Poster session | ||
| 19:30 |
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| Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 | |||
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| *** Science 4. Stars III: Binaries and Multiples (including low mass companions and young stars) - continued *** | Chair: A. Richichi | ||
| 08:30 | Looking at infrared companions in the mid-infrared with MIDI | C. Leinert | 3-9
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| 09:00 | Keck Interferometer observation of a young spectroscopic binary Haro 1-14c | G. Schaefer | 3-10
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| 09:20 | Preliminary physical orbit of the HD 98800 B system | A. Boden | 3-11
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| *** Science 5. Galactic center, AGNs, astrometry, exo-planets and future targets*** | Chair: A. Richichi | ||
| 09:40 | Resolving the dusty tori in AGN with the VLT Interferometer (review talk, invited) | K. Meisenheimer | 4-1
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| 10:10 | MIDI observations of NGC 1068 | A. Poncelet | 4-2
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 | IRS3 - The Brightest Compact MIR Source in the Galactic Center (invited) | A. Eckart | 4-3
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| 11:30 | (invited: Exo-planets) | D. Queloz | 4-4
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| 11:50 | Scientific prospects for VLTI in the Galactic Centre | D. Paumard | 4-5
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| 12:10 | Beyond the VLTI | A. Quirrenbach | 4-6
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| 12:40 | Concluding remarks | T. Henning | 0-4
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| End of the first part of the workshop (Science) | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Beginning of the second part (Instrumentation) | |||
| *** Instrument 1. General Introduction on 2nd Generation Instrumentation for the VLTI *** | Chair: F. Paresce | ||
| 14:00 | 1988 - 1993: The Final Definition of the VLTI, Its Site and Configuration (invited) | J. Beckers | I-1
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| 14:30 | Lessons Learned from Current Paranal Instruments | M. Schoeller | I-2
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| 14:55 | MIDI - Lessons Learned | C. Leinert | I-3
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| 15:20 | AMBER - Lessons Learned | R. Petrov | I-4
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| 15:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 | VLTI 2nd generation instruments selection process: objectives & constraints | G. Monnet | I-5
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| 16:45 | The Joint Research Activity # 4 of Opticon and the European Interferometry Initiative (EII) | A. Chelli | I-6
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| 17:15 | Key Technologies Identification for Future Instrumentation (introduction) | P. Kern | I-7
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| *** Instrument 2. Concepts for future interferometric fringe tracking *** | |||
| 17:20 | Multiple beam fringe tracking at VLTI | M. Gai | I-8
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| 17:40 | Multiple beam fringe tracking for the VLTI | F. Cassaing | I-9
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| 18:00 | |||
| 20:00 | Conference dinner in Munich - Osterwaldgarten | ||
| Thursday, April 7th, 2005 | |||
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| *** Instrument 3. 2nd Generation Instrumentation for the VLTI - Proposal presentations *** | Chair:G. Perrin & G. Monnet |
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| 08:30 | AprES-MIDI | B. Lopez, S. Wolf, M. Dugué | I-10
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| 09:15 | VITRUV - imaging close environments of stars and galaxies with the VLTI at milli-arcsec resolution | F. Malbet, J-P. Berger, P. Kern, P. Garcia | I-11
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 | VIDA - a direct imaging instrument for the VLTI | O. Lardière, J. Schneider | I-12
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| 11:15 | UVES-I - High Resolution Spectroscopy with the VLTI | A. Quirrenbach et al. | I-13
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| 12:00 | Spectroscopy and polarimetry with the VLTI at visible wavelengths | D. Mourard, D. Bonneau | I-14
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| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: P. Garcia | |||
| 14:00 | A photon-efficient multi-way combiner for the VLTI | D. Buscher, F. Baron | I-15
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| 14:45 | Integrated optics in the infrared for the VLTI | A. Tünnermann et al. | I-16
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | Second generation multi-way beam combiner for the VLTI | F. Eisenhauer et al. | I-17
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| 16:45 | GENIE - a Groundbased European Nulling Interferometer Experiment at the VLTI | P. Gondoin, R. den Hartog | I-18
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| 17:30 | Poster Session | ||
| 19:00 | |||
| Friday, April 8th, 2005 | |||
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| *** Instrument 4. Concepts for future interferometric instrumentation *** | Chair: T. Henning | ||
| 08:30 | Towards 0.2 mas resolution: linking VLTI to VISTA | G. Perrin | I-19
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| 09:00 | Multiple anamorphic beam combination | E. Ribak | I-20
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| 09:30 |
The potential of IR-Heterodyne Spectroscopy and its Application to the VLT/VLTI | R. Schieder | I-21
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| *** Instrument 5. 2nd Generation Instrumentation for the VLTI - Proposal discussion *** | Moderators: |
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| 10:30 | General discussion about the instrument proposals | all | |
| *** Instrument 6. Discussion on Key Technology Identification for Future Instrumentation *** | Moderators: P. Kern & D. Mourard |
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| 12:30 | Round table | all | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| End of the second part of the workshop (Instrumentation) | |||
| 14:00 | *** Restricted session: EII mid-term evaluation of JRA #4 instrument conceptual studies. *** | U. Graser - D. Mourard | |
Posters (science part of the workshop)
| AMBER/VLTI observations of Cepheids: the Projection Factor and Limb Darkening Effects | N. Nardetto | 1-13
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| LMC Cepheids with AMBER and PRIMA facilities | D. Mourard | 1-14
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| Evolutionary Modeling of Nearby Stars using Asteroseismic and Interferometric Constraints | P. Kervella | 1-15
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| Diameter determinations from VINCI using global calibration solutions | J. Meisner | 1-16
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| Towards the Imaging of Surfaces of Red Supergiants | H-G. Ludwig | 1-17
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| Interferometric aperture synthesis of Altair: inclination angle and gravity darkening | A. Domiciano de Souza | 1-18
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| Interferometric and spectroscopic test of stellar atmosphere models; VLTI/VINCI and UVES observations of alfa Cet | V. Roccatagliata | 1-19
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| High spatial resolution study of the equatorial disk at the center of the planetary nebulae CPD-568032 | O. Chesnau | 2-12
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| First VLTI/MIDI observation of a Be star : Alpha Ara | A. Meilland | 2-13
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| Probing the outer atmosphere of Mira variables and the effects of chemical composition on the mid-infrared visibility | K. Ohnaka | 2-14
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| Temporal variation of the warm molecular layers around the Mira variable RR Sco detected with the VLTI/MIDI instrument | K. Ohnaka | 2-15
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| N-band high angular resolution observation of the silicate carbon star IRAS08002-3803 (Hen 38) with the VLTI/MIDI instrument: Silicate dust reservoir spatially resolved for the first time | K. Ohnaka | 2-16
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| Preparing observations of Pi1 Gruis dust shell with the VLTI/AMBER | S. Sacuto | 2-17
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| Interferometric observations of the Mira star o Ceti with the VLTI/VINCI | T. Driebe | 2-18
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| High resolution near infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4 | D. Riechers | 2-19
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| Mid-infrared long-baseline interferometry of the symbiotic Mira star RX Pup with the VLTI/MIDI instrument | T. Driebe | 2-20
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| High resolution near infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 26.5+0.6 | T. Driebe | 2-21
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| Near-Infrared Keck Interferometer and IOTA Closure Phase Observations of Wolf-Rayet stars | J. Rajagopal | 2-22
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| A model for the inner rim of protoplanetary disks | A. Isella | 2-23
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| Dust and winds from evolved stars: the Apres-MIDI context | P. Mathias | 2-24
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| VV CrA - The Environment of an Infrared Companion | Th. Ratzka | 3-12
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| High-resolution study of debris disks with GENIE | O. Absil | 3-13
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| Capability of dusty circumstellar envelope models to interpret MIDI observations of the Herbig AeBe star HD144432 | S. Antoniucci | 3-14
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| Observation of circumsteller disks | M. Hempel | 3-15
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| Observation of Delta Velorum, a quintuple stellar system. | A. Kellerer | 3-16
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| VLTI/MIDI measurements of extended mid-infrared emission along the Northern MiniSpiral in the Galactic Center | J-U. Pott | 4-7
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| Impact of High Spectral Resolution on Stellar Interferometry | S. Jankov | 4-8
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| The Antarctic Plateau Interferometer | M. Swain | 4-9
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| Direct Detection of Exo-Planets | R. Neuhaeuser | 4-10
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| Antartic Interferometry: Science Demonstration from the Concordia Station | V. Coudé du Foresto | 4-11
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| Differential Interferometers and Extra-Solar Planets | R. Petrov | 4-12
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| Color-Differential interferometry with AMBER/VLTI : data processing and precision of early observations | M. Vannier | 4-13
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| The Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer (FKSI): A progress report and preliminary results from our laboratory testbed | R. Barry | 4-14
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| Astrometric Survey for Extrasolar Planets with PRIMA | R. Launhardt | 4-15
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| DARWIN - ESA's mission to interferometrically search for & study exo-planets | M. Fridlund | 4-18
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| Searching for faint companions with MIDI colour differential phase measurements | R. Tubbs | 4-19
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| Current status and performances of the VLTI near-infrared focal instrument AMBER | R. Petrov | 4-20
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| Infrared Light Curves and the Detectability of Extrasolar Planets with FKSI | L.J. Richardson | 4-21
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| Searching faint calibrators for VLTi with the JMMC's Search calibrator tool | D. Bonneau | 4-22
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| Observing asteroids with the VLTI | M. Delbo | 4-23
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| Extraterrestrial search through temporal coherence | E. Ribak | 4-24
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| MIA+EWS: The software for MIDI Data-reduction | R. Köhler | 4-25
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| Understanding Cross Talk on the NPOI Multibeam Combiner | H. Schmitt | 4-26
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| Mass measurement of nearby isolated stars with PRIMA and the prediction of upcoming pure astrometric microlensing events withe the EROS2 data set | P. Tisserand | 4-27
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Posters (2nd generation instruments)
| A model experiment for multi beam combination in the pupil plane | J-L. Menut | I-22
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| From VLBI to VLTI: Alternative image reconstruction methods for APreS-MIDI | L. Mosoni | I-23
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| VITRUVsim, a simulation software for VITRUV | J-B. Lebouquin, E. Herwats | I-24
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| Multi-way beam combiners for VITRUV | M. Benisty | I-25
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| Laboratory VITRUV Workbench | L. Jocou | I-26
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| Image reconstruction with VITRUV | E. Tatulli | I-27
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| VITRUV on-sky validation: IONIC 2T/3T | J-P. Berger | I-28 |
| Characterization of LiNbo3 integrated optics component for the VLTI second generation instruments | L. Labadie | I-29
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| First results on integrated optics characterization for mid-infrared interferometry | L. Labadie | I-30
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| First results from SIRIUS, the interferometric imaging demonstrator for VIDA | F. Patru | I-31
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| The dispersed speckles cophasing system for direct imaging with VIDA | V. Borkowski | I-32
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| Interferometric recombination of single dish telescope pupil; filling the low frequency gap of the VLTI | S. Lacour | I-33
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| Wide-field interferometric imaging by homothetic mapping | C. van der Avoort | I-34
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| An imaging mode for Darwin | C. de Vries | I-35
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| Prospective science with GENIE | P. Gondoin | I-36
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| Performance of a Dispersed Speckles Wavefront Sensor for the VLTI | F. Martinache | I-37
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| A new generation of micropositioning device for optical fiber with submicrometric metrology | O. Preis | I-38
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| Characterization of single-mode fibers for the OHANA project | T. Kotani | I-39
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| European Interferometry Initiative | E. Bakker | I-40
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Participants (final list)
| Name | Affiliation |
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| Olivier Absil | Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique - Liège University (Belgium) |
| Rachel Akeson | Michelson Science Center - Caltech (USA) |
| Simon Albrecht | Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Simone Antoniucci | Università di Tor Vergata - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy) |
| Coralie Aubert | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Jason Aufdenberg | NOAO - Tucson (USA) |
| Eric Bakker | Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Fabien Baron | University of Cambridge - Cavendish Laboratory (United Kingdom) |
| Richard Barry | NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center - Exo-planets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory (USA) |
| Jacques Beckers | University of Chicago - Astronomy and Astrophysics Department (USA) |
| Myriam Benisty | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Jean-Philippe Berger | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Andy Boden | California Institute of Technology - Michelson Science Center (USA) |
| Daniel Bonneau | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Virginie Borkowski | Collège de France - LISE (France) |
| David Buscher | University of Cambridge - Cavendish Laboratory (United Kingdom) |
| Fabio Caruso | European Southern Observatory - Paranal Observatory (Chile) |
| Mark Casali | European Southern Observatory - Instrumenttation Division (Germany) |
| Frédéric Cassaing | ONERA - DOTA (France) |
| Alain Chelli | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble and Jean-Marie Mariotti Center (France) |
| Olivier Chesneau | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Serge Correia | Astrophysicalisches Institut Postdam (Germany) |
| Vincent Coudé du Foresto | Observatoire de Paris Meudon- LESIA (France) |
| Julien Coyne | University of Cambridge - Cavendish Laboratory (United Kingdom) |
| Pierre Cruzalebes | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| William Danchi | NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center - Infrared Astrophysics (USA) |
| John Davis | University of Sydney - School of Physics (Australia) |
| Marco Delbo | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy) |
| Françoise Delplancke | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Brice-Olivier Demory | Observatoire de Geneve & EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Roland den Hartog | European Space Agency - ESTEC (the Netherlands) |
| Jan-Willem den Herder | SRON - HEA (the Netherlands) |
| Jeroen de Jong | European Southern Observatory - Science Division (Germany) |
| Cor de Vries | SRON - HEA (the Netherlands) |
| G. Paolo di Benedetto | INAF - Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Sez. Milano (Italy) |
| Emmanuel di Folco | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Armando Domiciano de Souza Jr | Max-Planck Institut für Radiastronomie (Germany) |
| Thomas Driebe | Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie - IR Interferometry (Germany) |
| Michel Dugué | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Anne Dutrey | Université de Bordeaux (France) |
| Andreas Eckart | Universität zu Köln - Physikalisches Institut (Germany) |
| Carlos Eiroa | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Facultad de Ciencias (Spain) |
| Frank Eisenhauer | Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik - Infrared/Submm Astronomy (Germany) |
| Klaus Ergenzinger | EADS-Astrium Friedrichshafen(Germany) |
| Davide Fedele | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Markus Feldt | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Sébastien Flament | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Malcolm Fridlund | European Space Agency - Research and Space Science Department (the Netherlands) |
| Mario Gai | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy) |
| Paulo Garcia | Porto University - Centro de Astrofisica (Portugal) |
| Reinhard Genzel | Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik - Garching (Germany) |
| Carla Gil | European Southern Observatory - Santiago (Chile) |
| Andreas Glindemann | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Bertrand Goldmann | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Philippe Gondoin | European Space Agency - Science Payload & Advanced Concept Office (the Netherlands) |
| Uwe Graser | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Martin Groenewegen | University of Leuven (Belgium) |
| Ted Gull | Goddard Space Flight Center - Lab. for Astronomy and Solar Physics (USA) |
| Christopher Haniff | University of Cambridge - Physics Dept. (United Kingdom) |
| Paul Harvey | University of Texas (USA) |
| Marc Hempel | University of Jena (Germany) |
| Thomas Henning | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Oscar Hernandez | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Emilie Herwats | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Joseph Hron | Institue of Astronomy- University of Vienna (Austria) |
| Christian Hummel | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Chile) |
| Andrea Isella | Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy) |
| Walter Jaffe | Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Slobodan Jankov | Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis - Lab. Astrophysique (France) |
| Laurent Jocou | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Viki Joergens | Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Andreas Kaufer | European Southern Observatory - Paranal Observatory (Chile) |
| Aglaé Kellerer | European Southern Observatory - Science Division (Germany) |
| Pierre Kern | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Pierre Kervella | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Sam Kim | Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope (USA) |
| Bertrand Koehler | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Rainer Koehler | Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Takayuki Kotani | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Pavel Koubsky | Astronomical Institute of Ondrejov (Czech Republic) |
| Stefan Kraus | Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie - Bonn (Germany) |
| Rodolphe Krawczyk | Alcatel Space - Systems & Advanced Projects Directorate (France) |
| Lucas Labadie | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Régis Lachaume | Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie - IR Interferometry (Germany) |
| Sylvestre Lacour | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Stéphane Lagarde | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Olivier Lardière | Collège de France - LISE (France) |
| Ralph Launhardt | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Jean-Baptiste LeBouquin | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Etienne le Coarer | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Christoph Leinert | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Pierre Léna | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Gianluca Li Causi | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy) |
| Sebastiano Ligori | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy) |
| Bruno Lopez | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Dirk Lorenzen | Deutschlandfunk - Forschung aktuell (Germany) |
| Hans-Guenter Ludwig | Lund Observatory - Lund University (Sweden) |
| Fabien Malbet | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Alessandro Marconi | INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy) |
| Giuseppe Massone | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy) |
| Philippe Mathias | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Anthony Meilland | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Klaus Meisenheimer | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Jeffrey Meisner | Sterrenwacht Leiden (the Netherlands) |
| Jean-Luc Menut | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Antoine Mérand | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Florentin Millour | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Université de Nice (France) |
| Guy Monnet | European Southern Observatory - Telescope System Division (Germany) |
| Thierry Montmerle | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Alan Moorwood | European Southern Observatory - Instrumentation Division (Germany) |
| Laszlo Mosoni | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Denis Mourard | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Markus Mugrauer | AIU Jena (Germany) |
| Nicolas Nardetto | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Ralph Neuhäuser | AIU Jena (Germany) |
| Keiichi Ohnaka | Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie - Infrared Interferometry (Germany) |
| Francesco Paresce | European Southern Observatory - ODG (Germany) |
| Guia Pastorini | Universitá degli Studi di Firenze - Astronomia e scienza dello spazio (Italy) |
| Fabien Patru | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Département Gemini (France) |
| Thibaut Paumard | Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Germany) |
| Isabelle Percheron | European Southern Observatory - DMD (Germany) |
| Christian Perrier | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Guy Perrin | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LESIA (France) |
| Deane Peterson | Stony Brook University - Physics and Astronomy (USA) |
| Monika Petr-Gotzens | European Southern Observatory - USG (Germany) |
| Romain Petrov | Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis - LUAN (France) |
| Anne Poncelet | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LUTH - LESIA (France) |
| Jörg-Uwe Pott | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Thomas Preibisch | Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie - Infrared Interferometry (Germany) |
| Olivier Preis | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) |
| Sascha-Patrick Quanz | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Didier Queloz | Observatoire de Geneve (Switzerland) |
| Andreas Quirrenbach | Leiden University - Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) |
| Sebastian Rabien | Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik - IR Group (Germany) |
| Jayadev Rajagopal | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Infrared Astrophysics (USA) |
| Thorsten Ratzka | Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Pierre Riaud | Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique - Liège University (Belgium) |
| Erez Ribak | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israël) |
| Jeremy Richardson | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Infrared Astrophysics (USA) |
| Andrea Richichi | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Thomas Rivinius | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) / ESO Paranal (Chile) |
| Veronica Roccatagliata | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Germany) |
| Stéphane Sacuto | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Gemini (France) |
| Gail Schaeffer | Space Telescope Science Institute (USA) |
| Rudolph Schieder | 1. Physics Institute - University of Cologne (Germany) |
| Henrique Schmitt | Naval Research Observatory - Remote Sensing Division (USA) |
| Jean Schneider | Observatoire de Paris Meudon - LUTH (France) |
| Markus Schoeller | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Chile) |
| NicolasSchuhler | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Chile) |
| Damien Ségransan | Observatoire de Genève (Switzerland) |
| Johnny Setiawan | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Michal Simon | State University of New York - Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (USA) |
| Bart Snijders | TNO Optics, Delft (the Netherlands) |
| Bringfried Stecklum | Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg - Star Formation (Germany) |
| Jean Surdej | Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique - Liège University (Belgium) |
| Mark Swain | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble - Interferometry group (France) |
| Patrick Tisserand | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |
| Robert Tubbs | Leiden University - Sterrewacht Leiden (the Netherlands) |
| Andreas Tünnermann | Fraunhofer Society - Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering - Jena (Germany) |
| Peter Tuthill | Sydney University - School of Physics (Australia) |
| Bruno Valat | European Southern Observatory - VLTI (Chile) |
| Casper Van der Avoort | SRON & TU Delft (the Netherlands) |
| Martin Vannier | European Southern Observatory - Paranal Observatory (Chile) |
| Lars Venema | ASTRON - Reserach and Development (the Netherlands) |
| Debra Wallace | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Infrared Astrophysics (USA) |
| Anders Wallander | European Southern Observatory - TSD (Germany) |
| Rens Waters | Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" (the Netherlands) |
| Gert Weigelt | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie - Bonn (Germany) |
| Walter Winkler | MPG - Albert-Einstein Institute - Hannover (Germany) |
| Markus Wittkowski | European Southern Observatory - USG (Germany) |
| Peter Woitke | Sterrewacht - Leiden University (the Netherlands) |
| Sebastian Wolf | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg (Germany) |