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Olivier Chesneau Prize 2019
22 octobre 2018: Olivier Chesneau, one of the most active and prolific members of the optical interferometry community, passed away in May 2014, at the age of 41. To honour his work in this field, his home institute, the Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in France, and ESO established a prize in his memory. Since 2015, the prize has been awarded biennially for the best PhD thesis completed in the field of high angular resolution optical astronomy. The prize will be awarded by a committee composed of the Director of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, the Director of the Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange, the Director of the high-resolution astronomy programme Action Spécifique sur la Haute Résolution Angulaire, and the ESO Director of Science. The result will be announced in March 2019 and the prize ceremony will be held in Nice, France in May 2019, during the French week ...