Session Chair | Topic | Speaker | Length | Time |
Sunday | ||||
Tour of NPOI | All | 180 | 2:00 PM | |
Reception Sunday Evening | All | 120 | 6:30 PM | |
Monday | ||||
Meet & Process Badges | All | 30 | 8:30 AM | |
Gerard van Belle | Welcome | Jeffrey Hall | 15 | 9:00 AM |
Introductory Comments | Hal McAlister | 15 | 9:15 AM | |
Possible Special Issue of the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation | Theo ten Brummelaar | 10 | 9:30 AM | |
CHARA Beam Combining Laboratory Update | Judit Sturmann | 20 | 9:40 AM | |
CHARA Telescopes, AO/WFS and Alignment Issues | Laszlo Sturmann | 20 | 10:00 AM | |
Coffee Break | 30 | 10:20 AM | ||
Kathryn Gordan | CLASSIC/CLIMB Throughput, Magnitude Limits & the Baseline Solution | Theo ten Brummelaar | 20 | 10:50 AM |
Weather and Seeing Stats | Nils Turner | 20 | 11:10 AM | |
VEGA: Status and Future Plans | Nicolas Nardetto | 20 | 11:30 AM | |
JouFLU: an upgraded FLUOR beam combiner at the CHARA Array | Nic Scott | 20 | 11:50 AM | |
Lunch | 60 | 12:10 PM | ||
Nicolas Nardetto | MIRC/CHAMP Update | John Monnier | 30 | 1:10 PM |
NPOI Update | Don Hutter | 20 | 1:40 PM | |
Plans for installation of 1.8m telescopes at the NPOI | Paul Shankland | 20 | 2:00 PM | |
New delay line control system at the NPOI | Tim Buschmann | 20 | 2:20 PM | |
Coffee Break | 30 | 2:40 PM | ||
Nic Scott | Update on VISION at NPOI | Matthew Muterspaugh | 20 | 3:10 PM |
Progress on the UNAC | Jim Benson | 20 | 3:30 PM | |
SUSI Update | Peter Tuthill | 20 | 3:50 PM | |
VLTI Update | Christian Hummel | 20 | 4:10 PM | |
MROI Update | Michelle Creech-Eakman | 20 | 4:30 PM | |
ISI Update | Ed Wishnow | 10 | 4:50 PM | |
End of Day | 5:00 PM | |||
Tuesday | ||||
Paul Shankland | A NASA Origins proposal to help expand the CHARA/FLUOR hot disk survey | Bertrand Mennesson | 20 | 9:00 AM |
Present status on the implementation of a up-conversion interferometer on CHARA | François Reynaud | 20 | 9:20 AM | |
Binary studies with the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer | Christian Hummel | 20 | 9:40 AM | |
Separated Fringe Packet and Massive Binaries with the CHARA Array | Chris Farrington | 20 | 10:00 AM | |
Coffee Break | 30 | 10:20 AM | ||
François Reynaud | MIRC Observations of the O-Star Triple Sigma Ori | Gail Schaefer | 20 | 10:50 AM |
Fundamental Properties of O and B Stars | Kathryn Gordan | 20 | 11:10 AM | |
A CHARA Array Survey of Circumstellar Disks around Nearby Be-type Stars | Douglas Gies | 20 | 11:30 AM | |
How Old Are the A-Stars? | Jeremy Jones | 20 | 11:50 AM | |
Lunch | 60 | 12:10 PM | ||
Denis Defrere | Ongoing Reduction of PTI Giant Diameters - "I'm not dead yet" | Gerard van Belle | 20 | 1:10 PM |
Stellar Angular Diameters from CHARA and NPOI Data | Ellyn Baines | 20 | 1:30 PM | |
The Evolutionary State of HR 7955 | Tom Armstrong | 20 | 1:50 PM | |
MIRC imaging of two red supergiants from the Double Cluster | Fabien Baron | 20 | 2:10 PM | |
Imaging the Starspots of omi Dra | Rachael Roettenbacher | 20 | 2:30 PM | |
Coffee Break | 30 | 2:50 PM | ||
Michelle Creech-Eakman | Diameters and Temperatures Main Sequence Stars: The Big Picture | Tabetha Boyajian | 20 | 3:20 PM |
The CHARA/FLUOR survey of debris disk stars: results and statistics | Denis Defrere | 20 | 3:40 PM | |
The warm component of debris disks - LBTI Science Team | William Danchi | 20 | 4:00 PM | |
Update on results of the epsilon Aurigae eclipse campaign | Bob Stencel | 20 | 4:20 PM | |
The CHARA, NPOI, and PTI view of epsilon Aurigae and a preview of EXor observations at CHARA and VLTI. | Brian Kloppenborg | 20 | 4:40 PM | |
End of Day | 5:00 PM | |||
Wednesday | ||||
Don Hutter | PAVO follow-up observations of Kepler stars | Daniel Huber | 20 | 9:00 AM |
Exoplanet Host Stars with VEGA/CHARA | R. Ligi | 20 | 9:20 AM | |
Recent Results in the Cepheid Program | Pierre Kervella | 20 | 9:40 AM | |
Astrophotonic Quantum Astronomy: reverse the photon polarity captain! | Peter Tuthill | 20 | 10:00 AM | |
Coffee Break | 30 | 10:20 AM | ||
Theo ten Brummelaar | Discussion - Future instrumentation plan for CHARA | All | 20 | 10:50 AM |
Don Hutter | Discussion - Future instrumentation plan for NPOI | All | 20 | 11:10 AM |
John Monnier | Discussion - Data archives and proprietary periods for data | All | 20 | 11:30 AM |
Lunch | 60 | 11:50 AM | ||
Hal McAlister | CHARA Executive Session - Could be held during lunch | All CHARA PIs | 45 | 12:50 PM |
John & Theo | Data Pipeline Workshop | All | 45 | 1:35 PM |
Tour of NPOI - The workshop can continue for those not going on this tour. | All | 180 | 2:20 PM | |
End of Day | 5:20 PM |