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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday (Session I: Infrared Interferometry in Astronomy)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Christoph Leinert
Welcome address
14:15
Andreas Quirrenbach
Past and future impact of interferometry
(pdf)
15:00
Gerd Weigelt
Near-infrared interferometry
(pdf)
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Hans Zinnecker
Why we need to combine interferometry at different wavelengths?
(pdf)
16:30
Massimo Robberto
For example: Contributions of interferometry for Orion
(ppt)
17:00
Klaus Meisenheimer
Interferometric dreams of an extragalactic astronomer
(pdf)
17:30
Francesco Paresce
Recent science results from VLTI commissioning
(ppt)
18:00
Buffer
18:30
Dinner
20:00
Informal Meeting
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Tuesday (Session II: Mid-infrared Interferometry)
8:00
Breakfast
9:00
Chris D. Koresko
10 micron nulling interferometry - how and why? (Keck)
(pdf)
9:45
Philip M. Hinz
10 micron interferometry on a single mount (LBT)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
William C. Danchi
The beauty and limitations of 10 micron heterodyne interferometry (ISI)
(pdf)
11:30
Charles H. Townes
Recent results with Berkeley's 10 micron Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI)
(scans)
12:00
Andreas Eckart
Heterodyne interferometry - a new start
(ppt)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Uwe Graser
The MIDI project - problems and solutions
(pdf)
14:30
Christoph Leinert
MIDI after the first observing run
(ps)
15:15
Coffee break
15:45
Andrea Richichi
VLTI Science Demonstration: program and first results with MIDI
(pdf)
16:15
Marc Schartmann
Models of AGN tori
(ppt)
16:45
Eric J. Bakker
Background fluctuations
(pdf)
17:15
Jeff Meisner
Data reduction, calibration, and stellar diameter results using VINCI
(pdf)
17:45
Rens Waters
Why we need 20 micron interferometry?
18:15
Buffer
18:30
Dinner
20:00
Group Meetings I (MIDI Science Group)
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Wednesday (Session III: The VLTI environment)
8:00
Breakfast
9:00
Andreas Glindemann
VLTI - status and outlook
(pdf)
9:30
Markus Schöller
Preparing MIDI for science operations on Paranal
(ppt)
10:00
Romain G. Petrov
AMBER: the near infrared VLTI instrument (description, status, expected performances)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Isabelle Percheron
Quality control and trending for the VLTI instruments
(pdf)
11:20
Derek J. McKay
Predicting the signal-to-noise performance of VLTI observations with applications to MIDI
(ps)
11:40
Markus Wittkowski
ESO user support and proposal preparation tools for MIDI
(pdf)
12:00
Pascal Ballester
The VLTI Observation Preparation Tools VisCalc and CalVin
(pdf)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Afternoon excursion
19:00
Dinner
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Thursday (Session IV: Looking into the Methods & Session V: Modelling and interpretation)
8:00
Breakfast
9:00
Francoise Delplancke
Prospects of MIDI performance enhancement with PRIMA and FINITO
(pdf)
9:30
Bruno Lopez
Imaging with Apres-MIDI: concept and performance predictions
(ppt)
10:15
Bringfried Stecklum
Combining MIDI measurements and lunar occultation observations with TIMMI2
(pdf)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Bill Cotton
Applying the experiences of radio astronomy to mid-infrared interferometry
(pdf)
11:30
Walter Jaffe
Dispersed fringe tracking
12:00
Oskar von der Lühe
Interferometry of close binaries - technical considerations
(pdf)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Guy Perrin
Near and mid-infrared visibility data for studying cool giant stars
(pdf)
14:30
Robert N. Tubbs
MIDI observations of dusty cool stars
(pdf)
14:50
Thomas Henning
What do we want to learn for protoplanetary disks?
(ppt)
15:20
Roy van Boekel
Disk models for Herbig Ae/Be stars
15:40
Coffee break
16:10
Group Meetings II (Comparison of Radiative Transfer calculations for MIDI, organized by A. Dutrey)
Kees Dullemond
2-D/3-D models of protoplanetary disks
(ps)
Ilaria Pascuccci
Benchmark tests for disk configurations
(ps)
The circumstellar disk around the Butterfly Star in Taurus
(ps)
18:30
Dinner
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Friday (Session VI: Related new projects)
8:00
Breakfast
9:00
Tom Herbst
The LINC/NIRVANA project
(pdf)
9:45
Anne Dutrey
Results from Plateau de Bure mm interferometry and outlook to ALMA
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Vincent Coude du Foresto
Mid-IR interferometry from Antarctica
(pdf)
11:30
Huub Röttgering
Mid-IR interferometry from space
(ppt)
12:00
Thomas Henning
Closing words
12:30
Lunch
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