Science Cases for Optical and Infrared Interferometry - Present and Future
Symposium 6 at Jenam 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
Program:
| No. | Date, Time | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Wed. Sept. 8, 09:00 - 10:30 |
Optical Interferometry - Status and Perspectives for the Next Decade |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Perspectives of Interferometry from the Ground (Glindemann) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Perspectives of Space Interferometry (Lawson) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | What kinds of interferometric science will be feasible from the ground? (Buscher) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | The case of imaging at the VLTI and the need to combine up to 6 to 8 telescopes (Malbet / Garcia) | |
| 2. | Wed. Sept. 8, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Planetary Systems |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Interferometric Detection of Planets (Coude du Foresto) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Planet Formation with Interferometry (Wolf) | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Probing the architecture of planetary systems down to the Earth-mass with SIM-Lite (Malbet) | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Sub-milliarcsecond imaging of stellar sources at the CHARA array (Pedretti) | |
| 3. | Thu. Sept. 9, 09:00 - 10:30 |
Stars and Circumstellar Matter |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Fundamental Parameters of Stars (ten Brummelaar) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Circumstellar Matter (Chesneau) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Interferometric observations and modeling of Massive Young Stellar Objects (Oudmaijer) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | High-resolution 1-D imaging of the atmosphere
of the red supergiant Betelgeuse in the 2.3 micron CO lines with VLTI/AMBER (Ohnaka) |
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| 4. | Thu. Sept. 9, 14:30 - 16:00 |
The Galactic Center and Extragalactic Astronomy |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | The Center of our Galaxy (Gillessen) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Extragalactic Astronomy (Jaffe) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Resolving the nuclear dust structure in nearby AGNs (Burtscher) | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Stellar physics at very high angular and spectral resolution: from VEGA/CHARA to future large optical arrays (Mourard) |
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| 5. | Thu. Sept. 9, 16:30 - 18:00 |
Future Directions and Recommendations |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Round table discussion (Coude du Foresto, Hummel, Perrin, Surdej, Quirrenbach, ten Brummelaar) |
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