"FROM OPTICAL TO
MILLIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY :
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES"
Scientific Organizing Committee: P. Léna (president),
R. Blomme, R. Bonnet, R. Genzel, M. Grewing, P. Shaver,
J. Surdej, J.-P. Swings, C. Waelkens, L. Woltjer
Scientific and technological objectives
Oral presentations and posters
Proceedings - Instructions for authors
The main motivation in organizing the 36th Liège International Astrophysical Colloquium "From Optical to Millimetric Interferometry: Scientific and Technological Challenges" comes from the obvious fact that many future major achievements in astrophysics and cosmology will critically depend on our ability to map at a much higher angular resolution, and in a spectral range as large as possible, the celestial objects that have been studied so far with standard instrumentations (cf. classical space and ground based telescopes).
Interferometry will play a crucial role in the conquest of very high angular resolutions. Typically, the VLTI (ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer) and future interferometric space experiments (Darwin, TPF,...) will enable us to resolve bright astronomical targets with an angular resolution 10-100 times better than what is presently achievable with the Hubble Space Telescope and/ or ground based telescopes. However, if interferometry has been working for more than 30 years in the radio domain, its application at shorter wavelengths is recent and the corresponding technology is very young. A promising future is ahead.
The 36th Liège International Astrophysical
Colloquium "From Optical to Millimetric Interferometry: Scientific and
Technological Challenges" comes at the right time to address the present
status of optical, infrared, sub-mm and millimetric interferometry. Ambitious
scientific programs such as the search for extraterrestrial life around planets
orbiting distant stars, the study of circumstellar disks around young stars or
inner regions of Active Galactic Nuclei, etc., will be discussed.
On the other hand, interferometric techniques still belong to a field under
constant technological development. The colloquium will also be devoted to this
important aspect, without which the dream could not become a reality.
- Pierre Léna (Obs. Meudon - Paris): Introduction (confirmed)
- Andreas Glindemann (ESO): ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (confirmed)
- Michael Shao (JPL – Pasadena): Overview of existing and future optical interferometers (confirmed)
- Andreas Quirrenbach (Univ. of California, La Jolla): Terrestrial Planet Finder and/or Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) (confirmed)
- Vincent Coudé du Foresto (Obs. Meudon - Paris): Observations with IOTA/Fluor and expected results with VINCI (confirmed)
- Chris Haniff (Cavendish Lab., Cambridge, UK): The COAST interferometer and future prospects (confirmed)
- Anders Karlson (ESTEC): DARWIN: a technological challenge and scientific drivers (confirmed)
- Pierre Riaud (Obs. Meudon - Paris): The Hyper-Telescope and scientific drivers (confirmed)
- Bill Danchi (NASA): Mid-IR interferometry: science and technoloy (confirmed)
- Stephane Guilloteau (IRAM, France): ALMA: a technological challenge (confirmed)
- Tommy Wiklind (Onsala Space Observatory): Extragalactic observations with ALMA (confirmed)
- Linda Tacconi (MPIExt.Ph., Garching): High resolution mm/submm interferometry of galaxies (confirmed)
- Pierre Cox (IAS, Paris): Galactic observations with ALMA: old stellar objects (confirmed)
- Rafael Bachiller (OAN, Espagne) : Galactic observations with ALMA: young stellar objects (confirmed)
- Lo Woltjer (OHP, France): Concluding remarks
Each session will start with review talks (approx. 45 min each). The reviews will be followed by contributed talks of about 15 min each, including discussion. Posters will be on display during the whole meeting and time will be reserved each day to allow discussions with the poster authors (dimensions for a poster : 100 cm x 100 cm / 40" x 40"). We ask the participants to indicate their preference (talk/poster) but, as we have a limited amount of time for contributed talks, the organizing committee reserves the right to make the final choice. The abstracts (maximum length half an A4 page) will be reproduced in a booklet made available to each participant upon arrival in Liège. To be included in this booklet, we ask the authors to send, before June 1st, the following information: - Title - Authors - Abstract.
Proceedings - Instructions for authors
All Authors should submit the text of their contribution(s) for the proceedings before September 15, 2001 in camera ready form: maximum 15 pages for an introductory review, maximum 5 pages for a talk and maximum 3 pages for a poster contribution.
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