SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Monday - July 2 - Morning session
| 9h30-10h00 | Jean-Pierre Swings, Willy Legros: Welcome |
| 10h00-10h30 | Coffee |
| 10h30-10h45 | Pierre Léna (Obs. Meudon - Paris) : INTRODUCTION |
| 10h45-11h45 | Michael Shao (JPL – Pasadena): Overview of existing and future optical interferometers |
| 11h45-11h55 | Koichi Sato (Nat. Astr. Obs. of Japan, Tokyo) : The second stage interferometer MIRA-I.2 of Mitaka optical and InfraRed Array (MIRA) project |
| 11h55-12h15 | Keith Gendreau (NASA/GSFC) : The MAXIM X-ray Interferometry Mission Study |
Monday - July 2 - Afternoon session
| 14h00-15h00 | Chris Haniff (Cavendish Lab., Cambridge, UK): The COAST interferometer and future prospects for spatial interferometry |
| 15h00-16h00 | Andreas Glindemann (ESO): ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
| 16h00-16h30 | Soft drinks |
| 16h30-17h30 | Anders Karlsson (ESTEC): DARWIN: a technological challenge and scientific drivers |
| 18h | Reception + Coktail Party in the Town Hall (a bus collecting the participants will leave the conference site at 17:30h) |
Tuesday - July 3 - Morning session
| 9h00-10h10 | Andreas Quirrenbach (Univ. of California, La Jolla) : Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) |
| 10h10-10h40 | Coffee |
| 10h40-11h40 | Vincent Coudé du Foresto (Obs. Meudon - Paris): Observations with IOTA/Fluor and expected results with VINCI |
| 11h40-12h00 | Arjan Mieremet (Delft University of Technology) : An alternative nulling interferometer for direct exo-planet detection |
| 12h00-12h20 | Olivier Absil (Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, ULg) : Nulling interferometry with IRSI-Darwin: detection and characterization of Earth-like exo-planets |
Tuesday - July 3 - Afternoon session
| 14h00-15h00 | Pierre Riaud (OHP): The Hyper-Telescope and scientific drivers |
| 15h00-16h00 | Stephane Guilloteau (IRAM): ALMA: a technological challenge |
| 16h00-16h30 | Soft drinks |
| 16h30-17h30 | Tommy Wiklind (Onsala Space Observatory): Extragalactic observations with ALMA |
| 20h | PUBLIC CONFERENCE, in french, by Roger Bonnet |
Wednesday - July 4 - Morning session
| 9h00-10h00 | Linda Tacconi (MPIExt.Ph., Garching): High resolution mm/submm interferometry of galaxies |
| 10h00-11h00 | Rafael Bachiller (OAN, Espagne) : Galactic observations with ALMA: young stellar objects |
| 11h00-11h30 | Coffee |
| 11h30-11h40 | Klaus Meisenheimer (MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg) : Zooming into the Dusty Nuclei of Active Galaxies (ZIDNAG) Integral progamme for MIDI interferometry with the VLTI |
| 11h40-11h50 | Ilaria Pascucci (AIU Jena) : VLTI Observations of Ultra-compact HII Regions - Simulations of MIDI Visibilities |
| 11h50-12h10 | Sami Dib (MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg) : Mass determination of nearby stars from astrometric microlensing observations |
Wednesday - July 4 - Afternoon session
| 14h00-15h00 | Pierre Cox (IAS, Paris): Galactic observations with ALMA: old stellar objects |
| 15h00-15h10 | Marc Swain (JPL, Pasadena) : Cryogenic Delay Line for Far-IR Interferometry in Space |
| 15h10-15h20 | Kenneth G. Carpenter (Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, GSFC) : The Stellar Imager (SI) Mission Concept |
| 15h20-15h50 | Soft drinks |
| 16h15-19h00 | Visit of AMOS + Coktail Party (a bus collecting the participants will leave the conference site at 15:50h) |
Thursday - July 5 - Morning session
| 9h00-10h00 | Bill Danchi (NASA): Mid-IR interferometry: science and technoloy |
| 10h00-10h20 | Christophe Delrez (AMOS - Liège) : Optical Path Length Calculation of the Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometry Project |
| 10h20-10h40 | Jeffrey Meisner (Leiden Observatory) : Fringe tracking and group delay tracking methods for MIDI |
| 10h40-11h00 | Vincent Coudé du Foresto (Obs. Meudon - Paris) : Mid-Infrared Interferometry at the ALMA site |
| 11h00-11h30 | Coffee |
| 11h30-12h00 | Lo Woltjer (OHP) : Concluding Remarks |