Members of the CHARA Collaboration meeting met on the campus of the Pôle Universitaire Saint-Jean d'Angély in Nice France on the Côte d'Azur to discuss the scientific and instrumentation developments of the year.
Group Photo 
| Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|
| The CHARA Strategic Plan | Douglas Gies, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Update on the Adaptive Optics Program, Funding, and the MSIP proposal | Theo ten Brummelaar, GSU/CHARA, Mt. Wilson |
| Seven Years of CHARA/NOAO Community Access | Steve Ridgway, NOAO, Tucson |
| Update on the NPOI | Gerard van Belle, Lowell Obs., Flagstaff |
| An Update on the VLTI | Jean-Philippe Berger, ESO |
| The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer: A New Path to First Light | Chris Haniff, University of Cambridge |
| Observing and Scheduling Follies | Christopher Farrington, GSU/CHARA, Mt. Wilson |
| Weather, Seeing and Other Sundries | Nils Turner, GSU/CHARA, Mt. Wilson |
| Telescope Alignment After AO Installation | Lazlo Sturmann, GSU/CHARA, Mt. Wilson |
| New Findings About Alignment with AO | Judit Sturmann, GSU/CHARA, Mt. Wilson |
| GRAVITY Aquistion Camera | Anugu Narsireddy, University of Porto |
| MIRCx: Enabling 6-Telescope Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks | Stefan Kraus, University of Exeter |
| Plans for the New K-band Combiner MYSTIC | John Monnier, University of Michigan |
| ALOHA: General Presentation of the Project and Current Efforts | François Reynaud, XLIM |
| On-sky Ability of ALOHA/CHARA at 1.55 μm to Detect Astronomical Sources in H | Pascaline Darré , XLIM |
| Implementation of ALOHA Up-conversion Interferometer at 3.39 μm(L Band) | Ludovic Szemendera, XLIM |
| Nearby Red Supergiants with the CHARA Interferometer | Miguel Montargès , IRAM |
| Complex Closure Amplitudes: Useful? | Fabien Baron , CHARA/GSU Atlanta |
| PAVO Science Update | Tim White , University of Aarhus |
| VEGA: Status and Science Overview | Nicolas Nardetto , Lagrange/OCA |
| Long Baseline Interferometry in the Visible: First Results of the FRIEND Project | Marc-Antoine Martinod, Lagrange/OCA |
| Diameters and Effective Temperatures of Benchmark Stars | Orlagh Creevey, Lagrange/OCA |
| Fundamental Properties of O- and B-type Stars | Katie Gordon (Presented by Doug Gies), CHARA/GSU Atlanta |
| Data Analysis and Preliminary Results of the JouFLU Exozodi Survey | Paul Nunez, JPL Pasadena |
| Results from the Exozodi Variability Study | Nicolas Scott, CHARA/GSU Mt. Wilson |
| Imaging the Pleiades | Florentin Millour, Lagrange/OCA |
| Updates on an Imaging Survey of Red Supergiants with MIRC | Ryan Norris, CHARA/GSU Atlanta |
| Imaging Spotted Giant Stars | Rachel Roettenbacher, University of Michigan |
| Interferometric Observations of Microlensing Events | Clément Ranc, IAP/Paris |
| Unlocking the Potential of Cepheids as Primary Distance Calibrators | Pierre Kervella, OBSPM & CNRS UMI-FCA Chile |
| Flux Distribution at the Surface of Rotating Cool Stars | Michel Rieutord, OMP/Toulouse |
| Last Results on the Characterization of Exoplanets and their Stellar Hosts with VEGA/CHARA | Roxanne Ligi, Lagrange/OCA |
| The Ages of A-Stars | Jeremy Jones, CHARA/GSU Atlanta |
| Overview of MIRC Observations of Be Stars in 2015 | Gail Schaefer, CHARA/GSU, Mt. Wilson |
| Introduction - Science with Visible Beam Combiners | Denis Mourard, OCA |
| The Visible Light Roadmap | Nicolas Nardetto, |
| Imaging from IR to Visible | John Monnier, Univeristy of Michigan |
| Imaging with Spectral Resolution | Florentin Millour, Lagrange/OCA |
| Large Science Program on Fundamental Parameters of Stars | Denis Mourard, OCA |
| First Results on an Integrated Optics 3T Multiaxial Beam Combiner for New Generation Instrument VEGA/CHARA | Guillermo Martin (Presented by Karine Perraut) |
| Point of View from PAVO | Mike Ireland, ANU |
| Update on VISION | Gerard van Belle, Lowell Obs., Flagstaff |
| Introduction-Interfacing with Adaptive Optics and Fringe Tracking | Denis Mourard, OCA |
| Optimization of Coupling between AO and SMF | Cyril Petit, ONERA |
| Fringe Tracking and Gravity | Karine Perraut, IPAG |
| MYSTICx as a Fringe Tracker | Stefan Kraus, Univesity of Exeter |
| Introduction- Control Oeration DRS | Denis Mourard, OCA |
| Open Questions | Jean-Michel Clausse, OCA |
| CHARA Control and Software Point of View | Theo ten Brumelaar, CHARA/GSU, Mt. Wilson |
| JMMC Point of View | Gilles Duvert |
| Project Organization | Denis Mourard, OCA |
| CHARA Project Organization Point of View | Theo ten Brumelaar, CHARA/GSU, Mt. Wilson |