2018 CHARA Instrumentation and Science Meeting
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Monday, March 12, 2018
| Session Chair | Topic - CHARA Updates and Instrumentation | Speaker | Length | Start Time |
| Registration | 30 | 9:30 AM | ||
| Pierre Kervella | Welcome | Vincent Coude du Foresto | 10 | 10:00 AM |
| CHARA Year in Review | Douglas Gies | 20 | 10:10 AM | |
| CHARA Array instrumentation progress: Telescopes, Alignment, Light Sources, and Adaptive Optics | Theo ten Brummelaar | 20 | 10:30 AM | |
| ALPAO new projects and CHARA DMs development update | Bertrand Charlet | 20 | 10:50 AM | |
| Hardware Upgrades | Matt Anderson | 20 | 11:10 AM | |
| Coffe Break | 25 | 11:30 AM | ||
| Katie Gordon | Observing and Scheduling Statistics | Christopher Farrington | 15 | 11:55 AM |
| Control System Upgrade | Nils Turner | 15 | 12:10 AM | |
| The CHARA Server: Remote Data Reduction, Remote Observing, and the Database | Jeremy Jones | 20 | 12:25 AM | |
| Latest developments of JMMC tools and database | Gilles Duvert | 20 | 12:45 PM | |
| Lunch | 85 | 1:05 PM | ||
| Arturo Martinez | Update on MIRC-X instrumentation work | Stefan Kraus | 20 | 2:30 PM |
| Characterization of the new e-APD camera of MIRCX | Cyprien Lanthermann | 20 | 2:50 PM | |
| Plans for the MYSTIC Combiner | John Monnier | 20 | 3:10 PM | |
| Pipeline of MIRCX/MYSTIC : status and performance | Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin | 20 | 3:30 PM | |
| Deformable mirror tests aimed to improve fiber coupling efficiency of JouFLU | Stefan Kuiper | 20 | 3:50 PM | |
| Coffee Break | 25 | 4:10 PM | ||
| Roxanne Ligi | VEGA status report and recent results | Karine Perraut | 20 | 4:35 PM |
| Long baseline interferometry in the visible: FRIEND project achievements and prospects | Marc-Antoine Martinod | 20 | 4:55 PM | |
| The ALOHA@CHARA L band project | Francois Reynaud | 20 | 5:15 PM | |
| The ALOHA@CHARA experimental developments | Lucien Lehmann | 20 | 5:35 PM | |
| End of Day | 5:55 PM | |||
| Wine and Cheese | 6:00 PM |
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
| Session Chair | Topic - Other Facilities and Science | Speaker | Length | Start Time |
| Jeremy Jones | Synergies between the CHARA Array and VLTI | Antoine Merand | 20 | 9:45 AM |
| NPOI Update | Gerard van Belle | 20 | 10:05 AM | |
| MROI - what's happening | David Buscher | 20 | 10:25 AM | |
| Design, fabrication and delivery of the MROI Unit Telescope Enclosure - an unique technical achievement. | Ifan Payne | 20 | 10:45 AM | |
| Group Photo | ALL | 10 | 11:05 AM | |
| Coffee Break | 25 | 11:15 AM | ||
| Stefan Kraus | Visibility Calibration and Community Access Time | Gail Schaefer | 20 | 11:50 AM |
| New image reconstruction codes: machine learning and surface imaging | Fabien Baron | 20 | 12:00 PM | |
| Imaging Spotted Giant Stars | Rachael Roettenbacher | 20 | 12:20 PM | |
| Cepheids and Gaia's second data release | Pierre Kervella | 20 | 12:40 PM | |
| Lunch | 90 | 1:00 PM | ||
| Karine Perraut | CHARA/VEGA focus on classical Be stars and hot supergiants | Robert Klement | 20 | 2:30 PM |
| RY Tau and HD 142666: insights from the CHARA/CLIMB YSO survey | Claire Davies | 20 | 2:50 PM | |
| Sublimation fronts in the highly inclined disk of the T-Tauri star SU Aurigae | Aaron Labdon | 20 | 3:10 PM | |
| Transitional Disk around MWC 614 | Jacques Kluska | 20 | 3:30 PM | |
| Coffee Break | 30 | 3:50 PM | ||
| Rachael Roettenbacher | Angular Diameters and Effective Temperatures of O and B Stars | Katie Gordon | 20 | 4:20 PM |
| From stellar to planetary parameters: the input of high angular resolution | Roxanne Ligi | 20 | 4:40 PM | |
| Current work in Speckle interferometry | Nic Scott | 20 | 5:00 PM | |
| High-contrast interferometry: science case and measurement approach | Denis Defrere | 20 | 5:20 PM | |
| Detecting faint binary companions using phases | Henrique Schmitt | 20 | 5:40 PM | |
| End of Day | 6:00 PM |
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
| Session Chair | Topic - Future Perspectives | Speaker | Length | Start Time |
| Robert Klement | Recent progresses of the SPICA project | Denis Mourard | 20 | 9:45 AM |
| Definition of a 6-beam fringe tracker for SPICA | Frederic Cassaing | 20 | 10:05 AM | |
| Preliminary characterisation of J and H band-six telescope discrete beam combiner | Ettore Pedretti | 20 | 10:25 AM | |
| Discrete beam combiners from visible to mid-infrared | Stefano Minardi | 20 | 10:45 AM | |
| Coffee Break | 30 | 11:05 AM | ||
| Claire Davies | CHARA Futures | Douglas Gies | 45 | 11:35 AM |
| Discussion | ALL | 40 | 12:20 PM | |
| End of Day | 1:00 PM |