2019 CHARA Science Meeting


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Monday, March 18, 2019

Time Length Speaker Title
8:30 AM 30   Registration
    Chair: Gerard van Belle  
9:00 AM  10 Jeffrey Hall Welcome
9:10 AM 30 Douglas Gies Opening Remarks and CHARA Year in Review
9:40 AM  20 Theo ten Brummelaar AO Update - CLASSIC/CLIMB Upgrade
10:00 AM  20 Judit Sturmann  Recent Developments in the Lab
10:20 AM  20 Laszlo Sturmann  Hardware Improvements and Plans
10:40 AM  30   Coffee Break 
     Chair: Katie Gordon  
11:10 AM  20  Francois Reynaud Aloha **REMOTE**
11:30 AM 20 Nils Turner Weather, Seeing, and Computer Upgrades
11:50 AM 20 Chris Farrington Scheduling and Night Operations
12:10 AM 20 Norm Vargas Observing Statistics
12:30 AM 80   Lunch
    Chair: Katie Lester  
1:50 PM 20 Nic Scott The future of FLUOR
2:10 PM  20 Narsireddy Anugu MIRC-X and MYSTIC Update
2:30 PM  20 Denis Mourard Update on the developments of CHARA/SPICA
2:50 PM  20 Fabien Patru Status and plans for SPICA fringe tracking
3:10 PM  30   Coffee Break
    Chair: Robert Klement  
3:40 PM  20 Tim Buschmann Development of the CHARA OPLE System
4:00 PM  20 Gerard van Belle Status Report on NPOI
4:20 PM  20 Anthony Meilland The installation and test of MATISSE, the new VLTI mid-infrared instrument
4:40 PM     End of Day
       
6:00 PM     Reception at Lowell Observatory

 

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Time Length Speaker Title
    Chair: Denis Mourard  
9:00 AM  20 Jeremy Jones Remote Operations at CHARA
9:20 AM 20 Stephen Ridgway NOAO TAC experience with CHARA proposals
9:40 AM 20 Gail Schaefer Results from the Community Access Time
10:00 AM 20 Tom Armstrong The Visibility Null vs. Wavelength as an Atmosphere Probe
10:20 AM 30   Coffee Break
    Chair: Narsi Anugu  
10:50 AM 20 Ellyn Baines Recent Results from NPOI and CHARA
11:10 AM 20 Tyler Ellis Radii of Late Type Dwarfs and Exoplanet Hosts
11:30 AM 20 Katie Gordon Angular Diameters and Effective Temperatures of B stars - Results!
11:50 AM 20 Arturo Martinez Updates to Stellar Surface Imaging & Modeling
12:10 PM 90   Lunch
    Chair: Chris Farrington  
1:40 PM 20 Rachael Roettenbacher The Next Steps for Resolving Spotted Stars
2:00 PM 20 Robert Klement Updates on Be stars and BA supergiants with VEGA
2:20 PM 20 Tyler Gardner Prospects for Astrometric Detection of Giant Planets in Hot Binary Systems
2:40 PM 10   Group Photo
2:50 PM 30   Coffee Break
    Chair: Gail Schaefer  
3:20 PM 20 Katie Lester Visual Orbits of Spectroscopic Binaries
3:40 PM 20 Lisa Prato Precise Binary Orbits with NPOI & CSHELL
4:00 PM 20 Rachel Matson Detecting Unresolved Binaries in Exoplanet Transit Surveys with Speckle Interferometry
4:20 PM 20 Michelle Creech-Eakman Status Update and Near-term Plans for MROI
4:40 PM     End of Day

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Time Length Discussion Lead Title
9:00 AM 75 Douglas Gies Discussion: Future Plans at the CHARA Array
10:15 AM 30   Coffee Break
10:45 AM 75 Gerard van Belle Discussion: Plans for Interferometry in the Astro2020 Decadal Survey
12:00 PM     Lunch
       
2:00 PM 30   Depart for NPOI
2:30 PM 120   Tour of NPOI at Anderson Mesa
4:30 PM 30   Return to Flagstaff
5:00 PM     End of Day