2021 Virtual CHARA Meeting


Download the power point template for the 2021 CHARA Meeting.

Download pdf schedule.

 

Meeting schedule in different times zones:

Location California (PDT) Georgia England France Japan Sydney
Dates March 15-18 March 15-18 March 15-18 March 15-18 March 16-19 March 16-19
Local Time 12:00 - 14:00 15:00 - 17:00 19:00 - 21:00 20:00 - 22:00 04:00 - 06:00 06:00 - 08:00
  (noon - 2pm) (3pm - 5pm) (7pm - 9pm) (8pm - 10pm) (4am - 6am) (6am - 8am)

 

Monday, March 15, 2021 - Chair: Gail Schaefer

Click here to view recording for Monday.

Time (PDT) Length Speaker Title
12:00 30 Douglas Gies CHARA Year in Review
12:30 20 Judit Sturmann Recent Developments in the Optics Lab
12:50 20 Laszlo Sturmann Telescope System Improvements
13:10 10 Matthew Anderson Adaptive Optics
13:20 10 Jeremy Jones Data Archive and Remote Observing
13:30 10 Theo ten Brummelaar CHARA Infrastructure Upgrades
13:40 10 Marc-Antoine Martinod Simulations for CLASSIC++
13:50 10 Peter Tuthill New Beam Combination Design for CLASSIC++
14:00 10 Discussion  
14:10   End of Day  

 

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - Chair: Douglas Gies

Click here to view recording for Tuesday. NOTE: The recording was started late. Please see the video links in the table below for Karine's presentation on VEGA and Denis' presentation on SPICA. 

Time (PDT) Length Speaker Title
12:00 20 Karine Perraut VEGA Science Review (video)
12:20 20 Denis Mourard Development of SPICA Visible Combiner (video)
12:40 20 Nicolas Nardetto SPICA Science Overview
13:00 20 Michael Ireland PAVO Science Review
13:20 10 Noel Richardson First Dynamical Mass of a Nitrogen Rich Wolf Rayet Star
13:30 20 Antoine Merand Status Update from VLTI
13:50 10 Group Photo and Discussion  
14:00   End of Day  

 

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - Chair: Theo ten Brummelaar

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Time (PDT) Length Speaker Title
12:00 20 Michelle Creech-Eakman Status Update from MROI
12:20 20 Gerard van Belle Status Update from NPOI
(watch the webex recording for a video tour of NPOI)
12:40 20 Narsi Anugu MIRC-X instrument, performance and prospects
13:00 10 Aaron Labdon Young stars with MIRC-X
13:10 10 Stefan Kraus The MIRC-X and BIFROST binary survey: Fundamental stellar parameters and star formation constraints
13:20 10 Tyler Gardner ARMADA Astrometry
13:30 10 Ben Setterholm Polarinterferometry with MIRC-X
13:40 20 John Monnier MYSTIC Development
14:00 10 Discussion  
14:10   End of Day  

 

Thursday, March 18,  2021 - Chair: Nils Turner

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Time (PDT) Length Speaker Title
12:00 20 Francois Reynaud and Julie Magri ALOHA
12:20 10 Steve Ridgway Open Access through NOIR Lab
12:30 20 Gail Schaefer Science Results from Open Access Time
12:50 10 Chris Farrington Observing Update
13:00 10 Rachael Roettenbacher Starspot Imaging
13:10 20 Laurent Bourges JMMC Planning Software
13:30 30 Doug Gies, Theo ten Brummelaar, and Hal McAlister Conclusions and Discussion
14:00   End of Day