2021 Virtual CHARA Meeting
Download the power point template for the 2021 CHARA Meeting.
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
Click here to view recording for Wednesday.
| 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
Click here to view the video recording for Thursday.
| 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 |