2025 CHARA Science Meeting Program

Monday April 28, 2025

Time

 Speaker Talk In Person/Remote
08:30   Registration  
09:00 Denis Mourard Welcome In person
09:10 Douglas Gies CHARA Year in Review In person
09:30 Gail Schaefer Future Plans at the CHARA Array In person
09:50 Pierre Léna From rebirth of optical interferometry to its future, some personal recollections. In person
10:10 Stephen Ridgway The promise of quantum interferometry In person
10:30 Coffee Break    
10:50 Denis Mourard SPICA progresses in 2024 In person
11:10 Romina Ibañez-Bustos Study of surface brightness and magnetic activity of ISSP dwarf stars In person
11:30 Manon Bailleul Surface brightness color relations of Cepheids calibrated by optical interferometry In person
11:50 Alexandre Gallenne Long-term CHARA observations of Binary Cepheids In person
12:10 Mathieu Vrard Observation of asteroseismic red giant stars with SPICA, MIRCx and MYSTIC In person
12:30 Lunch    
14:00 Nic Scott Current state of CHARA telescopes and Future plans In person
14:15 Rob Ligon Progress on the CHARA Michelson Pathfinder Project In person
14:30 Rainer Koehler The new mobile Telescope at the CHARA array In person
14:45 Karolina Kubiak Updates on adaptive optics systems In person
15:00 Cyprien Lanthermann Update on Silmaril In person
15:15 Narsireddy Anugu Imaging of Massive Evolved Stars at CHARA Remote
15:35 Coffee Break    
16:10 Nicolaus Steenken Exploring asymmetries in the dusty shell of the semi-regular variable V CVn with CHARA In person
16:30 Mohammed Mobeen Radiative transfer modelling for the stellar merger remnant V838 Mon Remote
16:50 Jon Hulberg Radiative transfer simulations for interferometric observations of AGB stars Remote
17:10 Fabien Baron Limits of generative models for interferometric imaging Remote
17:30 End of Day    

 

Tuesday April 29, 2025

09:00 John Monnier MIRCX-MYSTIC Updates In person
09:20 Stefan Kraus Update from the Exeter group: MIRC-X upgrades and science In person
09:40 Kévin Barjot First results of photonic-based interferometry with the CHara ARray Integrated Optics Testbed (CHARIOT) In person
10:00 Gaspard Duchêne JMMC News & upates In person
10:20 Simon Anghel The Science Explorer : The new digital library of Space Science In person
10:40 Coffee Break    
11:10 Karine Perraut Probing the disks around young stellar objects in terrestrial orbits with GRAVITY at VLTI In person
11:30  Margaux Abello Chromatic Imaging and Modeling of l Puppis with VLTI/MATISSE: Unveiling Disc Asymmetries in B[e] Stars In person
11:50 Noura Ibrahim Imaging the inner AU of Young Stellar Objects In person
12:10 Ashley Elliott One big exoplanet family: A detailed look into the properties of the HD 219134 multi-planet system Remote
12:30 Lunch    
14:00 David Buscher Current Status of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer In person
14:20 Antoine Mérand Updates from the VLTI Remote
14:40 Jeronimo Calderon Gomez SPINER: Testing the feasibility of a spectro-interferometric-échelle beam combiner. In person
15:00 Narsireddy Anugu Dual-Star Interferometry at the CHARA Array Remote
15:15 Nils Turner Overview of Modifications to the CHARA Array Delay Lines In person
15:30 Coffee Break    
16:00 Christopher Farrington CHARA Operations and Scheduling In person
16:15 Jeremy Jones CHARA Remote Operations and Data Access In person
16:30 Isabelle Codron HD 143006: Interferometric Confirmation of Misaligned Protoplanetary Disc with CHARA/MIRCX and VLTI/PIONIER Remote
16:50 Colin Kane A Study of Rotation, Convection, and Activity Across the Kraft Break Remote
17:10 Rachael Roettenbacher Interferometry and Sun-like Stars In person
17:30 End of Day    

 

Wednesday April 30, 2025

 

09:00 Nayeem Ebrahimkutty Determination of fundamental parameters of stars using Interferometry. In person
09:20 Michael Ireland Uncoupling Gaia's blended binaries with Heimdallr and CHARA: precision masses for Galactic archaeology In person
09:40 Yi Lu Calibrating asteroseismology scaling relation by CHARA observation on Gaia binaries Remote
10:00 Juraj Jonák First results of the CHARA/SPICA ISSP binary program In person
10:20 Becky Flores The Radius Inflation Problem: Ditching Eclipsing Binaries In person
10:40 Coffee Break    
11:10 Denis Mourard Summary of the long-term prospective meeting, April 25th 2025 In person
11:30 Gail Schaefer & Douglas Gies Discussion of the short- and long-term priorities for CHARA In person
12:30 Lunch, End of day    

 

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