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Monday March 16, 2026
| MDT Socorro |
Length (min) |
Speaker | Attendance | Talk | UTC | PDT (Los Angeles) | EDT (Atlanta) | GMT (London) | CET (Paris) | AEDT Sydney (+1 day) |
| 8:30 | Registration | |||||||||
| Chair: Jeremy Jones, Session Theme: Welcome, CHARA Updates, MROI Updates | ||||||||||
| 9:00 | 5 | Welcome to New Mexico Tech | 15:00 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 2:00 | ||
| 9:05 | 25 | Douglas Gies | In person | CHARA Year in Review | 15:05 | 8:05 | 11:05 | 15:05 | 16:05 | 2:05 |
| 9:30 | 15 | Gail Schaefer | In person | New Developments and Future Plans at the CHARA Array | 15:30 | 8:30 | 11:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 2:30 |
| 9:45 | 15 | Michelle Creech-Eakman | In person | Overview of the Design and Scientific Goals for the MROI |
15:45 |
8:45 | 11:45 | 15:45 | 16:45 | 2:45 |
| 10:00 | 15 | James Luis | In person | Fringes or Death: the sprint to first fringes at the MROI | 16:00 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 3:00 |
| 10:15 | 15 | Ian Schofield | In person | Interferometer and instrument control and data acquisition software: next steps in MROI's fringes era | 16:15 | 9:15 | 12:15 | 16:15 | 17:15 | 3:15 |
| 10:30 | 30 | Coffee Break | 16:30 | 9:30 | 12:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 3:30 | ||
| Chair: TBD, Session Themes: MROI Updates, Cepheids, and Other Variable Stars | ||||||||||
| 11:00 | 15 | Emma Floyd | In person | Chasing the Magnitude Limit: MROI’s plan for High-Sensitivity Observations | 17:00 | 10:00 | 13:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 4:00 |
| 11:15 | 15 | Garance Bras | Remote | Monitoring the limb-darkening variations of Cepheid pulsating stars | 17:15 | 10:15 | 13:15 | 17:15 | 18:15 | 4:15 |
| 11:30 | 15 | Katia Sivkova | Remote | Distances of binary Cepheids from combined Gaia DR4 astrometry and optical interferometry | 17:30 | 10:30 | 13:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 4:30 |
| 11:45 | 15 | Manon Bailleul | Remote | The Surface Brightness Color Relation of Cepheids: multi-chromatic observations of Cepheids using MIRC-X, MYSTIC and SPICA. | 17:45 | 10:45 | 13:45 | 17:45 | 18:45 | 4:45 |
| 12:00 | 15 | Alexandre Gallenne | In person | Cepheids at high-angular resolution | 18:00 | 11:00 | 14:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 5:00 |
| 12:15 | 15 | Brian Kloppenborg | In person | An Update on the CHARA–AAVSO Collaboration | 18:15 | 11:15 | 14:15 | 18:15 | 19:15 | 5:15 |
| 12:30 | 90 | Lunch | 18:30 | 11:30 | 14:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 5:30 | ||
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Chair: TBD, Session Theme: CHARA Staff Updates |
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| 14:00 | 15 | Rob Ligon | In person | Progress on CMAP: CHARAs transport fiber project | 20:00 | 13:00 | 16:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 7:00 |
| 14:15 | 15 | Rainer Koehler | In person | News from the Mobile Telescope at CHARA | 20:15 | 13:15 | 16:15 | 20:15 | 21:15 | 7:15 |
| 14:30 | 15 | Nils Turner | In person | Seeing Statistics and Progress on OS Modernization | 20:30 | 13:30 | 16:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 7:30 |
| 14:45 | 15 | Karolina Kubiak | In person | Updates on adaptive optics systems | 20:45 | 13:45 | 16:45 | 20:45 | 21:45 | 7:45 |
| 15:00 | 15 | Christopher Farrington | In person | CHARA Operations | 21:00 | 14:00 | 17:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 8:00 |
| 15:15 | 15 | Jeremy Jones | In person | CHARA Remote Operations and Data Access | 21:15 | 14:15 | 17:15 | 21:15 | 22:15 | 8:15 |
| 15:30 | 30 | Break | 21:30 | 14:30 | 17:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 8:30 | ||
| Chair: TBD, Session Theme: CHARA Staff Updates, Binary Stars, and Be Stars | ||||||||||
| 16:00 | 15 | Cyprien Lanthermann | In person | Silmaril: Reducing thermal background using a multi-stage Narcissus mirror | 22:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 9:00 |
| 16:15 | 15 | Nic Scott | In person | Update on the CHARA Telescopes | 22:15 | 15:15 | 18:15 | 22:15 | 23:15 | 9:15 |
| 16:30 | 15 | Russell M. Genet | In person | Resolving Gaia Astrometric Binaries | 22:30 | 15:30 | 18:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 9:30 |
| 16:45 | 15 | Becky Flores | Remote |
Precise Masses and Radii of Visual Binary Stars
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22:45 | 15:45 | 18:45 | 22:45 | 23:45 | 9:45 |
| 17:00 | 15 | Robert Klement | In person |
Be stars as post-mass-transfer binaries: new results from CHARA and VLTI/GRAVITY observing program
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23:00 | 16:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 10:00 |
| 17:15 | 15 | Akshat Chaturvedi | In person |
Exploring the Binarity of Be Stars
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23:15 | 16:15 | 19:15 | 23:15 | 00:15 | 10:15 |
| 17:30 | End of Day | 23:30 | 16:30 | 19:30 | 23:30 | 00:30 | 10:30 | |||
Tuesday March 17, 2026
| MST Tucson |
Length (min) |
Speaker | Attendance | Talk | UTC | PDT (Los Angeles) | EDT (Atlanta) | GMT (London) | CET (Paris) | AEDT Sydney (+1 day) |
| Chair: TBD, Session Theme: Instrument Updates, Collaborations, and Diameters | ||||||||||
| 9:00 | 15 | John Monnier | In person | MIRCX/MYSTIC Update | 15:00 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 2:00 |
| 9:15 | 15 | Denis Mourard | Remote | Status of SPICA and ISSP survey | 15:15 | 8:15 | 11:15 | 15:15 | 16:15 | 2:15 |
| 9:30 | 15 | Laurent Bourgès | Remote | JMMC Updates 2026 | 15:30 | 8:30 | 11:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 2:30 |
| 9:45 | 15 | TBD | Remote | VLTI Update | 15:45 | 8:45 | 11:45 | 15:45 | 16:45 | 2:45 |
| 10:00 | 15 | Hugo Nowacki | Remote | Preliminary results on exoplanet host stars from the ISSP. | 16:00 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 3:00 |
| 10:15 | 15 | Ashley Elliott | In person | A detailed characterization of exoplanet host stars | 16:15 | 9:15 | 12:15 | 16:15 | 17:15 | 3:15 |
| 10:30 | 30 | Coffee Break | 16:30 | 9:30 | 12:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 3:30 | ||
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Chair: TBD, Session Themes: Diameters and Giant Stars |
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| 11:00 | 15 | Russel White | In person | AU Mic in High Definition: A Young Star Worth Getting a Baseline On | 17:00 | 10:00 | 13:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 4:00 |
| 11:15 | 15 | Mathieu Vrard | Remote | Observation of asteroseismic low-mass stars with SPICA, MIRCX and MYSTIC: constraining asteroseismic scaling relations | 17:15 | 10:15 | 13:15 | 17:15 | 18:15 | 4:15 |
| 11:30 | 15 | Romina Ibañez-Bustos | Remote | Early results in analyzing the surface brightness-color relationship for FGK stars in the ISSP. | 17:30 | 10:30 | 13:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 4:30 |
| 11:45 | 15 | Emelly Tiburcio | In person | Calibrating Surface Brightness Relationships Using Photometric Standard Stars | 17:45 | 10:45 | 13:45 | 17:45 | 18:45 | 4:45 |
| 12:00 | 15 | Zach Way | In person | Constraining M Giant Temperatures with Interferometric Radii | 18:00 | 11:00 | 14:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 5:00 |
| 12:15 | 15 | Mahir Patel | In person | The Story of the Nearest Open Clusters | 18:15 | 11:15 | 14:15 | 18:15 | 19:15 | 5:15 |
| 12:30 | 90 | Lunch | 18:30 | 11:30 | 14:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 5:30 | ||
| Chair: TBD, Session Themes: Giant Stars | ||||||||||
| 14:00 | 15 | Arnab Chowhan | In person | Limb darkening profiles of red giants using PAVO interferometry | 20:00 | 13:00 | 16:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 7:00 |
| 14:15 | 15 | Narsireddy Anugu | In person | Benchmark near-infrared limb darkening study from CHARA | 20:15 | 13:15 | 16:15 | 20:15 | 21:15 | 7:15 |
| 14:30 | 15 | Jon Hulberg | In person | Characterizing AGB stars and their CSEs through CHARA and VLTI observations | 20:30 | 13:30 | 16:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 7:30 |
| 14:45 | 15 | Rebecca Proni | In person | Surface Feature Identification of Red Supergiants SU Persei and AZ Cygni via Optical Interferometry Imaging | 20:45 | 13:45 | 16:45 | 20:45 | 21:45 | 7:45 |
| 15:00 | 15 | David Frothingham | In person | Red Supergiants: Mass Loss and Stellar Winds | 21:00 | 14:00 | 17:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 8:00 |
| 15:15 | 15 | Nirupam Roy | In person | Probing Mass Transfer Mechanism in Symbiotic stars using CHARA | 21:15 | 14:15 | 17:15 | 21:15 | 22:15 | 8:15 |
| 15:30 | 30 | Break | 21:30 | 14:30 | 17:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 8:30 | ||
| Chair: TBD, Session Theme: Stellar Imaging and Novae | ||||||||||
| 16:00 | 15 | Noura Ibrahim | In person | The CHARA Array YSO Imaging Survey | 22:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 9:00 |
| 16:15 | 15 | Colin Kane | In person | The Impact of Gravity Darkening in the Intermediate Mass Rapid Rotators beta PsA and beta Cas | 22:15 | 15:15 | 18:15 | 22:15 | 23:15 | 9:15 |
| 16:30 | 15 | Rachael Roettenbacher | In person | An Update on Imaging Spotted Stellar Surfaces | 22:30 | 15:30 | 18:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 9:30 |
| 16:45 | 15 | Rohan Gupta | In person | Revealing Time-Variable Substructures in Protoplanetary Disks via Generative Prior Image Reconstruction | 22:45 | 15:45 | 18:45 | 22:45 | 23:45 | 9:45 |
| 17:00 | 15 | Elias Aydi | In person | Nova Eruptions Imaged by CHARA | 23:00 | 16:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 10:00 |
| 17:15 | 15 | Montana Williams | In person | VLBA Observations of Classical Novae | 23:15 | 16:15 | 19:15 | 23:15 | 00:15 | 10:15 |
| 17:30 | End of Day | 23:30 | 16:30 | 19:30 | 23:30 | 00:30 | 10:30 | |||
Wednesday March 18, 2024
| MST Tucson |
Length (min) |
Speaker | Attendance | Talk | UTC | PDT (Los Angeles) | EDT (Atlanta) | GMT (London) | CET (Paris) | AEDT Sydney (+1 day) |
| 8:30 | Registration | |||||||||
| Chair: TBD, Session Themes: Instrumentation | ||||||||||
| 9:00 | 15 | Chris Carilli | In person | A new method for aperture masking optical interferometric imaging and wavefront sensing using radio astronomy techniques: demonstration with the ALBA synchrotron light source, and with the JWST AMI. | 15:00 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 2:00 |
| 9:15 | 15 | Linling Shuai | In person | Resolving Dust at the Extreme: Toward High-Precision Interferometric Spectropolarimetry at the CHARA Array | 15:15 | 8:15 | 11:15 | 15:15 | 16:15 | 2:15 |
| 9:30 | 15 | Noy Hakobyan | Remote | Telescope Adaptive Optics Board Upgrade | 15:30 | 8:30 | 11:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 2:30 |
| 9:45 | 15 | Yi Lu | Remote | Updates from the Exeter Group | 15:45 | 8:45 | 11:45 | 15:45 | 16:45 | 2:45 |
| 10:00 | 15 | Gerard van Belle | In person | Optical Telescope Arrays on the Moon | 16:00 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 3:00 |
| 10:15 | 30 | Coffee Break | 16:15 | 9:15 | 12:15 | 16:15 | 17:15 | 3:15 | ||
| Chair: TBD, Session Theme: Community Discussion |
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| 10:45 | 75 | Douglas Gies and Gail Schaefer | In person | Discussion Session: Feedback from the Community and Future Directions | 16:45 | 9:45 | 12:45 | 16:45 | 17:45 | 3:45 |
| 12:00 | End of Day | 18:30 | 11:30 | 14:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 5:30 | |||
| 13:00 | Departure for excursion to MROI (weather dependent) or VLA | |||||||||
| 18:30 | Return to Socorro | |||||||||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | |||||||||