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Monday, March 14, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome- delivery of badges and covers | |
| 09:30 - 10:40 | Session 1 - Chris Haniff | |
| 09:30 - 09:40 | Welcome - Thierry Lanz, Director of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur | |
| 09:40 - 09:55 | The CHARA Strategic Plan - Douglas Gies | |
| 09:55 - 10:10 | Update on the Adaptive Optics Program, funding, and the MSIP proposal - Theo ten Brummelaar | |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Experience with the CHARA/NOAO open access calls - Stephen Ridgway | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Update on the NPOI - Gerard van Belle | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 12:10 | Session 2 - Tim White | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | An Update on the VLTI - Jean-Philippe Berger | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer: A new path to first light - Chris Haniff | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Observing and Scheduling Follies - Christopher Farrington | |
| 12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 - 15:20 | Session 3 - Miguel Montargès | |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Weather, Seeing, and other Sundries - Nils Turner | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Telescope Alignment after AO Installation - Laszlo Sturmann | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | New Findings about Alignment with AO - Judit Sturmann | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | GRAVITY acquisition camera - Anugu Narsireddy | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | MIRCx: Enabling 6-telescope imaging of protoplanetary disks - Stefan Kraus | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50 - 17:30 | Session 4 - Clément Ranc | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Plans for the new K-band combiner MYSTIC - John Monnier | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | ALOHA : General presentation of the project and current efforts - François Reynaud | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | On-sky ability of ALOHA/CHARA at 1.55 µm to detect astronomical sources in H - Pascaline Darré | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Implementation of ALOHA up-conversion interferometer at 3.39µm (L band) - Ludovic Szemendera | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Nearby red supergiants with the CHARA interferoemter - Miguel Montargès | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Wine and cheese party, on site |
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Session 1 - Stefan Kraus | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Complex closure amplitudes: useful? - Fabien Baron | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | PAVO Science Update - Tim White | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | VEGA: status and science overview - Nicolas Nardetto | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Long baseline interferometry in the visible: first results of the FRIEND project - Marc-Antoine Martinod | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 - 12:10 | Session 2 - François Reynaud | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Diameters and Effective Temperatures of Benchmark Stars - Orlagh Creevey | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Fundamental Properties of O- and B-type Stars - Katie Gordon | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Data Analysis and Preliminary Results of the JouFLU Exozodi Survey - Paul Nunez | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Results from the Exozodi Variability Study - Nicolas Scott | |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Session 3 - Nicolas Nardetto | |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Imaging the Pleiades - Florentin Millour | |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Updates on an Imaging survey of red supergiants with MIRC - Ryan Norris | |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Imaging Spotted Giant Stars - Rachel Roettenbacher | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Interferometric observations of microlensing events - Clément Ranc | |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | Session 4 - Orlagh Creevey | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Unlocking the potential of Cepheids as primary distance calibrators - Pierre Kervella | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Flux distribution at the surface of rotating cool stars - Michel Rieutord | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Last results on the characterization of exoplanets and their stellar hosts with VEGA/CHARA - Roxanne Ligi | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | The Ages of A-Stars - Jeremy Jones | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Overview of MIRC Observations of Be Stars in 2015 - Gail Schaefer | |
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Convivial buffet dinner at the Hotel Le Saint-Paul |
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:35 | Session 1 - Philippe Stee | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Introduction - Science with Visible Beam Combiners - Denis Mourard | |
| 09:05 - 09:35 | The visible light roadmap - Nicolas Nardetto | |
| 09:35 - 09:45 | Imaging from IR to visible - John Monnier | |
| 09:45 - 09:55 | Imaging with Spectral Resolution - Florentin Millour | |
| 09:55 - 10:05 | Large science program on fundamental parameters of stars - Denis Mourard | |
| 10:05 - 10:35 | Discussion | |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Coffee break | |
| 10:55 - 12:25 | Session 2 - Philippe Bério | |
| 10:55 - 11:00 | Introduction - Instrumentation - Denis Mourard | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | First Results on an Integrated Optics 3T Multiaxial Beam Combiner for new generation instrument VEGA/CHARA - Guillermo Martin | |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | TBD - Mike Ireland | |
| 11:35 - 11:45 | Update on VISION - Gérard van Belle | |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | Visible Beam Combiner at MROI (TBC) - John Young | |
| 11:55 - 12:25 | Discussion | |
| 12:25 - 13:55 | Lunch - Buffet, on site | |
| 13:55 - 15:10 | Session 3 - Theo ten Brummelaar | |
| 13:55 - 14:00 | Introduction - Interfacing with Adaptive Optics and Fringe Tracking - Denis Mourard | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Optimization of coupling between AO and SMF - Cyril Petit | |
| 14:20 - 14:30 | Fringe Tracking and Gravity - Karine Perraut | |
| 14:30 - 14:40 | MYSTICx as a fringe tracker - Stefan Kraus | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Discussion | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Session 4 - Anthony Meilland | |
| 15:30 - 15:35 | Introduction- Control Operation DRS - Denis Mourard | |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Open questions - Jean-Michel Clausse | |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | CHARA point of view - Theo ten Brummelaar | |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | JMMC point of view - Gilles Duvert | |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Discussion | |
| 16:30 - 17:20 | Session 5 - Denis Mourard | |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Project organization - Denis Mourard | |
| 16:40 - 16:50 | VLTI point of view - Jean-Philippe Berger | |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | CHARA point of view - Theo ten Brummelaar | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Open discussion |
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