Presentations

Here are the copies of the presentations, by chronological order:

The CHARA Strategic Plan   Douglas Gies - GSU/Chara Atlanta

Update on the Adaptive Optics Program, funding, and the MSIP proposal  Theo ten Brummelaar - GSU/Chara Mt Wilson

Seven years of CHARA/NOAO community access    Steve Ridgway NOAO- Tucson

Update on the NPOI   Gerard van Belle

An Update on the VLTI    Jean-Philippe Berger ES0

The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer: A new path to first light   Chris Haniff - Univ. of Cambridge

Observing and Scheduling Follies   Christopher Farrington - GSU/Chara Mt Wilson

Weather, Seeing, and other Sundries   Nils Turner - GSU/Chara Mt Wilson

Telescope Alignment after AO Installation   Lazlo Sturmann - GSU/Chara Mt Wilson

New Findings about Alignment with AO   Judit Sturmann - GSU/Chara Mt Wilson

GRAVITY acquisition camera   Anugu Narsireddy - Univ. of Porto

MIRCx: Enabling 6-telescope imaging of protoplanetary disks   Stefan Kraus - Univ. of  Exeter

Plans for the new K-band combiner MYSTIC   John Monnier - Univ. of Michigan

ALOHA : General presentation of the project and current efforts   François Reynaud - XLIM

On-sky ability of ALOHA/CHARA at 1.55 ¬µm to detect astronomical sources in H   Pascaline Darré - XLIM

Implementation of ALOHA up-conversion interferometer at 3.39¬µm (L band)   Ludovic Szemendera - XLIM

Nearby red supergiants with the CHARA interferometer   Miguel Montargès - IRAM

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Complex closure amplitudes: useful ?   Fabien Baron - CHARA/GSU Atlanta

PAVO Science Update   Tim White - Univ. of Aarhus

VEGA: status and science overview    Nicolas Nardetto - Lagrange/OCA

Long baseline interferometry in the visible: first results of the FRIEND project
  Marc-Antoine Martinod - Lagrange/OCA

Diameters and effective temperatures of Benchmark Stars  Orlagh Creevey - Lagrange/OCA

Fundamental Properties of O- and B-type Stars   Katie Gordon, presented by Doug Gies - CHARA/GSU Atlanta

Data Analysis and Preliminary Results of the JouFLU Exozodi Survey   Paul Nunez - JPL Pasadena

Results from the Exozodi Variability Study    Nicolas Scott - CHARA/GSU Mt Wilson

Imaging the Pleiades    Florentin Millour - Lagrange/OCA

Updates on an Imaging survey of red supergiants with MIRC    Ryan Norris   - CHARA/GSU Atlanta

Imaging Spotted Giant Stars    Rachel Roettenbacher  - Univ. of Michigan

Interferometric observations of microlensing events    Clément Ranc - IAP/Paris

Unlocking the potential of Cepheids as primary distance calibrators     Pierre Kervella - OBSPM & CNRS UMI-FCA Chile

Flux distribution at the surface of rotating cool stars     Michel Rieutord  - OMP/Toulouse

Last results on the characterization of exoplanets and their stellar hosts with VEGA/CHARA    Roxanne Ligi - Lagrange/OCA

The Ages of A-Stars     Jeremy Jones - CHARA/GSU Atlanta

Overview of MIRC Observations of Be Stars in 2015     Gail Schaefer - CHARA/GSU Mt Wilson 

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Introduction - Science with Visible Beam Combiners    Denis Mourard        

The visible light roadmap    Nicolas Nardetto        

Imaging from IR to visible    John Monnier      

Imaging with Spectral Resolution    Florentin Millour       

Large science program on fundamental parameters of stars    Denis Mourard   - see slices in the Introduction file, pages 6-9 -

First Results on an Integrated Optics 3T Multiaxial Beam Combiner for new generation instrument VEGA/CHARA     Guillermo Martin, presented by Karine Perraut

Point of view from PAVO    Mike Ireland  (remotely from Sydney)

Update on VISION    Gerard van Belle

Introduction - Interfacing with Adaptive Optics and Fringe Tracking     Denis Mourard - see slices in the Introduction file, pages 12-13 -

Optimization of coupling between AO and SMF     Cyril Petit - ONERA       

Fringe Tracking and Gravity     Karine Perraut        

MYSTICx as a fringe tracker     Stefan Kraus

Introduction- Control Operation DRS     Denis Mourard  - see slices in the Introduction file, pages 14-15 -

Open questions   Jean-Michel Clausse

CHARA point of view    Theo ten Brummelaar        

JMMC point of view    Gilles Duvert   

Project organization    Denis Mourard   - see slices in the Introduction file, pages 16-18 -          

CHARA point of view    Theo ten Brummelaar

 

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