Program

Here is an updated (but not yet final) schedule as the school is now 100% online. The number of teaching hours remain the same (40h) but they are spanned over two weeks in a four-hours per day schedule from 15:00 to 19:00 CEST.

Monday June 7

• 14h00-14h45 Virtual tour of the school facility on Gather Town
  
• 14h45-15h00 Welcoming talk and school organization
  
• 15h00-16h50 Introduction to interferometry I (1h50) David Buscher
  
• 16h50-17h10 Coffee Break
• 17h10-19h00 Introduction to interferometry II (1h50) David Buscher
  

Tuesday June 8

• 10h00-12h00 Test of practice session tools (Eastern Hemisphere students)
  
• 13h00-15h00 Test of practice session tools (Western Hemisphere students)
  
• 15h00-15h55 Overview of the VLTI and its evolution (55min) Antoine Mérand
  
• 15h55-16h15 Coffee Break
• 16h15-19h00 Practice session: Interferometry basics with ASPRO (2h45)
  

Wednesday June 9 

• 15h00-15h55 The GRAVITY instrument and its science results (55min) Felix Widmann
  
• 15h55-16h50 MATISSE Overview (55min)   Bruno Lopez
  
• 16h50-17h10 Coffee Break
• 17h10-18h00 The CHARA Array (50min) Gail Schaefer
  
• 18h00-18h30 SPICA: the new visible instrument at CHARA (30min) Denis Mourard
  
• 18h30-19h00 MIRCX and MYSTIC: near-infrared interferometry at CHARA (30min) Claire Davies
  

Thursday June 10

• 15h00-15h40 Proposals preparation and OPC selection process (40min) Claudia Paladini
  
• 15h40-17h40 Pratice Session : Observation preparation with ASPRO (2h00)
• 17h40-18h00 Coffee Break
• 18h00-19h00 MATISSE Data Reduction (1h) Florentin Millour
  

Friday June 11

• 15h00-17h00 Practice session: MATISSE Data reduction (2h)
• 17h00-17h20 Coffee Break
• 17h20-18h10 Theory and Modelling of YSO (50min) Lucia Klarmann
  
• 18h10-19h00 Interferometry of YSO review (50min)  Rebeca Garcia Lopez
  

Monday June 14

• 15h00-16h00 Introduction to model fitting of interferometric data (1h) Michel Tallon
  
• 16h00-19h00 Practice session: model fitting with LITpro (3h)

Tuesday June 15

• 15h00-15h55 Planet formation and interferometry (55min) Sylvestre Lacour
  
• 15h55-16h50 Exoplanets and Interferometry (55min) Roxanne Ligi
  
• 16h50-17h10 Coffee Break
• 17h10-17h40 Asteroids and Interferometry (30min) Alexis Matter
  
• 17h40-18h30 Principles of image reconstruction (50min)  Fabien Baron
  
• 18h30-19h00 Overview of optical interferometric images (30min) Jacques Kluska
  

Wednesday June 16

• 15h00-16h00 MATISSE Image Reconstruction software IRBIS (1h) Karl-Heinz Hofmann
  
• 16h00-19h00 Practice session: Image Reconstruction with IRBIS (3h)

Thursday June 17   

• 15h00-16h00 Lecture: Short introduction to radiative transfer (1h) Alexis Matter
  
• 16h00-19h00 Practice session: radiative transfer modelling (3h)

Friday June 18

• 15h00-19h00 ESO Proposals Preparation final session

The access to the practice sessions (in blue) will be restricted to students registered prior to 2021-04-16.

Access to the lectures and seminars will be available for all.

The slots in red are also reserved for registered students.