Working Groups and Confirmed Participants

Working Groups

The following topics—neither final nor exhaustive—are under consideration for the Workshop. Participants are invited to communicate their areas of interest and their advice on the agenda.

Science

  • Stellar Physics
  • YSO’s
  • Exo-planets
  • Crowded Field Imaging
  • Normal Galactic Nuclei & Massive Black Holes
  • AGN’s & QSO’s
  • Distant Galaxies and Cosmology

Planning

  • Status of Interferometry Planning in Europe
  • Committee on Ground-Based Optical Interferometry
  • Space Interferometry in the 2020+ Era
  • Current Generation Arrays—Current Status, Getting the Most of them, and their Further Development
  • Radio Astronomy Perspective on the Development of O/IR Interferometry
  • Sky Coverage of Interferometry and the Antarctic
  • Precision Narrow-angle Astrometry
  • A Compact Array as an ELT alternative
  • A Next Generation Classical Array
  • LBT Sequel—Compact Array of Large apertures (20-20)
  • Integrated Optics and a Fiber Linked Array
  • The Future of Aperture Masking Interferometry and ELT’s
  • Array Facility Operations—Lessons Learned

Confirmed Participants

  • Akeson, Rachel
  • Allen, Ron
  • Angel, Roger
  • Armstrong, Tom
  • Bakker, Eric
  • Belle, Gerard van
  • Benson, Jim
  • Boroson, Todd
  • Brummelaar, Theo ten
  • Carpenter, Ken
  • Chelli, Alain
  • Christou, Julian
  • Ciardi, David
  • Creech-Eakman, Michelle
  • Danchi, Bill
  • Eklund, Dan
  • Eisner, Josh
  • Elvis, Martin
  • Foresto, Vincent Coude du
  • Gies, Doug
  • Glindemann, Andreas
  • Guyon, Olivier
  • Haniff, Chris
  • Henning, Thomas
  • Herbst, Tom
  • Horch, Elliott
  • Hutter, Don
  • Isbell, Doug
  • Johnston, Ken
  • Karovska, Margarita
  • Kervella, Pierre
  • Labadie, Lucas
  • Labeyrie, Antoine
  • Lane, Ben
  • Lauer, Tod
  • Lloyd, Jamie
  • Lynds, Roger
  • Macintosh, Bruce
  • McAlister, Hal
  • Mighell, Ken
  • Milan-Gabet, Raphael
  • Monnier, John
  • Mould, Jeremy
  • Mourard, Denis
  • Najita, Joan
  • Olsen, Knut
  • Perrin, Guy
  • Peterson, Brad
  • Petrov, Romain
  • Quirrenbach, Andreas
  • Probst, Ron
  • Rajagopal, Jayadev
  • Rengaswamy, Sridharan
  • Ridgway, Stephen
  • Serjeant, Stephen
  • Sprayberry, Dave
  • Stencel, Robert
  • Storey, John
  • Strom, Steve
  • Swain, Mark
  • Tokovinin, Andrei
  • Tycner, Chris