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2001 Working Group Meeting
Observatoire de Haute Provence (France)

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Observatoire de Haute Provence, August 30-31, 2001

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A two-day meeting took place August 30-31, 2001 at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, France. These dates were confirmed with the Director, Jean-Pierre Sivan, on 2 March 2001 [+33 4 9270 6459], with arrangements being made through the OHP General Secretary Mme Sylviane Guyot [+33 4 9270 6411] (Contact numbers are listed in the Phonebook).

Meals: Breakfast is self service. Staff working at the Maison Jean Perrin (MJP, where astromomers and visitors have their rooms, diners etc) arrive at 8:00 am. So visitors who breakfast after 8:00 am can consult the staff with any questions. The lunch at the MJP is from 12:30-13:30 hrs. Diners will be at 7:00 pm.

Venue:The meeting room is relatively small but should accommodate 30 people. We have a computer projector and also a slide projector and viewgraph machine. A whiteboard is also available in the meeting room. There is no air-conditioning, and it may be a little warm late in the late afternoon (bring your swim-suit as there is a swimming pool at OHP which is open until 7:00 pm).

A preliminary agenda is as follows:

GOALS AND PRIORITIES
Thursday, 30 August 2001

Morning

• Objectives and Priorities. Brief (20 m) presentations of near and long term goals for work in stellar interferometry with a statement of priorities from each group. Longer moderated discussions will follow the presentations, with the aim of establishing collective goals for work through the IAU.
Afternoon
• Common Data Format for Synthesis Imaging. Presentation by NPOI and COAST of a proposed FITS format for calibrated synthesis-imaging data. Followed by a longer discussion.

ROADMAP: NEAR AND LONG-TERM
Friday, 31 August 2001

Morning

• Avenues of Collaboration. Presentations (20 min) of selected subjects of concern, including the development of future hardware and software, and the establishment of international standards.
Afternoon
• Long term goals:First draft of a roadmap.
• Short term goals:Discussion of near-term goals with assigned tasks and identified funding.
• Plans for the 2002 WG Meeting and funding.

• The future of optical/IR interferometry: the view from the NSF
  G.W. van Citters, Optical and IR Interferometry from the Ground and Space, ASP Conf. Ser. 194, 448-459 (1999).
• Round table discussion: science in a political world
  R.V. Stachnik and D.M. Peterson, moderators, Optical and IR Interferometry from the Ground and Space, ASP Conf. Ser. 194, 460-477 (1999).
• A Data Exchange Standard for Optical/IR Interferometry (PDF 7K)
  Edited by Tom Pauls, Naval Research Laboratory.
• Imaging in Interferometry Workshop (PDF 169kB)
  Tim Cornwell and Hal McAlister eds, from an NSF-sponsored workshop held in Socorro, Mexico, in June 2000.
• Prospective pour l'instrumentation HRA post-VLTI (PDF 1.6 MB),
  Luc Arnold, ed., Working Group on Actions Specifique Haute Resolution Angulaire, Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, 30 March 2001. [See in particular the discussion and conclusion, pages 57-66.]

The 2001 Meeting of the IAU Working Group on Optical/IR Interferometry is being sponsored by the European Southern Observatory, the National Science Foundation, the Mariotti Center (JMMC), and the Interferometry Science Center (Caltech).

The meeting was sponsored by the European Southern Observatory, the National Science Foundation, the Mariotti Center (JMMC), and the Interferometry Science Center (Caltech). The purpose of the meeting was to promote international collaborations in stellar interferometry and to plan for the long-term work of the working group.

Aims and Objectives

• Hal McAlister
• Pascal Ballester (PDF)
• Alain Chelli (PDF)
• Christoph Leinert (PDF)

Data Format for Imaging

• Bill Cotton
• Pauls and Young
• Alain Chelli (PDF)

• Gilles Duvert
• Ralph Marson

• Pierre Lena (PDF)
• Fabien Malbet (PDF)
• Chris Haniff (PDF)

• Pierre Lena (PDF)
• Andreas Quirrenbach
• Steve Ridgway

• David Buscher (PDF)
• Andre Lannes

Hardware

• Chris Haniff (PDF)
• ten Brummelaar
• Markus Schoeller

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