VLTI DAYS AGENDA
| Monday, 11 May 2026 | |||
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| 09:00 | 09:30 | Status of VLTI [invited] | Antoine Mérand |
| 09:30 | 09:45 | GRAVITY update from Science Operations | Aaron Labdon |
| 09:45 | 10:00 | Review of imaging and time-critical observation schemes at VLTI | Xavier Haubois |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | VLTI operations and future challenges | Lorena Faundez |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | Scheduling VLT and VLTI [invited] | Marina Rejkuba |
| 11:15 | 12:00 | Discussion: VLTI operations | |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | (to be confirmed) GRAVITY+ LGS commissioning [invited] | Frank Eisenhauer |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | (to be confirmed) status of MATISSE [invited] | Bruno Lopez |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Heimdallr: integration and commissioning of the VLTI/Asgard fringe-tracker and K-band interferometric instrument | Frantz Martinache |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Updates from Asgard/BIFROST commissioning | Daniel Lancaster |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | The PLANETES project | Sylvestre Lacour |
| 15:15 | 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Offering GRAVITY data products to the community | Isabelle Percheron |
| 16:00 | 16:15 | JMMC Updates | Laurent Bourgès |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | The European Interferometry Initiative: Community Coordination and Strategic Development | Claudia Paladini |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | EDI in the optical interferometric community | Akke Corporaal |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | (to be confirmed) update from CHARA | Gail Schaefer |
| 17:00 | 17:45 | Discussion: VLTI Community | |
| Tuesday, 12 May 2026 | |||
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| 09:00 | 09:15 | Characteristics of the ASGARD/NOTT’s integrated optics 4-telescope beam combiner for double-Bracewell nulling interferometry | Ahmed Sanny |
| 09:15 | 09:30 | Metrology system for the PLANETES instrument | Amira Bouikni |
| 09:30 | 09:45 | Characterization of a J-band integrated circuit for PLANETES | Jehanne Sarrazin |
| 09:45 | 10:00 | STELLIM: a STELLar IMager at VLTI | Xavier Haubois |
| 10:00 | 10:15 | MATISSE+: improving the mid-infrared capabilities of VLTI | Bruno Lopez |
| 10:15 | 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | A next-generation KiloTelescope interferometer proposal | Walter Jaffe |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Interferometric Cosmography with the VLTI | Romain Petrov |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | PMOIRED an update | Antoine Mérand |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Oimodeler App: An Interactive No-Code Interface for Modeling OIFITS Interferometric Data | Valentin Fleury |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | MATISSE-py: A high-level python interface enabling efficient and automated data reduction for the VLTI/MATISSE instrument | Anthony Soulain |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | Beyond Geometry: physical modelling of interferometric data with oimodeler | Anthony Meilland |
| 12:15 | 13:45 | Lunch break | |
| 13:45 | 14:15 | Science cases and community coordination for a short-wavelength | Stefan Kraus |
| 14:15 | 14:45 | SHARPS: a proposed architecture for a Short-wavelength High Angular Resolution Phase-Referenced Spectro-interferometer for the VLTI [invited] | Mathias Nowak |
| 14:45 | 17:45 | SHARPS (splinter and discussions) | |
| Wednesday, 13 May 2026 | |||
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| 09:00 | 09:15 | Current directions and future prospects for embedded YSOs with the VLTI | Paul Boley |
| 09:15 | 09:30 | Legacy of the GRAVITY YSO Large Program: time-variable structures in the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks | Antonia Drescher |
| 09:30 | 09:45 | Multiplicity and inner gas kinematics in the GU CMa system probed with VLTI/GRAVITY | Alessio Popovik |
| 09:45 | 10:00 | The future of Young Stellar Objects observations with GRAVITY+ | Hugo Nowacki |
| 10:00 | 10:15 | Dissecting the disks of eruptive YSOs with the VLTI | Foteini Lykou |
| 10:15 | 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Exoplanet interferometry in the mid-infrared with MATISSE | Mathis Houllé |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | New frontiers of exoplanet observations with GRAVITY | Jens Kammerer |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Bridging stellar evolution and planet formation with the VLTI: recent results and future perspectives | Akke Corporaal |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Constraining stellar evolution by interferometric survey on Gaia binaries | Yi Lu |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | Resolving Massive Stars Near Sgr A*: VLTI/MATISSE Observations of IRS13 E1 and E2 | Emma Bordier |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | 13:45 | Breaking the most massive stars into pieces | Florentin Millour |
| 13:45 | 14:00 | Toward the mass function of isolated black holes with interferometric observations of microlensing events | Przemek Mróz |
| 14:00 | 14:15 | Time‑domain interferometry of novae: community VLTI insights into novae ejecta | Magdalena Otulakowska Hypka |
| 14:15 | 14:30 | High-precision mass and distance of stars | Alexandre Gallenne |
| 14:30 | 15:15 | Discussion and concluding remarks | |
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