Program
Sunday, March 1
| Time | |
| 17:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 | The musical group "Gustos Reunidos" of the Universidad de Valparaíso presents: 'Canto a Neruda' |
| 20:00 | Cocktail |
Monday, March 2
Sessions: Tech and binaries
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 09:20 | Introduction talk | |
| 09:50 | Interferometric concepts | F. Millour |
| 10:40 | Intensity interferometry with Cherenkov telescopes | D. Kieda |
| 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:40 | The VLTI instruments and auxiliary systems | M. Schoeller |
| 12:10 | A square kilometer telescope: Intensity interferometry | D. Dravins |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | ALMA | B. Dent |
| 15:20 | Coffee | |
| 15:50 | Binaries | W. Hartkopf |
| 16:40 | Interacting binary environments | R. Mennickent |
| 17:30 | Eclipsing binaries with AMBER | A. Richichi |
| 18:00 | End | |
| 19:30 | Charla pública: Gracias a las estrellas | R. Barbá |
Tuesday, March 3
Session: Binaries and Stellar Winds
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | The place of interferometry in massive star multiplicity studies | H. Sana |
| 09:30 | The discovery of new binaries and trapezium-like systems | R. Barbá |
| 10:00 | Stellar winds - Observational results | P. Kervella/NN |
| 10:30 | The archetype HD 93129A at different radio scales | P. Benaglia |
| 11:00 | Conference photo / Coffee | |
| 11:50 | Stellar winds - Theory | A. ud-Doula |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 14:20 | Predictions from 1-D and 2-D NLTE radiative transfer models | J. Groh |
| 14:50 | Structured winds from hot stars | A. Liermann |
| 15:20 | Observations of stellar winds from massive stars | D. Setia Gunawan |
| 15:50 | Coffee | |
| 16:20 | Signatures of the 3-D Wind-Wind Collision Cavity in Eta Car | T. Madura |
| 17:00 | Wolf-rayet winds | J. Rajagopal |
| 17:50 | End | |
Wednesday, March 4
Session: YSO
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Young stellar disks | S. Kraus |
| 09:50 | AMBER and MIDI observations of massive young stellar objects | W.-J. de Wit |
| 10:20 | Pre- versus post-main sequence evolutionary phase of B[e] stars | M. Kraus |
| 10:50 | Coffee | |
| 11:20 | VLTI + MIDI study of the high mass protostellar candidate NGC 3603 IRS 9A | D. Nuernberger |
| 11:50 | MIDI Observations of the Young B Star MWC349A | A. Quirrenbach |
| 12:20 | Lunch/End for free afternoon | |
Thursday, March 5
Session: Be star disks
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Interferometry of variable targets | O. Chesneau |
| 09:50 | Be star disks | C. Tycner |
| 10:40 | Studying the Physical Conditions in Be Star Disks using Different Computational Techniques | R. Halonen |
| 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:30 | Combined Spectroscopic and Interferometric (NPOI) Observation of the Be star o Cas | P. Koubsky |
| 12:00 | The new outburst of the Be star 28 CMa | S. Stefl |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:10 | Disks models | A. Carciofi |
| 15:00 | Disks Surrounding Massive Stars: when computational models are confronted by observations | C. Jones |
| 15:30 | Be phenomenon in open clusters: results from a survey of emission-line stars in young open clusters | B. Mathew |
| 16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:20 | The nature of stars with the B[e] phenomenon through interferometric eyes | M. Borges |
| 16:50 | Properties of Galactic FS CMa type objects, a new group of dust-forming systems | A. Miroshnichenko |
| 17:20 | Cepheids: from a simple problem to a new perspective | A. Mérand |
| 18:10 | End | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner (Buses leave HSM to Valparaíso) | |
Friday, March 6
Session: Stars themselves
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Stellar surface phenomena: Rotation, pulsation, magnetism | C. Neiner |
| 09:50 | Evolution, structure, rapid rotation | G. Meynet |
| 10:40 | Imaging Stars with CHARA-MIRC | M. Zhao |
| 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:40 | Observational results on stars proper | G. van Belle |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:10 | Spatial distribution of stellar rotational axes | M. Curé |
| 14:40 | Interferometric studies of hot stars at Sydney University | G. Robertson |
| 15:10 | Angular sizes of some relatively hot stars by lunar occultation | E. Trunkovski |
| 15:40 | Conclusions / Goodbye | |
| 16:00 | End | |
Confirmed speakers:
| A. Carciofi | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
| O. Chesneau | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France |
| W. Hartkopf | United States Naval Observatory, USA |
| S. Kraus | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany |
| R. Mennickent | Universidad de Concepción, Chile |
| A. Mérand | ESO |
| G. Meynet | Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland |
| F. Millour | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany |
| C. Neiner | Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France |
| J. Rajagopal | CTIO |
| M. Schöller | ESO |
| C. Tycner | Central Michigan University, USA |
| Asif ud-Doula | Morrisville State College, NY, USA |
| G. van Belle | ESO |
Primer Lecturers:
| O. Chesneau | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France |
| C. Gil | ESO |
| R. Hills | ALMA |
| J.-B. Le Bouquin | ESO |
| A. Mérand | ESO |
| A. Quirrenbach | ZAH, Landessternwarte Königstuhl, Germany |
| M. Schöller | ESO |
| G. van Belle | ESO |
Public Talk
| R. Barbá | Chile |
