Programme

Monday, March 5
12:00   Registration/ Lunch bag
     
13:00 Xavier Barcons Welcome by the ESO DG
13:10 Tania Johnston The ESO Supernova Building
13:20 Markus Wittkowski Outline of the workshop programme/ S/LOC Announcements
     
    The sun as a star (chair: Lynn Matthews)
13:30 Sami Solanki

Physical processes on the Sun's surface (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220797

14:00 Sven Wedemeyer

Solar observations with ALMA (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220803

14:30 Oskar von der Luehe

Facilities for high-resolution imaging of the Sun

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1228087

     
14:50 Coffee Break  
     
    From the sun toward evolved stars (chair: Liz Humphreys)
15:20 Andrea Dupree

Chromospheric Activity in Cool Luminous Stars (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220741

15:50 Agnes Lebre

Surface magnetic fields on giants and supergiants (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220769

16:20 Emre Isik

Modelling the surface distribution of magnetic activity on Sun-like stars

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220755

16:40 Torsten Böhm

First spectroscopic detection of surface structures on a normal A-type star - the case of VEGA

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220727

17:00   Discussion
     
17:30   End of the day
Tuesday, March 6
    From the sun toward evolved stars, continued (chair: Hans-Günter Ludwig)
09:00 Susanne Höfner

3D simulations of convection (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220745

09:30 Bernd Freytag Surface layers of AGB stars modelled with CO5BOLD
09:50 Kateryna Kravchenko

Tomography of the red supergiant star mu Cep

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220767

10:10 Gioia Rau

Modeling of Red Giant and AGB stars atmospheres: constraints from VLTI and HST observations

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220785

     
10:30 Coffee Break  
     
    (chair: Agnes Lebre)
11:00 Arturo Lopez Ariste Imaging the surface of Betelgeuse with spectropolarimetry
11:20 Josef Hron, Viktor Khalak, Tolgahan Kilicoglu, Stephen Marsden, Hakan Volkan Senavci, Peng Kian Tan
Short poster presentations
11:50   Discussion
     
12:30 Lunch  
     
    Imaging results I (chair: Xavier Haubois)
14:00 Gail Schaefer

Imaging of stellar surfaces with CHARA (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220793

14:30 Rachael Roettenbacher

Imaging Active Giants and Comparisons to Doppler Imaging (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220789

15:00 Ryan Norris

Pushing CHARA to its limits: A pathway toward 80x80 pixel images of stellar surfaces

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220777

     
15:20 Coffee Break  
     
    (chair: Theo ten Brummelaar)
15:50 Theo Khouri

Spatially-resolved observations of giant stars with SPHERE (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220761

16:20 Anders Jorgensen

Imaging with the new Classic and VISION at the NPOI

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220757

16:40 Gerard van Belle Stellar Imaging with the PALANTIR Upgrade at the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer
17:00   Discussion
     
17:30
Tania Johnston Planetarium Live Show: "Reaching New Heights in Astronomy"  
18:30   Reception
Wednesday, March 7
    Image reconstruction techniques (chair: Gilles Duvert)
09:00 John Young

A toolbox for imaging stellar surfaces (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220811

09:30 Bill Cotton

Radio Imaging of Envelopes of Evolved Stars (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220735

10:00   Discussion: Approaches of the imaging problem: Synergies between optical and radio techniques (lead: Claudia Paladini)
10:30   Discussion: Coordination of optical and radio programmes (lead: Wouter Vlemmings)
     
11:00 Coffee Break  
     
    (chair: Gail Schaefer)
11:30 Xavier Haubois

New imaging operation scheme at VLTI

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220743

11:50   Discussion: Observational strategies for imaging (lead: Alain Chelli)
     
12:10 Lunch  
     
  Free afternoon  
    Optional: Munich City Walking Tour (paid by participants, organizor: Lisa Loebling)
Thursday, March 8
    Imaging Results II (chair: Anita Richards)
09:00 Eamon O'Gorman

Imaging of stellar surfaces using radio facilities including ALMA (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220779

09:30 Wouter Vlemmings

ALMA long baselines observations of the dynamical atmospheres of AGB stars

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220801

09:50 Lynn Matthews The Evolving Shapes of Radio Photospheres of Long-Period Variable Stars
     
10:10 Coffee Break  
     
    (chair: Bill Cotton)
10:40 Ka Tat Wong

Non-equlibrium chemistry of O-rich AGB stars as revealed by ALMA

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220809

11:00 Liz Humphreys

SiO masers in Mira with ALMA long Baselines

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220753

11:20 Emily Cannon, Colin Carlile, Dainis Dravins, Christian Hummel, Robert Klement, Joel Sanchez Bermudez, Henrique Schmitt Short poster presentations
11:50   Discussion
12:30 Lunch  
    Optional 12:30-13:00: Planetarium show: Phantom of the Universe
     
    Imaging Results III (chair: Andreas Quirrenbach)
14:00 Keiichi Ohnaka

Witnessing atmospheric motions in cool evolved stars with VLTI/AMBER (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220781

14:30 Miguel Montarges

VLTI/PIONIER imaging of late type stars (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220775

15:00 Claudia Paladini

Constraining convection properties with VLTI

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220783

15:20 Markus Wittkowski

VLTI-PIONIER imaging of the carbon AGB star R Sculptoris and the supergiant V766 Centauri

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220805

15:40   Discussion
     
16:00 Coffee Break  
     
    Discussions on individual objects (chair: Liz Humphreys)
16:30   Individual object: Betelgeuse (lead: Andrea Dupree)
16:50   Individual object: omi Cet (lead: Lynn Matthews)
17:10   Individual object: Vega (lead: Christian Hummel)
     
19:00   Conference Dinner
Friday, March 9
    Prospects (chair: Bernd Freytag)
09:00 Ken Carpenter/ Gioia Rau

Imaging the surfaces of Stars from Space (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220733

09:30 Dainis Dravins

Intensity Interferometry: Imaging stars with kilometer baselines (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220737

10:00 Julien Woillez

Imaging stellar surfaces with an agile 12-telescopes visible interferometer for the VLTI

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220807

     
10:20 Coffee Break  
     
    (chair: Oskar von der Lühe)
10:50 Anita Richards

Mass loss from stars: prospects with ALMA and other radio interferometers (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220787

11:20 Antoine Merand

The VLTI: an ever improving imaging machine (invited)

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1220773

     
11:50   Final Discussion
     
12:30   End of the workshop / Lunch bag
     
13:30 Jaques Beckers Special lunch talk (ESO old auditorium): The history of the two 16-meter telescopes