Program¶
Here is the last schedule of the school. The number of teaching hours remain the same (40h) but they are spanned over two weeks in a four-hours per day schedule from 15:00 to 19:00 CET. All courses are put online on UCApod: VLTI School 2021
Week 1¶
Monday June 7
14h00-15h00 Welcome, coffee and debug [School introduction]
15h00-16h50 Introduction to interferometry I (1h50) David Buscher [course video part I]
16h50-17h10 Bring-Your-Own Coffee Break (BYOCB) @Relax zone
17h10-19h00 Introduction to interferometry II (1h50) David Buscher [course video part II / part III / slides for the three sessions
main.pdf]
Tuesday June 8
(10h00-12h00 Technical support to test x2go connections for Practice sessions - European time zone)
(13h00-15h00 Technical support to test x2go connections for Practice sessions - Other time zones)
15h00-15h55 Overview of the VLTI and its evolution (55min) Antoine Mérand [course video / slides
VLTI School - about VLTI.pdf]15h55-16h15 Time for coffee! (BYOCB) @Anthony’s
16h15-19h00 Practice session: Interferometry basics with ASPRO (2h45) Laurent Bourgès
**Wednesday June 9 **\
15h00-15h55 The GRAVITY instrument and its science results (55min) Felix Widmann [course video / slides
Widmann_2021_06_VLTIschool.pdf]15h55-16h50 MATISSE Overview (55min) Bruno Lopez [course video / slides
Lopez_SOIRDETE_ISI_MATISSE.pdf]16h50-17h10 Break time! (BYOCB) @The Beach [on gather.town]
17h10-18h00 The CHARA Array (50min) Gail Schaefer [course video / slides
schaefer_chara_2021jun.pdf]18h00-18h30 SPICA: the new visible instrument at CHARA (30min) Denis Mourard [course video / slides
2021_VLTISchool-SPICA.pdf]18h30-19h00 MIRCX and MYSTIC: near-infrared interferometry at CHARA (30min) Claire Davies [course video / slides
CDavies_MIRC-X_v2.pdf]
Thursday June 10
15h00-15h40 Proposals preparation and OPC selection process (40min) Claudia Paladini [course video / slides
paladini_proposal_2021.pdf]15h40-17h40 Observation preparation with ASPRO (2h00) Anthony Meilland [on gather.town]
17h40-18h00 A small pause (bring your coffee, or BYOCB time!) @in Space
18h00-19h00 MATISSE Data Reduction (1h) Florentin Millour [course video / slides
Cours_DRS4.pdf]
Friday June 11
15h00-17h00 Practice session: MATISSE Data reduction (2h) Florentin Millour [on gather.town]
17h00-17h20 Coffee Break (BYOCB) @VLTI
17h20-18h10 Theory and Modelling of YSOs (50min) Lucia Klarmann [course video / slides
klarmann_vlti21.pdf]18h10-19h00 Interferometry of YSO review (50min) Rebeca Garcia Lopez [course video / slides
Garcia-Lopez_The_Inner_regions_of_protoplanetary_disks-VLTI_school_2021 .pdf]
Week 2¶
Monday June 14
15h00-16h00 Introduction to model fitting of interferometric data (1h) Michel Tallon [course video / slides
Tallon - introduction o model-fitting.pdf]16h00-19h00 Practice session: model fitting with LITpro (3h) Michel Tallon [on gather.town]
Tuesday June 15
15h00-15h55 Planet formation and interferometry (55min) Sylvestre Lacour [course video / slides
Talk_VLTISchool.pdf]15h55-16h50 Exoplanets and Interferometry (55min) Roxanne Ligi [course video / slides
Lecture_Ligi.pdf]16h50-17h10 Coffee Break (BYOCB) @the hidden room!
17h10-17h40 Asteroids and Interferometry (30min) Alexis Matter [course video / slides (.odp) / slides (.pdf)]
17h40-18h30 Principles of image reconstruction (50min) Fabien Baron [course video / slides
vlti_summer_2021_Baron.pdf]18h30-19h00 Overview of optical interferometric images (30min) Jacques Kluska [course video / slides
Kluska_OverviewImagesVLTI2021.pdf]
Wednesday June 16
15h00-16h00 MATISSE Image Reconstruction software IRBIS (1h) Karl-Heinz Hofmann [course video / slides
Hofmann_VLTIschool2021.IRBis.pdf]16h00-19h00 Practice session: Image Reconstruction with IRBIS (3h) Karl-Heinz Hofmann [on gather.town]
**Thursday June 17 **
15h00-16h00 Lecture: Short introduction to radiative transfer (1h) Alexis Matter [course video / slides]
16h00-19h00 Practice session: radiative transfer modelling (3h) Alexis Matter [on gather.town]
Friday June 18
16h00-17h00 ESO Proposals Preparation final session Claudia Paladini [on gather.town]
That’s All Folks !!!