2003 Michelson Interferometry Summer School

Agenda

The 2003 Summer School is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. There is a limit of 60 participants. No registration fee will be charged. Financial assistance for travel and accommodations will be available for successful applicants in accordance with U.S. government reimbursement regulations.  Accommodations at Caltech will be provided to participants for the duration of the School.

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Gerard van Belle (Chair)
Rachel Akeson
Andy Boden
Rafael Millan-Gabet

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL/NEAR-IR STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY

• Why Build Stellar Interferometers? - H.A. McAlister (Georgia State University)

• History of Stellar Interferometry - G. van Belle (Michelson Science Center)

• Theory of Astronomical Interferometry - C.A. Haniff (University of Cambridge)

• Observing Through the Turbulent Atmosphere - A. Quirrenbach (Leiden Observatory)

• Beam Combination - Interferometer Design for Synthesis Imaging - D. Mozurkewich (Naval Research Laboratory)

• Spherical Geometry and Aperture Synthesis - J. Moran (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

• Design of Stellar Interferometers: Considerations - W. Tango (University of Sydney) 

• Design of Stellar Interferometers: Realizations - T.A. ten Brummelaar (Georgia State University)

• Modern Servo Control - M. Regehr (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Interferometer Optical Design - W. Traub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

• Fringe Tracking, Noise, Biases, Visibility Estimators - M. Colavita (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Data Reduction and Calibration for Synthesis Imaging - P. Tuthill (University of Sydney)

• Know Your Instrument - A. Booth (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Calibrator Selection, On-Sky - M. Creech-Eakman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 

• Design of an Example Observing Program - R. R. Thompson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 

• Stellar Atmospheric Structure - J. Aufdenberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

• Interferometric Measures of Stellar Atmospheres - J. Davis (University of Sydney)

• Young Stellar Objects - E. Jensen (Swarthmore College)

• Interferometric Observations of Young Stellar Objects - R. Akeson (Michelson Science Center)

• Fundamental Properties of Stars - G. Torres (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

• Interferometric Measures of Binaries - A. Boden (Michelson Science Center)

• Extragalactic Objects - M. Shao (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Astrometry & Bootstrapping - T. Armstrong (Naval Research Laboratory)

• Nulling & Differential Phase - E. Serabyn (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 

• Pupil versus Image Plane Combination - M. Swain (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Future Ground Facilities - P. Lawson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

• Space Missions - S. Shaklan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)