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|  | Very Large Telescope Interferometer: Community days |  | 
|  | Meeting Agenda |  |  |  |  | 
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|  | Location: | Maison Jean Kuntzmann - Campus Universitaire |  | 
|  | Date: | 15th/16th January 2014 |  | 
|  | Talks: | 30mn = 20mn talk +10 mn questions, 20 = 15mn talk + 5mn questions |  | 
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|  | Start | End | Time | Item | Speaker |  | 
|  | Wednesday 15th Session 1: Scientific Highlights |  | 
|  | 08:30:00 | 08:45:00 | 0:15 | Welcome | Jean-Philippe Berger |  | 
|  | 08:45:00 | 09:15:00 | 0:30 | Young Stellar Objects environments: the VLTI view | Myriam Benisty |  | 
|  | 09:15:00 | 09:45:00 | 0:30 | YSO studies in context | Leonardo Testi |  | 
|  | 09:45:00 | 10:15:00 | 0:30 | Discussion: YSO science at VLTI | Mod: W.-J de Wit |  | 
|  | 10:15:00 | 10:35:00 | 0:20 | Coffee break |  |  | 
|  | 10:35:00 | 11:05:00 | 0:30 | Active Galactic Nuclei: the VLTI view | Konrad Tristram |  | 
|  | 11:05:00 | 11:35:00 | 0:30 | Challenges in AGN studies: the VLTI in a broader observing context | Almudena Alonso-Herrero |  | 
|  | 11:35:00 | 11:55:00 | 0:20 | AGN Science with Gravity | Leonard Burtscher |  | 
|  | 11:55:00 | 12:25:00 | 0:30 | Discussion: AGN science at VLTI | Mod: S. Hoenig |  | 
|  | 12:25:00 | 13:45:00 | 1:20 | Lunch Break |  |  | 
|  | 13:45:00 | 14:15:00 | 0:30 | Interferometry and the Distance Scale | Pierre Kervella |  | 
|  | 14:15:00 | 14:45:00 | 0:30 | The Araucaria Project | Grzegorz Pietrzynski |  | 
|  | Wednesday 15th Session 2: VLTI status |  | 
|  | 14:45:00 | 15:00:00 | 0:15 | An overview of VLTI scientific usage | J.-P. Berger |  | 
|  | 15:00:00 | 15:30:00 | 0:30 | MIDI | Christoph Leinert |  | 
|  | 15:30:00 | 15:50:00 | 0:20 | Coffee break |  |  | 
|  | 15:50:00 | 16:20:00 | 0:30 | AMBER | Romain Petrov |  | 
|  | 16:20:00 | 16:50:00 | 0:30 | VLTI: ten years of operation, successes and limitations. | Antoine Merand |  | 
|  | 16:50:00 | 17:10:00 | 0:20 | The joy of scheduling VLTI | Nando Patat |  | 
|  | 17:10:00 | 17:40:00 | 0:30 | Feedback from the 2013 User's committee | M. Wittkowski/C. Paladini |  | 
|  | 17:40:00 | 18:10:00 | 0:30 | Discussion | Mod: M. Wittkowski |  | 
|  | Thursday 16th Session 3: Preparing for the future |  | 
|  | 09:00:00 | 09:20:00 | 0:20 | A plan for VLTI | J.-P. Berger |  | 
|  | 09:20:00 | 09:40:00 | 0:20 | Considerations on interferometric sensitivity | R. Petrov |  | 
|  | 09:40:00 | 10:10:00 | 0:30 | Preparing for operations with GRAVITY and MATISSE | Antoine Mérand |  | 
|  | 10:10:00 | 10:55:00 | 0:45 | Discussion: towards a new operation model | Moderator |  | 
|  | 10:55:00 | 11:15:00 | 0:20 | Coffee break |  |  | 
|  | 11:15:00 | 11:45:00 | 0:30 | The European Interferometry Initiative | S. Kraus |  | 
|  | 11:45:00 | 12:45:00 | 1:00 | Discussion: challenges for the VLTI community |  |  | 
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|  | Thursday 16th Special discussions |  | 
|  | 14:00:00 | 15:30:00 | 1:30 | Telescope configurations |  |  | 
|  | 15:30:00 | 17:00:00 | 1:30 | Calibrator JMMC-ESO meeting |  |  |