The Fizeau exchange visitors program in optical interferometry funds
(travel and accommodation) visits of researchers to an institute of
his/her choice (within the European Community) to perform collaborative
work and training on one of the active topics of the European
Interferometry Initiative. The visits will typically last for one month,
and strengthen the network of astronomers engaged in technical,
scientific and training work on optical/infrared interferometry. The
program is open for all levels of astronomers (Ph.D. students to tenured
staff).

The deadline for applications is the 15th of September for visits starting 1st of November.

Further informations and application forms can be found at
www.european-interferometry.eu

The program is funded by OPTICON/FP7.

Please distribute this message also to potentially interested colleagues
outside of the OLBIN-community!

Looking forward to your applications,
Josef Hron & Laszlo Mosoni
(for the European Interferometry Initiative)

The Fizeau exchange visitors program in optical interferometry funds
(travel and accommodation) visits of researchers to an institute of
his/her choice (within the European Community) to perform collaborative
work and training on one of the active topics of the European
Interferometry Initiative. The visits will typically last for one month,
and strengthen the network of astronomers engaged in technical,
scientific and training work on optical/infrared interferometry. The
program is open for all levels of astronomers (Ph.D. students to tenured
staff).

The deadline for applications is the 15th March for visits starting
1st of May.

Further informations and application forms can be found at
www.european-interferometry.eu

The program is funded by OPTICON/FP7.

Please distribute this message also to potentially interested colleagues
outside of the OLBIN-community!

Looking forward to your applications,
Josef Hron & Laszlo Mosoni
(for the European Interferomet

*AMBER Science and Data Reduction JMMC Workshop*
_Grenoble, 21-22 Mar 2011_
Sponsored by JMMC and IPAG

*Web site*: http://amber.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/spip.php?article190

*Rationale* : AMBER/VLTI has now been offered since October 2005 to the ESO community. In July 2010, the last version of the AMBER Data Reduction software has been released by the JMMC under the version amdlib v3. It brings significant improvements especially in the regime of low flux.

We would like to take the opportunity to present this new version of the AMBER data reduction software to gather the astronomers who have obtained AMBER data. This will be the occasion to learn more on how to reduce AMBER data, but also to publicize the various results and share our common experience on the instrument. This will also be the opportunity to share some information on the current status of the instrument. This workshop will last 2 days.

The participants are welcome to bring their laptop and their AMBER data. It will be possible to install the new AMBER software and benefit from the advices of the JMMC AMBER data reduction group during practical sessions to reduce their data.

*Organizers* : JMMC AMBER data reduction working group

*Venue* : Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (Grenoble, France) from Monday 21 March 2011 at 9:00am to Tuesday 22 March 2011 at 17:00pm.

*Foreseen speakers* :
- Jean-Philippe Berger, "AMBER at ESO Paranal"
- Gilles Duvert, "amdlib v3 core program tutorial"
- Florentin Millour/Jean-baptiste Le Bouquin, "amdlib yorick interface tutorial"
- Isabelle Percheron, "AMBER data quality assessment from ESO Garching" (TBC)

*Preliminary Program* :
- Monday 21 March 2011, morning : tutorials on VLTI, AMBER, AMBER data reduction
- Monday 21 March 2011, afternoon : practical session (reduce your AMBER data) and science oral contributions by participants
- Tuesday 22 March 2011, morning : practical session (reduce your AMBER data) and science oral contributions by participants (continued)
- Tuesday 22 March 2011, afternoon : round table on future data reduction developments on AMBER data ; conclusion.

*Contributed talks* : all scientific contributions are welcome (oral talks or posters). Please send an email to F. Malbet <Fabien.Malbet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr> with "AMBER-WS2011" in the subject line before Friday 11 March 2011.

*Financial support* :
- We have received limited support from JMMC, IPAG, ASHRA, the Fizeau program (EII/OPTICON FP7) so that we can help young researchers to participate to this workshop. Please send an email to F. Malbet before Friday 11 February 2011. You will receive an answer before Friday 18 February 2011.
- The support from the Fizeau program will be mainly travel support mainly to the participants who are not from the AMBER consortium institutes. Participants who wish to receive such a support will be asked to fill in the Fizeau form.

*Registration* : Please send an email to F. Malbet with "AMBER-WS2011" in the subject line before Friday 11 March 2011.

In JENAM 2010 a Symposium on this topic will be organized. Further information is available. Deadline for submitting abstracts is the 30th June.

The website of the VLTI school is being continuously modified these last days.

In particular, the location page was deeply modified, and an evaluation of the accommodation costs is provided. A preliminary program page is now available.

The VLTI School LOC

The next VLTI training school will be held in the Centre IGESA, Porquerolles Island, Côte d’Azur, France in 17th-28th April 2010.

Any student wishing to deepen his(her) knowledge on optical interferometry is welcome to attend the school. This year, the School is recognized as a European Erasmus Intensive Program (I.P. http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc900_en.htm). This means that the students from the University partners of the program will recognize the school as part of their studies, and that special funding is available for them. The University partners are listed below, and their number should increase in the following years.

For the students who do not belong to any University partners, please note that the Fizeau exchange visitors
program may help in a few cases with the travelling expanses.The call for application was
recently advertised, and the deadline is the 15th of September, and there will be another call the 15th of March.

Further news will regularly be posted at the European interferometry Website (http://www.european-interferometry.eu/training/2010).

The new European Interferometry Initiative site is now open. Enjoy!