Dear colleagues!

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). Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek also partial support
from their home or host institutions.

The deadline for applications is March 15. Fellowships can be awarded
for missions starting in May 2013. Applications for attending the VLTI
school 2013 will be considered but funding will be coordinated with the
school organizers.

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 your community!

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

With the advent of large and multi-telescope arrays in the recent years,interferometry has reached a new area. Interferometric facilities are becoming more and more open to non-specialist astronomers, and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is a good example of a interferometric fully open facility.

We organize a summer school to train astrophysicists to the use of the VTLI and also other facilities with the current generations of instruments. The aim of the school is to offer to Ph.D. students, post-doctoral and permanent researchers and introduction to the technique of long-baseline optical/infrared stellar interferometry, data reduction, astrophysics, namely: stellar physics including the hot topics of stellar activity, evolution, hydrodynamics, star hosting planets, the determination of the fundamental parameters, circumstellar
envelopes, young stellar objects, as well as the role of binaries.

The school will be held in the heart of Alpine mountains in Barcelonnette, Côte d'Azur, France from 9th-21st September 2013. Barcelonnette is a typical alpine town, located in the heart of the Mercantour French National Park, with many possibilities of sportive and non-sportive activities like hiking, or wildlife discovery. The school will also be located at one throw of the Hypertelescope prototype under construction, which is a novel type of stellar interferometer (a visit is foreseen during the school).

IMPORTANT DATES

February  1st, 2013 : First announcement and web site
February 15th, 2013 : Early registration opened
May 31st, 2013 : Deadline for financial support
June 30th, 2013 : Deadline for early registration and payment (100 euro)
July 31th, 2013 : Deadline for late registration and payment (150 euro)
September 9th, 2013 : The VLTI-school starts

Please visit http://vltischool.sciencesconf.org

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee,

Andrea Chiavassa 

Dear colleagues!

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). Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek also partial support from their home or host institutions.

The deadline for applications is October 15. Fellowships can be awarded for missions starting in January 2013, pending contractual procedures in FP7.

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 your community!

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

Dear colleagues!

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). Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek also partial support from their home or host institutions.

The deadline for applications is June 15 for visits between July 15 and December 31.

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 your community!

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

Dear colleagues!

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). Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek also partial support from their home or host institutions.

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

Note that an early next call may be issued in June for visits starting in July.

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 your 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 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.