This working group was active during OPTICON/FP7 (2009-2012, contract nº 226604).

Alessandro Marconi (chair), Stefan Gillessen (deputy).

One of the aims of the European Interferometry Initiative is to define a European vision and strategy for optical interferometry in the ALMA/E-ELT era. In particular, the "AGNs and the Galactic Center" working group will provide a review of the current state of the art in these fields to put 2nd generation VLTI instrumentation in context with available and planned facilities and instrumentation, exploiting synergies and complementarities.

This group includes experts from outside the existant consortia, in order to build an open and participative science vision for the near future of the VLTI. In practice the goal of this working group is to prepare a workshop in which group members will review the state of the art of their field of expertise and present future prospects. The workshop was held in Lisbon (Portugal) on November 28-30, 2011.

The workshop conclusions are available.