Working Groups

The following topics—neither final nor exhaustive—are under consideration for the Workshop. Participants are invited to communicate their areas of interest and their advice on the agenda.

Science

• Stellar Physics
• YSO’s
• Exo-planets
• Crowded Field Imaging
• Normal Galactic Nuclei & Massive Black Holes
• AGN’s & QSO’s
• Distant Galaxies and Cosmology

Planning

• Status of Interferometry Planning in Europe
• Committee on Ground-Based Optical Interferometry
• Space Interferometry in the 2020+ Era
• Current Generation Arrays—Current Status, Getting the Most of them, and their Further Development
• Radio Astronomy Perspective on the Development of O/IR Interferometry
• Sky Coverage of Interferometry and the Antarctic
• Precision Narrow-angle Astrometry
• A Compact Array as an ELT alternative
• A Next Generation Classical Array
• LBT Sequel—Compact Array of Large apertures (20-20)
• Integrated Optics and a Fiber Linked Array
• The Future of Aperture Masking Interferometry and ELT’s
• Array Facility Operations—Lessons Learned