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June 5, 2013 in Nice, a day organized by Pr Labeyrie " Exo-planets, stars and galaxies : advances in observation "

Study day organized by the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur and the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, on June 5, 2013 at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice site (Mont Gros) - Salle Nef.

The lecture is open to the public, without registration, subject to availability.

Program

9:30 am: Antoine Labeyrie
Tests in progress on a prototype hypertelescope in Ubaye

10:30 a.m.: Paul Nunez
Feasibility and performance studies of adaptively phased hypertelescopes

11:30 a.m.: Antoine Labeyrie
Hypertelescope in Ubaye: possibilities of enlarging to 200 m for the 57 m meta-aperture

12:30: Farrokh Vakili, Director of the OCA, presents Antoine Labeyrie with the 2010 Fizeau Prize.
Created in 2010, this prize is awarded jointly by the IAU (WG 54, Interferometry Commission), the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) and the Mount Wilson Institute (MWI) on the occasion of the biennial SPIE conferences on optical and infrared interferometry.

Lunch break

2 p.m.: Frantz Martinache
Super-resolution and high-contrast imaging with phase cores

3 p.m.: Antoine Labeyrie
Feasibility of terrestrial hypertelescopes with kilometer-sized meta-apertures and larger space versions

4 p.m.: Claude Aime
External occulter coronographs for solar corona and exoplanet studies

5 p.m.: Françoise Le Guet Tully and David Mary
High-resolution interferometry: a brief history

6 p.m.: Lina Peralta and Françoise Le Guet Tully
Presentation of the LISE website and screening of the film "Visit to the Ubaye hypertelescope, summer 2012

6:30 pm: Discussion and closing of the day's events