Hosted by CHARA Atlanta, Georgia March 18-20, 2015 The CHARA collaboration gathered on the Georgia State University campus in the Aderhold Learning Center for a three-day review of scientific and technical progress made during 2014 with an emphasis on the advent of adaptive optics at the Array. The non-technical aspects of the meeting were organized by CHARA's Business Manager Brenda Stith. The scientific program was once again organized by Theo ten Brummelaar, CHARA's Associate Director. A reception was held at Dania's Restaurant at Five Points, the heart of old downtown Atlanta on the first evening of the meeting.
Talks
| Topic | Speaker |
| Introductory Comments | Hal McAlister, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Update on AO Installation: The Telescope Side | Laszlo Sturmann, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| CHARA AO Calibration Process | Judit Sturmann, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| VLTI Update | Jean-Philippe Berger, ESO, Garching |
| Developments at the NPOI During 2014-2015 | Don Hutter, USNO, Flagstaff |
| Proposed NPOI Upgrade | Gerard van Belle, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff |
| NPOI Observations with Short Baselines: Big Fluffy Stars and Geosats | Henrique Schmitt, NRL, Washington |
| MROI Update | Michelle Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech, Socorro |
| SUSI/PAVO Update | Dan Huber, U. Sydney, Sydney |
| Weather & Seeing Stats and Control System Upgrades | Nils Turner, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| Classic, CLIMB, the Baseline Solution and Phase II AO | Theo ten Brummelaar, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| VEGA Recent Results: Perspective of 6T Visible Combiner | Denis Mourard, OCA, Nice |
| First Light with the FRIEND Visible Fibered Combiner | Phillippe Berio, OCA, Nice |
| The CHARA/JMMC Data Archiving Project | Chris Farrington, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| The Planet Formation Imager Project | Gerard van Belle, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff |
| Improvements on Visibility Estimation from Two-Beam Interferometers | Paul Nunez, JPL, Pasadena |
| SIMTOI: A 5D, GPU-Accelerated OI Modeling Tool Watch video presentation here | Brian Kloppenborg, ArrayFire, Atlanta |
| JouFLU First Science | Nic Scott, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |
| Fundamental Properties of O- and B-Type Stars | Katie Gordon, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Changing the Color of the Stars: ALOHA at CHARA | Francois Reynaud, U. Limoges, Limoges, France |
| Age of the Ursa Major Moving Group | Jeremy Jones, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| The Massive Interacting Binary Star MWC314 | Doug Gies, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| An Imaging Survey of Red Supergiants | Ryan Norris, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Microlensing Observations with an Interferometer | Arnaud Cassan, Inst. Astrophysics, Paris |
| First Direct Detection of Star Spots: Imaging lambda Andromedae | Rob Parks, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Imaging Spotted RS CVn Binaries | Rachel Roettenbacher, U Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Precise Sizes of Exoplanet Hosts Identified by TESS | Russel White, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Orbital Obliquities of Small Planets from Direct Measurement of Stellar Diameters | Sam Quinn, GSU/CHARA, Atlanta |
| Exoplanet Host Star Characterization | Kaspar von Braun, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff |
| Complete CHARActerization of the HD 18977 & 209458 Systems | Tabetha Boyajian, Yale U., New Haven |
| Detection of the Faint Companion of the Be Star 59 Cyg | Gail Schaefer, GSU/CHARA, Mount Wilson |