Image credits: ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com), ESO/MATISSE consortium, Hofmann et al. (2022), Varga et al. 2024 (© Jenry), Lykou et al. 2025, mta.hu
| Tuesday, Sept 29 (location: Díszterem) | ||
| 12:00-13:00 | Registration | |
| 13:00-13:20 | Bruno Lopez and Péter Ábrahám | Welcome |
| 13:20-13:35 | Florentin Millour | MATISSE in the GRAVITY+ era |
| Block 1: Young stellar objects | ||
| 13:35-14:00 | József Varga | Inner regions of planet forming disks with VLTI/MATISSE |
| 14:00-14:25 | JWST talk | |
| 14:25-14:50 | Karine Perraut | The GRAVITY YSO Large Program |
| 14:50-15:15 | Paul Boley | Latest developments at the VLTI for embedded YSOs |
| 15:15-15:30 | Maria Koutoulaki | Resolving the Inner Environment of a Massive Protobinary with VLTI/GRAVITY and MATISSE |
| 15:30-16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15-16:30 | Marten Scheuck | Polychromatic MATISSE GTO YSO survey |
| 16:30-16:45 | Mathis Letessier | Optical Interferometry modelling of the TTauri star RY Lup protoplanetary disk |
| 16:45-17:00 | Kundan Kadam | Probing vortices in the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks with MATISSE |
| 17:00-17:15 | Katsiaryna Tsishchankava | A multi-epoch VLTI/MATISSE study of hot exozodiacal dust around beta Pictoris |
| 17:15-17:30 | Caeley Pittman | Synergies Between Spatially Resolved and Unresolved Studies of the Innermost Disks of T Tauri Stars |
| 17:30-17:45 | Eric Gaidos | Dust in the Wind: Exploring Inner Disk Gas and Planetesimals via Interferometry |
| 17:45-18:00 | Mathis Houllé | Constraining dust physics in the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks: a radiative transfer modelling approach to large VLTI surveys |
| 19:00-21:00 | Social program: Visit to Konkoly Observatory (and reception) | |
| Wednesday, Sept 30 (location: Nagyterem) | ||
| 09:00-09:15 | Maria Koutoulaki | Probing the Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation with VLTI/GRAVITY |
| 09:15-09:30 | Tímea Juhász | A new view of the inner disk of DI Cha A: a combined VLTI/MATISSE and JWST/MIRI perspective |
| 09:30-09:45 | Eric Pantin | Carbon dust modeling for MATISSE data analysis |
| Block 2: Active galactic nuclei | ||
| 09:45-10:10 | James Leftley | A-RAT: Accretion Rate and AGN Tori with the VLTI |
| 10:10-10:25 | Violeta Gámez Rosas | Characterising dusty structures in AGN with MATISSE: first results from a new sample and prospects for METIS |
| 10:25-11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Romain Petrov | AGN Broad-Line Regions with the VLTI |
| 11:40-11:55 | Niklas Moszczynski | 3D radiative analysis of multi-waveband IR-emission in the archetypal Seyfert 2 AGN NGC1068 using GRAVITY and MATISSE VLTI observations |
| 11:55-12:10 | Du Pu | From Dusty Torus to Broad-Line Region: Revealing Tidally Captured Gas Inflow in an Active Galactic Nucleus |
| 12:10-12:25 | Yan-Rong Li | Measuring AGN geometric distances using interferometry and reverberation mapping of broad-line regions |
| 12:25-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Yuyang Songsheng | Differential Interferometric Signatures of Close Binaries of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Block 3: Evolved stars | ||
| 14:15-14:40 | Claudia Paladini | Evolved stars with MATISSE |
| 14:40-14:55 | Daniel Jadlovský | ALMA + VLTI imaging of cool evolved stars |
| 14:55-15:10 | Narsireddy Anugu | From CHARA Photospheres to MATISSE Circumstellar Environments: Imaging the Extended Atmospheres of Evolved Stars |
| 15:10-15:25 | Amit Kashi | The circumstellar environment around evolved binary stars |
| 15:25-16:10 | Coffee break | |
| 16:10-16:25 | Lea Planquart | Diving into the biconical circumstellar environment of R Crt |
| Block 4: Exoplanets | ||
| 16:25-16:50 | Jens Kammerer | Characterizing the atmospheres and formation pathways of giant planets with VLTI/GRAVITY |
| 16:50-17:15 | Mathis Houllé | Exoplanet interferometry in the mid-infrared with MATISSE |
| 17:15-17:30 | Jules Scigliuto | Spectral and orbital characterization of HD 984 B with VLTI/MATISSE |
| 17:30-17:45 | Bruno Lopez | A planet making a diamond ring (nanodiamonds) |
| 17:45-18:15 | Discussion | |
| Thursday, Oct 1 (location: Nagyterem) | ||
| Block 5: Tools and instrument development | ||
| 09:00-09:25 | Antoine Mérand | VLTI update and developments on Paranal |
| 09:25-09:50 | Anthony Soulain | MATISSE-py: A high-level Python interface to make data reduction easier than ever |
| 09:50-10:15 | Anthony Meilland | oimodeler update : beyond simple geometric models |
| 10:15-10:30 | Valentin Fleury | Oimodeler App: An Interactive No-Code Interface for Modeling OIFITS Interferometric Data |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:05 | Oimodeler hands-on sesssion | |
| Block 6: New avenues and synergies | ||
| 12:05-12:30 | Foteini Lykou | YSOs with time-domain interferometry |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Ágnes Kóspál | Time-resolved protoplanetary disk physics in a close binary with variable accretion rate |
| 14:15-14:50 | Discussion (time domain & white papers) | |
| 14:50-15:15 | Denis Defrère | L-band nulling interferometry with Asgard/NOTT |
| 15:15-15:30 | György Medgyesi | Mechanical design of the cold optics of the Matisse interferometer |
| 15:30-16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15-16:40 | Stefan Kraus | SHARPS: Proposal for a 3rd-generation YJHK(L) facility instrument |
| 16:40-17:00 | Discussion (new facilities) | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Bruno Lopez | Public talk |
| 19:00-21:00 | Conference dinner | |
| Friday, Oct 2 (location: Nagyterem) | ||
| 09:00-09:25 | Roy van Boekel | ELT / METIS: capabilities and science outlook |
| 09:25-09:50 | Eric Pantin | Looking towards the future: Carbon4Life |
| 09:50-10:15 | Péter Ábrahám | Going deep: exploration of the faint disk population around T Tauri stars by MATISSE and JWST |
| 10:15-10:30 | Discussion (ELT, JWST, space interferometry) | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-11:30 | Walter Jaffe | Dust and molecules in AGNs with ALMA and MATISSE |
| 11:30-11:45 | Walter Jaffe | The Kiloscope |
| 11:45-12:00 | Áron Juhász | THESEUS |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion (synergies) | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | General discussion | |
| 14:30-14:40 | Closing remarks |
Konkoly VLTI Expertise Centre