Konkoly VLTI Expertise Centre
 H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17.

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

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Program of the 2026 MATISSE Science Days

Tuesday, Sept 29
12:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-13:10 Bruno Lopez Welcome
13:10-13:30 Florentin Millour MATISSE in the GRAVITY+ era
Block 1: Young stellar objects
13:30-13:55 József Varga Inner regions of planet forming disks with VLTI/MATISSE
13:55-14:20 Giulia Perotti JWST Views of Planet-Forming Disks: New Insights and Synergies with MATISSE
14:20-14:45 Karine Perraut The GRAVITY YSO Large Program
14:45-15:10 Paul Boley Latest developments at the VLTI for embedded YSOs
15:10-15:25 Maria Koutoulaki Resolving the Inner Environment of a Massive Protobinary with VLTI/GRAVITY and MATISSE
15:25-15:55 Coffee break
15:55-16:10 Marten Scheuck Polychromatic MATISSE GTO YSO survey
16:10-16:25 Mathis Letessier Optical Interferometry modelling of the TTauri star RY Lup protoplanetary disk
16:25-16:40 Tímea Juhász A new view of the inner disk of DI Cha A: a combined VLTI/MATISSE and JWST/MIRI perspective
16:40-16:55 Katsiaryna Tsishchankava A multi-epoch VLTI/MATISSE study of hot exozodiacal dust around beta Pictoris
16:55-17:10 Caeley Pittman Synergies Between Spatially Resolved and Unresolved Studies of the Innermost Disks of T Tauri Stars
17:10-17:25 Eric Gaidos Dust in the Wind: Exploring Inner Disk Gas and Planetesimals via Interferometry
17:25-17:40 Mathis Houllé Constraining dust physics in the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks: a radiative transfer modelling approach to large VLTI surveys
17:40-18:00 Discussion (YSO)
19:00-21:00 Social program: Visit to Konkoly Observatory (and reception)
Wednesday, Sept 30
09:00-09:15 Maria Koutoulaki Probing the Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation with VLTI/GRAVITY
09:15-09:30 Kundan Kadam Probing vortices in the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks with MATISSE
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
10:25-10:55 Coffee break
10:55-11:20 Romain Petrov AGN Broad-Line Regions with the VLTI
11:20-11:45 AGNs: synergies with other instruments
11:45-12:00 Niklas Moszczynski 3D radiative analysis of multi-waveband IR-emission in the archetypal Seyfert 2 AGN NGC1068 using GRAVITY and MATISSE VLTI observations
12:00-12:15 Du Pu From Dusty Torus to Broad-Line Region: Revealing Tidally Captured Gas Inflow in an Active Galactic Nucleus
12:15-12:30 Jian-Min Wang Tidally disrupted gas clumps from dusty tori of active galactic nuclei
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:15 Yan-Rong Li Measuring AGN geometric distances using interferometry and reverberation mapping of broad-line regions
14:15-14:30 Yuyang Songsheng Differential Interferometric Signatures of Close Binaries of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Block 3: Evolved stars
14:30-14:55 Claudia Paladini BIN-AGB MATISSE programme
14:55-15:10 Daniel Jadlovský ALMA + VLTI imaging of cool evolved stars
15:10-15:25 Narsireddy Anugu From CHARA Photospheres to MATISSE Circumstellar Environments: Imaging the Extended Atmospheres of Evolved Stars
15:25-15:55 Coffee break
15:55-16:10 Amit Kashi The circumstellar environment around evolved binary stars
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)
17:45-18:00 Discussion
Thursday, Oct 1
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
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Oimodeler hands-on sesssion
Block 6: New avenues and synergies
11:50-12:15 Foteini Lykou YSOs with time-domain interferometry
12:15-12:30 Ágnes Kóspál Time-resolved protoplanetary disk physics in a close binary with variable accretion rate
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Discussion (time domain)
14:30-14:55 Denis Defrère L-band nulling interferometry with Asgard/NOTT
14:55-15:10 György Medgyesi Mechanical design of the cold optics of the Matisse interferometer
15:10-15:35 Stefan Kraus SHARPS: Proposal for a 3rd-generation YJHK(L) facility instrument
15:35-16:05 Coffee break
16:05-16:20 Discussion (new facilities)
17:00-18:00 Bruno Lopez Public talk
19:00-21:00 Conference dinner
Friday, Oct 2
09:00-09:25 Roy van Boekel ELT / METIS: capabilities and science outlook
09:25-09:50 JWST
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)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:25 ALMA
11:25-11:40 Walter Jaffe The Kiloscope
11:40-11:55 Áron Juhász THESEUS
11:55-12:30 Discussion (synergies)
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 General discussion
14:30-14:40 Closing remarks

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