Long Baseline Interferometry in the mid-infrared

in Ringberg Castle near Munich.

The purpose is an exchange and mutual information between those working in this and closely neighbouring fields, concerning techniques and instrumentation, plans, observing and recent results. The atmosphere of this castle, situated at the border of the Alps is just the right environment for such working exchanges.

The topics may be summarized as follows:

achievements and prospects of infrared interferometry
mid-infrared interferometric instruments
interferometry at big telescopes (e.g. VLTI)
imaging and multi-beam interferometry
calibration and tools for the user
interpretation of sparse visibility data

We do not have in mind to produce proceedings but want to put electronic versions of the presentations into the web and distribute paper copies when a certain contribution is only available as hardcopy.

Due to the limited available space in the castle attendance is by invitation only.

The organisers are Christoph Leinert (MPIA), Thomas Henning (MPIA), Uwe Graser (MPIA), Francesco Paresce (ESO), Thorsten Ratzka (MPIA) and Gerd Weigelt (MPIfR).

The workshop is sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy and cosponsored by the European Southern Observatory.