Stellar Intensity Interferometry Workshop 2025
Research Campus Waischenfeld (Germany) of the Fraunhofer Society
The workshop Stellar Intensity Interferometry aims at gathering researchers involved in the modern revival of intensity interferometry, its enabling technologies (detectors, photonics…) and closely related interferometric techniques.
It combines the previous successful workshops
- „Stellar Intensity Interferometry“ (2024: Porquerolles, French Riviera)
- „Future Prospects of Intensity Interferometry" (2024, Perimeter Institute, Canada).
- „Stellar Intensity Interferometry“ (2023: Columbus, Ohio)
The workshop will be held at Research Campus Waischenfeld, Germany from October 13-17, 2025.
A preliminary schedule can be found here.
Topics include:
- History of Stellar Intensity Interferometry
- Science Goals
- Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs)
- Optical Telescopes
- Arrays of Small Telescopes
- Amplitude Interferometry
- Detector Development
- Quantum Optics with Intensity Interferometry
- Image Reconstruction & Advanced Methods
Confirmed Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order)
- Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- Jonathan Biteau (Univ. of Paris-Sud)
- Colin Carlile (Lund Univ.)
- Tarek Hassan (CIEMAT Madrid)
- David Kieda (Univ. of Utah)
- Pieter Kok (Univ. of Sheffield)
- Boris Korzh (Univ. Geneva)
- Andrei Nomerotski (Florida International University &
Czech Technical University in Prague)
- Prasenjit Saha (Univ. of Zurich)
- Ken Van Tilburg (New York University )
- Roland Walter (Univ. Geneva)
Registration
Registration is possible until July 4.
Regular conference fee: 780 EUR.
Students conference fee: 600 EUR (for students with a contribution to the workshop, limited contingent)
The conference fee includes:
- full board for the entire week
- accommodation in single rooms from Monday to Friday
- bus transfer to Waischenfeld from Nuremberg via Erlangen on Monday
- bus transfer from Waischenfeld via Erlangen to Nuremberg on Friday
- excursion to the castle „Rabenstein“ and conference dinner on Wednesday
Contributions
Each participant is invited to present a poster. There are very limited spots for contributed talks available. We thus reserve the right to convert submitted talks to posters.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Neal Dalal (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Stefan Funk (ECAP, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
William Guerin (CNRS / Université de la Côte d’Azur)
Robin Kaiser (CNRS / Université de la Côte d’Azur)
Joachim von Zanthier (QOQI, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)