Programme

All talks will be given over Zoom at the Central European Summer Time (UTC+2h) indicated in the programme below.

Recordings of the talks will be made available for all registered participants within 24 hours of each time slot.

Live and asynchronous discussions will be possible through Slack.

Virtual coffee breaks and poster sessions will be organized through the gather.town platform.

All necessary login information will be sent to all registered participants via e-mail in the week before the workshop.

Programme Overview

Day 1 - Monday Oct. 12
Day 2 - Tuesday Oct. 13
Day 3 - Wednesday Oct. 14
Day 4 - Thursday Oct. 15
Day 5 - Friday Oct. 16

Day 1 - Monday Oct. 12
09:00	Welcome & Introduction
	Monday Morning Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Leonard Burtscher
09:15	Koraljka Muzic	Invited Talk	General	Science highlights from ground-based thermal-IR astronomy DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249943
09:45	Bernhard Brandl	Invited Talk	Instruments	Specific Challenges and Design Consequences for mid-IR Instruments on ELTs DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249873
10:15	Gwendolyn Meeus	Invited Talk	Protoplanetary Disks	Observations of dust and gas in protoplanetary discs DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249933
10:45	Coffee Break
	Monday Morning Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Roy van Boekel
11:10	Olivier Absil	Invited Talk	Instruments	Background subtraction in high-contrast imaging DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249861
11:40	Lei Chen	Contributed Talk	Exoplanets	A new method to search for weak companions around young stars with mid-infrared interferometry DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249881
11:50	Thayne Currie	Contributed Talk	Exoplanets	A New Type of Exoplanet Direct Imaging Search: SCExAO and Keck/Lp Survey of Accelerating Stars DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249885
12:00	Florian Kirchschlager	Contributed Talk	Exoplanets	First L band detection of hot exozodiacal dust with VLTI/MATISSE DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249919
12:10	Dominique Petit dit de la Roche	Contributed Talk	Exoplanets	Planets in a different light: the potential of direct imaging in the mid-infrared DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249947
				Poster Presentations (2 min Plenary Talks)
12:20	Róbert Szakáts	Poster	Solar System	SBNAF Infrared Database DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249965
12:22	Wolfgang Brandner	Poster	Exoplanets	MIR detection and characterization of giant planets around white dwarfs
12:24	Kevin Wagner	Poster	Exoplanets	Deep Imaging of Nearby Habitable Zones with VISIR-NEAR and an Upgraded LBT
12:26	Hamid Hassani	Poster	ISM	Mixing of the thermal dust and gas in the ISM of Magellanic Clouds
12:28	Padma Yanamandra-Fisher	Poster	Stars/Outreach	Multiple Approaches to Ground-based Thermal Astronomy
12:30	Lunch Break and Poster Discussions
	Monday Afternoon Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Mario van den Ancker
14:30	Nancy Levenson	Invited Talk	Instruments	Future Opportunities for Space-Based Thermal Infrared Observations DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249925
15:00	Colette Salyk	Invited Talk	Protoplanetary Disks	Spectroscopy of gas-phase molecules in protoplanetary disks around low-mass stars DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249953
15:30	Leigh Fletcher	Invited Talk	Solar System	The Giant Planets in the Thermal-Infrared DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249901
16:00	Virtual Photo
16:05	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Monday Afternoon Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Colette Salyk
16:30	Markus Kasper	Invited Talk	Instruments	NEAR – technical analysis and lessons learned from a unique experiment DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249911
17:00	Jozsef Varga	Contributed Talk	Protoplanetary Disks	Uncovering inner disk asymmetries with VLTI/MATISSE DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249969
17:10	Péter Ábrahám	Contributed Talk	YSO's	A sharp view of the silicates in the young outbursting star V900 Mon
17:20	Abigail Frost	Contributed Talk	YSO's	Unveiling substructures in disks around massive young stellar objects DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249903
17:30	Elena Kokoulina	Contributed Talk	Exoplanets	First MATISSE L-band observations of HD 179218. Is inner 10 au region carbonaceous?
17:40	Kevin Wagner	Contributed Talk	Protoplanetary Disks	Thermal Infrared Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks and Substellar Companions with LBTI DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249979
17:50	Break
18:00-19:00	Virtual Welcoming Reception

Day 2 - Tuesday Oct. 13
	Tuesday Morning Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Gwendolyn Meeus
09:00	Anne-Lise Maire	Invited Talk	Exoplanets	Lessons learned from NEAR for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets with ELT METIS DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249927
09:30	Patrick Roche	Contributed Talk	Dust	Dust properties, magnetic fields and grain alignment investigated via mid-IR polarimetry DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249951
09:40	Ryan Lau	Contributed Talk	Dust	Revisiting and Resolving Carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet Dust Factories DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249923
09:50	Ágnes Kóspál	Contributed Talk	YSOs	Grain Growth in Newly Discovered Young Eruptive Stars DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4250877
10:00	Stefan Kraus	Contributed Talk	YSOs	A young triple star system with misaligned disk/orbit planes shaped by disk tearing DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249921
10:10	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Tuesday Morning Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Dominique Petit dit de la Roche
11:00	Ulli Käufl	Invited Talk	General	On the history of ground-based thermal-IR astronomy DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249913
11:30	Benoît Tabone	Contributed Talk	YSOs	Thermal infrared OH lines as diagnostic of H2O photodissociation in circumstellar media
11:40	Claudia Agliozzo	Contributed Talk	Stars	Luminous Blue Variable stars as dust factories at sub-solar metallicities DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249863
11:50	Markus Wittkowski	Contributed Talk	Stars	Investigating mass loss from evolved stars: First results and perspectives using VLTI-MATISSE DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249981
12:00	Lunch Break and Poster Discussions
	Tuesday Afternoon Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Claudia Agliozzo
14:00	Andrea Mehner	Invited Talk	Stars	Science highlights from ground-based infrared observations of massive stars DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249935
14:30	Pierre Kervella	Contributed Talk	Stars	The dimming of Betelgeuse DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249917
14:40	Julien Drevon	Contributed Talk	Stars	Dusty circumstellar environment modeling around R Scl observed with VLTI/MATISSE DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249893
14:50	Ian Crossfield	Contributed Talk	Stars	Isotopic Abundances of Nearby Dwarf Stars DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249883
15:00	Steph Sallum	Contributed Talk	YSOs	ELT Imaging of MWC 297 from the Co-Phased LBTI
				Poster Presentations (2 min Plenary Talks)
15:10	Narsireddy Anugu	Poster	Stars	High angular resolution imaging of Betelgeuse and AC Her with LBTI
15:12	Lisa Shepard	Poster	Stars	Circumstellar Dust around Oxygen-Rich Mira Variables with Maser Emission DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249957
15:14	Kengo Tachibana	Poster	Stars	Investigation of mid-infrared long-term variability of dusty AGB stars by using AKARI and WISE data
15:16	Eckhart Spalding	Poster	Instruments	Commissioning Fizeau Interferometry with the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249961
15:18	Isabelle Vauglin	Poster	Instruments	Dôme C: an outstanding site for thermal infrared astronomy DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249971
15:20	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Tuesday Afternoon Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Andrea Mehner
16:00	Angela Speck	Invited Talk	Dust	Modeling thermal radiation from cosmic dust: how to use lab data
16:30	Steve Ertel	Invited Talk	Instruments	Thermal infrared imaging with LBTI's LMIRCAM and NOMIC DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249895
17:00-18:00	Diversity & Inclusion / podium discussion: Angela Speck (chair), Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Abigail Frost, Anne Kornahrens, Nancy Levenson, Anne-Lise Maire, Thirupathi Sivarani and Patrick Roche.

Day 3 - Wednesday Oct. 14
	Wednesday Morning Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Rainer Schoedel
09:00	Leo Burtscher	Invited Talk	AGNs	Resolving the dust structures in AGNs DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249877
09:30	Almudena Alonso-Herrero	Invited Talk	AGNs	The AGN torus and beyond DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249865
10:00	Violeta Gámez Rosas	Contributed Talk	AGNs	VLTI/MATISSE MIR interferometry to observe the dusty structures at the cores of AGNs
10:10	Jacob Isbell	Contributed Talk	AGNs	A Subarcsecond L- and M-band Imaging Atlas of Local Active Galactic Nuclei DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249905
10:20	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Wednesday Morning Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Anne-Lise Maire
11:00	Foteini Lykou	Contributed Talk	YSOs	The FU Orionis disk from the view of MATISSE/VLTI
11:10	Alexis Matter	Contributed Talk	YSOs	Spatially resolving the chemical composition of the planet building blocks DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249931
11:20	Gideon Yoffe	Contributed Talk	YSOs	Longslit spectroscopy of Herbig Ae disks with VISIR-NEAR at the VLT
11:30	Marko Stalevski	Contributed Talk	AGNs	VLTI/MIDI and VLT/VISIR challenge the traditional paradigm of dust in active galactic nuclei DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249963
11:40	Omaira González Martín	Contributed Talk	AGNs	Study of the diversity of AGN dust models
11:50	Mariela Martinez	Contributed Talk	AGNs	The subarcsecond nuclear NIR and MIR emission of nearby QSOs DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249929
				Poster Presentations (2 min Plenary Talks)
12:00	Małgorzata Bankowicz	Poster	Galaxies	Local environtment of (U)LIRGs from the ADF-SModelling of spectral energy distributions of (U)LIRGS in infra-redand radio domains
12:02	Subhrata Dey	Poster	AGNs	Modelling of spectral energy distributions of (U)LIRGS in infra-redand radio domains DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249891
12:04	Lindsay Fuller	Poster	AGNs	Deconstructing infrared emission in Active Galaxies using SOFIA/FORCAST and /HAWC+
12:06	Ilhuiyolitzin Villicana Pedraza	Poster	AGNs	Connection between the Circumnuclear Star-Forming Regions and the active nuclei in NGC 1068 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249975
12:08	Lunch Break and Poster Discussions
	Wednesday Afternoon Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Dani Atkinson
14:30	Willem-Jan de Wit	Invited Talk	Instruments	VISIR - operations, calibrations, and upgrades DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249887
15:00	Alain Smette	Invited Talk	Instruments	Telluric correction with atmospheric models (molecfit) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249959
15:30	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Wednesday Afternoon Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Willem-Jan de Wit
16:30	Donaji Esparza Arredondo	Contributed Talk	AGNs	A two-phase AGN torus as constrained from X-ray and mid-Infrared observations DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249897
16:40	Yanna Martins-Franco	Contributed Talk	Galaxies	Unveiling the emission of complex molecules in luminous infrared galaxies
16:50	Enrique Lopez Rodriguez	Contributed Talk	AGNs	Infrared polarimetry of active galactic nuclei
17:00	César Victoria	Contributed Talk	AGNs	The complex dust structure in NGC1068 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249973
17:10	Chris Packham	Invited Talk	Instruments	Lessons learned from mid-IR astronomy from 4 - 8m class telescopes

Day 4 - Thursday Oct. 15
	Thursday Morning Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Nadeen Sabha
09:00	Takashi Miyata	Invited Talk	Instruments	Mid infrared instrument MIMIZUKU for TAO 6.5m telescope DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249939
09:30	Tsubasa Michifuji	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Photometric accuracy with Multi-Field imager in MIR wavelength
09:40	Denis Defrère	Contributed Talk	Instruments	SCIFY: self-calibrated interferometry for exoplanet spectroscopy DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249889
09:50	Ioannis Politopoulos	Contributed Talk	Instruments	VLT/VISIR Calibration programme and stray light modeling DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249949
10:00	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions (extra time for discussion /slides preparation)
12:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Discussion Block 1		Slack Channel 1	Chairs: Gwendolyn Meeus, Cristina Ramos Almeida Panelists: François Ménard, Claudia Paladini, Marko Stalevski DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249945
	What can different science areas learn from each other (e.g. can we apply YSO disk+outflow models to AGNs or evolved stars)?
15:30	Coffee Break
15:45	Discussion Block 2		Slack Channel 2	Chair: Bernhard Brandl Panelists: Michael Meyer, Thayne Currie
	What instrumentation do we need to pursue our research and how do we get it (e.g. polarimetry or high spectral resolution in N on ELTs)?
16:45	Coffee Break
17:15-18:15	Discussion Block 3		Slack Channel 3	Chairs: Nancy Levenson, Chris Packham Panelists: Hanae Inami, Lindsay Fuller, Ryan Lau, Abigail Frost, Yanna Martins-Franco
	How can we continue building this community, especially for early-career researchers?

Day 5 - Friday Oct. 16
	Friday Morning Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Jean-Philippe Berger
09:00	Takafumi Kamizuka	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Engineering observations of MIMIZUKU at Subaru DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249907
09:10	Romain Petrov	Invited Talk	Instruments	MATISSE, the thermal infrared VLTI instrument
09:40	Sergio Fernandez-Acosta	Invited Talk	Instruments	GTC/Canaricam: Recommissioning and lessons learned DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249899
10:10	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Friday Morning Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Romain Petrov
11:30	Jean-Philippe Berger	Invited Talk	Instruments	Mid-infrared heterodyne interferometry for planet formation studies DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249871
12:00	Aleksandra Solarz	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Characterization of the effect of atmospheric parameters on the infrared sky at the VLT
12:10	Amelia Bayo	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Light mirror production in Chile DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249869
12:20	Lunch Break and Poster Discussions
	Friday Afternoon Session 1
			Topic	Chair: Chris Packham
14:30	Dani Atkinson	Invited Talk	Instruments	GeoSnap: A 1024x1024 HgCdTe array covering 3-13μm DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249867
15:00	Rainer Schoedel	Invited Talk	Galactic Center	The Galactic Centre in the Thermal Infrared DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249955
15:30	Nadeen B. Sabha	Contributed Talk	Galactic Center	VLT/VISIR Mapping of the Galactic Centre Massive Clusters
15:40	Coffee Break and Poster Discussions
	Friday Afternoon Session 2
			Topic	Chair: Valentin Ivanov
16:30	Eckhart Spalding	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Commissioning Fizeau Interferometry with the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
16:40	Jordan Stone	Contributed Talk	Instruments	High Contrast 3-5 Micron Integral Field Spectroscopy with LBTI/ALES
16:50	David Trilling	Contributed Talk	Instruments	The refurbished MIRSI at NASA's IRTF DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249967
17:00	Michael Meyer	Contributed Talk	Instruments	Adaptive Optics Assisted Mid-Infrared Imaging with Geosnap on MMT and Magellan DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4249937
17:10	Bernhard Brandl, Nancy Levenson	Summary Talk	General	Conference Summary DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4249875
17:40-17:45		Closing Ceremony