As announced, the proceedings of the school will be published in a dedicated book of the European Astrophysical Society publication series.We wish to have the book available by the end of 2002.

The book lay-out follows this outline

• 1. Foreword
• 2. Principles of optical interferometry
  • 2.1 An introduction to interferometry (C. Haniff)
  • 2.2 An introduction to visibility modeling (Berger)
  • 2.3 Introduction to the observing preparation tool ASPRO (Duvert)
  • 2.4 Exercize #1 - Modeling an astrophysical source for interferometric observations (Berger)
• 3. Optical interferometry in practice
  • 3.1 Practical considerations in ground-based optical/infrared interferometry (Haniff)
  • 3.2 Observability and UV coverage (Segransan)
  • 3.3 Exercize #2 - Observability and UV coverage (Segransan)
• 4. The VLTI and its instruments
  • 4.1 The VLTI and its subsystems (Glindemann)
  • 4.2 AMBER (Petrov)
  • 4.3 MIDI (Perrin)
  • 4.4 Exercize #3 - Signal-to-noise ratio estimation (Malbet)
• 5. The observing strategy
  • 5.1 Finding calibrator stars for optical interferometry visibility measurements (Boden)
  • 5.2 Exercize #4- calibration stars (Boden)
  • 5.3 VLTI observing preparation sequence (Malbet)
  • 5.4 Exercize #5 - preparing a complete VLTI proposal (Malbet)
• 6. Optical interferometry through examples
  • 6.1 Visibility amplitudes
    • 6.1.1 Limb-darkening (Young)
    • 6.1.2 Protoplanetary disks (Berger)
    • 6.1.3 Envelopes around evolved stars (Bloecker)
  • 6.2 Visibility phases
    • 6.2.1 Astrophysics with closure phases (Monnier)
    • 6.2.2 Stellar surface imaging using closure phase (Buscher)
    • 6.2.3 Science with differential phases (Stee)
  • 6.3 VLTI proposals prepared by school participants
    • 6.3.1 Binary stars with component disks: the case of Z CMa (Apai, Pascucci & Zinnecker)
    • 6.3.2 VLTI/MIDI observations of the circumstellar shell of an AGB star: W Hydrae (de Grijs, Marengo & Pietrzynski)
    • 6.3.3 The circumstellar disk of the Be star 28CMa (Stefl, Nowotny-Schipper & Reunanen)
  • 6.4 VLTI projects presented by participants
    • 6.4.1 Reaching the jet engine with AMBER/VLTI (Gil et al.)
    • 6.4.2 Calibrating the Cepheid period-luminosity relation with the VLTI (Marengo et al.)
• 7. Posters from participants
  • 7.1 Spectral investigation of new candidates to lambda-bootis-type stars (Chernyshova et al.)
  • 7.2 Interacting binaries and extrasolar planets: challenges for the VLTI (Gazeas)
  • 7.3 The multi-wavelength study of two unique radio galaxies (Gizani)
  • 7.4 Spin-orbital evolution of the exoplanets (Gusev & Kitiashvili)
  • 7.5 Brown dwarf disks - a Challenge for MIDI (Pascucci et al.)
  • 7.6 Subdwarfs B stars in HW Vir systems (Schuh)
  • 7.7 The Arches mass function (Stolte)
  • 7.8 Global clusters as they can be seen in Ly-alpha and H-alpha at z>1 (Vasil'ev)
  • 7.9 Warm debris disks: where is their dust and why? (Wyatt)