1. Some Introductory Comments H.A. McAlister March 16, 2009 CHARA Collaboration Year Five Science Review Nice, France

2. The Last Time We Gathered… At our 3 rd “Annual” Meeting, New York, March 2007 The Last Time We Gathered… At our 3 rd “Annual” Meeting, New York, March 2007 New Group Photo Coming Soon!

3. CHARA Refereed Papers We had 10 at the time of the New York meeting CHARA Refereed Papers We had 10 at the time of the New York meeting

4. Refereed Papers – A Friendly Comparison ProjectInterval# PapersP/yr IOTA1995.1 – 2008.5 523.9 NPOI1997.8 – 2006.3 212.5 PTI1998.8 – 2006.0 395.4 CHARA2005.5 – 2009.2 277.3 Should we be doing better?

5. Observing Schedule History Dual Instrument Scheduling is Essential Observing Schedule History Dual Instrument Scheduling is Essential Period# Prop. Nights Requested Nights Available RatioInstruments 2004-1131581571.01CC-FL 2004-210~701120.63CC-FL 2005-1222181751.25CC-FL-MI 1 2005-21285831.02CC-FL 2006-1251952080.94CC-FL-MI 2006-223148801.85CC-FL-MI 2007-1 2 222051521.35CC-FL-MI 2007-2262721132.41CC-FL-MI-VE 1 2008-1293231592.03CC-FL-MI-VE-PA 1 2008-2322521052.40CC-FL-MI-VE-PA 2009-1472461531.61CC-FL-MI-VE-PA-CL 1 1 Initial engineering or commissioning run 2 Initiation of dual beam combiner scheduling

6. CHARA Research Sponsored by National Science Foundation GSU College of Arts & Sciences plus resources obtained by the CHARA Collaboration Members <><><><><><><><><><><><><> Here’s to a productive 2009!