Sponsoring institutions

	European Union: High level scientific conference activity in the programme Improving Human Potential (EC contract n° HPCF-2001-00120)
	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique through the Jean-Marie Mariotti Center French expertise center for interferometry
	European Southern Observatory: contractor and operator of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
	Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble
	Observatoire de Paris-Meudon