2005 Michelson Summer Workshop:
Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry

I was lucky to be able to attend these lectures, part of a summer school, conference session at Caltech. Astrometry the part of astromomy that deals with measuring the distances and positions of the stars. Before these lectures I was always interested in this topic, but I had never heard of astrometry!

A Few lectures:

Andy Boden (MSC)
"Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars"

Norbert Zacharias (USNO)
"The Future of Astrometric All Sky Surveys"

Stuart Shaklan (JPL)
"STEPS: Stellar Planet Survey"

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