Inaugural Symposium of JIVE

as a European Research

Infrastructure Consortium















Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, 20-21 April 2015

Programme

 

 

Inaugural Symposium of
Joint Institute for VLBI – European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, 20–21 April 2015

 

Sunday, 19 April    
20:00 – 21:00 Registration at the hotel Spier  
     
Monday, 20 April    
08:30 Registration desk at JIVE open  
08:30 Bus leaves hotel Spier  
09:00 – 09:10 Huib Jan van Langevelde Welcome
09:10 – 09:15 Leonid Gurvits Opening remarks
09:15 – 09:40 Richard Schilizzi What's in a name: the story of JIVE
09:40 – 10:05 Roy Booth The history of EVN
10:05 – 10:30 George Miley VLBI - From Field 80 to International Development
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/coffee break  
11:00 – 11:25 Kenneth Kellermann VLBI across Atlantic
11:25 – 11:50 Tom Muxlow A review of EVN science
11:50 – 12:15 Miguel Pérez Torres Supernova factories in the centres of galaxies unveiled by the EVN
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch  
13:15 – 13:40 Andreas Brunthaler Mapping the Milky Way
13:40 – 14:05 Adam Deller Depth perception: trigonometric VLBI pulsar parallaxes for fun and profit
14:05 – 14:30 Walter Brisken VLBA observations of Solar system objects
14:30 – 15:05 John McKean Gravitational lensing at the highest angular resolution
15:05 – 15:30 Tea/coffee break  
15:30 – 15:55 Zhiqiang Shen VLBI in China
15:55 – 16:20 Heino Falcke Imaging the event horizon of black holes with VLBI
16:20 – 16:45 Axel Nothnagel Prospects for the new geodetic VLBI Global Observing System VGOS
16:45 – 17:10 Mike Garrett

On the edge of the fringe – Deep, Wide-field VLBI

17:10 – 17:35 Philip Edwards LambdaGammaBI – looking up from down under
17:40 Drinks  
18:30 Bus leaves for hotel Spier  
19:15 – 21:45 Dinner at the hotel Spier  
     
Tuesday, 21 April    
08:30 Registration desk at JIVE open  
08:30 Bus leaves hotel Spier  
09:00 – 09:25 Tony Beasley US Radio/Millimeter/Submillimeter in the 2020s
09:25 – 09:50 Anita Loots The African VLBI network: the current status and an exciting journey
09:50 – 10:15 Philip Diamond From JIVE to SKA: the music of the spheres
10:15 – 10:45 Tea/coffee break  
10:45 – 11:10 Colin Lonsdale VLBI: the next 20 years
11:10 – 11:35 Malcolm Longair From black-belt specialism to main-stream astrophysics
11:35 – 11:45 Leonid Gurvits Concluding remarks
11:50 Symposium photo  
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch  
     
13:30 JIVE ERIC Inauguration Ceremony