====== Institute ======

''Huib is just puting a number of items up, really needs other sections to be finished''

===== Changes & Continuity =====

MOU established in lengthy process
Strong support from NWO
STFC programmatic review

Mike goes to ASTRON

Huib takes directorship.

Management responsibilities Cormac and Mark
Short staffing

Good press is important

New correlator
Roadmap EVN
SKA


===== Core business as usual =====


New records in efficiency, long correlation
Improved fractional bit shift in 2007
More complex schedules

1.4 TB experiment
7mm fringes
Yebes
TADU Max debugging

Introduction 5B

Introduction of Newstar in early 2007
Most distant quasar?


===== Projects =====


  * Fabric
    * 2007q2 first fringes
    * Operational role
  * Reviews
     * ALBUS featured in RadioNet
     * Did 2 EXPReS reviews
  * Space
    * Looking at Huygens follow up
    * Looking for VSOP support

  *Shaping FP7, NWO-M
     *Putting in proposal
     *Defining our role in RadioNet
  *And Europlanet


===== e-VLBI =====


Expres milestones
  *2007q1 512 mbps
  *22 GHz fringes,  Metsahovi
  *2007q1 4 telescope on lightpath
  *New network equipment
  *Fringes to Shanghai Oz, life demo Xi’An
  *3 Oz telescopes to JIVE
  *Gbps dropping packages
  *Effelsberg
  *South Africa, 4 continents

Science
  *Accommodate users, change rules
  *2007gr
  *1987A




===== Events?? =====

  * Xi’An
  * Bled Viviane Reding, EC Commissioner for Information Society and Media
  * TERENA Brugge
  * Board meeting Arecibo?
  * URSI
  * EVN symposium
  * Open days


===== Personnel =====

Note
  *Anderson thesis
  *Wucknitz for Emmy Noether
  *Leonid professor
  *Zsolt permanent

Gone
  *Anderson left
  *Soira-Ruiz
  *Jan Buiter
  *Nico Schonewille
  *Cormac and Hayley left
	
New
  *Yvonne Kool
  *Huseyin Ozdemir
  *Stefanie Muehle
  *Nikta Amiri
  *Hayden Rampadarath
  *Stephen Bourke
  *Bert Harms
  *Antonis Polatidis
  *Aard Keimpema


**__[rmc: added bullets from SciOps&Supp group -- can be filled out more if desired]__**
<file>
Support Scientist Losses
 Lisa Harvey-Smith departed to the University of Sydney in September 2007.
 Rebeca Soria-Ruiz deparated to OAN in December 2007.
 Cormac Reynolds and Hayley Bignall departed to Curtain University of
   Technology in Perth in February 2008.
 Giuseppe Cimo will depart the Science Operations Group to the VLBI * Group
   within JIVE in January 2008.

Support Scientist Gains
  Stefanie Muehle arrived in September 2007, coming from the University
    of Toronto.
  Antonis Polatidis arrived in January 2008, coming from MPIfR; will depart
    to ASTRON in February 2009.
  Yang Jun [in chinese name-order] arrived in November 2008, coming from SHAO.

Operator Losses/Gains
  Nico Schonewille retired from his position as chief operator in February
    2008.
  Hans Tenkink moved into the (revised) senior operator position.
  Jan Buiter retired from his position as tape-recorder engineer in
    February 2008.
  Martin Leeuwinga moved into the (revised) hardware-support engineer position.
  Bert Harms filled the ensuing open operator position, arriving from ASTRON.
</file>


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