====== EWASS 2018 Special Session - Liverpool, UK ======

//4 April 2018//

**SS11 INSTRUMENTATION: Exploring the Universe: a Eurpean vision for the future of VLBI**\\ 
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Chair: Tiziana Venturi\\ 
 
|09:00|Gravitational waves: potential contribution of VLBI|Andrew Williamson|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:williamson_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|09:30|Gravitational Lensing with the next generation of VLBI arrays|Cristina Spingola|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:spingola_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|09:45|Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their host galaxies: open questions and prospects for VLBI|Andrea Merloni|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:merloni_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|10:15|The impact of VLBI Observations on our Understanding of Star-formation Activity and Low-Luminosity AGN Systems|Tom Muxlow|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:muxlow_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|10:30|COFFEE BREAK|||
|11:00|MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics|Sandrine Codis|
|11:30|MERAC Prize in Observational Astrophysics|Renske Smit|
|12:00|MERAC Prize in New Technologies|Martin Pertenais|
|12:30|Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations|Joop Schaye|
|13:00|LUNCH|||
|14:30|Imaging black holes with mm-VLBI: past, present and future|Heino Falcke|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:falcke_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|15:00|Big and young SMBHs in the early Universe: how can we observe jetted AGN?|Tullia Sbarrato|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:sbarrato_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|15:15|Zooming in on fast radio bursts|Jason Hessels|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:hessels_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|15:45|Extragalactic Synchrotron Transients with VLBI: from Supernovae to TDEs|Migues Perez-Torres|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:perez-torres_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|16:00|COFFEE BREAK|||
|16:30|Stellar masers and the structure of the Galaxy|Andreas Brunthaler|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:brunthaler_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|17:00|VLBI and the life-cycles of stars|Hans Olofsson|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:olofsson_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|17:15|The future of VLBI|John Conway|{{:vlbi_future:meetings:conway_ss11.pdf|PDF}}|
|17:45|Summary and concluding remarks|Tiziana Venturi|
|18:00|Close|||