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 |