Towards Global Real-Time E-VLBI: The 10th International E-VLBI Workshop
Amanzingwe Conference Centre, Broederstroom, South Africa (modified from distributed version)
Sunday Nov. 13
19:30 - 21:00 Welcome reception and drinks at Amanzingwe
Monday Nov. 14
9:00 - 9:10 Michael Bietenholz Welcome and Introduction 9:10 - 9:50 James Miller-Jones (invited) LOFAR and E-VLBI: Finding and Resolving Radio Transients 9:50 - 10:30 Randall Wayth (invited; with Walter Brisken, Adam Deller Walid Majid, David Thompson, Steven Tingay, Kiri Wagstaff) The VLBA Transient Project: V-FASTR 10:30 - 11:00 ― Coffee ― 11:00 - 11:40 Patrick Woudt (invited; with Rob Fender) ThunderKAT: A MeerKAT Transient Large Survey Project 11:40 - 12:20 Zsolt Paragi (invited) E-EVN Follow-up of High Energy Transients 12:20 - 12:40 Marcello Giroletti (with E. Koerding, K. Sokolovsky, F. Schinzel, T. Cheung on behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration) E-VLBI Observations of the First Gamma-Ray Nova V407 Cyg 12:40 - 13:40 ― Lunch ― 13:40 - 14:20 Vivek Dhawan (invited) Microquasars 14:20 - 15:00 Enno Middelberg (invited; with Adam Deller, Walter Brisken, John Morgan, Ray Norris) A Wider Audience: Turning VLBI Into a Survey Instrument 15:00 - 15:20 Megan Argo (with John Morgan) Wide-Field imaging of M31 - Imaging the Entire Primary Beam 15:20 - 15:40 Franco Mantovani NEXPReS Project: Recent Developments in Italy 15:40 - 16:10 ― Coffee ―- 16:10 - 16:50 Walter Brisken (invited) Expansion of the Delay Model and a New Framework for Computation of Baseline Vectors16:50 - 17:10 Mark Kettenis Real-Time E-VLBI with the SFXC Software Correlator 17:10 - 17:30 Arthur Niell (with Chris Beaudoin, Geoff Crew, David Lapsley, Chet Ruszczyk, Jason Soohoo, and Alan Whitney) VLBI2010 and e-VLBI
18:00 - 19:00 Performance by Soweto Marimba Youth Legue (SMYLe), Amanzingwe, outside Impala restaurant (weather permitting)
19:00 - 21:00 Workshop dinner (Amanginzwe; Impala restaurant)
Tuesday, Nov. 15
9:00 - 9:40 Huib van Langevelde (invited) Global E-VLBI 9:40 - 10:00 presented by Arpad Szomoru; Martin Ettl (with A. Neidhardt, M. Mühlbauer, W. Alef, E. Himwich, C. Beaudoin, C. Plötz, and A. Szomoru) E-RemoteCtrl: Concepts for VLBI Station Control as Part of NEXPReS 10:00 - 10:20 Wouter Huisman Network Developments within SURFnet 10:20 - 10:40 Chris Phillips VTP: VDIF Transport Protocol 10:40 - 11:10 ― Coffee ― 11:10 - 11:30 Alan Whitney (with David E. Lapsley, Jason SooHoo) The Mark-6 16 Gbps VLBI Data System 11:30 - 11:50 Normunds Jekabsons (with Karina Krinkele, Ivars Smelds, Dominik Stokłosa) Development of Distributed E-VLBI Data Correlation Techno- logies in VIRAC 11:50 - 12:10 Arpad Szomoru The UniBoard 12:10 - 12:30 Paul Boven Networking for NEXPReS 12:30 - 13:30 ― Lunch ― 13:30 - 14:10 Steven Tingay (invited) E-VLBI between Western Australia and New Zealand: First E-VLBI Using ASKAP 14:10 - 14:30 Chris Phillips E-VLBI Progress with the LBA 14:30 - 15:10 Tim Natush (invited) E-VLBI in New Zealand 15:10 - 15:30 Bong Won Sohn (with H.-G. Kim, D.-Y. Byun, M.-G. Song, S.-J. Oh, S.-S. Lee, T. Jung) E-VLBI Status of the Korean VLBI Network 15:30 - 16:00 ― Coffee ― 16:00 - 16:40 Michael Jones (invited) E-VLBI with Goonhilly and E-MERLIN
Wednesday, Nov. 16
8:15 Buses leave Amanzingwe for HartRAO
9:00 - 9:10 Mike Gaylard Welcome to HartRAO 9:10 - 10:30 Tour of the Observatory 10:30 - 11:00 ― Coffee ― 11:00 - 11:20 Mike Gaylard Introduction to the African VLBI Network 11:20 - 11:40 T.L. Venkatasubramani The System Engineering Mosaic for the African VLBI Network 11:40 - 11:50 Bernard Asabere: Radio Astronomy in Ghana 11:50 - 12:00 John Buers Awour: Radio Astronomy in Kenya 12:00 - 12:10 Augustine Chukwude: Radio Astronomy in Nigeria 12:10 - 12:20 Jasper Horrell: VLBI with KAT-7 and MeerKAT 12:20 - 13:00 African VLBI Network – open discussion 13:00 - 14:00 ― Lunch ―
14:30 Buses depart for OR Tambo international airport and for Amanzingwe ― Posters ―
Francisco Colomer, Jesus Gomez-Gonzalez, Jose Antonio Lopez-Fernandez, Marlene Assis, Luis Santos: An Atlantic Network of Geodynamical and Space Stations (Project RAEGE)
Alet DeWitt: Analysis of Potential VLBI Southern Hemisphere Radio Calibrators at 2.3 GHz
Martin Ettl, Alexander Neidhardt, Matthias Mühlbauer, Jim Lovell, Christian Plötz, Hayo Hase, Sergio Sobarzo, Cristian Herrera, Eric Oñate, Pedro Zaror, Felipe Pedreros, Octavio Zapato: Two Weeks of Continuous Remote Attendance During CONT11
Jacques Lepine, Elisabete dal Pino, Ricardo Schaal: LLAMA and South American VLBI possibilities
Laura Richter: Circular Polarisation Calibration Techniques for mm-Wavelength Spectral-Line VLBI
Mikael Taveniku: Commercial Off the Shelf 16 Gbps VLBI and E-VLBI Data Recorder
Alan Whitney, Mark Kettenis, Chris Phillips and Mamoru Sekido: VLBI Data Interchange Format (VDIF)
2011-11-10