Programme of 20th Meeting of EVGA
| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:45 | Session 1 (Chair: A. Nothnagel) |
| Zensus A. | Welcome address |
| Alef W. | Organisational issues |
| Nothnagel A. | Welcome address by the Chair of EVGA |
| Campbell J. | EVGA - Looking back at the early beginnings |
| Sun J. | Status and future plans for the VieVS scheduling package |
| Pietzner J. Nothnagel A. | Geodetic VLBI Intensive scheduling based on singular value decomposition |
| Collioud A. | IVS Live: All IVS sessions on your desktop |
| IVS Live: All IVS sessions on your desktop (demo) | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Session 2 (Chair: R. Porcas) |
| Tuccari G. | DBBC3 - Multigigabit Backend |
| Brisken W. | RDBE |
| Ettl M. et al. | Concepts for continuous quality monitoring and station remote control |
| Neidhardt A. et al. | New observation strategies with e-control |
| Whitney A. | A COTS-Hardware Candidate for the Next-Generation VLBI Data System |
| Bertarini A. | Polarization Leakage: Final Result |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 15:30 | Session 3 (Chair: H. Hase) |
| Salnikov A. et al. | The Quasar Network Observations in e-VLBI Mode |
| Shu F. | The current status of a Chinese domestic geodetic VLBI observing program |
| Zhang X. | The Orbiting of Chinese Lunar Mission with CVN |
| Muehle S. | Recent Developments at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) |
| Alef W. | Bonn correlator status report |
| Plank L., Boehm J., Schuh H. | First steps of processing space VLBI data with VieVS |
| 15:30 - 16.00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4 (Chair: A. Nothnagel) |
| Petrachenko B. | VLBI2010: Status and Prospects |
| Cappallo R. | Correlator Post-processing Algorithms for VLBI2010 |
| Niell A. and the VLBI2010 Broadband Development Group | Status of the NASA VLBI2010 Proof-of-concept System |
| Beaudoin C. | Sensitivity evaluation of two VLBI2010 candidate feeds |
| MacMillan D. | Assessing the accuracy of geodetic measurements for the VLBI2010 observing network |
| Hase H. and the member of V2PEG | The future global VLBI2010 network of the IVS |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner (Da Capo) |
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
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| 09:00 - 10:45 | Session 5 (Chair: H. Schuh) |
| Finkelstein A. et al. | EOP determination from observations of Russian VLBI-network QUASAR |
| Bolotin S. | Current Status of Development of New VLBI Data Analysis Software |
| Hobiger T. et al. | VLBI analysis with c5++ - status quo and outlook |
| Nilsson T. | Status and future plans for the Vienna VLBI Software VieVS |
| Artz T, Nothnagel A, Steigenberger P, Tesmer S. | Evaluation of Combined Sub-daily UT1-Estimates from GPS and VLBI Observations |
| Haas R et al. | Near real-time monitoring of UT1 with geodetic VLBI |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Session 6 (Chair: R. Haas) |
| Spicakova H. | Terrestrial reference frame solutions with the Vienna VLBI Software VieVS |
| Seitz M. | Common realization of Terrestrial and Celestial Reference System |
| Boehm J. | Impact of a priori gradients on VLBI- and GNSS-derived reference frames |
| Garcia-Espada S. | Application of ray-tracing through the high resolution numerical weather model HIRLAM for the analysis of European VLBI data |
| Le Bail K, Gipson JM | Strategy to improve the homogeneity of meteorological data in CALC/SOLVE database |
| Gipson J. | Report on IVS Working Group 4: Data Structures |
| 12:45 - 14:45 | Extended lunch incl. poster viewing |
| Ilin G. Radio frequency interference at QUASAR Network Observatories (poster) |
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| Tornatore V. Single baseline GLONASS observations with VLBI: oreliminary results (poster) |
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| 14:45 - 15:30 | Session 7 (Chair: D. Behrend) |
| Duev D. | A Tropospheric Signal Delay Model for Radio Astronomical Observations |
| Kwak Y et al. | Validation Experiment of the GPS-VLBI hybrid system |
| Bourda G. | Towards an accurate alignment of the VLBI frame and the future Gaia optical frame: Global VLBI observations status to image candidate sources |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 8 (Chair: B. Petrachenko) |
| Jacobs C et al. | The Celestial Reference Frame at X/KA-Band |
| Lambert S, Titov O. | VLBI measurement of the secular aberration drift |
| Titov O et al. | Optical spectra of the flat-spectrum radio sources measured at NTT telescope |
| Deller A. | PSRPI: A large VLBA pulsar parallax program. |
| Nothnagel A. | Closing remarks |
| 18:00 - 20.00 | Splinter Meeting IVS Working Group on VLBI2010 (Location: IGG, Nußallee 17) |
Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
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| 12th IVS Analysis Workshop | |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Session 1 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session 2 |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Departure to Effelsberg |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Visit of 100m radio telescope |
| 16:30 | Return to Bonn |
Friday, April 1, 2011 |
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| 25th IVS Directing Board Meeting (at Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Nussallee 17, Bonn) |
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| 09:00 - 18:00 | DB Meeting |
| 19.00 | Board Dinner (Em Höttche) |
| 09:00 - | Splinter Meetings (t.b.d.) |