Scientific program

Invited and Oral contributions

You may find posters' abstracts at the the abstracts page


Monday, March 5th
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome by Mr. Mariano Navas-Gutierrez (Director at CEDEX)
and Jesus Gomez-Gonzalez (IGN Deputy Director)
09:05 - 09:10 Local announcements
09:10 - 09:25 H. Schuh Welcome address and Chair's Report
Session 1: The Next-Generation IVS Network and VLBI2010 Technology Developments. Chairs: Bill Petrachenko (09:25-13:00), Hayo Hase (11:15-13:00), Bill Petrachenko (14:30-16:15)
09:25 - 09:50 H. Kutterer Establishment of the GGOS and the Importance of the Next-Generation VLBI System for It (I)
09:50 - 10:15 J. Gomez-Gonzalez RAEGE: the Spanish-Portuguese contribution to GGOS (I)
10:15 - 10:30 H. Hase The Future VLBI2010 Network (C)
10:30 - 10:45 A. Niell First broadband results with a VLBI2010 system (C)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:30 J.A. Lopez Fernandez The RAEGE VLBI2010 Radiotelescope (C)
11:30 - 11:45 Y. Fukuzaki New Project for constructing VLBI2010 Antenna in Japan (C)
11:45 - 12:00 P.E. Opset Outreach activities in the endeavor for financing an upgrade of the Geodetic Observatory in Ny-Alesund (C)
12:00 - 12:15 J. Sun New observing strategies with twin telescopes for geodetic VLBI (C)
12:15 - 12:30 J. Leek Prospects of IVS-Intensive Sessions with Twin-Telescopes (C)
12:30 - 12:45 B. Petrachenko VLBI2010: Progress and Challenges (C)
12:45 - 13:00 C. Beaudoin VLBI2010 and the Westford station - the path forward (C)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 14:45 F. Tercero S/X/Ka coaxial feed for the tri-band receiver for RAEGE antennas (C)
14:45 - 15:00 J.A. López-Pérez A tri-band cryogenic receive for the RAEGE project antennas (C)
15:00 - 15:15 K. Takefuji Study of RF direct sampling technique for geodetic VLBI (C)
15:15 - 15:30 G. Tuccari DBBC3 - A full digital implementation of the VLBI2010 backend (C)
15:30 - 15:45 C. Ruszczyk VLBI 2010 using the RDBE and Mark5C (C)
15:45 - 16:00 A. Whitney Mark 6 Next-Generation VLBI Data System (C)
16:00 - 16:15 R. Cappallo Correlation and Post-processing for VLBI2010 (C)
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
Session 2: Correlators, Stations and Operations Centers. Chairs: David Hall (16:45-18:35), Rüdiger Haas (09:00-10:45), David Hall (11:15-12:15)
16:45 - 17:10 K. Kokado Recent Activities of Tsukuba Correlator/Analysis Center (I)
17:10 - 17:25 A. Bertarini Bonn Correlator Status Report. (C)
17:25 - 17:40 S. Bernhart e-transfer at the Bonn correlator (C)
17:40 - 18:05 U. Schreiber Improving VLBI Station Performance (I)
18:05 - 18:20 M. Ettl e-RemoteCtrl: Concepts for VLBI station control as part of NEXPReS (C)
18:20 - 18:35 H. Takiguchi Warkworth geodetic station as a potential GGOS core site in New Zealand (C)
Tuesday, March 6th
09:00 - 09:15 S. Yi Korea Geodetic VLBI station (C)
09:15 - 09:30 A. Santamaría-Gómez Estimation of the invariant reference point: first steps at Yebes (C)
09:30 - 09:45 I. Ryuichi MARBLE (Multiple Antenna Radio-interferometry for Baseline Length Evaluation): Development of a compact VLBI system for calibrating GNSS and electronic distance measurement devices (C)
09:45 - 10:00 J. Lovell The AuScope VLBI Array (C)
10:00 - 10:15 F. Shu Geodetic VLBI observations for the CMONOC project (C)
10:15 - 10:30 E. Skurikhina EOP Determination using the Russian Domestic VLBI Network "Quasar" (C)
10:30 - 10:45 D. Boboltz A New VLBI Intensive Series Using the Mauna Kea and Pie Town Stations of the VLBA (C)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:30 C. García-Miró VLBI Data Acquisition Terminal modernization at the Deep Space Network (C)
11:30 - 11:45 B. Mannel Co-location of VLBI with other techniques in space: a simulation study (C)
11:45 - 12:00 I. Schmelds Plans for geo-VLBI in parallel to astro-VLBI observations at the VIRAC, Latvia (C)
12:00 - 12:15 L. Liu Simulation Analysis of Positioning for probes in Chinese CE-3 mission (C)
Session 3: Advances in Software Development, Analysis Strategies and Data Structure. Chair: Sébastien Lambert (12:15-13:05, 14:30-16:30, 09:00-09:30)
12:15 - 12:40 J. Gipson Report of IVS Working 4: Proposed VLBI Data Format (I)
12:40 - 13:05 D. Gambis Combination of Astro-Geodetic Techniques at the Normal Equation Level (I)
13:05 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 14:45 S. Bachmann IVS combination center at BKG: Recent Activities (C)
14:45 - 15:00 C. Herrera Remote Control and Monitoring of VLBI Experiments by Smartphones (C)
15:00 - 15:15 A. Neidhardt Ideas for a cooperative software development for future GGOS stations (C)
15:15 - 15:30 S. Bolotin The First Release of nuSolve (C)
15:30 - 15:45 K. Le Bail Improving VLBI Processing by using Homogeneous Data for Pressure and Temperature (C)
15:45 - 16:00 M. Madzak Universal Time from VLBI Intensives with ray-traced delays (C)
16:00 - 16:15 A. Romero-Wolf Effects of Clock Correlated Noise on the Analysis of Space Geodetic Data (C)
16:15 - 16:30 Y. Kwak Baseline analysis of 24-hour GPS-VLBI Hybrid observation (C)
16:30 - 18:30 Poster session and refreshments
Wednesday, March 7th
09:00 - 09:15 L. Plank Processing SELENE Differential VLBI Data (C)
09:15 - 09:30 L. Chen Multi-frequency Same Beam VLBI Method Based on General TT and C Signal
Session 4: Results in Geodesy, Astrometry and Geophysics and Their Interpretation. Chairs: Zinovy Malkin (09:30-10:45), Thomas Artz (11:15-13:00), Johannes Böhm (09:00-11:25)
09:30 - 09:45 J. Bohm Challenges and perspectives for celestial and terrestrial reference frame determination (C)
09:45 - 10:00 M. Seitz Consistent computation of ITRF and ICRF from homogeneously processed observation data (C)
10:00 - 10:15 M. Blossfeld The role of VLBI in the weekly inter-technique combination (C)
10:15 - 10:30 S. Shabala Network and quasar structure effects on the VLBI reference frame (C)
10:30 - 10:45 G. Bourda Towards an accurate alignment of the VLBI frame and the future Gaia optical frame: global VLBI imaging observations of a sample of candidate sources for this alignment (C)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:30 C.S. Jacobs The Celestial Reference Frame at X/Ka-band (8.4/32 GHz) (C)
11:30 - 11:45 W. Majid Dual Frequency VLBI Monitoring of a Large Sample of Compact Extragalactic Sources at 8 and 32 GHz (C)
11:45 - 12:00 S. Horiuchi 32 GHz Celestial Reference Frame Survey for Dec less than -45 deg (C)
12:00 - 12:15 B. Zhang Radio Astrometry of Red Supergiant VY CMa (C)
12:15 - 12:30 X. Minghui Direct estimation of the Solar acceleration using geodetic/astrometric VLBI observations (C)
12:30 - 12:45 L. Combrinck A comparison of General Relativity Theory evaluations using VLBI and SLR; will GGOS improve these results? (C)
12:45 - 13:00 Z. Malkin Celestial pole offset: from initial analysis to end user (C)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break and trip to Yebes
21:00 Conference dinner at Restaurant Samarkanda
Thursday, March 8th
09:00 - 09:15 T. Nilsson High frequency Earth rotation parameters estimated from the CONT campaigns (C)
09:15 - 09:30 M. Uunila Influence of source constellations on UT1 derived from IVS INT1 sessions (C)
09:30 - 09:45 H. Spicakova Solid Earth tide parameters from VLBI measurements and FCN analysis (C)
09:45 - 10:10 V. Dehant Recent advances in applications of geodetic VLBI to geophysics (I)
10:10 - 10:25 G. Elgered Assessing the quality of WVR data from Onsala during the CONT11 geodetic VLBI campaign (C)
10:25 - 10:40 H. Kierulf Past and present-day ice mass variation on Svalbard revealed by superconducting gravimeter, GPS and VLBI measurements (C)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:25 R. Haas VLBI and GNSS frequency link stabilities during CONT campaigns (C)
11:25 - 11:40 B. Campbell Real-time e-VLBI in the EVN and software correlation developments at JIVE (C)
Session 5: VLBI Analysis and Results from the Recent Megaquakes in Japan and Chile. Chair: Ryuichi Ichikawa (11:40-13:00)
11:40 - 12:05 R. Gross The Rotational and Gravitational Signature of Recent Great Earthquakes (I)
12:05 - 12:30 S. Kurihara The impact of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake on Tsukuba 32-m VLBI station (I)
12:30 - 12:45 D. MacMillan Effects of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake on VLBI geodetic measurements (C)
12:45 - 13:00 N. Kareinen Determination of Tsukuba VLBI station post-Tohoku earthquake coordinates using VieVS (C)
13:00 - 13:10 H. Schuh Closing
14:30 - 18:30 A. Nothnagel 13th IVS Analysis Workshop
Friday, March 9th
9:00 - 17:00 Meeting of the IVS Board, at Royal Observatory of Madrid.