Monday June 22nd 2009
0900 – 0905 Welcome – Jesús Gómez-González (IGN Deputy Director)
0905 – 0910 Welcome by the EXPReS Project Coordinator – Huib J. van Langevelde
SESSION 1 - INTRODUCTORY TALKS – Jesús Gómez González (IGN)
0910 – 0950 Setting the scene; the scientific applications of eVLBI (invited) - John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory) PDF
0950 – 1030 LOFAR project Status (invited) - Michael Garrett (ASTRON) PDF
SESSION 2 - TRANSIENTS I - Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)
1030 – 1110 Novae and CV's (invited) - Tim O'Brien (Manchester Univ) PDF
1110 – 1130 Coffee break
1130 – 1210 Probing Gamma-Ray Burst and Supernova Explosions with Radio Observations (invited) - Alexander van der Horst (NASA/MSFC/ORAU)
1210 – 1250 Type II supernovae and starbursts (invited) - Miguel Pérez-Torres (IAA)
1250 – 1320 A new radio supernova in M82 - Andreas Brunthaler (MPIfR, Bonn) PDF
1320 – 1500 Lunch
1500 – 1540 Multi-wavelength observations of High Energy Transients (invited) - Julie McEnery (GSFC-NASA) PDF
SESSION 3 - NON-TRANSIENT EVLBI OBSERVATIONS - Chris Phillips (CSIRO/ATNF)
1540 – 1610 A suspected dark lens revealed with the e-EVN - Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)
1610 – 1640 Is an AGN at the center of the disk galaxy IC 2497 responsible for Hanny's Voorwerp? - Hayden Rampadarath (JIVE/Leiden) PDF
1640 – 1710 Coffee break
1710 – 1740 e-VLBI observations of the ULX at M33 - Alfonso Trejo (UNAM) PDF
1740 – 1830 Spectral line applications using eVLBI (invited) - Andreas Brunthaler (MPIfR Bonn) PDF
1830 – 2030 eVSAG meeting (closed for members only)
21:00 eVSAG members may join for dinner at Restaurant “La Gloria”
Tuesday June 23rd 2009
SESSION 4 - GEODESY AND ASTROMETRY - Huib van Langevelde (JIVE)
0920 – 1000 e-VLBI for geosciences (invited) - Rüdiger Haas (Onsala Space Observatory) PDF
1000 – 1030 Multi-view e-VLBI - Maria Rioja, (UWA Australia)
SESSION 5 - TRANSIENTS II - James Miller-Jones (NRAO)
1030 – 1110 Active Stars and Brown Dwarfs (invited) - Greg Hallinan (Galway U. Ireland) PDF
1110 – 1140 Coffee break
1140 – 1220 Microquasars & eVLBI: Made for each other? (invited) - Vivek Dhawan (NRAO) PDF
1220 – 1300 The proper motion and changing jet morphology of Cygnus X-3 - James Miller-Jones (NRAO)
1300 – 1320 Correlated radio/X-ray behaviour of Cyg X-3 – Valeriu Tudose (ASTRON)
1320 – 1450 Lunch + Compulsory visit to OAM (Historic site and Herschel telescope)
TRANSIENTS II (cont) - Alexander van der Horst (NASA/MSFC/ORAU)
1450 – 1520 Variations within the compact jet from the black hole candidate GRS 1915+105 - Anthony Rushton (JBCA/Manchester) PDF
1520 – 1600 Pulsars, eVLBI and LEAP (invited) - Ben Stappers (JBCA/Manchester) PDF
1600 – 1630 Coffee break
1630 – 1710 Monitoring the variable radio sky with LOFAR (invited) - Ben Stappers (JBCA/Manchester) PDF
1710 – 1750 Standards and systems for transient response (invited) - John Swinbank (Amsterdam U)
1750 – 1900 Panel discussion - Future organisation/multiwavelngth coordination to maximise science impact of eVLBI
21:00 Conference dinner at Restaurant “El Cenador del Prado”
Wednesday June 24th 2009
All sessions at Yebes Observatory
0830 Bus leave from hotel Agumar
0830 – 0945 Drive to Yebes
SESSION 6 - Joint Science/technical session - regional and instrument reports
Part I Chair: John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory)
1000 – 1030 eEVN progress (invited) - Arpad Szomoru (JIVE)
1030 – 1100 e-VLBI Activities in Japan (invited) – Mamoru Sekido (Kashima) PDF
1100 – 1130 Coffee break
1130 – 1200 e-VLBI progress in Australia (invited) - Tasso Tzioumis (ATNF, Australia) PDF
1200 – 1230 Chinese VLBI Network and its application to eVLBI (invited) - Chen Zhong (CAS) PDF
1230 – 1300 NRAO VLBA Upgrade Plans and Prospects (invited) - Vivek Dhawan (NRAO) PDF PDF
1300 – 1330 Current status of Korean VLBI Network and future plan for e-VLBI (invited) - Bong Won Sohn (KASSI) PDF
1330 – 1430 Lunch
1430 – 1630 Visit to Yebes observatory.
Part II Chair: Tasso Tzioumis (ATNF)
1630 – 1700 Progress and status of eMERLIN (invited) - Ralph Spencer (JBCA/ Manchester U) PDF
1700 – 1730 Future of eVLBI (invited) - Huib van Langevelde (JIVE)
1730 – 1800 Coffee break
1800 - Return to Madrid
Thursday, June 25th 2009
SESSION 7 - NREN MEETING (Chair: John Chevers - DANTE)
0900 – 0935 Future prospects for GEANT (invited) - John Chevers (DANTE) PDF
0935 – 1000 Connecting telescopes down under - the Australian Research and Education Network - Shaun Amy (CSIRO/ATNF) PDF
1000 – 1025 The Network Infrastructure for radio astronomy in Italy - Mauro Nanni (INAF) PDF
1025 – 1050 Regular e-transfer experiences for geodetic INTENSIVE experiments at Wettzell - Gerhard Kronschnabl (BKG-Wettzell) PDF
1050 – 1120 Coffee
1120 – 1145 Experience gained in using 4 Gigabit Trans-European link from Onsala to Jodrell Bank - Richard Hughes-Jones (DANTE) PDF
1145 – 1155 RedIRIS-NOVA – Esther Robles (RedIRIS) PDF
1155 – 1210 Discussion of Network Issues
SESSION 8 - e-VLBI TECHNIQUES (Chair: Arpad Szomoru - JIVE)
1210 – 1235 eVLBI Networking Tricks - Paul Boven (JIVE)
1235 – 1300 GPU - channelised eVLBI, a more efficient approach - Richard Dodson (UWA) PDF
1300 – 1325 e-control - a new concept for remote control of VLBI telescopes and first expereince at Wetzell - Christian Plötz (BKG-Wettzell) PDF
1325 - 1450 Lunch + Compulsory visit to OAM (Historic site and Herschel telescope)
1440 – 1450 Haystack-NRAO 4 Gbps status – Chet Ruszczyk (MIT-Haystack) PDF
1450 – 1515 eVLBI developments on the LBA - Chris Phillips (CSIRO/ATNF) PDF
1515 – 1540 Connecting iBOBs to the eMERLIN correlator - Jonathan Hargreaves (JBO) PDF
1540 – 1605 European 4 Gbps VLBI and eVLBI – Guifré Molera (Metsähovi RO) PDF
1605 – 1640 Coffee break
SESSION 9 - VDIF SESSION (Chair: Alan Whitney – MIT-Haystack RAO)
1640 – 1710 Introduction VDIF and VTP (invited) - Alan Whitney (MIT-Haystack RAO) PDF
1710 – 1730 A proposal for defining the VLBI Application transport header - Richard Hughes-Jones (DANTE) PDF
1730 – 1830 Open discussion
Friday June 26th 2009
SESSION 10 - SOFTWARE AND DISTRIBUTED CORRELATION (Chair: Richard Hughes-Jones - DANTE)
0900 – 0925 Performance testing of the DiFX correlator - Chris Phillips (CSIRO/ATNF)
0925 – 0950 eVLBI with the SFXC correlator - Mark Kettenis (JIVE) PDF
0950 – 1015 The latest tests of the SFXC correlator - Yuri Pidopryhora (JIVE) PDF
1015 – 1040 User interaction and workflow management in Grid enabled eVLBI experiments - Dominik Stocklosa (PSNC) PDF
1040 – 1110 Coffee break
SESSION 11 - THE FUTURE OF NETWORKS AND VLBI SCIENCE (Chair: Ralph Spencer - JBCA/ Manchester U)
1110 – 1145 Ja-Net prospects (invited) - David Salmon (JANET) PDF
1130 – 1205 Application Driven Petabit Optical Networking (invited) - Ivan Andonovic (Strathclyde U) PDF
1205 – 1240 Long Baselines in the Square Kilometre Array (invited) - Roshene McCool (SPDO) PDF
1240 – 1315 Advances in Optical Networking Technologies Transmission and Switching Techniques for Tb/s of Optical Data (invited) – Colin Wallace (PLM EMEA) PDF
1315 – 1330 Discussion and wrap up
1330 Lunch and adjourn
POSTERS
Andrey Finkelstein: e-VLBI technique in radio network "Quasar" PDF
Kenneth Johnston: Near Real-time UT1 Estimation using e-VLBI
Aard Keimpema: SFXC - A distributed software correlator for VLBI
Kensuke Kokado: The history of e-VLBI Activites for GSI VLBI stations
Michael Lindqvist: e-VLBI related activities at the Onsala Space Observatory
Walid Majid: VLBI Calibrator Density at the Milli-Jansky Level
Ivars Smelds : Looking for fringes from the Irbene 32 m radio telescope
Hiroshi Takaba: Development of real-time Giga-bit Geodesy e-VLBI using Super-SINET
Kazuhiro Takashima: Fundamental research about the space-time information certification using VLBI correlation technique