MAY 18			time
Welcome		Eng.º Bruno Pacheco, President of the RAEGE Executive Committee, and Eng.º Vitor Fraga, Regional Secretary of Tourism and Transports of the Azores Government	08:45-09:00
Session-T1	90 min
Bill	Petrachenko	VGOS Operational Readiness	09:00-09:15
Kazuhiro	Takefuji	Broadband VLBI at 6GHz to 14GHz frequency between Kashima 34 m and Ishioka 13 m	09:15-09:30
Jose Antonio	Lopez Fernandez	Technological Developments for VGOS from IGN Yebes Observatory	09:30-09:45
Pablo	de Vicente	The 13m Yebes antenna. Telescope control, commisioning and tests	09:45-10:00
Torben	Schüler	Results from the TWIN Commissioning Phase	10:00-10:15
Jamie	McCallum	Toward VGOS with the AuScope array	10:15-10:30
coffee		10:30-11:00
Session-T2	90 min
Gino	Tuccari	DBBC3L - A full compliant VGOS backend	11:00-11:15
Evgeny	Nosov	Development of Multipurpose Digital Backend for "Quasar" network radio telescopes	11:15-11:30
Alessandra	Bertarini	Validation of the Yebes 40m DBBC	11:30-11:45
Alexander	Neidhardt	Results from the test realization of a system monitoring for seamless auxiliary data	11:45-12:00
Walter	Alef	Expanding the Bonn Correlator for VGOS and summary of recent activities	12:00-12:15
Voytsekh	Ken	IAA VGOS GPU-based software correlator: current status and broadband processing	12:15-12:30
12:30-14:00		Extended lunch and poster viewing
Session-O1	75 min
Jesus	Gomez-Gonzalez	Status of the Spanish/Portuguese RAEGE project	14:00-14:15
Jim	Lovell	The southern hemisphere AUSTRAL program: A pathway to VGOS	14:15-14:30
Ryoji	Kawabata	GSI's regional stations and AOV activities	14:30-14:45
Yoshihiro	Fukuzaki	First geodetic result of Ishioka VGOS Station in Japan	14:45-15:00
Fengchun	Shu	On the role of Tianma radio telescope for improving celestial reference frames	15:00-15:15
coffee		15:15-15:45
Session-O2	75 min
Yuri	Bondarenko	Russian radio interferometer of new generation	15:45-16:00
Arthur	Niell	Status report on observations with the GGAO-Westford VGOS systems	16:00-16:15
Ludwig	Combrinck	Contributions of HartRAO to Space Geodesy, Astrometry and related disciplines	16:15-16:30
Matteo	Stagni	Geodetic Italian VLBI: first tests	16:30-16:45
Hayo	Hase	An Observation and Analysis Scenario for VGOS in 2020	16:45-17:00
break		17:00-17:30 "strech-your-legs"
Session-O3	60 min
John	Gipson	Practical Uses of VGOSDB format	17:30-17:45
Andreas	Hellerschmied	Scheduling VLBI observations to satellites with the Vienna VLBI Software (VieVS)	17:45-18:00
Rüdiger	Haas	GLONASS-VLBI: Onsala-Wettzell test observations	18:00-18:15
James M	Anderson	Software Development for D-VLBI Scheduling and Analysis of Spacecraft Observations	18:15-18:30
			END 18:30
MAY 19
INAUGURATION OF THE GEODETIC VLBI STATION IN ZELENCHUKSKAYA (RUSSIA)			09:00-09:30
Session-A1	75 min
Kamil	Teke	GNSS zenith delays and gradients in the analysis of VLBI Intensive sessions	09:30-09:45
Benjamin	Mannel	Observing GNSS L-band signals: ionospheric corrections by co-located GNSS measurements	09:45-10:00
Younghee	Kwak	VLBI-like GNSS delays in the analysis of CONT11	10:00-10:15
Armin	Hofmeister	Influence of the horizontal resolution of numerical weather models on ray-traced delays for VLBI analysis	10:15-10:30
Sebastian	Halsig	Augmenting the stochastic model in VLBI data analysis by correlations from atmospheric turbulence models	10:30-10:45
coffee		10:45-11:15
Session-A2	105 min
Robert	Heinkelmann	Atmospheric refractivity gradients from VLBI compared to those from GNSS, DORIS, WVR, and NWM	11:15-11:30
Benedikt	Soja	Subdaily station motions from Kalman filtering VLBI data	11:30-11:45
Tobias	Nilsson	Antenna axis offsets estimated in VLBI data analysis	11:45-12:00
Thomas	Artz	Numerical issues of VLBI data analysis	12:00-12:15
Axel	Nothnagel	Sophistication in UT1-Intensive Scheduling by Using Impact Factors - First Results of Field Tests	12:15-12:30
Daniel	MacMillan	The CONT campaigns as a precursor to VGOS observing	12:30-12:45
Thomas	Hobiger	CONT14 as a testbed for the combination of VLBI and GPS data on the observation level	12:45-13:00
13:00-14:15		Extended lunch and poster viewing
Session-A3	60 min
David	Mayer	Earth Orientation Parameters for VLBA Calibrator Survey Sessions	14:15-14:30
David	Gordon	Revisiting the VLBA Calibrator Surveys, VCS-II	14:30-14:45
Christopher	Jacobs	ICRF-3: Status, Plans, and Multi-wavelength Progress towards the next generation ICRF	14:45-15:00
Andreas	Iddink	Assessment of CRF Solutions from Session-wise Normal Equation Systems	15:00-15:15
coffee		15:15-15:45
Session-A4	60 min
César	Gattano	Studying impacts of strategy choices concerning the Celestial Reference Frame on the estimates of nutation time series during geodesic VLBI Analysis	15:45-16:00
Patrick	Charlot	Reducing the impact of source structure on the celestial frame: modeling or mitigation strategies?	16:00-16:15
Lucia	Plank	On the estimation of a celestial reference frame in the presence of source structure	16:15-16:30
Arnaud	Collioud	Imaging the IYA09 VLBI super-session	16:30-16:45
break		16:45-17:15 "strech-your-legs"
Session-A5	60 min
Géraldine	Bourda	Aligning VLBI and Gaia Extragalactic Celestial Reference Frames	17:15-17:30
Minghui	Xu	Estimating the velocity of the Solar barycenter from VLBI observations	17:30-17:45
Guangli	Wang	The CVN Geodetic Observation and its Result	17:45-18:00
Wu	Jiang	Preliminary results of pulsar astrometry with CVN	18:00-18:15
Closure		Rüdiger Haas (EVGA Chair) Dr. Fausto Abreu, Regional Secretary of science and technology of the Azores Government	18:15-18:30
			END 18:30