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(Preliminary) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

MAY 18

time
Welcome
Jesús Gómez-González & Luis R. Santos 08:50-09:00
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



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MAY 19


Session-A1 90 min

Kamil Teke GNSS zenith delays and gradients in the analysis of VLBI Intensive sessions 09:00-09:15
Benjamin Mannel Observing GNSS L-band signals: ionospheric corrections by co-located GNSS measurements 09:15-09:30
Younghee Kwak VLBI-like GNSS delays in the analysis of CONT11 09:30-09:45
Armin Hofmeister Influence of the horizontal resolution of numerical weather models on ray-traced delays for VLBI analysis 09:45-10:00
Sebastian Halsig Augmenting the stochastic model in VLBI data analysis by correlations from atmospheric turbulence models 10:00-10:15
Robert Heinkelmann Atmospheric refractivity gradients from VLBI compared to those from GNSS, DORIS, WVR, and NWM 10:15-10:30
coffee
10:30-11:00
Session-A2 90 min

Benedikt Soja Subdaily station motions from Kalman filtering VLBI data 11:00-11:15
Tobias Nilsson Antenna axis offsets estimated in VLBI data analysis 11:15-11:30
Thomas Artz Numerical issues of VLBI data analysis 11:30-11:45
Axel Nothnagel Sophistication in UT1-Intensive Scheduling by Using Impact Factors - First Results of Field Tests 11:45-12:00
Daniel MacMillan The CONT campaigns as a precursor to VGOS observing 12:00-12:15
Thomas Hobiger CONT14 as a testbed for the combination of VLBI and GPS data on the observation level 12:15-12:30
12:30-14:00
Extended lunch and poster viewing
Session-A3 75 min

David Mayer Earth Orientation Parameters for VLBA Calibrator Survey Sessions 14:00-14:15
David Gordon Revisiting the VLBA Calibrator Surveys, VCS-II 14:15-14:30
Christopher Jacobs ICRF-3: Status, Plans, and Multi-wavelength Progress towards the next generation ICRF 14:30-14:45
Andreas Iddink Assessment of CRF Solutions from Session-wise Normal Equation Systems 14:45-15:00
César Gattano Studying impacts of strategy choices concerning the Celestial Reference Frame on the estimates of nutation time series during geodesic VLBI Analysis 15:00-15:15
coffee
15:15-15:45
Session-A4 60 min

Patrick Charlot Reducing the impact of source structure on the celestial frame: modeling or mitigation strategies? 15:45-16:00
Lucia Plank On the estimation of a celestial reference frame in the presence of source structure 16:00-16:15
Julian Andres Mora Diaz Baseline geometry and source structure effects in geodetic VLBI 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) 18:15-18:20



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