Welcome
Programme
Slides for the talks are now available by clicking on the talk titles in the sessions schedule
Oral presentations / Poster format
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The programme, including the list of posters, can be downloaded in pdf here.
The book of abstracts can be dowloaded here.
Monday, October 6
| 18:00-20:00 | Registration and Welcome Cocktail Held in Hotel Regina Margherita, Viale Regina Margherita 44 |
Tuesday, October 7
| 08:00-08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45-08:55 | Luigina Feretti / Andrea Tarchi (INAF-IRA/OAC) Welcome and opening addresses |
| 08:55-09:15 | Anton Zensus (MPIfR) EVN: Present and Future |
| SESSION: Low luminosity AGN and starburst galaxies | |
| Chair A. Lobanov | |
| 09:15-09:35 | Mar Mezcua (IAC) Revealing jet radio emission from intermediate-mass black holes Invited |
| 09:35-09:50 | Sandor Frey (FOMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory) Four hot DOGs eaten up with the EVN |
| 09:50-10:05 | Francesca Panessa (INAF-IAPS) On the origin of radio emission in Radio-Quiet AGN and their connection to X-rays |
| 10:05-10:20 | John McKean (ASTRON / Univ. of Groningen) Testing galaxy formation at the highest angular resolution with gravitational lensing |
| 10:20-10:35 | Megan Argo (JBCA) Things that go bump in the night: the curious case of NGC660 |
| 10:35-10:50 | Rebeca Soria-Ruiz (IGN-OAN) Reliable dense-gas tracers at high redshift: the case of CN in the z~4 quasar APM 08279 |
| 10:50-11:15 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| Chair A. Szomoru | |
| 11:15-11:30 | Franco Mantovani (MPIfR / INAF-IRA) EVN observations of weak blazars |
| 11:30-11:45 | Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska (Torun Centre for Astronomy) Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars as a class of low luminosity AGNs |
| 11:45-12:00 | Naìm Ramìrez-Olivencia (IAA-CSIC) EVN imaging of the LIRGI sample |
| 12:00-12:15 | Rob Beswick (JBCA) LeMMINGs e-MERLIN survey of nearby galaxies |
| 12:15-12:30 | Tom Muxlow (JBCA) The e-MERGE Galaxy Evolution Survey |
| 12:30-14:00 | Break for Lunch |
| SESSION: Powerful AGN, jets and gamma-ray emission | |
| Chair A. Zensus | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Monica Orienti (INAF-IRA) Radioemission of relativistic jets and gamma-ray connection Invited |
| 14:20-14:35 | Thomas P. Krichbaum (MPIfR) Millimeter VLBI observations: Black Hole Physics and the Origin of Jets |
| 14:35-14:50 | Marcello Giroletti (INAF-IRA) An EVN survey of hard spectrum gamma ray sources |
| 14:50-15:05 | Venkatessh Ramakrishnan (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observ.) Connection between parsec-scale radio jet and gamma-ray flares in the blazar 1156+295 |
| 15:05-15:20 | Biagina Boccardi (MPIfR) High resolution mm-VLBI imaging of Cygnus A |
| 15:20-15:35 | Anne-Kathrin Baczko (Dr. Remeis Observatory/ECAP/Univ. Würzburg) VLBI Observations of NGC1052 |
| 15:35-15:50 | Kazuhiro Hada (INAF-IRA/NAOJ) Continuing EVN monitoring of HST-1 in the jet of M87 |
| 15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| Chair J.-F. Desmurs | |
| 16:20-16:35 | Tuomas Savolainen (MPIfR) Imaging nearby AGN at ultra high resolution with RadioAstron |
| 16:35-16:50 | Yuri Kovalev (ASC of Lebedev Physical Institute) AGN cores at extreme angular resolutions |
| 16:50-17:05 | Gabriele Giovannini (Univ. Bologna / INAF-IRA) The nuclear structure of 3C84 with space VLBI (RadioAstron) observations |
| 17:05-17:20 | Jose L. Gomez (IAA-CSIC) Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron |
| 17:20-17:35 | Kirill Sokolovsky (ASC Lebedev / SAI MSU) RadioAstron dual-band Space-VLBI observations of 3C 418 and TXS 2013+370 |
| 17:35-17:50 | Cornelia Mueller (Univ. of Würzburg/ Dr Remeis Observatory / ECAP) TANAMI monitoring of Centaurus A: The complex dynamics in the inner parsec of an extragalactic jet |
| 17:50-18:05 | Ivan Agudo (JIVE) Signs of internal rotation and helical magnetic field in the inner jet of NRAO 150 |
Wednesday, October 8
| SESSION: Powerful AGN, jets and gamma-ray emission (cont.) | |
| Chair M. Kunert-Bajraszewska | |
| 08:45-09:00 | Rocco Lico (Univ. Bologna/ IRA-INAF) Very Long Baseline Polarimetry and the Gamma-ray connection in Markarian 421 during the broadband campaign in 2011 |
| 09:00-09:15 | Florent Mertens (MPIfR) Longitudinal and transverse velocity fields in parsec-scale jets |
| 09:15-09:30 | Talvikki Hovatta (Aalto Univ. Metsahovi Radio Observ.) Spectral Index Distributions of Parsec-Scale AGN jets |
| 09:30-09:45 | Jeffrey Hodgson (MPIfR) 5 year Global 3-mm VLBI survey of Gamma-ray active blazars |
| 09:45-10:00 | Andy Biggs (ESO) Mapping HI absorption at z=0.026 against a resolved background CSO |
| 10:00-10:15 | Paola Castangia (INAF-OA Cagliari) VLBI observations of the water megamaser in the nucleus of the Compton-thick AGN IRAS15480-0344 |
| SESSION: Technological issues and new developments | |
| Chair R. Porcas | |
| 10:15-10:35 | Michael Lindqvist (OSO) Present status and technical directions of the EVN Invited |
| 10:35-10:50 | Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA) DBBC3 Development (presented by W. Alef) |
| 10:50-11:15 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 11:15-11:30 | Cristina Garcia-Miro (Madrid Deep Speca Communication Complex NASA) The X/Ka Celestial Reference Frame |
| 11:30-11:45 | Ivan Marti-Vidal (OSO) Solving the polarization problem in ALMA-VLBI observations |
| 11:45-12:00 | Leonid Petrov (ADNET Systems Inc.) Modeling of propagation in the neutral atmosphere for radio astronomy data analysis: a paradigm shift |
| 12:00-12:15 | Uwe Bach (MPIfR) Out of focus holography at Effelsberg |
| 12:30 | Bus to Is Alinos (Silius) |
| 13:15-14:45 | Lunch Buffet at Is Alinos |
| 14:45-16:00 | Presentations on the SRT at Is Alinos |
| Chair A. Tarchi | |
| Andrea Possenti (INAF-OAC)
Astronomy at the Observatory of Cagliari | |
| Nichi D'Amico (INAF-OAC/UniCA)
SRT: Present status and prospects | |
| Isabella Prandoni (INAF-IRA)
The SRT: Astronomical Validation & Scientific Perspectives | |
| 16:00 | Bus to the SRT site |
| 16:15 | Visit at the SRT site (and, possibly, at Belvedere) |
| 18:00 | Bus to Cagliari |
Thursday, October 9
| SESSION: Star Formation | |
| Chair F. Colomer | |
| 08:45-09:05 | Luca Moscadelli (INAF-OAA) High-Mass Star Formation and Maser VLBI Invited |
| 09:05-09:20 | Anita Richards (JBCA / Univ. Manchester) Sub-mm maser VLBI: how do stellar winds break free from the star's gravity? |
| 09:20-09:35 | Kee-Tae Kim (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Inst.) KVN Observations of Class I Methanol Masers |
| 09:35-09:50 | Anna Bartkiewicz (Torun Centre for Astronomy) The methanol maser ring G23.657-0.127 after 9 years |
| 09:50-10:05 | Ciriaco Goddi (JIVE) 3D Gas Dynamics from Methanol Masers observed with the EVN reveals Rotating Disks around O-type Young Stars |
| 10:05-10:20 | Gabriele Surcis (JIVE) Magnetic field measurements at milliarcsecond resolution around massive young stellar objects |
| 10:20-10:35 | Jeoung Sook Kim (NAOJ) Transition in the Outflow Evoution of the Massive Star-forming Region W75N |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| SESSION: Current & future facilities and international collaborations | |
| Chair C. Reynolds | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Jonas Trüstedt (Universität Würzburg) Blazars at Low Radio Frequencies |
| 11:15-11:30 | Do-Young Byun (KASI) Recent Activities of KVN |
| 11:30-11:45 | Matteo Stagni (IRA-INAF) Towards the Italian VLBI network: first tests and perspectives |
| SESSION: Astrometry and planetary science | |
| 11:45-12:05 | Maria Rioja (ICRAR) Astrometry and new methods made possible by the new generation instruments Invited |
| 12:05-12:20 | Nobuyuki Sakai (NAOJ / Univ. of Tokyo) Direct comparison between VERA, VLBA and EVN astrometry results and an analytic gas dynamics model |
| 12:20-12:35 | Marcin Gawronski (Torun Centre for Astronomy) Project RISARD - the story so far |
| 12:35-12:50 | Guifre Molera Calves (JIVE) Scintillation of Venus and Mars Express radio signal on interplanetary and ionosphere plasma |
| 12:50-14:30 | Break for Lunch |
| SESSION: Supernovae and late stages of stellar evolution | |
| Chair Z. Paragi | |
| 14:30-14:50 | Michael Bietenholz (HartRAO) VLBI of Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts Invited |
| 14:50-15:05 | Miguel Perez-Torres (IAA-CSIC) Constraints on the progenitor system and the environs of SN 2014J from deep EVN and MERLIN radio observations |
| 15:05-15:20 | Jun Yang (OSO) VLBI detection of the internal shocks in nova V959 Mon |
| 15:20-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Users Meeting |
| Chair T. Muxlow | |
| Thomas Muxlow (JBCA)
EVN Users Meeting | |
| Bob Campbell (JIVE)
Software Correlation at JIVE & Real-time e-VLBI in the EVN | |
| Alastair Gunn (JBCA)
EVN Scheduling | |
| Users Meeting Notes by Richard Porcas | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Coffee Break |
| For EVN Symposium Football Match players and supporters | |
| 17:30 | Bus to Football match pitch |
| 18:00-19:30 | Football match |
| 19:30-20:30 | Aperitif at the Hotel Panorama |
| 20:30 | Conference Dinner at the Hotel Panorama Restaurant (8th floor) |
Friday, October 10
| SESSION : Milky Way | |
| Chair M. Bietenholtz | |
| 09:00-09:20 | Mareki Honma (NAOJ) Maser Astrometry with VLBI and Galactic Structure Invited |
| 09:20-09:35 | Rebecca Azulay (Univ. de Valencia / MPIfR) Binary stars in moving groups |
| 09:35-09:50 | Benito Marcote (Univ. of Barcelona) Discovering the colliding wind binary HD 93129A |
| 09:50-10:05 | Danielle Fenech (Univ. College London) Preliminary results the COBRaS e-MERLIN legacy project |
| 10:05-10:20 | Sandra Etoka (Hamburg Observatory) Phase-lag distance of OH83.4-0.9 from eMERLIN and NRT observations |
| 10:20-10:35 | Jean-Francois Desmurs (IGN-OAN) SiO masers from AGB stars in the vibrationally excited v=1,v=2, and v=3 states |
| 10:35-10:50 | Soon-Wook Kim (KASI) Flaring Episodes of Cyg X-3 with Korean and Japanese VLBI |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| SESSION: Pulsars and transient objects | |
| Chair M. Lindqvist | |
| 11:20-11:40 | Maria Massi (MPIfR) Transient sources at the highest angular resolution Invited |
| 11:40-11:55 | Javier Moldon (ASTRON) A pulsar wind nebula associated with PSR J2032+4127 as the powering source of TeV J2032+4130 |
| 11:55-12:10 | Andrey Andrianov (ASC Lebedev Physical Inst.) Study of scattering material with RadioAstron-VLBI observations |
| 12:10-12:25 | Alexey Rudnitskiy (ASC Lebedev Physical Inst.) Preliminary results of giant pulse investigations from Crab pulsar with Radioastron |
| 12:25-12:40 | Olaf Wucknitz (MPIfR) Scattering as a nuisance and as a tool |
| 12:40-13:00 | H. van Langevelde (JIVE) Concluding remarks |
| 13:00 | End of Symposium |
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