Name: Resolving The Sky - Radio Interferometry: Past, Present and Future
Start: 2012-04-17T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2012-04-20T18:20:00+01:00
Location: The Lowry Hotel

Monday, 16 April 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

17:30 Reception and Registration
Reception and Registration
17:30 - 20:30
Room: Banqueting Hall
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

08:00 Registration and Tea, Coffee & Danish Pastries
Registration and Tea, Coffee & Danish Pastries
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Ballroom 1
09:00 Introduction to RTS 2012 and Logistics - Michael Garrett (ASTRON) Colin Greenwood (SPDO)
Introduction to RTS 2012 and Logistics
- Michael Garrett (ASTRON)
- Colin Greenwood (SPDO)
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Ballroom 1
09:10
09:10 - 10:30
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

09:10 First Interferometry in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott Observes Solar Type I Bursts Australia Day, 26 January 1946 - Miller Goss (NRAO)

09:30 The Structure of Radio Sources: the Molonglo Papers - Bruce McAdam (University of Sydney)

09:50 Breaking the Milliarcsecond Barrier - Kenneth Kellermann (NRAO)

10:10 Early VLBI observations in the Soviet Union - Leonid Matveenko (Space Research Institute, head VLBI Laboratory)
10:30 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Ballroom 1
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

11:00 The Beginnings of the EVN and JIVE in Europe - Roy Booth (Hartebeeshoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)

11:20 Highlights of the Expansion of SN1993J - Jon Marcaide (Univ Valencia)

11:40 The History of the SKA - Born Global - Ron Ekers (CSIRO)

12:00 The Start of SKA: What Really Happened - Jan Noordam (ASTRON)

12:20 Connecting Early VLBI to SKA Capabilities - Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON)
12:40 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Ballroom 1
13:40
13:40 - 15:00
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

13:40 The Story of Space VLBI - Richard Schilizzi (SPDO)

14:00 Space VLBI as Seen from Japan - Hisashi Hirabayashi (The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (retired))

14:20 The Development of VLBI in China and its Relation to the EVN - Xiaoyu Hong (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

14:40 Beyond VLBI - Microarcsecond Resolution with Inter-Stellar Scintillation - David Jauncey (CASS & MSO)
15:00 TEA, COFFEE & CAKE
TEA, COFFEE & CAKE
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom 1

15:30 VISIT TO JODRELL BANK
VISIT TO JODRELL BANK
15:30 - 20:00
Room: (Lovell Telescope)
Thursday, 19 April 2012

08:30 TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES
TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Ballroom 1
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

09:00 The 'Never-ending' Story of J1819+3845 and Some New Results on BLLac's Faraday Fog - Ger de Bruyn (ASTRON)

09:20 Combining VLBI and MASIV – How Intrinsic Properties Influence Interstellar Scintillation of AGN - Hayley Bignall (ICRAR/Curtin University)

09:40 The Evolution of Compact Radio Sources - Paul Alexander (University of Cambridge)

10:00 Cold Gas in the Life Cycle of Radio Sources - Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)

10:20 Poster Roulette Session
10:40 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Ballroom 1
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

11:10 The High Frequency Flares in the BAL QSO, Mrk 231 - Cormac Reynolds (International Centre for Radio Astronomy)

11:30 X-shaped Radio Sources as the Parent Population of Core-dominated Triple Blazars - Andrzej Marecki (Toruń Centre for Astronomy)

11:50 FR Dichotomy, Accretion Modes and Environmental Factors in the Local Universe - Melanie Gendre (JBCA)

12:10 Core Motion in 0851+202 (OJ287) - Marshall Cohen (Caltech)
12:30 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Ballroom 1
13:30
13:30 - 14:50
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

13:30 A Search for the Third Lensed Image in JVAS B1030+074 - Ming Zhang (XAO-CAS)

13:50 SS433, Microquasars and Other Transients - Zsolt Paragi (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe)

14:10 VERA and the East Asian VLBI Network - Hideyuki Kobayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

14:30 High Angular Resolution Radio Observations of (U-)LIRGs - Antxon Alberdi (IAA-CSIC)
14:50 TEA, COFFEE & CAKES
TEA, COFFEE & CAKES
14:50 - 15:10
Room: Ballroom 1
15:10
15:10 - 16:10
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

15:10 The MeerKAT Radio Telescope - Justin Jonas (Rhodes University)

15:30 Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) - Philip Diamond (CSIRO)

15:50 SKA Project Status Update - John Womersley (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
17:15 CONFERENCE DINNER
CONFERENCE DINNER
17:15 - 22:45
Room: Revolution Gallery
Friday, 20 April 2012

08:30 TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES
TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Ballroom 1
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

09:00 CMB Interferometry - Clive Dickinson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)

09:20 Resolving The Sky with LOFAR - Status and Results - Rene Vermeulen (ASTRON)

09:40 Realisation of a Low Frequency SKA Precursor: The Murchison Widefield Array - Steven Tingay (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research)

10:00 Mid-Frequency Aperture Arrays: the Future of Radio Astronomy - Ilse van Bemmel (ASTRON)
10:20 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Ballroom 1
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

10:50 Implementing a High Performance Aperture Array (Mid) in SKA2 - Andrew Faulkner (University of cambridge)

11:10 Long March with the SKA - Bo Peng (NAOC)

11:30 Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron: Current Status and Early Science Program - Yuri Kovalev (Lebedev Physical Institute)

11:50 Redshift, Time, Spectrum – the Most Distant Radio Quasars with VLBI - Sandor Frey (FOMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory)

12:10 SKA Studies of the Radio Transient Universe - Peter Hall (ICRAR/Curtin)
12:30 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Ballroom 1
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

13:30 Fundamental Limits of Radio Interferometers: Calibration and Source Parameter Estimation - Cathryn Trott (CAASTRO / Curtin University)

13:50 HI Research in the Era of SKA Pathfinders - Thijs (J.M.) van der Hulst (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)

14:10 Space Radio Astronomy in the Next 1000001 (Binary) Years - Leonid Gurvits (JIVE)

14:30 VLBI Astrometry of Planetary Orbiters - Dayton Jones (JPL/Caltech)

14:50 Success Drivers for Large High-Technology Projects: Implications for the SKA - Philip Crosby (SPDO)
15:10 TEA, COFFEE & CAKES
TEA, COFFEE & CAKES
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom 1
15:30
15:30 - 16:20
Room: Ballroom 1
Contributions

15:30 Future of VLBI - Huib van Langevelde (JIVE)

15:50 After the SKA - Radio Astronomy in 2049 - Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO)

16:10 Wrap Up - Michael Garrett (ASTRON)
16:20 CLOSING RECEPTION
CLOSING RECEPTION
16:20 - 17:20
Room: Ballroom 1