Resolving The Sky - Radio Interferometry: Past, Present and Future

17 Apr 2012, 17:30 → 20 Apr 2012, 18:20 Europe/London

Ballroom 1 (The Lowry Hotel)

Michael Garrett (ASTRON)

For more than half a century, radio interferometry has revolutionised our view of the Universe. New phenomena, such as relativistic motion in AGN have been discovered, and a wealth of detail has been revealed about a wide variety of astronomical sources, from nearby stars to the most distant galaxies.  These discoveries have been enabled by radio interferometry's routine capability to deliver images with sub-milliarcsecond resolution and micro-arcsecond precision astrometry. Major new advances in both the interferometric technique and the science it delivers are expected over the coming decade. This conference will take a look at the past, present and future of radio interferometry, as the astronomical community prepares for the next big step forward, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

The meeting coincides with the retirement of Prof. Richard T. Schilizzi, Director of the SKA Project Development Office (SPDO) and past director of the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE). We celebrate the major contribution Richard has made to the field with a scientific programme that will address the following topics: key historical developments in interferometry, the study of micro-quasars and AGN, the development of advanced interferometry techniques and new calibration algorithms, future interferometers (incl. ALMA, SKA and the SKA pathfinders & precursors), mm and sub-mm interferometry, precision spacecraft navigation, geodetic VLBI and Space VLBI.

Biography of Professor R.T. Schilizzi Short biography of Professor Richard T. Schilizzi

City Map Map of Conference Venues and Hotels

conference dinner speeches

• 01_Conference.Dinner.Speech-McAdam.mp3
• 02_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Cohen.mp3
• 03_Conference.Dinner.Speech-vdLaan.mp3
• 04_Conference.Dinner.Speech-vLangevelde.mp3
• 05_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Garrington.mp3
• 06_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Diamond.mp3
• 07_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Gulyaev.mp3
• 08_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Barthel.mp3
• 09_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Blommaart.mp3
• 10_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Womersley.mp3
• 11_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Kellermann.mp3
• 12_Conference.Dinner.Speech-Schilizzi.mp3
• Conference.Dinner.Speech-FULL.mp3

Conference Proceedings http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=163

Manchester Town Hall Corporate Brochure for Manchester Town Hall

MOSI Layout of Museum of Science and Industry

Photo - Conference Line-up 1 061_Manchester_180412.JPG

Photo - Conference Line-up 2 4-20120418_RTS2012_Groundbreaking-Conference.Line-up_Holloway.jpg

Photos - 17 April 2012 http://www.skatelescope.org/~greenwood/17_Apr_2012

Photos - 18 April 2012 http://www.skatelescope.org/~greenwood/18_Apr_2012

Photos - 19 April 2012 http://www.skatelescope.org/~greenwood/19_Apr_2012

Photos - 20 April 2012 http://www.skatelescope.org/~greenwood/20_Apr_2012

Photo - SKA HQ Building Ground Breaking 2-20120418_RTS2012_Groundbreaking_Holloway.JPG

Zip files of presentations

• Slides-Day.1.zip
• Slides-Day.2.zip
• Slides-Day.3.zip

Tuesday, 17 April

17:30 → 20:30 Reception and Registration

Wednesday, 18 April

08:00 → 09:00 Registration and Tea, Coffee & Danish Pastries

09:00 → 09:10 Introduction to RTS 2012 and Logistics

Speakers: Colin Greenwood (SPDO), Prof. Michael Garrett (ASTRON)

09:10 → 10:30 PAST

SESSION 1-1

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

Speaker: Miller Goss (NRAO)

slides 1-1_RTS2012_Goss.pptx

09:30 The Structure of Radio Sources: the Molonglo Papers

Speaker: Dr Bruce McAdam (University of Sydney)

slides 1-2_RTS2012_McAdam.ppt

09:50 Breaking the Milliarcsecond Barrier

Speaker: Dr Kenneth Kellermann (NRAO)

slides 1-3_RTS2012_Kellermann.pptx

10:10 Early VLBI observations in the Soviet Union

Speaker: Prof. Leonid Matveenko (Space Research Institute, head VLBI Laboratory)

slides 1-4_RTS2012_Matveenko.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS

11:00 → 12:40 PAST

SESSION 1-2

11:00 The Beginnings of the EVN and JIVE in Europe

Speaker: Prof. Roy Booth (Hartebeeshoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)

slides 1-5_RTS2012_Booth.pptx

11:20 Highlights of the Expansion of SN1993J

Speaker: Prof. Jon Marcaide (Univ Valencia)

slides 1-6_RTS2012_Marcaide.pptx

video 1-6_RTS2012_Marcaide-VIDEO.avi

11:40 The History of the SKA - Born Global

Speaker: Prof. Ron Ekers (CSIRO)

slides 1-7_RTS2012_Ekers.pptx

12:00 The Start of SKA: What Really Happened

Speaker: Jan Noordam (ASTRON)

slides 1-8_RTS2012_Noordam.pdf

12:20 Connecting Early VLBI to SKA Capabilities

Speaker: Prof. Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON)

slides 1-9_RTS2012_van.Ardenne.pptx

12:40 → 13:40 LUNCH

13:40 → 15:00 PAST

SESSION 1-3

13:40 The Story of Space VLBI

Speaker: Prof. Richard Schilizzi (SPDO)

slides 1-10_RTS2012_Schilizzi.ppt

14:00 Space VLBI as Seen from Japan

Speaker: Dr Hisashi Hirabayashi (The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (retired))

slides 1-11_RTS2012_Hirabayashi.ppt

14:20 The Development of VLBI in China and its Relation to the EVN

Speaker: Dr Xiaoyu Hong (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

slides 1-12_RTS2012_Hong[NAN].ppt

14:40 Beyond VLBI - Microarcsecond Resolution with Inter-Stellar Scintillation

Speaker: Dr David Jauncey (CASS & MSO)

slides 1-13_RTS2012_Jauncey.ppt

15:00 → 15:30 TEA, COFFEE & CAKE

15:30 → 20:00 VISIT TO JODRELL BANK

Thursday, 19 April

08:30 → 09:00 TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES

09:00 → 10:40 PRESENT

SESSION 2-1

09:00 The 'Never-ending' Story of J1819+3845 and Some New Results on BLLac's Faraday Fog

Speaker: Prof. Ger de Bruyn (ASTRON)

slides 2-1_RTS2012_deBruyn.pptx

09:20 Combining VLBI and MASIV – How Intrinsic Properties Influence Interstellar Scintillation of AGN

Speaker: Dr Hayley Bignall (ICRAR/Curtin University)

slides 2-2_RTS2012_Bignall.pdf

09:40 The Evolution of Compact Radio Sources

Speaker: Prof. Paul Alexander (University of Cambridge)

slides 2-3_RTS2012_Alexander.pptx

10:00 Cold Gas in the Life Cycle of Radio Sources

Speaker: Prof. Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)

slides 2-4_RTS2012_Morganti.pdf

10:20 Poster Roulette Session

Sub-mm: VLBI toward a shadow image of a super massive black hole – M. Inoue. The SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) Project – A. Green. Flux density variations of radio sources in M82 – M. Gendre. Nuclear opacity in compact AGN jets - A. Pushkarev WSRT and LOFAR observations of the Lockman Hole – G. Guglielmo.

poster 2-5-1_RTS2012_Inoue-POSTER.pptx

slides

• 2-5-1_RTS2012_Inoue.pptx
• 2-5-2_RTS2012-Green.ppt
• 2-5-3_RTS2012_Gendre.pdf
• 2-5-4_RTS_2012_Pushkarev[Kovalev].ppt
• 2-5-5_RTS2012_Morganti.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS

11:10 → 12:30 PRESENT

SESSION 2-2

11:10 The High Frequency Flares in the BAL QSO, Mrk 231

Speaker: Dr Cormac Reynolds (International Centre for Radio Astronomy)

slides 2-6_RTS2012-Reynolds.pdf

11:30 X-shaped Radio Sources as the Parent Population of Core-dominated Triple Blazars

Speaker: Dr Andrzej Marecki (Toruń Centre for Astronomy)

slides 2-7_RTS2012_Marecki.ppt

11:50 FR Dichotomy, Accretion Modes and Environmental Factors in the Local Universe

Speaker: Dr Melanie Gendre (JBCA)

slides 2-8_RTS2012_Gendre.pdf

12:10 Core Motion in 0851+202 (OJ287)

Speaker: Dr Marshall Cohen (Caltech)

12:30 → 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 → 14:50 PRESENT

SESSION 2-3 (Convenor tbc)

13:30 A Search for the Third Lensed Image in JVAS B1030+074

Speaker: Dr Ming Zhang (XAO-CAS)

slides 2-10_RTS2012_Zhang.pdf

13:50 SS433, Microquasars and Other Transients

Speaker: Dr Zsolt Paragi (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe)

slides 2-11_RTS2012_Paragi.ppt

14:10 VERA and the East Asian VLBI Network

Speaker: Prof. Hideyuki Kobayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

slides 2-12_RTS2012-Kobayashi.pdf

14:30 High Angular Resolution Radio Observations of (U-)LIRGs

Speaker: Dr Antxon Alberdi (IAA-CSIC)

slides 2-13_RTS2012_Alberdi.ppt

video 2-13_RTS2012_Alberdi-VIDEO.mov

14:50 → 15:10 TEA, COFFEE & CAKES

15:10 → 16:10 PRESENT

SESSION 2-4

15:10 The MeerKAT Radio Telescope

Speaker: Prof. Justin Jonas (Rhodes University)

slides 2-14_RTS2012_Jonas.pptx

15:30 Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)

Speaker: Prof. Philip Diamond (CSIRO)

slides 2-15_RTS2012_Diamond.pptx

15:50 SKA Project Status Update

Speaker: Prof. John Womersley (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

slides 2-16_RTS2012_Womersley.pptx

17:15 → 22:45 CONFERENCE DINNER

Friday, 20 April

08:30 → 09:00 TEA, COFFEE & DANISH PASTRIES

09:00 → 10:20 PRESENT & FUTURE

SESSION 3-1

09:00 CMB Interferometry

Speaker: Dr Clive Dickinson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)

slides 3-1_RTS2012_Dickinson.pdf

09:20 Resolving The Sky with LOFAR - Status and Results

Speaker: Dr Rene Vermeulen (ASTRON)

slides 3-2_RTS2012_Vermeulen.pdf

09:40 Realisation of a Low Frequency SKA Precursor: The Murchison Widefield Array

Speaker: Prof. Steven Tingay (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research)

slides 3-3_RTS2012_Tingay.pdf

10:00 Mid-Frequency Aperture Arrays: the Future of Radio Astronomy

Speaker: Dr Ilse van Bemmel (ASTRON)

slides 3-4_RTS2012_vanBemmel.pdf

video 3-4_RTS2012_vanBemmel-VIDEO.mp4

10:20 → 10:50 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS

10:50 → 12:30 PRESENT & FUTURE

SESSION 3-2

10:50 Implementing a High Performance Aperture Array (Mid) in SKA2

Speaker: Dr Andrew Faulkner (University of cambridge)

slides 3-5_RTS2012_Faulkner.pptx

11:10 Long March with the SKA

Speaker: Bo Peng (NAOC)

slides 3-6_RTS2012_Peng.ppt

video 3-6_RTS2012_Peng-VIDEO.mov

11:30 Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron: Current Status and Early Science Program

Speaker: Dr Yuri Kovalev (Lebedev Physical Institute)

slides 3-7_RTS2012_Kovalev.pdf

11:50 Redshift, Time, Spectrum – the Most Distant Radio Quasars with VLBI

Speaker: Dr Sandor Frey (FOMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory)

slides 3-8_RTS2012_Frey.ppt

12:10 SKA Studies of the Radio Transient Universe

Speaker: Prof. Peter Hall (ICRAR/Curtin)

slides 3-9_RTS2012_Hall.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 → 15:10 PRESENT & FUTURE

SESSION 3-3

13:30 Fundamental Limits of Radio Interferometers: Calibration and Source Parameter Estimation

Speaker: Dr Cathryn Trott (CAASTRO / Curtin University)

slides 3-10_RTS2012_Trott.ppt

13:50 HI Research in the Era of SKA Pathfinders

Speaker: Prof. Thijs (J.M.) van der Hulst (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)

slides 3-11_RTS2012_vdHulst.pdf

14:10 Space Radio Astronomy in the Next 1000001 (Binary) Years

Speaker: Prof. Leonid Gurvits (JIVE)

slides 3-12_RTS2012_Gurvits.pptx

14:30 VLBI Astrometry of Planetary Orbiters

Speaker: Dr Dayton Jones (JPL/Caltech)

slides 3-13_RTS2012_Jones.pdf

14:50 Success Drivers for Large High-Technology Projects: Implications for the SKA

Speaker: Mr Philip Crosby (SPDO)

slides 3-14_RTS2012_Crosby.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 TEA, COFFEE & CAKES

15:30 → 16:20 PRESENT & FUTURE

SESSION 3-4

15:30 Future of VLBI

Speaker: Dr Huib van Langevelde (JIVE)

slides 3-15_RTS2012_vLangevelde.pdf

15:50 After the SKA - Radio Astronomy in 2049

Speaker: Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO)

slides 3-16_RTS2012_Harvey-Smith.pptx

16:10 Wrap Up

Speaker: Prof. Michael Garrett (ASTRON)

slides 3-17_RTS2012_Garrett.pdf

16:20 → 17:20 CLOSING RECEPTION