***Mini-symposium***
   "VLBI and high resolution astronomy in the next decade"
  	    	MPE, Garching, June 26th, 2008

  www.mpe.mpg.de/~am/PC_garching/Site/Mini-Symposium-VLBI.html
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Colleagues,

In occasion of the visit to Garching of the European VLBI 
Network (EVN) Program Committee next June, we are pleased 
to announce the Mini-symposium on "VLBI and high-resolution 
astronomy in the next decade". 
 
This is intended as an opportunity for the whole Garching/Munich 
astronomical community (young postdocs and students in particular) 
to familiarize with Very Long-Baseline Interferometry and very high
resolution Radio astronomy, as well as a chance to discuss about the
future developments in the field, including, in particular, possible
synergies with ongoing projects developed in the Garching area. 
 
VENUE AND FORMAT:
The meeting will be held at MPE in the Old Seminar Room (209) 
from 13:30 till 17:30 on Thursday, June 26.

The talks will include both presentations on current status and future
prospects of VLBI, LOFAR and ALMA, as well as a few recent scientific
highlights of very long baseline interferometry.

REGISTRATION:
The mini-symposium is open to all local scientists and visitors, no
fees or registration are required. 

However, at the end of the afternoon, we would like to organize an "open
session" to discuss new scientific areas of investigation at
milliarcsecond resolution. This will be the chance for those who have 
ideas about possible VLBI observations, or for those who want 
to discuss in more detail the synergies between VLBI and other 
future experiments, to pose their questions to the experts.
Also, other relevant facilities that will not be discussed during the
talks could be presented in this occasion.
To help us organize this event, we kindly request
all interested people to 

***send an email to Andrea Merloni (am@mpe.mpg.de)*** 

expressing your interest in joining the discussion session.
Obviously more ideas/themes for discussion are welcome.

 
PROGRAM:
 
13:30-13:40 Welcome
13:40-14:10 Tiziana Venturi (INAF-IRA, Bologna): The European VLBI
     Network: current status and future prospects 
14:10-14:35 Benedetta Ciardi (MPA, Garching): The E-LOFAR Project
14:35-15:00 Robert Laing (ESO, Garching): ALMA and its relation to VLBI
15:00-15:20 Tom Muxlow (JBO, Univ. of Manchester): VLBI observations
     of high redshift systems: starbursts and AGN in the Hubble Deep Field 
15:20-15:40 Richard Strom (ASTRON): VLBI observations of Supernovae
15:40-16:00 Marc Ribo' (Univ. of Barcelona): VLBI observations of
     microquasars and TeV emitting X-ray binaries 
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Open Discussion:
     New scientific areas of investigation at milliarcsecond resolution
 

CONTACT:
Andrea Merloni
Excellence Cluster Universe and MPE
Phone: +49-(0)89-385317152
Fax: +49-(0)89-3299-4002
email: am_at_mpe.mpg.de