Name: IVS2016
Start: 2016-03-13T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-03-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

IVS2016

from Sunday, 13 March 2016 (08:00) to Saturday, 19 March 2016 (18:00)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

13 Mar 2016

14 Mar 2016

15 Mar 2016

16 Mar 2016

17 Mar 2016

18 Mar 2016

19 Mar 2016

09:00	Opening and Welcome - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) (until 09:15) ()
09:15	Oral1: Advances in VGOS Stations and Technology -Dr Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA & MPI) Mr Evgeny Nosov (Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS (IAA RAS)) (until 10:50) ()
09:15	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> Current Trends and Challenges in Satellite Laser Ranging - Dr Graham Appleby (NERC Space Geodesy Facility, Herstmonceux, UK) ()
09:40	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> An Overview of the Japanese GALA-V Wideband VLBI System - Dr Mamoru Sekido (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) () Slides
10:05	IVS Retreat 2015 - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
10:20	BRAND EVN - Dr Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA and MPI) ()
10:35	Plan for a VLBI antenna in Tahiti from 2018 - Dr richard Biancale (CNES/GRGS) () Slides
10:50	--- Tea / Coffee Break ---
11:15	Oral1: Advances in VGOS Stations and Technology -Mr Evgeny Nosov (Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS (IAA RAS)) Dr Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA & MPI) (until 12:45) ()
11:15	Building a new core station in Ny-Ålesund - Mr Leif Morten Tangen (Norwegian Mapping Authority) ()
11:30	The progress of Seshan VGOS station construction - Dr Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) () Slides
11:45	VGOS observations with GGAO12M, Westford, and the new Kokee 12m antenna - Dr Arthur Niell (MIT Haystack Observatory) () Paper
12:00	KPGO 12m Signal Chain Update, First Light and Beyond - Dr Chet Ruszczyk (MIT Haystack Observatory) ()
12:15	Unveiling the VGOS Signal Chain at the Kokee Park Geophysical Observatory - Mr Ganesan Rajagopalan (MIT Haystack Observatory) ()
12:30	Status and first results from the VGOS-compatible antenna Ws with an Elevenfeed at Wettzell - Gerhard Kronschnabl (Geodetic Observatory Wettzell) ()

09:00	Oral2: VGOS Strategies and Expected Results - Brian Corey (MIT Haystack Observatory) Dr Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Next Generation Global Geodetic Networks for GGOS - Dr Dan MacMillan (NVI, Inc./NASA GSFC) ()
09:15	VGOS Source Selection Criteria - Dr Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada) ()
09:30	Observing with sibling and twin telescopes - Dr Lucia Plank (University of Tasmania) () Slides
09:45	Prototyping automation and dynamic observing with the AuScope array - Dr Jim Lovell (University of Tasmania) () Slides
10:00	Current status of an implementation of a system monitoring for seamless auxiliary data at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell - Dr Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell) ()
10:15	New generation VLBI: Intraday UT1 estimations - Prof. Alexander Ipatov (Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS) ()
10:30	--- Tea / Coffee Break ---
11:00	Oral3: Stations, Correlators and Operations Centres -Dr Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) Ed Himwich (NVI/NASA) (until 12:40) ()
11:00	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> Activities of the IERS Working Group on Site Survey and Co-location - Sten Bergstrand (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden) ()
11:25	First Local Ties from Data of the Wettzell Triple Radiotelescope Array - Prof. Torben Schüler (Geodetic Observatory Wettzell - BKG) ()
11:40	Activities of Sejong station and toward the GGOS - Mr Sang Oh YI (NGII(National Geographic Information Institutue)) ()
11:55	Report on the current activities of GSI VLBI - Mr Ryoji Kawabata (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) ()
12:10	VERA K-band Geodetic VLBI experiment using newly developed high speed sampler and recorder - Dr Takaaki Jike (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) () Slides
12:25	Optimizing the African VLBI Network for Astronomy and Geodesy - Dr Aletha de Witt (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory) ()

09:00	Oral3: Stations, Correlators and Operations Centres - Ed Himwich (NVI/NASA) Dr Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) (until 10:45) ()
09:00	The Italian VLBI network: first results and future perspectives - Mr Matteo Stagni (IRA - INAF) ()
09:15	A Technical Overview of the EVN - Dr Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN)) ()
09:30	New DiFX sofware correlator cluster at Bonn - Arno Mueskens (IGG Uni Bonn) ()
09:45	Real-time e-VLBI in the EVN and software correlation at JIVE - Dr Bob Campbell (JIVE) () Slides
10:00	Current Status of Shanghai VLBI Correlator - Dr Wu Jiang (SHAO,CAS) ()
10:15	The progress of VLBI digital backend in SHAO - Mr renjie zhu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science) ()
10:30	The first geodetic VLBI field-test of LIFT: a 550Km long optical fiber link for remote antenna synchronization - Mr Matteo Stagni (IRA - INAF) ()
10:45	--- Tea / Coffee Break ---
11:10	Oral4: Data structures and Analysis Strategies in the VGOS Era -Dr John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA) Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) (until 12:25) ()
11:10	Constraining Least Squares VLBI Solutions - Dr Thomas Artz (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
11:25	Robust ambiguity estimation for automated analysis of Intensive sessions - Mr Niko Kareinen (Chalmers University of Technology) ()
11:40	Results from the VLBI Analysis Software Comparison Campaign 2015 - Mr Grzegorz Klopotek (Chalmers University of Technology) () Slides
11:55	Simulations of near real-time EOP estimation from a future VGOS network - Dr Tobias Nilsson (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) () Slides
12:10	Status Report Norwegian Mapping Authority Analysis Center - Ms Ann-Silje Kirkvik (Norwegian Mapping Authority) ()

09:00	Oral5: Geodetic and Astrometric Results - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) (until 10:45) ()
09:00	Vienna contribution to the ICRF3 - Mr David Mayer (Technische Universität Wien) ()
09:15	Status of the X/S Source Catalog - Dr David Gordon (NVI Inc./GSFC) ()
09:30	Estimating the Celestial Reference Frame via Intra-Technique Combination - Mr Andreas Iddink (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
09:45	Selecting sources that define a stable celestial reference frame with the Allan variance - Dr Karine Le Bail (NVI, Inc.) ()
10:00	Defining Sources Selection and Celestial Reference Frame Stability - Mr César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris) () Slides
10:15	The XKa Celestial Reference Frame: Assessing Accuracy - Mr Christopher Jacobs (JPL/NASA) () Slides
10:30	About the extension of the coordinate parametrization of radio sources in VLBI - Dr Maria Karbon (GFZ) () Slides
10:45	--- Tea / Coffee Break ---
11:15	Oral5: Geodetic and Astrometric Results - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) (until 12:45) ()
11:15	ICRF sources: How good is the 'deep' southern sky - Mr Sayan Basu (University of South Africa and Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) ()
11:30	The structure of the radio source 0642+449 detected from CONT14 observations - Dr Minghui XU (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) ()
11:45	Images of VLBI calibrators from the BeSSeL survey - Dr Bo Zhang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) ()
12:00	The Statistic Analysis of Atmospheric Effects of Differential VLBI - Mr Shuangjing Xu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) ()
12:15	An Inequality Constrained Least-Squares approach as an alternative estimation procedure for atmospheric parameters from VLBI observations - Mr Sebastian Halsig (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
12:30	On the impact of different mapping functions on geodetic and tropospheric products from VLBI data analysis - Mr Kyriakos Balidakis (Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin, Germany) () Slides

09:00

IVS Analysis Workshop ()

09:00

IVS Directing Board meeting ()

16:00	Registration ()
18:00	Icebreaker Reception ()

12:45	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Oral1: Advances in VGOS Stations and Technology -Dr Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA & MPI) Mr Evgeny Nosov (Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS (IAA RAS)) (until 14:45) ()
14:00	Operating Experience of Broadband Acquisition System on RT-13 Radio Telescopes - Mr Evgeny Nosov (IAA RAS) () Slides
14:15	Current status of the development and performance of OCTAVE-DAS and Correlator System - Dr Tomoaki Oyama (NAOJ) ()
14:30	On your Marks ... Flex, Buff and VGOS, partly even in real-time - Mr harro verkouter (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC, Dwingeloo) ()
14:45	Oral2: VGOS Strategies and Expected Results -Dr Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada) Brian Corey (MIT Haystack Observatory) (until 15:25) ()
14:45	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> Delay & Phase Calibration in VGOS Post-processing - Dr Roger Cappallo (MIT Haystack Observatory) ()
15:10	Progress on the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management initiative on the Global Geodetic Reference Frame and the Norwegian Mapping Authority's core station project at 79° North - Mr Per Erik Opseth (Norwegian Mapping Authority) ()
15:25	--- Get drinks, move to Poster area ---
15:45	Poster1-3 - Dirk Behrend (NVI, Inc./NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) (until 16:45) ()
15:45	Automated simultaneous local ties with GNSS and robot tachymeter - Sten Bergstrand (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden) ()
15:45	Current Status of Ishioka VGOS antenna - Mr Ryoji Kawabata (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) ()
15:45	Difxcalc: Calc11 for the DiFX Correlator - Dr David Gordon (NVI, Inc./GSFC) ()
15:45	DOR Local-correlation Delay Model Calculation Experiment in CE-3 Mission - Yidan Huang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) ()
15:45	First 2 Gbps observations between KVAZAR VGOS antennas and Yebes RAEGE antenna - Dr Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN)) ()
15:45	First implementations of new monitoring capabilities as extension to the e-RemoteCtrl software - Dr Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell) ()
15:45	First results of the FAST-S/X-sessions with new VGOS antennas - Dr Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN)) Dr Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell) ()
15:45	From CONT to VGOS: The Evolution of the CONT Campaigns - Mrs Cynthia Thomas (NVI, Inc.) () Slides
15:45	High-speed data playback of VLBI hardware correlator - Ms Jiangying Gan (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,CAS) () Slides
15:45	How to register a VGOS-radio telescope at ITU and why it is important - Dr Vincenza TORNATORE (Politecnico di Milano - DICA) Brian Corey (MIT Haystack Observatory) ()
15:45	Implementation of the VGOS Trials - Dirk Behrend (NVI, Inc.) () Poster
15:45	Metsähovi Geodetic Fundamental Station in Finland - new VGOS site, plans, and current status - Dr Nataliya Zubko (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute) ()
15:45	Operational VGOS Scheduling - Dr Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada) ()
15:45	Plans and progress of the Vienna Correlator - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) ()
15:45	Preparations for a new VGOS radio telescope at HartRAO - Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) ()
15:45	The Development of Hardware Correlator in SHAO - zhijun xu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS) ()
15:45	The German Antarctic Receiving Station O’Higgins and its VLBI-capabilities - Mr Christian Plötz (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) ()
15:45	The impact of the broadband VLBI on the next decade - Dr Mamoru Sekido (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) Dr Kazuhiro Takefuji (NICT) ()
15:45	The UN-GGIM Roadmap for the Global Geodetic Reference Frame - Dr Halfdan Pascal Kierulf (Norwegian Mapping Authority) ()
15:45	Update on the Spanish-Portuguese RAEGE project - Dr Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN)) () Slides
16:45	--- Drinks "refuel" ---
17:00	Poster4-6 -Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) (until 18:00) ()
17:00	<i>INVITED POSTER:</i> APOD mission status and observe APOD by VLBI - Dr Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) () Poster
17:00	Application and development of VieVS at BACC - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) ()
17:00	Application of Kalman filtering for the analysis of Intensive sessions - Dr Tobias Nilsson (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) () Poster
17:00	Aspects of relativistic geodesy within the framework of VLBI and VGOS - Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) ()
17:00	Completing the K-band Celestial Reference Frame in the North. - Dr Aletha de Witt (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory) () Poster
17:00	Connected-element interferometry and error analysis of Beidou GEO navigation satellites - Dr Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) () Poster
17:00	Hard- and software tools for the education of Geodetic VLBI - Prof. Thomas Hobiger (Chalmers / Onsala Space Observatory) ()
17:00	Improvement of the IVS-INT01 Sessions - Dr John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA) ()
17:00	ivg::ASCOT: The Development of a new VLBI Software Package - Dr Thomas Artz (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
17:00	IVS Combiantion Center at BKG: Options and functions of the revised website - Sabine Bachmann (BKG) ()
17:00	IVS Primary Data Center and Analysis Center at BKG - Dieter Ullrich (BKG) ()
17:00	On the impact of inhomogeneities in meteorological data on VLBI data analysis - Mr Kyriakos Balidakis (Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin, Germany) () Poster
17:00	Preliminary Results of VLBI observations of the Chang’E-3 Lunar Lander - Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology) Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()
17:00	Progress on VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey - Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) () Poster
17:00	Refinement of Rapid UT1 Estimation Derived from Tsukuba VLBI Measurements after 2011 Earthquake - Mr Gerald Engelhardt (BKG (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy)) ()
17:00	The effects of quasar variability on astrometry - Dr Shabala Stanislav (University of Tasmania) ()
17:00	The new Geodetic Research Data Management System at HartRAO - Ms Glenda Coetzer (HartRAO) () Poster
17:00	The variable Earth annual retrograde nutation - Mr César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris) () Slides
17:00	Transition to the vgosDb data format. - Dr John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA) ()
17:00	Venus and Mars Express spacecraft observations with Wettzell radio telescopes - Dr Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell) ()
17:00	Vienna contribution to ITRF2014 - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) () Poster
17:00	VieVS 2.3 - status of the Vienna VLBI Software and plans for the future - Johannes Böhm (Technische Universität Wien) ()
17:00	VLBI Delay Reduced from S/C Observation and its Calibration in Chang’E Mission - Dr Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) () Poster
17:00	VLBI sources in optical and radio - Mr César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris) () Slides
18:30	Meeting of the Monitor and Control Infrastructure (MCI) group ()
18:30	WG on Galactic Aberration (WG8) meeting ()

12:40	--- Lunch ---
13:40	--- Busses to HartRAO ---
14:20	Visit to HartRAO -Dr Aletha de Witt (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory) Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) (until 19:00) ()
19:30	Asia-Oceania VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry (AOV) meeting ()

12:25	Oral5: Geodetic and Astrometric Results -Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) (until 12:50) ()
12:25	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> IVS contribution to the ITRF2014 - Sabine Bachmann (BKG) () Slides
12:50	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Oral5: Geodetic and Astrometric Results -Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) (until 15:40) ()
14:00	The IVS Contribution to JTRF2014 - Dr Richard Gross (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) ()
14:15	Application of Kalman filtering for the determination of a VLBI terrestrial reference frame - Mr Benedikt Soja (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) () Slides
14:30	VLBI processing at ESOC, the last piece for generating an independent reference frame - Ms Claudia Flohrer (ESOC - Navigation Support Office, Darmstadt, Germany) () Slides
14:45	Combination of the two radio space geodetic techniques with VieVS during CONT14 - Dr Younghee Kwak (Technische Universität Wien) () Slides
15:00	<i>INVITED TALK:</i> Status of the ICRF3 and Gaia activities - Dr Patrick Charlot (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux) ()
15:25	Aspects of ICRF-3 - Dr Chopo Ma (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ()
16:20	Conference Dinner -Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) (until 22:30) ()
16:50	<i>DINNER TALK:</i> Half a century of geodetic VLBI analysis – a personal retrospect and future outlook - Prof. Harald Schuh (GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences) ()

12:45	--- Lunch ---
14:15	Oral5: Geodetic and Astrometric Results - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien) Dr Stanislav Shabala (University of Tasmania) (until 15:15) ()
14:15	El Nino and VLBI measured LOD - Dr John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA) ()
14:30	Ultra-rapid earth rotation determination with VLBI during CONT11 and CONT14 - Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology) ()
14:45	Effects on Earth Orientation Parameters caused by different analysis options - Dr Robert Heinkelmann (GFZ Potsdam) ()
15:00	Tidal atmospheric loading and VLBI - Mrs Anastasiia Girdiuk (TU Wien) ()
15:15	Oral6: VLBI observations of Space Vehicles -Dr Vincenza TORNATORE (Politecnico di Milano - DICA) Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology) (until 15:45) ()
15:15	E-GRIP: A Highly Elliptical Orbit Satellite Mission for Co-location in Space - Prof. Markus Rothacher (ETH Zurich) ()
15:30	Near-field VLBI for Planetary Science - Dr Bob Campbell (JIVE) () Slides
15:45	--- Tea / Coffee Break ---
16:15	Oral6: VLBI observations of Space Vehicles -Dr Vincenza TORNATORE (Politecnico di Milano - DICA) Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology) (until 16:45) ()
16:15	VLBI observations of GNSS signals on the baseline Hobart-Ceduna – First results - Mr Andreas Hellerschmied (Technische Universität Wien) () Slides
16:30	Accurate spacecraft positioning by VLBI imaging - Mr Weimin Zheng (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,CAS) () Slides
16:45	Closing Remarks - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) ()

14:00	VGOS Technical Committee (VTC) meeting ()
16:00	WG on ICRF3 meeting ()