e-MERLIN and EVN in the SKA era
Past meeting programmes and presentations
Meeting 1: September 2016Meeting 2: September 2017
Meeting Programme and presentations
Monday 11th September 2017
Session 1: Overview, concept and meeting motivation
14:00 - Introduction, welcome and overall vision - Mike Garrett (JBCA)14:15 - The future developments of e-MERLIN - Simon Garrington (e-MERLIN)
14:40 - e-MERLIN science overview - Rob Beswick (e-MERLIN/JBCA)
15:00 - Discussions
15:15 - Afternoon Tea
Session 2: e-MERLIN science
15:45 - Recent pulsar timing highlights using the Lovell Telescopes and a look to the future - Patrick Weltevrede (JBCA)16:00 - The Point of PEBBLeS - Jane Greaves and Emily Drabek-Maunder (Cardiff)
16:15 - Making a Splash: water observations with e-MERLIN - Anita Richards (JBCA)
16:30 - The Cyg-OB Association e-MERLIN Survey - COBRaS - Danielle Fenech (UCL)
16:45 - LeMMINGS: the e-MERLIN nearby galaxies survey - Raneri Baldi and David Williams (Southampton)
17:00 - Results from e-MERGE - high resolution 20cm imaging of star-formation across cosmic time - Tom Muxlow (JBCA)
17:15 - The SuperCLASS Weak Lensing survey - Ian Harrison (JBCA)
17:30 - Discussions
Tuesday 12th September 2017
Session 3: Technical developments
09:00 - The addition of Goonhilly to e-MERLIN - Melvin Hoare (Leeds)09:15 - e-MERLIN Software in the SKA era - Paul Alexander (Cambridge)
09:30 - New Receiver Suites for e-MERLIN - Mike Jones (Oxford)
09:45 - Developments of Phased array feeds - Mike Keith (JBCA)
10:00 - Digital developments - Keith Grainge (JBCA)
10:15 - Discussions
10:30 - 11:00 - Morning coffee break
Session 4: Context and Summary
11:00 - STFC's Strategic review of Radio Astronomy - Ian Robson (STFC)11:15 - Discussions - 'the landscape of UK Radio Astronomy toward the SKA era'
11:30 - Discussions - 'Priorities for e-MERLIN'
Meeting part 2 : The future of VLBI
(Organisers: Tiziana Venturi (INAF) /Michael Lindqvist (Onsala) /Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)
12:00 - Introduction, welcome and overall vision - Tiziana Venturi (INAF, Italy)
12:15 - EVN present status and future direction - Michael Lindqvist (Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden)
12:30 - VLBA technical roadmap : 2020-2035 - Walter Brisken(LBO, USA)
12:45 - Wide-Band single pixel feeds and EVN technical upgrades - John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden)
13:00 - Lunch
14:15 - Invesigating radio quiet quasars using e-MERLIN and EVN observations of strong gravitational lensing - Philippa Hartley (JBCA)
14:15 - Probing circumstellar structures through masers with the EVN and e-MERLIN - Sandra Etoka (JBCA)
14:30 onwards - Discussion and Wrap-up