Author: Dr Michael Bietenholz, HartRAO
Towards Global Real-Time VLBI
The 10th International e-VLBI Workshop will be held in South Africa
near the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, between Nov 13
and Nov 16, 2011. HartRAO is both a component of the e-EVN and
involved in work towards the South African SKA pathfinder, MeerKAT.
HartRAO is also spearheading an effort to convert communications
dishes across Africa into an African VLBI network.
E-VLBI is the enabling technology to realizing a world-wide, flexible,
real-time VLBI network, where the observing configuration is driven by
the science needs. With the coming expansion of sensitivity to
transient radio sources driven by LOFAR, MeerKAT, MWA and ASKAP, the
capability of rapid and high-resolution followup such as can be
provided by e-VLBI will be of increasing importance.
The focus of this workshop will be on both recent scientific results
achieved using e-VLBI and technical advances in the transport,
processing and imaging of e-VLBI data.
Conference: The E-VLBI workshop will be held Nov 13 to 15 at Amanzingwe
Conference centre, near Johannesburg, South Africa, followed by a
tour of HartRAO and a discussion of the African VLBI Network on
Nov 16.
For more information and registration, please see
http://www.hartrao.ac.za/e-vlbi2011/e-vlbi2011.html
