From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:30:31 +1100

Dear All,

I'm thinking of going to the GLAST/VLBI workshop at Goddard in April.
Below is an abstract I've submitted, sort of on behalf of our team.
Is anyone else planing to go to this meeting? Or does anyone have any
comments on VLBI/GLAST they would like to add?

GLAST is likely to be a very important project for global VLBI over
the next ten years. As the only Southern Hemipshere VLBI array, we
probably need to be represented at the meeting. It so far seems to be
highly north--centric. With our recent upgrades and new antennas
coming on line, this is a good chance to get the word out.

Cheers, Steven

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Tingay <stingay_at_astro.<!--nospam-->swin.edu.au>
Date: Mar 2, 2007 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Invitation to participate in VLBI in the GLAST Era
To: Matthias Kadler <mkadler_at_milkyway.<!--nospam-->gsfc.nasa.gov>

Dear Matthias,

Thanks for you email. I would like to attend this meeting and would
like to present a talk, if possible. My talk will centre on the
opportunities for VLBI observations of GLAST targets in the Southern
Hemipshere. Suggested title and abstract follows. If you could
advise me ASAP if the talk will be accepted into the program, I'd
appreciate it, so that I can book my travel.

VLBI of GLAST targets at far south declinations

The only astronomical VLBI array in the Southern Hemipshere spans the
countries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, providing
baselines of up to ~9000 km in length and over the frequency range 1.4
- 22 GHz. Recently this array has undergone significant upgrades in
terms of the number of antennas (almost doubled from the existing 7
antennas to 12 in 2008/2009) and the recorded bandwidth (increased by
a factor 8). This array is therefore the only option for high
resolution, high sensitivity VLBI observations of GLAST targets at far
southern declinations. A substantial amount of work was done with
this array in support of CGRO observations of gamma-ray sources. Some
of these previous results will be briefly described and an overview of
the capabilities of the array will be given, in order that the
audience can assess the possibilities for support of Southern
Hemipshere GLAST projects.

On 3/1/07, Matthias Kadler <mkadler_at_milkyway.<!--nospam-->gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Dear colleague,
>
>(we apologize, if you should receive more than one copy of this email.)
>
>On April 23/24, 2007, a scientific workshop will be held at NASA's
>Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA. The primary goal of
>this meeting will be to bring together experts in AGN research from the
>Gamma-ray and Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry communities. With the
>launch of GLAST, we will be entering a new era of AGN research in which
>VLBI will play a major role. At this workshop, we want to discuss ideas
>and strategies to maximize the scientific output from synergistic VLBI
>and GLAST observations of blazars and other AGN. Therefore, the title of
>the workshop will be "VLBI in the GLAST era".
>
>The meeting is restricted to a maximum number of 70-90 invited
>participants, so if you are able to come, please register as soon as
>possible by replying to this email. Note that we have to make
>arrangements for all participants to be allowed to enter Goddard,
>therefore we need your answer by Friday, March 2, 2007.
>
>The list of confirmed invited speakers includes Bob Hartman, Dan Homan,
>Jim Ulvestad, Steve Ritz, David Band, Markos Georganopoulos, Jim Moran,
>Matt Lister, Margo Aller, Yuri Kovalev, Joe Helmboldt, Svetlana Jorstad,
>Chuck Dermer, Andrei Lobanov, Ann Wehrle and Gino Tosti.
>
>A limited amount of time is reserved in the preliminary schedule for
>contributed presentations. If you wish to present a scientific project
>in form of a contributed talk or poster, please indicate the title of
>your presentation and give a short abstract.
>
>We want to encourage you to suggest students or young postdocs from your
>institute -who represent the future of Gamma-Ray and VLBI AGN research-
>to participate in the workshop. We will accept up to one or two young
>researchers from each institute and a good fraction of the available
>time and poster space will be reserved for contributed presentations
>from this group. We plan to have a bulletin board at the workshop where
>participants can advertise career opportunities for young researchers at
>their institute, particularly opportunities for students from the "other
>end of the spectrum".
>
>We hope to make a lot of significant progress on a variety of issues
>within the scope of this meeting, but the general spirit of the workshop
>will be informal. Most sessions are planned to end with a panel
>discussion, in which we want to give everybody the chance to participate
>actively. Note that the time of the workshop is chosen to be
>conveniently well before the first round of GLAST science proposals. You
>will have the chance to talk to GLAST experts about technical and
>observational aspects of your proposals and at the same time discuss
>with VLBI experts about the setup of complementary VLBA-, EVN-, GMVA- or
>other Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry observations. A major goal of
>this workshop is to lay the ground for successful new collaborations
>between Gamma-Ray and VLBI researchers in the GLAST era and, therefore,
>the meeting will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. There
>will be no registration fee. We will reserve a block of rooms in a
>nearby hotel in Greenbelt. More detailed information on these issues
>will follow shortly.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Matthias Kadler
>
>on behalf of the SOC: M. Kadler, K.I. Kellermann, A.P. Marscher, J.E.
>McEnery, E. Ros, R.M. Sambruna, G.B. Taylor, D.J. Thompson, K.A. Weaver
>& J.A. Zensus
>

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Swinburne SKA Project Leader
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Mail H39
P.O. Box 218
Hawthorn, Vic 3122
Australia
Ph     +61 (0)3 9214 8758
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Email  stingay_at_astro.<!--nospam-->swin.edu.au
          s.tingay_at_optusnet.<!--nospam-->com.au
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Received on 2007-03-02 08:31:05