SCIENTIFIC  THEMES


       Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy:
      A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the VLBA

                      June 8 - 12, 2003
                  Socorro, New Mexico, USA



In August 2003, the VLBA will mark the tenth anniversary of
its opening ceremony.  In commemoration of this event, we
are planning an international scientific meeting, to be held 
June 8 - 12, 2003, in Socorro, NM, USA, on the contributions
of the VLBA, and VLBI in general, to astronomical and other
scientific disciplines, and on the future of high resolution
observations in astronomy.  The meeting will be sponsored by
NRAO and New Mexico Tech.

Our overall goal is to review the exciting progress of VLBI
science and technology, and where the future lies.  We will
survey the current state of scientific progress in the broad
scope of astronomical, astrophysical, and geophysical fields
to which VLBI observations have contributed.  We also wish
to discuss future frontiers for VLBI, and for other high
resolution telescopes operating across the electromagnetic
spectrum.  Finally, we will consider the technological
developments that will be necessary to support these future
directions.

The meeting will include invited reviews, and contributed
talks and posters, on the major scientific topics listed
below.  The organizers hope to emphasize both invited and
contributed talks from younger members of the community.
Anyone interested in participating is encouraged to pre-
register at the meeting website.


SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

  AGN jets
  Super-massive black holes, accretion disks, and H2O masers
  OH megamasers, starbursts and normal galaxies
  Micro-quasars and compact stellar systems
  Supernovae and pulsars
  Masers: star formation and evolved stars
  Interstellar medium & propagation effects
  Gravitational lenses
  Astrometry & geodesy
  Extragalactic distance scale
  Future VLBI instrumentation
  High angular resolution telescopes across the EM spectrum
  Future science at high angular resolution