Times for talks are given as (X+Y) minutes, with X being the time allocated for the talk itself, and Y the additional time reserved for questions and discussion. Talks without titles provided are in italics; those with abstracts have a link to the abstract page. Tours of the VLBA/EVLA electronics lab and VLBA operations area will be announced at one or more of the coffee breaks, to be determined.
| Tuesday 21 July 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 0830 - 0900 | Continental breakfast | ||
| 0900 - 0910 Meeting welcome and introduction | Fred Lo | ||
| Session Chair: Ed Fomalont | |||
| 0910 - 0940 Galactic Structure Seen with VLBI Astrometry (25+5) (ppt) | Mareki Honma | ||
| 0940 - 1010 Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant (25+5) (ppt) | Jim Condon | ||
| 1010 - 1040 Astrometric Observations of Neutron Stars (25+5) (pdf) | Shami Chatterjee | ||
| Coffee break + posters (25+5) | |||
| Session Chair: Jon Romney | |||
| 1110 - 1140 Optical/IR Interferometry, Astrometry, & Synthesis with VLBA (25+5) (ppt) | Andy Boden | ||
| 1140 - 1210 The Distance to Nearby Star-Forming Regions (25+5) (ppt) | Laurent Loinard | ||
| 1210 - 1240 Short Poster presentations (3 min each) | various | ||
| 1240 - 1400 | Lunch & posters | ||
| Session Chair: Joan Wrobel | |||
| 1400 - 1430 Probing Relativistic Jets in Blazars with SIM Lite Astometry (25+5) (pdf) | Steve Unwin | ||
| 1430 - 1500 VLBI planet finding (25+5) (ppt) | Geoff Bower | ||
| 1500 - 1530 Extra-Galactic Astrometry (25+5) (ppt) | Andreas Brunthaler | ||
| Coffee break + posters | |||
| Session Chair: Vivek Dhawan | |||
| 1600 - 1630 Status and Future Plan of VERA Project (25+5) (ppt) | Hideyuki Kobayashi | ||
| 1630 - 1700 Interpenetration of Astrometry and Microlensing (25+5) (pdf) | Andy Gould | ||
| 1800+ | Reception | ||
| Wednesday 22 July 2009 | |||
| 0830 - 0900 | Continental breakfast | ||
| Session Chair: Craig Walker | |||
| 0900 - 0930 The VLBA Sensitivity Upgrade Project (25+5) (pdf) (ppt) | Jon Romney | ||
| 0930 - 1000 VLBA Key Science: Making It Happen (25+5) (ppt) | Bob Dickman | ||
| 1000 - 1030 Global Astrometry with the VLBA (25+5) (ppt) | David Boboltz | ||
| 1030 - 1100 Phase Referencing: Optimizing Imaging and Astrometric Results (25+5) (ppt) | Ed Fomalont | ||
| Coffee break + posters | |||
| 1130 - 1240 Break-out session 1 | |||
| 1240 - 1400 | Lunch & posters | ||
| 1400 - 1530 Break-out session 2 | |||
| Coffee break + posters | |||
| 1600 - 1730 Break-out session 3 | |||
| 1830+ | Dinner at El Sombrero | ||
| Thursday 23 July 2009 | |||
| 0830 - 0900 | Continental breakfast | ||
| Session Chair: Shami Chatterjee | |||
| 0900 - 0920 Break-out session wrap up (if needed) | |||
| 0920 - 0940 Kinematics of the CSE in VY CMa (15+5) (ppt) | Yoon Choi | ||
| 0940 - 1000 VLBA Orbits of Young Binary Stars (15+5) (ppt) (mpg) | Rosa Torres | ||
| 1000 - 1020 Sub-Milliarcsecond Astrometry of the Algol System (15+5) (ppt) | William Peterson | ||
| Coffee break + posters | |||
| Session Chair: Greg Taylor | |||
| 1050 - 1110 The Astrometric Potential of VLBA "Surveys" (15+5) (ppt) | Adam Deller | ||
| 1110 - 1130 Linking the ICRF and the Future Gaia Optical Frame (15+5) (pdf) | Patrick Charlot | ||
| 1130 - 1150 Realizations of the ICRF at Different Radio Wavelengths (15+5) (ppt) | Christopher Jacobs | ||
| 1150 - 1210 Low Frequency VLBI as a Probe of Interstellar Scintillation (15+5) (pdf) | Walter Brisken | ||
| 1210 - 1230 High-Precision Astrometry of the S5 Polar-Cap Radio Sources (15+5) (ppt) | Jose Guirado | ||
| 1230 - 1400 | Lunch & posters | ||
| Session Chair: Amy Mioduszewski | |||
| 1400 - 1420 VLBI Calibrator Surveys - The Foundation of VLBA Astrometry (15+5) (pdf) | Leonid Petrov | ||
| 1420 - 1440 LBA Calibrator Survey (15+5) (ppt) | Chris Phillips | ||
| 1440 - 1500 TeV Gamma-Ray Observations with VERITAS and the TeV/Radio Connection (15+5) (pdf) | Matthias Beilicke | ||
| 1500 - 1520 Exploring the Inner 1 - 100 Microarcseconds of AGN Using SIM Lite (15+5) (ppt) | Ann Wehrle | ||
| Coffee break + posters | |||
| 1630 - 1700 Conference Closing and Summary (25+5) | |||
| 1800 - 2100 Tour of Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer | |||
| Poster Contributions | |||
| 1 Constraining Black Hole Formation with VLBI Astrometry (pdf) | James Miller-Jones | ||
| 2 Trigonometric Parallax Distances and Proper Motions of Jets in Dying Stars with the VLBA (pdf) | Fonda Day | ||
| 3 Proper Motion and Core Stability Constraints in the Virgo Cluster: Relative Astrometry of M87 and M84 (pdf) | Craig Walker | ||
| 4 Radio Interferometry Planet Search (pdf) | Vincent Viscomi | ||
| 5 Astrometric Observations of Methanol Masers toward W3(OH) with JVN (pdf) | Naoko Matsumoto | ||
| 6 The Outflows Traced by Water Masers in Orion-KL (pdf) | Mikyoung Kim | ||
| 7 First Phase of the East Asia VLBI Network (pdf) | Atsushi Miyazaki | ||
| 8 Water Vapor Masers in the NGC7538 Region (pdf) | Osamu Kameya | ||
| 9 The Astrometric Feasibility and Accuracy of VERA (pdf) | Tomoaki Oyama | ||
| 10 VLBI2010 and Radio Source Structure (ppt) | Arthur Niell | ||
| 11 VLBA Astrometry of Spacecraft: the Phoenix Mars Lander Experiment (pdf) | Vivek Dhawan | ||
| 12 Upgraded VLBA Block Diagram | VLBA Electronics Division | ||
| 13 Using the VLBA to determine the variable rotation rate of the Earth | Roopesh Ojha | ||