First Announcement

9th International e-VLBI Workshop

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The 9th International e-VLBI Workshop will be held in Western Australia, the location of significant advances on the path to the SKA.  The $100m Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, with a high speed network connection to Perth, the $80m Pawsey High Performance Computing Centre for SKA Science and the $100m International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), promise a suite of new astronomical capabilities powered by innovative technologies and high performance networking and computing.

Within this context, e-VLBI has a lot to offer as a pathfinder technology for the SKA.  Long haul, high speed data transport is a key technology driver for the SKA, accurate time distributed over long haul networks may also be a key technology, and e-VLBI is moving forward with remote operations of highly distributed telescope and processing facilities.  e-VLBI offers an environment in which technology can be pushed to its current limits, solutions for SKA technologies can be tested, and partnerships between network providers and scientists can be established.  Further, the scientific value of the e-VLBI technique is substantial, evidenced by recent high profile publications based on the e-VLBI technique.

The focus of this meeting will be recent scientific and technical advances in e-VLBI, in particular looking toward the future role of SKA pathfinder telescopes, such as ASKAP, as part of e-VLBI arrays, and what we can learn from e-VLBI and apply to the SKA.

The workshop will be three days in duration, the first two days dedicated to scientific and technical presentations.  The third day will be a networking forum for representatives of networking organisations and scientists to discuss current and future trends in high speed data transport and relevance to e-VLBI and the SKA.

To receive further announcements about this meeting, please send an email to e-VLBI2010@icrar.org

Professor Steven Tingay
ICRAR