Registration is still open (until April 10)! The 2026 IVS General Meeting will be held April 12-17, 2026, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Visit https://indico.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/event/2/overview for information and registration. See you there!
Explaining VLBI to non-experts can be quite a challenge, as we all know. AuScope, in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and the University of Tasmania, has worked with David Schunck and Lucia McCallum to create a new site, https://vlbi.auscope.org.au, that provides lots of answers to questions about the nature and purpose of VLBI, along with helpful […]
Happy new year! Please visit the following articles from December 2025 and thus far into January 2026 related to IVS subjects, courtesy of Nlingi Habana (thank you!): Cite: Chatzinikos, et al. (2026)Title: An ensemble MCDM strategy for orbit design in Genesis-like missionsDoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2025.11.094Synopsis: “The main goal of this paper is to introduce a new ensemble-based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) strategy […]
IVS colleagues and others: The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) is recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher in Astrophysics to join the project MuSES (Multi-messenger Studies of Extragalactic Super-colliders) led by Prof. Yuri Kovalev (ERC grant No 101142396). The project will study the physical processes near supermassive black holes that are responsible for launching and propagating relativistic jets in […]
An article by Lucia McCallum was recently published in The Conversation, on how spectrum frequency issues cause problems for VLBI. Please share with colleagues in the IVS and related fields to foster awareness; the article was written for a general audience. English: Scientists look to black holes to know exactly where we are in the […]
The application period for the 5th IVS Training School on VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry begins today, August 15. The school will take place from October 26 to 28, 2025, at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Applications should be submitted via the Chalmers event webpage at https://indico.chalmers.se/event/366/registrations/33/. The deadline for the application submission is 15th of […]
The thirteenth biennial IVS Technical Operations Workshop (TOW) was held in May 2025 at MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. At this year’s workshop were some 64 people representing 13 different countries. The TOW is focused on hands-on training and problem resolution in VLBI operations and is thus geared toward the technical staff members at operational and […]
The latest VEX2 definition, courtesy NRAO, is now mirrored on this site: https://vlbi.org/vlbi-standards/vex/.
The 2024 International VLBI Technology Workshop (IVTW) was held at MIT Haystack Observatory this year! The program and presentation materials are available at https://www.haystack.mit.edu/ivtw2024. Great talks, fantastic discussions, far too much food—and the best weather we could ask for. See you at the next one! 🙂
Thank you to the many presenters and participants at the wonderful IVS General Meeting 2024, which was held in March in Tsukuba, Japan. And a special thank-you from the entire IVS to our excellent hosts and organizers for making this an excellent event for all. The icebreaker, opening ceremony, informative sessions, anniversary celebration, excursions, and […]
