August 2026: IVS Newsletter, issue #75
The August 2026 issue of the IVS Newsletter is now available: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue75.pdf Thank you to the contributing authors and our front page illustrator!
Nordberg Memorial Award and Lecture
All within traveling distance are invited to attend this lecture at NASA Goddard, relevant to IVS work: please see details below. The 2025 William Nordberg Memorial Award and LectureHonoring recipient: Richard RayTuesday, July 21 2026, 3:00-4:00pmBuilding 3 Goett Auditorium, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771) “The Tides: A Modern View […]
IVS articles of interest for June 2026
Thank you to Nlingi as always for these articles related to our work. I would like to give attention to the following articles from June 2026 that I believe are related to IVS subject matter(s). I provide the DOI link, and a quick synopsis picked directly from the abstract/introduction of the article. If you have an […]
Job opportunity: Onsala
Please see the following new job opportunity, courtesy Roger Hammargren: I would like to draw your attention to a job opportunity at Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology: Senior Research Engineer/ Staff scientist – RF/THz Technology & Electronics You can find the full advertisement and application details here:https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=14784&rmlang=UK Regards/Roger
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IVS General Meeting 2026
The IVS 14th General Meeting (April 12–17, 2026) was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in the scenic Bavarian Alps. Around 130 participants representing 23 countries came together to share updates on IVS activities and plan for the future. Additional meetings included the IVS Analysis Workshop, a VGOS Technical Committee meeting, and an IVS Directing Board meeting. […]
New VLBI outreach site
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 […]
IVS articles of interest for January 2026
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 […]
Open call: Postdoctoral researcher in Astrophysics
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 […]
IVS and spectrum frequency issues
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 […]