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 […]
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 latest VEX2 definition, courtesy NRAO, is now mirrored on this site: https://vlbi.org/vlbi-standards/vex/.
This month’s IVS-related articles (courtesy of Nlingi Habana: thank you!): Pakize, et al. (2023): “On the improvement of the sensitivity levels of VLBI solutions from a combination with GNSS” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.06.021 “The fundamental goal of the quality assessment using the sensitivity is to find out to what level VLBI can detect station displacements in the adjusted […]
In this edition of the IVS Newsletter, news of the upcoming general meeting, RAEGE’s Santa Maria station in the Azores, Fortaleza updates, and TOW information: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue65.pdf
And so it begins: the IVS Technical Operations Workshop (TOW) 2023 registration is now open thru 3/15! The #TOW2023 *in-person* event is intended for the technical staff of IVS stations; the VGOS Workshop is for correlator staff. https://haystack.mit.edu/tow2023 Looking forward to it! From the IVS CC email announcement (courtesy Dirk Behrend): Dear Stations and Previous […]
The latest IVS Newsletter is available from the IVS Coordinating Center: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue63.pdf
