e-VLBI

2^nd ANNOUNCEMENT: This meeting will bring together radio astronomers, geodesists and engineers involved in high-speed data transmission, to share the latest developments, concentrating on e-VLBI, but recognizing the overlap with other geodesy and astronomy applications requiring real-time or near-real-time high-speed data transmission.

Abstract Submission: We request that you provide us with a title and abstract for your presentation by Monday 13.08.2007 (ie in two weeks from this mailing).; Send these by email to evlbi-workshop@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.; Space is available for both oral and poster presentations. Most contributed oral presentations will have ~ 20 minutes including questions.

Registration: There are already 48 participants registered. We ask that any further registrations be completed by *** Monday 20.08.2007 ***. The workshop is limited to 60 people due to space in the meeting room.; Effelsberg tour:; If you would like to attend the tour Wednesday afternoon, please register by sending us a short email to evlbi-workshop@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (along with your abstract would be easiest) in any case by 20.08.2007.; We need these registrations in time so we have accurate numbers for planning the local logistics and Effelsberg tour.; There is no registration fee.

Location and Transportation: The meeting will be held in the main lecture hall of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in Bonn, Germany.; Travel directions can be found at: Travel Information; Most people will find the train and bus services most convenient for arriving at their hotel and to get to the institute on the monday morning, but rental cars are available if required at Cologne/Bonn airport, Frankfurt airport and Düsseldorf airport.; Most people should go direct to their hotel upon arrival. Activities at the institute will begin on Monday morning, 17.09.2007 at 9 am.; The weather in early September is usually pleasant, with temperatures being typically 26 C by day and 13 C by night (79 F to 55 F).

Accommodation: Fifty three rooms in total have been held at the following hotels:; Altes Treppchen (booked out): http://www.treppchen.de; Hotel Mozart 15.08.07 70 EUR/night: http://www.hotel-mozart-bonn.de; Hotel Eden 30.07.07 80 EUR/night: http://www.eden-bonn.de; President Hotel 08.08.07 100 EUR/night: http://www.presidenthotel.de; Hotel Ibis (no block) 63 EUR/night: http://www.ibishotel.com; You should book directly with the hotel of your choice before the block reservations expire on the dates given above to guarantee yourself a place. Prices are for single occupancy and include breakfast.

Meals: Sunday night dinner (16.09.2007): nothing official has been planned. If you would like to get a group together, you can get in touch with each other via the wiki page at:; DinnerMeetingPoint; Monday evening (17.09.2007) is the conference dinner.; Tuesday evening (18.09.2007) is free for attendees to try out any of a wide range of local restaurants.; Wednesday evening: meeting will have ended and most people will have departed.; Lunches Monday and Tuesday will be catered in the institute.; The lunches and dinners, including the conference dinner, are free of cost to participants, thanks to support from EXPReS and MPIfR.; Lunch Wednesday: for those workshop participants remaining (eg to attend the Effelsberg tour), the institute canteen is available for your use. Alternatively, there are numerous restaurants in the area. (This lunch is not covered by EXPReS and MPIfR.)

Internet: We will provide a WLAN hotspot and a public laptop in the meeting room for internet access.

Programme

The detailed programme will be prepared after the abstract submission deadline of 13.08.2007 and posted on the meeting web page.

The topics in this meeting are:

: Development of e-VLBI facilities; High-performance e-VLBI demonstrations; Reports on current and projected e-VLBI and related efforts; Networking protocols for real-time data transmission; Shared vs. dedicated networks VSI-E standard for e-VLBI data transfer; Tour of the Effelsberg radio telescope; Associated meetings (EVN-NREN, Fabric/EXPReS)

The institute will provide a laptop with PowerPoint, OpenOffice and the ability to show PDF files.

You can transfer talks to this machine prior to each session.

Alternatively (preferred), you can upload your talk to:

ftp://ftp.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/incoming/evlbi-workshop/<yourname>.<ppt/pdf/odp>

at any time and we will move your file to the presentation machine.

We request that you use our machine as we will offer web-based video-conferencing and the presentations must be on the presentation machine.

Publication: The proceedings will be published electronically by posting PDF or PowerPoint or OpenOffice files from the presentations on the meeting web page

Action Items: Submit your title and abstract by email to: evlbi-workshop@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.; Register for the Effelsberg tour by email to: evlbi-workshop@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.; Register for the meeting, if you haven't already done so, at: Registration; Get a group together for Sunday night dinner: visit the wiki page: DinnerMeetingPoint

		15.06.2007	First announcement, registration open
		01.08.2007	Second announcement
		13.08.2007	Abstract submission deadline
		20.08.2007	Registration deadline
		17.09.2007	Workshop first day, 9 am start
		18.09.2007	Workshop second day
		19.09.2007	Morning: free (parallel EVN-NREN meeting)
			Afternoon: Effelsberg tour (2 pm to 5 pm)
			Workshop finished

		10 - 14.09.2007	Synthesis Imaging School, Bonn
		14.09.2007	V2C Meeting, Uni Bonn
		15.09.2007	IVS Board Meeting, Uni Bonn
		20.09.2007	Fabric/EXPReS meeting, MPIfR