EVN Consortium Board of Directors
MPIfR, Bonn - 29 November 2005
AGENDA
(version: 25 November 2005)

  Items with * following are submitted as written reports,
all the others are assumed to be short oral presentations.



Starting Time 09:00

1.
Welcome to MPIfR, Bonn (Zensus)
2.
Welcome to CBD
Acceptance/changes to the agenda
(Mantovani)
3.
Minutes of the last CBD meeting (Mantovani, All)

3.1 Review of action items from the last CBD meeting


3.2 Review of action items from the last Executive meeting

4.
EVN PC matters


4.1 EVN PC Chairman's report (Charlot *)
5.
EVN Operations


5.1 EVN Scheduler's report
scheduling statistics
(Porcas *)

5.2 Synergy and EVN (Baan, Garrett)

5.3 Report from JIVE, correlator capabilities
(Garrett, Campbell *)

5.4 Report from MPIfR correlator (Alef *)
6.
EVN performance and technical development


6.1 Report from TOG
Network performance and reliability
Network calibration
(comments from Graham)
DBBC development
Field System

Disks status
(Alef *) presentation


MK5 Status
(Doeleman *)


PC EVN development
(Ari Mujunen *)

6.2 e-EVN, e-VLBI (Garrett,Conway)

6.3 EXPReS proposal (Garrett)

6.4 Future Science Use of e-VLBI (Conway)

6.5 UVLBI (Baan, Porcas, Doeleman)
7.
Institutes Reports


7.1 Observatories written reports
IRA, Jodrell, Metsahovi, MPIfR, Onsala, SHAO, WSRT, Yebes
(All *)

7.2 Planned engineering work at telescopes (All)
8.
Global relation


8.1 IVS report and IVS 2010 report (Schlüter)

8.2 GeoNet proposal
Geodetic activities and EVN stations
(Nothnagel/Mantovani)

8.3 NRAO report (Lo *)

8.4 VLBA operations (Walker)

8.5 Haystack report (Doeleman)

8.6 East Asia VLBI Consortium Activity (Hong, Gurvits)

8.7 CRAF report (Ambrosini, Baan)

8.8 VSOP 1&2 (Edwards *)

8.9 Aspiring new telescopes (Booth, Baan)
9.
EVN 2010 (Baan, Garrett, Zensus)
10.
EU contracts
RadioNet, Skads, Estrela
(Diamond)
11.
Biennial report 2003-2004 (Baan)
12.
Date and Place of the next meeting

13.
Any other business