Program

 Tuesday, January 28, 2020
7:30 AM 9:00 AM Registration   1:00
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Welcome   0:15
    Science Motivation Session Chair: Anton Zensus
9:00 AM 9:40 AM The Future of High-Resolution Radio Interferometry in Space
 L. Gurvits & V. Fish 0:40
9:40 AM 10:00 AM Mapping Spacetimes with Horizon-scale Imaging A. Broderick 0:20
10:00 AM 10:20 AM The Sharpest View of Blazar Jets with Space VLBI J. Gomez 0:20
10:20 AM 10:50 AM Break   0:30
10:50 AM 11:30 AM Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Relativistic Jets
 R. Blandford 0:40
11:30 AM 11:50 AM Black Hole Science with Extremely Long Baseline Interferometry D. Pesce 0:20
11:50 AM 12:10 PM Measuring Black Hole Spin with Time-domain VLBI Observations of Infalling Gas Clouds K. Moriyama 0:20
12:10 PM 12:30 PM Multi-messenger Astronomy with Space mm VLBI V. Ravi 0:20
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch (90 min)   1:30
    Science Motivation con't Session Chair: Shep Doeleman
2:00 PM 2:20 PM Simulations of VLBI Observations of Black Holes and Jets from Space  F. Roelofs 0:20
2:20 PM 2:40 PM Polarization Imaging of M87 Jets by General Relativistic Radiative Transfer Calculation Based On GRMHD Simulations Y. Tsunetoe 0:20
2:40 PM 3:00 PM The Need of Space VLBI for the Space Geodesy Program  L. Petrov 0:20
3:00 PM 3:40 PM Discussion Topic: Space vs. Ground   0:40
3:40 PM 4:10 PM Break   0:30
4:10 PM 4:50 PM VSOP-1 (HALCA) Project Y. Murata 0:40
4:50 PM 5:30 PM The Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron: Overview and Results Y. Kovalev 0:40
5:30 PM 5:35 PM Poster Flash (5 min)   0:05
5:35 PM 6:35 PM Reception   1:00
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
    Session: Technology Drivers Session Chair: Katie Bouman
9:00 AM 9:40 AM Technical Developments for Millimetron Space Observatory
 A. Baryshev 0:40
9:40 AM 10:20 AM Instrumentation Status for Space VLBI with the Event Horizon Telescope K. Haworth & A. Raymond
0:40
10:20 AM 10:50 AM Break   0:30
10:50 AM 11:10 AM Recent Results in Millimeter (mmW) Performance of Mesh for Space Reflectors S. Ortiz 0:20
11:10 AM 11:30 AM Wideband Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers for Microwave and Millimeter Wavelengths P. Day 0:20
11:30 AM 11:50 AM APEX SEPIA345: a New Generation Receiver for EHT V. Belitsky 0:20
11:50 AM 12:10 PM Interferometric Imaging at Extreme Baselines and Spatial Frequencies
 A. Zensus
 0:20
12:10 PM 12:20 PM Conference Photo    0:10
12:20 PM 1:50 PM Lunch (90 min)   1:30
    Session: Technology Drivers con't Session Chair: Walter Brisken
1:50 PM 2:20 PM Fundamental Physics of Moving Clock Time Synchronization in a Weak Gravitational Field S. Wilkinson 0:30
2:20 PM 3:00 PM Precise Satellite Orbit and Baseline Determination: Status and Outlook  P. Visser
 0:40
3:00 PM 3:30 PM Break   0:30
3:30 PM 3:50 PM Mission Optimization: From Science Goals to Orbit Selection D. Palumbo 0:20
3:50 PM 4:10 PM Incoherent Clocking and Potential Applicability to Space VLBI
 B. Carlson
 0:20
4:10 PM 5:10 PM Discussion Topic: Common Requirements and Technology Developments?   1:00
6:00 PM 9:00 PM Conference Dinner   3:00
Thursday, January 30, 2020
    Session: Technology Drivers and Mission Concepts Session Chair: Joseph Lazio
  
9:00 AM 9:40 AM The Future of ALMA I. Cleeves 0:40
9:40 AM 10:00 AM
 Progress in the Event Horizon Imager Mission Concept
 M. Martin-Neira
 0:20
10:00 AM
10:20 AMMicroArc Second Astrometry with Multi-Beam Space VLBIM. Eubanks0:20
10:20 AM 10:50 AM Break   0:30
10:50 AM 11:10 AM The U.S. Space VLBI Program D. Murphy 0:20
11:10 AM 11:30 AM Expanding the Event Horizon Telescope into a MEO/GEO-sized Imaging Array
 K. Akiyama
 0:20
11:30 AM 11:50 AM Two Options for Space VLBI Telescope Orbit: LEO and GEO Y. Asaki 0:20
11:50 AM 12:10 PM A Proposal of Space Terahertz Intensity Interferometry
 H. Matsuo 0:20
12:10 PM 1:40 PM Lunch (90 min)   1:40
    Session: Technology Drivers and Mission Concepts, con't Session Chair: Tony Beasley
  
1:40 PM
 2:20 PM Space VLBI in the ngVLA Era
 E. Murphy
 0:40
2:20 PM 3:20 PM Discussion Topic: Mission Architecture - One Big Space Antenna vs. Many Small Antennas?   1:00
3:20 PM 3:30 PM Concluding Remarks   0:10

Posters

P1:
Bjorn Emonts, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
ALMA Zooming in on the Dragonfly Galaxy

P2:
Taehyun Jung, Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Korean VLBI Network (KVN) and E-KVN: Simultaneous Multi-frequency System for mm-VLBI

P3:
Glen Langston, National Science Foundation
The Best Time in Space

P4:
Matthew Lister, Purdue University
AGN Jets at High Resolution: The MOJAVE VLBA Program

P5:
George Moellenbrock, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Calibration of Space VLBI Orbit Position Errors Using Multiple Calibrators

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