EatingVLBI 2014: Program

Please find below the scientific program; you can download the presentations by clicking on the link next to each contribution title.


Talks length included time for discussion, as follows:


  1. -National reviews: 25’ (~20’ talk+5’ discussion)

  2. -Regular talks: 20’ (~16’ talk+4’ discussion)

  3. -Junior session: 15’ (~12’ talk+3’ discussion)



Day 1 - Monday, October 13th


Morning - chair M. Cappi


9:30    Vettolani        Welcome speech


Session 1 - National reviews

9:35      Giroletti       Status of VLBI in Italy - pdf

10:00    Hagiwara    Status of VLBI in Japan and East Asia - pdf

10:25    Sohn           Status of VLBI in Korea - pdf


10:50    COFFE BREAK


Session 2 - Results from ongoing collaboration (first part)

11:20    Hada           M87 - pdf

11:40    Niinuma     Imaging capability of KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) - pdf

12:00    Kino             Key science observations of AGNs with KaVA array - pdf

12:20    Orienti         1510-08, 3c454.3 - pdf

12:40    Sasada       Optical Photopolarimetric Study of Blazar Outbursts - pdf


13:00    LUNCH


Afternoon - chair L. Foschini


Session 3 - Presentations from junior researchers

14:15    Casadio          Fermi gamma-ray detection of the radiogalaxy 3C120 and its connection with the VLBI jet - pdf

14:30    Chida              Probing very Early Stage of Radio Source Evolution in NGC 1275 with VERA - pdf

14:45    Fujinaga         The survey for new AGN candidates within the field of Fermi unassociated gamma-ray sources - pptx

15:00    Kim                 Investigating plasma-physical properties of jets in nearby radio-bright AGN with KVN and KaVA - pdf

15:15    Lico                 Very Long Baseline Polarimetry and the Gamma-ray connection in Markarian 421 during the broadband campaign in 2011 - pdf

15:30    Nakahara        Multi-epoch, quasi-simultaneous 22/43GHz observations of the M84 nucleus with VERA - pdf

15:45    Sakai              Absolute proper motions measurement of Sgr D HII region with VERA - pdf


16:00    COFFE BREAK


Session 4 - Results from ongoing collaboration (second part)

16:30    D'Ammando        Narrow Line Seyfert 1s - pdf

16:50    Koyama               Detection of new component perpendicular to the jet axis in Mrk 501 - pdf

17:10    Sawada-Satoh    VERA/GENJI Monitoring of OJ 287 in 2010-2013 - pdf

17:30    Zhao                   KaVA K and Q band observations of Sgr A* - pdf


20:00    DINNER (main menu; veg. menu)



Day 2 - Tuesday, October 14th


Morning - Chair G. Tuccari


Session 5 - Joint observations: status and plans 


9:30      Jung             Recent Activities of KVN and Multi-Frequency AGN Survey project - pdf

9:50      Orfei             Using multifeed systems for simultaneous multifrequency mm-VLBI observations from 18 to 100GHz and above - pdf

10:10    Stagni          VLBI-IT - towards the Italian VLBI network - pdf

10:30    Oyama        The development and performance of OCTAVE-DAS and Correlator System - pptx

10:50    Hagiwara      Planning Italy-Japan observations (10min talk) - pdf


11:00    COFFE BREAK


Session 6 - Science results of mutual interests

11:30    Ambrosini      Prospects in Time and Frequency observables from VLBI (5 min flask talk)

11:35    Rioja              Astrometric Continuum Observations with KVN - pdf

11:55    Dodson          Non-integer Spectral line Source Frequency Phase Referencing - pptx

12:15    Mantovani      Faint blazars potential target for KVN observations - ppt

12:35    Hirota             Observational study of star-forming regions with VERA and beyond - pdf

12:55    Moscadelli     Outflow Structure on small scales in high-mass protostars - odp


13:15    LUNCH


Afternoon - Chair T. Venturi


Session 7 - Towards the future

14:30     Giovannini     SKA - ppt

14:50     Gómez           Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron - pdf

15:10     Nagai             Detection of Kpc-scale Jet Emission with ALMA - pdf

15:30     Casasola       AGN fueling with ALMA: from Cycle 0 results to Cycle 2 incoming data - pdf

15:50     Honma          Super resolution imaging - pptx

16:00     Honma           Summary and Conclusions - pptx


16:30    COFFE BREAK – END OF MEETING