TOG - Agenda, February 2016 (draft)

  1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Colomer, Vicente)
  2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
  3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) Robledo de Chavela, June 24, 2015
  4. Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see Action Items from last meeting )
  5. Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see Permanent Action Items)
  6. Radionet4 NA proposal (WP4.1 TOG & GTG) (Vicente)
  7. Reliability/Performance of the EVN
    • Reliability/Performance of the EVN (?)
    • NME results (?)
    • Feedback from last sessions
  8. Amplitude Calibration
    • Quality of calibration (?)
    • Timely delivery of ANTAB-files (?)
    • Continuous cal: availability at stations, issues processing antab during last sessions? (all)
  9. VLBI backends
    • Summary from the DBBC master (Alef for Tuccari)
    • DBBC. Status at the telescopes: number of COREs, Fila10G (All)
    • Russian backends. Developments (Marshalov)
  10. Recorders: Mark 5,6, Flexbuf
    • jive5ab & m5copy (Verkouter)
    • Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C software, firmware, SDK9 (Lonsdale for Ruszczyk)
    • Flexbuff
    • Mark6 as Flexbuff. (Bach/Alef)
    • Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all)
    • Diskspace contribution from Flexbuff and Mark6 units (All)
  11. Technical Developments
    • Triggered observations (Kettenis)
    • SFXC (Kettenis)
    • 2 Gbps eVLBI (Vicente, Verkouter, Kettenis)
    • PFB mode (Vicente)
    • Towards 2-4 Gbps operation (Vicente)
  12. DIVA (Alef)
    • DBBC3 (Alef)
  13. BRAND (Alef)
  14. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
  15. Haystack
    • Haystack status report (Lonsdale)
  16. NRAO
    • NRAO status report (Brisken)
  17. Field System, status and new features
    • Status report, new developments (Himwich)
  18. Last minute additions
    • Experiments transferring the clock through Internet (B. Campbell)
    • NOEMA overview (M. Bremer)
  19. Mid term future
    • Technological developments for 2016-2018. EVN in the future (open discussion)
  20. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • Saint Petersburg, sept 2016
  21. AOB