TOG Manchester 2026

Friday 18 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 16:00 Europe/London

Nield Bohr common room

The 2026 European VLBI Network Technical Operations Group meeting will be held 18 September 2026, overlapping with the last day of the EVN Symposium.

The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both online and in person in the Niels Bohr Common Room of the Schuster Building (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, (UK). For logistics, see the EVN Symposium logistics page.

Please register using this link to indicate if you wist to participate online or in person. Registration has closed; please contact the TOG Chair/vice chair if in dire need.

The Zoom room link will be shared with registered participants only!

1 Introduction

Speaker: Sergio Poppi (INAF)

2 From the previous TOG

Speaker: All

3 Update by the TOG Chair

Speaker: Sergio Poppi (INAF)

EVN TOG 2026.pdf

4 Performance of the EVN

Speaker: Generic JIVE Supp Sci

TOG Report EVN Performance - Eppel.pdf

5 EVN Session/scheduling reform

Speaker: Junghwan Oh

TOG_2026_scheduler.pdf

6 Updates from stations

10:30 Coffee

7 Updates from stations (cont'd)

8 Developments at JIVE

9 VLBA updates

Speaker: Walter Brisken

TOG2026_Brisken-VLBA-Update.pdf

10 FieldSystem updates

Speaker: Ed Himwich

WEH_TOG_Sept_2026-FS-Update.pdf

11 DBBC3 Commissioning

Speaker: All

12:30 Lunch

12 Operations with tri-band receivers

Speaker: Gabriele Surcis

Operations with tribands - Surcis.pdf

13 Projects at JIVE?

Speaker: Mrs Marjolein Verkouter (Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC)

Verkouter-projects-at-jive.pdf

14 Next meeting

Looking for candidates to host the next TOG. From the collection of TOG locations LVA or FIN could/should be next?

Speaker: All