TOG Manchester 2026

Name: TOG Manchester 2026
Start: 2026-09-18T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Nield Bohr common room

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

Nield Bohr common room

Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

Description

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)
  - a) Welcome
    
    Speaker: Sergio Poppi (INAF)
  - b) Last minute additions to the Agenda
    
    Speaker: All
- 2
  From the previous TOG
  
  Speaker: All
  - a) Acceptation of minutes from the previous TOG
  - b) Action Items
    
    The Current Action items on the MPIfR XWiki
  - c) Review of the Permanent Action Items
    
    The Permanent Action Items on MPIfR XWiki
- 3
  
  Update by the TOG Chair
  
  Speaker: Sergio Poppi (INAF)
- 4
  
  Performance of the EVN
  
  Speaker: JIVE Supp Sci
- 5
  
  EVN Session/scheduling reform
  
  Speaker: Junghwan Oh
- 6
  Updates from stations
  - a) MeerKAT (South Africa)
    
    Speaker: Marcel Gouws
  - b) VERA (Japan)
    
    Speaker: Tomoya Hirota
  - c) TNRT (Thailand)
    
    Speaker: Koichiro Sugiyama
  - d) Updates from other stations
- 10:45
  
  Coffee
- 7
  Developments at JIVE
  - a) GPU-based correlation for the EVN
    
    Speaker: Aard Keimpema (JIVE)
  - b) etransfer (etc/etd) updates, jive5ab
    
    Speaker: Mrs Marjolein Verkouter (Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC)
- 8
  
  VLBA updates
  
  Speaker: Walter Brisken
- 9
  
  FieldSystem updates
  
  Speaker: Ed Himwich
- 12:00
  
  Lunch
- 10
  
  DBBC3 Commissioning
  
  Speaker: All
- 11
  
  Operations with tri-band receivers
  
  Speaker: Gabriele Surcis
- 12
  
  Projects at JIVE?
  
  Speaker: Mrs Marjolein Verkouter (Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC)
- 13
  
  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