Greetings,
After the successful first Malaysian VLBI Workshop held in Kuala Lumpur in November 2019, a second meeting on the advances of the VLBI situation in the country after three years will be held in 2022. Malaysia has moved forward in the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) and Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) for the acquisition and operation of a VGOS radio telescope which will be expected to start its construction in Jelebu in the near future. Malaysia is moving towards its readiness by finalizing VLBI tests with the UPSI pathfinder antenna, and expanding the scientific topics and collaboration with other (south) east asian regions. For this second Malaysian VLBI Workshop, we aim to motivate and construct a pathroad toward the successful development of the VGOS antenna in Malaysia. We expect to discuss new and stimulating results and progress reports both on scientific research and in VGOS civil works, site construction and assembly. For this, we hope to cover not only VLBI science topics, but also include discussion based on RFI, geodesy applications, and single dish radio astronomy. The workshop will be hosted by the Radio Cosmology Research Laboratory of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science of Universiti Malaya (UM). The workshop will be held in hybrid mode, to facilitate participation. Together with the workshop, a hands-off session for a practical demonstration of VLBI data reduction (AIPS and Difmap) will be held on the first day.
Important Dates:
August 14th: registration closes
September 5th: Hands off tutorial
September 6th-8th: 2nd Malaysian VLBI Workshop.
The website for the event is available at
https://sites.google.com/view/2myvlbiworkshop
with a registration link and submission of talk and poster abstracts, and information regarding social activities. For further information, you can also email to vlbimalaysia_at_um.edu.my
We very much hope to see you in Kuala Lumpur this September.
The SOC and LOC
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Scientific Organizing Committee:
- Juan Carlos Algaba Marcos (UM)
- Zamri Zainal Abidin (UM)
- Keiichi Asada (ASIAA)
- Kazuhiro Hada (NAOJ)
- Taufiq Hidayat (ITB)
- Phrudth Jaroenjittichai (NARIT)
- Taehyun Jung (KASI))
- Chris Phillips (CSIRO)
- Koichiro Sugiyama (NARIT)
- Fengchun Shu (SHAO)
- Sascha Trippe (SNU)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Norsiah Hashim (UM)
- Mohd Shaiful Rizal Hassan (UM)
- Ungku Ferwani Salwa Ungku Ibrahim (UM)
- Kah Chun Lai (UM)
- Danial Ahmad Ariffin Lee (UM)
- Flaviour Mark Markos (UM)
- Mohd Ridhauddin Mat Sabri (UM)
- Zhan Hao Ng (UM)
- Farah Ramadhani (UM)
- Mohd Shazwan Mohd Radzi (UM)
- Zulfazli Rosli (UM)
- Norhasliza Yusoff (UM)
- Muhamad Hassan Zakie Yusoff (UM)
- Ahmad Najwan Zulkiplee (UM)
Thank you.
