Diapositiva 1

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05 10 September
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Institute of Radio Astronomy -
INAF Head-quarters in Bologna
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Institute of Radio Astronomy Observatories
Noto
Medicina
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Sardinia Radio Telescope
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ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA
Brera IASF
Trieste
Padova
Torino
Bologna IASF - IRA
Arcetri
Teramo
Roma IASF - IFSI
Capodimonte
Cagliari
Palermo IASF
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo Centro Galileo
Galilei, La Palma (Isole Canarie) Large Binocular
Telescope (Mount Graham, Arizona)
Catania
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Sponsors
Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe University
of Bologna Department of Astronomy
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EC funded project
RadioNet is an EC integrating activity that
brings together all the major radio
observatories in Europe, covering the frequency
range of 10 MHz to 1 THz.27 partners 5
Networking Activities 4 Joint Research
Activities 9 Transnational Access
programmesAims gt support the
radio astronomy community gt
improve the capabilities of the major radio
astronomy facilities in
Europe and beyond gt enhance access
to those facilities
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• Transnational Access
• EVN, e-MERLIN, Effelsberg, LOFAR, WSRT,
• APEX, IRAM PdB, IRAM PV,
  JCMT
• Joint Research Activities
• ALBiUS Advanced long baseline user software
• AMSTAR Focal plain arrays, 80 GHz 1 THz
• Advanced mm and sub-mm Technology
• APRICOT All Purpose Radio Imaging Cameras On
  Telescopes
• 33 GHz 50 GHz
• UniBoard FPGA-based computing platform for
  radioastronomical
• applications
• Networking Activities
• N1 - Management of RadioNet 2
• N2 - Science Workshop

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http//www.evlbi.org 14 Institutes 21 Radio
telescopes
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• Previous European Radio Interferometry Schools
• Manchester 5-9 September 2005
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• Bonn 10-15 September 2007
• Oxford 7-11 September 2009
• 7th IRAM Interferometry School, Grenoble, October
  4-8, 2010
• Next (single dish) schools
• Sardinian Summer School in Astrophysics, Pula,
  September 12 17, 2011
• 6th IRAM 30m Summer School, Pradollano,
  September 23 - 30, 2011

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Past schools Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Techniques and Applications Edited by
Marcello Felli and Ralph Spencer Proceeding of
the NATO Advanced Study Institute Castel San
Pietro Terme, Bologna, Italy September 12 -23,
1988 The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics,
Astrometry and Geodesy Edited by Franco
Mantovani and Andrzej Kus Proceeding of the
NATO Advanced Study Institute Castel San
Pietro Terme, Bologna, Italy September 17
29, 2001
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eVLBI
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LBA, Australia
VERA, Japan
VLBA, USA
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meerKAT, South Africa
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Murchison Base , Australia
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Golden Age for Radio Astronomy
Pietro da Cortona Eta delloro 1637
affresco Sala della Stufa Palazzo Pitti Firenze
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YERAC every year since 1968
YERAC 1980 Department of Physics, Bologna
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Enjoy your stay
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