Conference Programme
Science Programme
The science programme is be a mix of invited and contributed talks and poster presentations covering a broad range of subjects in VLBI science and techniques
from theory to observations. A preliminary programme can be seen below.
Monday 14 Sep 2026
Morning 1 09:00 – 10:30
Morning 2 11:00 – 12:30
| 11:00 |
VLBI with the SKAO |
| Tyler Bourke (SKAO & JBCA) |
| 11:30 |
Temporal Evolution of VLBI Core Brightness Temperature in Neutrino-Associated Blazars |
| Georgios Kalaitzidakis |
| 11:45 |
Tackling the Doppler crisis with multi-frequency VLBI |
| Florian Eppel (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC) |
| 12:00 |
The inner subpc-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with EHT and GMVA |
| Sijia Peng (Instituto di Radioastronomia (INAF-IRA), Italy) |
| 12:15 |
Absolute astrometry of MOJAVE sample and modeling source structure |
| Ming Hui Xu (GFZ) |
Afternoon 1 14:00 – 15:30
| 14:00 |
Astro2Geo K-band VLBA Imaging: A Multi-Purpose VLBI Database for Astronomy, Geodesy, and Astrometry |
| Aletha de Witt (Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)) |
| 14:30 |
Towards a large statistical sample of Compact Symmetric Objects: A combined morphological and radio spectra selection analysis |
| Mercy Mooketsi-Kobe (PhD student-University of Pretoria) |
| 14:45 |
Constraining the compact radio counterpart of FRB 20181030A with EVN observations |
| Davide Pelliciari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Istituto di Radioastronomia (INAF-IRA)) |
| 15:00 |
Poster Sparkler Session |
Afternoon 2 16:00 – 17:30
| 16:00 |
Invited talk — Zooming into FRBs: VLBI Unmasks Cosmic Transients |
| Cherry Ng-Guiheneuf |
| 16:30 |
Isolating Broadband Radio Technosignatures (BRaTs) using VLBI |
| Michael Garrett |
| 16:45 |
Radio interferometric and James Webb Space Telescope observations of a radio galaxy at z=4.0 |
| Krisztina Gabányi (HUN-REN-ELTE Extragalactic Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest, Hungary) |
| 17:00 |
AVICA: A fully automated CASA pipeline for large-volume VLBI data calibration |
| A. Kumar (Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece) |
| 17:15 |
M2FINDERS: Mapping Magnetic Fields Near Supermassive Black Holes with Multifrequency Polarimetric VLBI |
| Eduardo Ros (MPI für Radioastronomie) |
Tuesday 15 Sep 2026
Morning 1 09:00 – 10:30
| 09:00 |
Invited talk — Looking at VLBI Blazars from the Deep Sea |
| Alexander Plavin |
| 09:30 |
An unspread jet? 18 years of VLBI constraints on the TDE Arp 299B AT1 |
| Miguel Pérez-Torres (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC, Granada)) |
| 09:45 |
A Reoriented Counter-jet in 3C 84: Sub-parsec Free-Free Absorption Revealed by Bayesian Imaging |
| Yeji Jo (Kyung Hee University) |
| 10:00 |
The future of VLBI observations at 12/15 GHz |
| Jun Yang (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) |
| 10:15 |
Limiting Factors in K-band (24GHz) VLBI Astrometry, Dominant Contributions to the Error Budget. |
| Namakau Mwiya-Monde (University of Pretoria) |
Morning 2 11:00 – 12:30
| 11:00 |
Invited talk — [TBD] |
| Ashley Stock |
| 11:30 |
Studying the nearby Universe with e-MERLIN: an update to the LeMMINGs survey at 5 GHz and 50 mas resolution |
| David Williams-Baldwin (University of Manchester) |
| 11:45 |
The RiMiX project: searching for AGN coronal signatures and the need for high-sensitivity VLBI |
| Isaac Mutie (Technical University of Kenya) |
| 12:00 |
PlanObs: A VLBI Observation Planning Tool for Proposal Preparation and Beyond |
| Benito Marcote (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC) |
| 12:15 |
Can Bayesian VLBI Imaging Really Achieve Super-Resolution? A 25-Source VLBA Benchmark of Comrade against CLEAN |
| Jongho Park (Kyung Hee University) |
Afternoon 1 14:00 – 15:30
| 14:00 |
Invited talk — The ICRF and the K-band Astro2geo project |
| Patrick Charlot |
| 14:30 |
Multistatic Radar Observations of GEO Debris with e-MERLIN |
| Phoebe Ryder (University of Manchester) |
| 14:45 |
Understanding Jet Formation through Changing-look Phenomena with VLBI |
| Gregory Walsh (Niels Bohr Institute) |
| 15:00 |
Poster Sparkler Session |
Afternoon 2 16:00 – 17:30
| 16:00 |
Invited talk — Gamma-ray bursts in the radio sky: probing relativistic outflows with VLBI |
| Stefano Giarratana |
| 16:30 |
From Dual to Triple: High-Resolution VLBI Imaging of AGNs in Merger Systems |
| Wancheng Xu (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS / Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN CSFK) |
| 16:45 |
High Resolution Imaging of the Expanding SNR in the Nucleus of M82 |
| Dr Tom Muxlow (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA)) |
| 17:00 |
Gravitational lens or CSO? A multi-epoch VLBI study of contaminants in the search for milli-lenses |
| Diego Álvarez-Ortega (Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH) |
| 17:15 |
Probing the connection between γ-rays and the jet structure in NRAO 150 |
| L. C. Debbrecht (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany) |
Wednesday 16 Sep 2026
Morning 1 09:00 – 10:30
| 09:00 |
Invited talk — [TBD] |
| John McKean |
| 09:30 |
Preparing for WRC-27: What Lies Ahead |
| Michael Lindqvist (Onsala Space Observatory) |
| 09:45 |
A Unified Origin of Faraday Rotation in 3C 84: The Circumnuclear Ambient Medium and Magnetic Field inside the Bondi Radius |
| Minchul Kam (ASIAA) |
| 10:00 |
How complete is our census of AGN from VLBI surveys? |
| Leonid Petrov (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) |
| 10:15 |
Very-High-Energy and Neutrino-Selected Blazars at Parsec Scales |
| Yuri Kovalev (MPIfR) |
Morning 2 11:00 – 12:30
| 11:00 |
Invited talk — Zooming in on star formation |
| Kazi Rygl |
| 11:30 |
The RADIOBLOCKS project: simulations for optimising calibration and parameter
extraction |
| Emmanuel K. Bempong-Manful (The University of Manchester) |
| 11:45 |
Automated VLBI imaging and sensitivity limits for milli-lens searches |
| Felix Pötzl (Institute of Astrophysics - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas) |
| 12:00 |
VLBI monitoring of the outstanding GRB 260310A |
| Marcello Giroletti (INAF-IRA Bologna (Italy)) |
| 12:15 |
Discovery of a Fast-Moving Polarized Blob in the Innermost Jet of M87 via Time-Resolved Polarimetric VLBI Monitoring |
| Kunwoo Yi |
Afternoon 1 14:00 – 15:30
| 14:00 |
Connecting jets and cores with the complex geometry of radio lobes in brightest cluster galaxies: a VLBI journey |
| Francesco Ubertosi |
| 14:15 |
Space-VLBI Observations of Quasars 0657+172 and 2209+236: Modelling Refractive Scattering Substructure |
| Mikhail Lisakov (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Chile)) |
| 14:30 |
Measuring the Core-Shift in 25 AGN Jets |
| Joonas Suortti (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland) |
| 14:45 |
Unprecendented depths at the highest resolutions with LOFAR |
| Jurjen de Jong (Leiden Observatory & ASTRON) |
| 15:00 |
Poster Sparkler Session |
Afternoon 2 16:00 – 17:30
Thursday 17 Sep 2026
Morning 1 09:00 – 10:30
| 09:00 |
Invited talk — Overview of the EHT results and future plans |
| Laurent Loinard |
| 09:30 |
Quasi-periodic Jet Precession in the Quasar NRAO 530 |
| Mariangella Camus (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.) |
| 09:45 |
EVN astrometry of late-time radio flare in TDE AT2018cqh: off-axis jet or delayed outflow? |
| Yihang Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China) |
| 10:00 |
THERMOpYlae: VLBI contribution and commissioning preparation of the Hellenic, Southeastern European 32m antenna |
| Nectaria Gizani (Hellenic Open University) |
| 10:15 |
The Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope: A Platform for Future cm/mm-VLBI and Interdisciplinary Radio Science |
| Jompoj Wongphechauxsorn (University of Wuerzburg) |
Morning 2 11:00 – 12:30
| 11:00 |
Latest update on the radio astronomy infrastructure and preparation for VLBI operation in Thailand: the Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT) and beyond |
| Bannawit Pimpanuwat (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT)) |
| 11:15 |
The LAMBDA Project: Southern Hemisphere and SKA-Low Low-Frequency VLBI |
| Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO) |
| 11:30 |
Technical developments at the VLBA |
| Walter BRISKEN (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) |
| 11:45 |
The Long Baseline Array - Enabling SKA-VLBI in the Southern Hemisphere |
| Cormac Reynolds (CSIRO) |
| 12:00 |
MeerKAT as a VLBI station: EVN integration and new developments |
| Marcel Gouws (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)) |
| 12:15 |
SKAMPI as a Testbed for EVN–SKA Synergies in VLBI |
| Jompoj Wongphechauxsorn (University of Wuerzburg) |
Afternoon 1 14:00 – 15:30
| 14:00 |
JBO/SKAO visit (starts at 13:30!) |
Afternoon 2 16:00 – 17:30
Friday 18 Sep 2026
Morning 1 09:00 – 10:30
| 09:00 |
Invited talk — Low-frequency VLBI: moving into the era of surveys |
| Leah Morabito |
| 09:30 |
First VLBI Detections of pc-scale Radio Emission in the Local LRD Analogue J2048 |
| Ning Chang (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| 09:45 |
Helical Magnetic Field in the Acceleration-Collimation Zone of the M87 Jet |
| Jongho Park (Kyung Hee University) |
| 10:00 |
Revealing Propagating Wave-Like Structures in the Inner M87 Jet Using Bayesian Imaging |
| Vladislav A. Makeev (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) |
| 10:15 |
SN 2012au: A compact radio source emerging at the origin of a stripped envelope supernova a decade post explosion |
| Mattias Lazda (University of Toronto) |
Morning 2 11:00 – 12:30
| 11:00 |
Invited talk — Simultaneous Multi‑frequency VLBI and Frequency Phase Transfer at Millimeter Wavelengths |
| Guang-Yao Zhao (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) |
| 11:30 |
Shocks, polarisation, and high-energy emission: Probing black hole jets from EVN to IXPE |
| Georgios Filippos Paraschos (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland, Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Metsähovintie 114, FI-02540 Kylmälä, Finland, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, Bonn, D-53121 Bonn, Germany) |
| 11:45 |
Uncovering Previously Undetected Fast Kinematic Patterns in AGN Jets Using Total-Intensity VLBI Images |
| Vladislav A. Makeev (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) |
| 12:00 |
Two decades of VLBI monitoring of HST-1 in the M87 jet |
| Kazuhiro Hada (Nagoya City University) |
| 12:15 |
VLBA study of non-thermal radio variability in the Orion Nebula Cluster |
| Eoin O'Kelly (University of Hertfordshire) |
Afternoon 1 14:00 – 15:30
| 14:00 |
Where Fast Radio Bursts Live: VLBI Insights into Persistent Radio Sources and Magnetized Environments |
| Gabriele Bruni (INAF-IAPS (Italy)) |
| 14:30 |
Parsec-scale Compact Fading Ejecta from an Accreting Massive Black Hole |
| Chao Li (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences.) |
| 14:45 |
The Synoptic Wide-field EVN-eMERLIN Public Survey (SWEEPS): Pilot results and future implementation |
| Célestin Herbé-George (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute & University of Pretoria) |
| 15:00 |
Investigating the Life Cycle of Radio Sources: Early Results from the VLBI Lockman Hole Survey |
| Thephilus Matsepane (University of Pretoria) |
Afternoon 2 16:00 – 17:30
Posters
| Unveiling the Starburst-AGN Connection via the FIR Radio Relation and VLBI Resolved Parsec Scale Radio Emission |
| Uzay Aydin (Erciyes University Department of Astronomy and Space Science) |
| Multi wavelength Classification of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Machine Learning: The SpecLess Approach and Radio Integration |
| Uzay Aydın (Erciyes University, Department of Astronomy and Space Science) |
| VLBI developments at the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope |
| Uwe Bach (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie) |
| Advancing High-Dynamic-Range Imaging for KVN: Multi-Term Multi-Frequency Synthesis (MT-MFS) with Simultaneous Multi-Band Observations |
| Junhyun Baek (KASI) |
| Probing the Innermost Jet Profile of 3C 279 via a Multi-band Rotation Measure Analysis |
| Doohyon Baek (Seoul National University) |
| From maser ring to radio jet: A multi-epoch view of high-mass star formation in G23.657-00.127 |
| Anna Bartkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun) |
| Structure correction and long-term jet kinematics with VGOS data |
| Petra Benke (GFZ/MPIfR) |
| Revealing the Nature of Repeated Gamma-ray flares in J1048+7143 |
| Carolina Casadio (Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH) |
| AGN structure evolution and core shifts using continuous CONT17 VLBI observations |
| Wara Chamani (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences) |
| Hyper-Eddington Accretion: VLBI Detection of pc-scale Radio Structures in IRAS 04416+1215 |
| Ning Chang (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| Probing Parsec-scale Radio Emission in LLAGNs with VLBI: A LeMMINGs-selected Sample of Nearby Galaxies |
| Xiaopeng Cheng (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) |
| Extragalactic radio jets on sub-kpc scales |
| Paul Chitembwa (university of Manchester) |
| Radio astronomy for orbit determination and space situational awareness |
| Giuseppe Cimò |
| Sub-Parsec Acceleration and Collimation of NGC 4261's Twin Jets |
| Lang Cui (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS) |
| Spectral index evolution of the limb-brightened jet in 3C 84 |
| Lena C. Debbrecht (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany) |
| Parsec-scale jet polarization signatures as a probe of neutrino emission in AGN |
| Teresa Toscano Domingo (Max Planck Institute fuer Radioastronomie) |
| Overview of the 6668-MHz methanol maser activity towards the star forming complex W51A |
| Sandra Etoka (The University of Manchester) |
| A new look at the angular size-redshift test |
| Sándor Frey (Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) |
| Carefully-selected radio quasars are ubiquitously detected with EVN |
| Sándor Frey (Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) |
| High-redshift quasars from arcsecond to mas scales |
| Krisztina Gabányi (HUN-REN-ELTE Extragalactic Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest, Hungary) |
| Connecting radio variability and jet structure in blazars: A multiwavelength variability analysis with long-term single dish monitoring combined with insights from VLBI data. |
| Rupal Giri (INAF-IRA and University of Bologna) |
| Source Shape and Maser Polarization at VLBI Resolution |
| Malcolm Gray (NARIT, Thailand) |
| A new window into cool dwarf’s magnetospheres: auroras, radiation belts, and beyond |
| Jose Carlos Guirado (Universitat de València) |
| Low Frequency and CNSRC in China |
| Quan Guo |
| realtime correlation for ultra high bandwidth |
| Shaoguang Guo (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO)) |
| VLBI studies of AGN in the context of multi-messenger partnership at the dawn of the era of gravitational wave astronomy |
| Leonid Gurvits (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) |
| RM and magnetic field evolution of the source BL Lac during one of its burst in late 2020 |
| Xuzhi Hu (School of Physics and Astronomy, Yunnan University) |
| mm-wave to Optical Variability Behaviour of Blazars in the Roma-BZCat |
| Evaristus U. Iyida (Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory) |
| Monitoring of 3C 286 with ALMA, IRAM, and SMA from 2006 to 2025: Stability, Synchrotron Ages, and Frequency-Dependent Polarization Attributed to Core-Shift |
| Minchul Kam (ASIAA) |
| A Unified Origin of Faraday Rotation in 3C 84: The Circumnuclear Ambient Medium and Magnetic Field inside the Bondi Radius |
| Minchul Kam |
| The Birth and Early Evolution of the 3C 84 Jet: (Sub-)Parsec Kinematics and Interaction with the Ambient Medium |
| Minchul Kam |
| Monitoring of 3C 286 with ALMA, IRAM, and SMA from 2006 to 2025: Stability, Synchrotron Ages, and Frequency-Dependent Polarization Attributed to Core-Shift |
| Minchul Kam |
| The Birth and Early Evolution of the 3C 84 Jet: (Sub-)Parsec Kinematics and Interaction with the Ambient Medium |
| Minchul Kam (ASIAA) |
| High resolution imaging of AGN jets in the Lockman Hole field using eMERLIN |
| Tumisang Kedidimetse (Botswana International University of Science and Technology) |
| Astro2Geo: Geodetic analysis of the K-band VLBI sessions |
| Hana Krasna (Austria) |
| Multi-wavelength observations of Markarian 501 as a tool for breaking the degeneracy between blazar models |
| Frans Lott (University of Namibia) |
| A multi-scale and multi-frequency e-MERLIN and VLA view of star formation and AGN in local U/LIRGs |
| Geferson Lucatelli (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)) |
| Occultations by Geometric Discontinuities as Technosignatures in Sub-mm VLBI |
| Louisa Mason |
| Unified framework for multi-frequency model-fitting and alignment of quasar jet images |
| Patricio Messen-Fuentes (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile)) |
| High-resolution radio observations of dusty early-type galaxies and dual active galactic nuclei |
| Michał Michałowski (Astronomical Observatory Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) |
| A decade of constructing a comprehensive catalogue of high-redshift active galactic nuclei |
| Krisztina Perger (HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences) |
| Accounting for non-linear site motion |
| Leonid Petrov (NASA Goddard Space flight Center) |
| Making sense of VY CMa's outflows: stellar-scale maser mapping with ALMA and prospects for the EHT. |
| Anita M. S. Richards (University of Manchester) |
| Getting familiar with Betelgeuse - how close can we go? |
| Anita M. S. Richards (University of Manchester) |
| Evidence for fossil radio emission in OQ208: signs of frustrated jet expansion? |
| Carlo Stanghellini (INAF-IRA) |
| Rotation measures of 3C120 with ALMA Polarimetry |
| Mikael Turkki (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku, Metsähovi Radio Observatory (MRO)) |
| Linking Variability to Structure: Interferometric Observations of Periodic Methanol Masers |
| Ashwin Rama Varma (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)) |
| Multi-Epoch Radio Variability of BL Lacertae Observed with the Irbene Interferometer and MOJAVE Archival Data |
| Bezrukovs Vladislavs (Latvia) |
| Generating Advanced Data Products (ADPs) for the e-MERLIN CASA Pipeline |
| David Williams-Baldwin (University of Manchester) |
| Discovery of Unusual Jet Orientation Variations in the Microquasar GRS 1915+105 |
| Xi Yan (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS) |
| Development of Low-Frequency VLBI Synergistic Capabilities and CNSRC Data Processing for SKA-Low |
| Yun Yu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) |
| Disentangling Source Structure Effects in Geodetic VLBI Observables Through a Probabilistic Approach |
| Zhouyu Zhang (The University of Manchester) |
| EVN astrometry of late-time radio flare in TDE AT2018cqh: off-axis jet or delayed outflow? |
| Yihang Zhang |
| RIGOR: Redshifts Integrated with Gaia Optical Astrometry for the Radio Fundamental Catalogue |
| Zhiyun Zhang (Nanjing University) |
| VIPCALs: A fully automated calibration pipeline for VLBI data |
| Diego Álvarez-Ortega (Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH) |
Last updated: 24 June 2026
Social Programme
We anticipate having a varied social programme including: a welcome reception on the first day of the meeting; a visit to
(including afternoon activities at) the SKAO Global Headquarters and Jodrell Bank Observatory (JBO) and the First Light Pavillion
as part of EVN Symposium 2026; a conference dinner at the iconic Manchester Science Museum and the famous tradition of EVN Symposium
Football Tournament & other Sporting Activities (including sack race, lime & spoon, footgolf, table tenis, etc.). Full details will be released here in due course.
- Monday 14 September Evening
- Tuesday 15 September Afternoon
- Wednesday 16 September Evening
- Thursday 17 September Afternoon
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Welcome reception
Football & sporting activities
Conference dinner
Tour -- JBO/SKAO/Discovery Centre
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