Scientific Program
Last updated: October 25, 2017

Monday, October 30
09:30 - 09:40Opening  (Bong Won Sohn) (download)
High z, Cosmology, Evolution, Survey  (Chair: Bong Won Sohn)
09:40 - 10:00 Jeffrey Hodgson
Testing the expansion of the universe beyond z=2 with AGN: Presenting the record measurements of luminosity distance
10:00 - 10:20Tao An (download)
VLBI studies of radio-loud high redshift quasar
10:20 - 10:40Monica Orienti (download)
Young radio sources and the duty-cycle of the radio emission
10:40 - 11:10Coffee break
Jets, Cores, Individual sources (1)  (Chair: Marcello Giroletti)
11:10 - 11:30Xiaopeng Cheng (download)
VLBI survey of the most compact AGNs: Core properties
11:30 - 11:50Jongho Park (download)
Revealing the nature of blazar radio cores through multi-frequency polarization observations with KVN
11:50 - 12:10Filippo D'Ammando (download)
Investigating the jet structure and its link with the location of the high-energy emitting region in radio-loud AGN
12:10 - 13:30Lunch
Jets, Cores, Individual sources (2)  (Chair: Keiichi Asada)
13:30 - 13:50Gabriele Giovannini (download)
The peculiar nuclear structure of 3C 84
13:50 - 14:10Kiyoaki Wajima (download)
Long-Term KVN and KaVA monitoring of 3C 84 at millimeter wavelengths
14:10 - 14:30Guang-Yao Zhao
Multi-frequency VLBI observations of Mrk 501 with KVN and VLBA
14:30 - 15:00Coffee break
Jets, Cores, Individual sources (3)  (Chair: Monica Orienti)
15:00 - 15:20 Rocco Lico (download)
On the time-variable rotation measure in the core region of Markarian 421
15:20 - 15:40Xiaofeng Li (download)
Imaging and variability studies of CTA 102 during the 2016 January γ-ray flare
15:40 - 16:00Shoko Koyama (download)
Study of the TeV blazar Mrk 501 with mm-VLBI
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30Splinter talks: Lang Cui (download)
Tuesday, October 31
Status & Development reports (1), Jets, Cores, Individual sources (4)  (Chair: An Tao)
09:00 - 09:20Se-Jin Oh (download)
KJCC and recent system development status
09:20 - 09:40Juan Carlos Algaba (download)
On the origin of the multi-band variability in the flat spectrum radio source 1633+382
09:40 - 10:00Keiichi Asada (download)
VLBI observation on M87
10:00 - 10:20Kazuhiro Hada (download)
EATING VLBI observations in 2016/2017
10:20 - 10:40Coffee break
SMBH in neighborhood  (Chair: Kazuhiro Hada)
10:40 - 11:00 Wu Jiang (download)
Investigation of LLAGN M81* up to 87 GHz
11:00 - 11:20Ilje Cho (download)
Measuring the core shift of Sgr A*
11:20 - 11:40Sijia Peng (download)
Searching for jets from M31* with VLBA and TianMa
12:00 - 20:00Lunch, Excursion & Workshop dinner
Wednesday, November 1
Stellar science, Status & Development reports (2)   (Chair: Minsun Kim)
09:00 - 09:20Tomoya Hirota
Italy-Japan collaboration of high-mass star-formation studies
09:20 - 09:40Elise Egron (download)
VLBI observations of microquasars: The case of Cyg X-3
09:40 - 10:00 Andrea Melis (download)
Sardinia Radio Telescope: status, ongoing and future development
10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
Status & Development reports (3)   (Chair: Carlo Migoni)
10:30 - 10:50Francesco Canganella
Skype discussion with Italian Ambassy
10:50 - 11:10Zhiqiang Shen (download)
VLBI with the TMRT
11:10 - 11:30Taehyun Jung (download)
mm-VLBI observation using a simultaneous multi-frequency VLBI receiving system and its prospects
11:30 - 13:00Lunch
Status & Development reports (4)   (Chair: Carlo Migoni)
13:00 - 13:20Marcello Giroletti (download)
Italian status report
13:20 - 13:40Bong Won Sohn (download)
KVN status report
13:40 - 14:00Coffee break
14:00 - 14:40Discussion
Outreach activity, Future collaboration (download)
14:40 - 15:00Concluding remark
Gabriele Giovannini