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<title>16th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users' Meeting </title>
<description>&lt;h1&gt;The EVN Symposium&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The European VLBI Network Symposium is the main forum for discussion of the latest Very Long Baseline Interferometry scientific results and technical and technological developments within the EVN member countries. The 16th EVN Symposium and Users meeting, hosted by the Max-Planck-Institut f&amp;uuml;r Radiostronomie, took place in Bonn in September 2-6, 2024.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/371/picture/25.png" style="height:450px; width:600px" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Informal group picture, taken on September 3, 2024 (Aleksei Nikonov)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Poster thumbnail" src="https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/371/picture/10.webp" style="height:452px; width:320px" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11px"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conference poster (for PDF version see the poster menu page).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The covered topics included:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Active galactic nuclei and relativistic outflows&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Starburst galaxies, extragalactic masers, and supernovae&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Stellar evolution and stellar masers&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Transient sources and pulsars&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Astrometric, geodetic &amp;amp; space applications of VLBI&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;VLBI technology developments&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Users feedback&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Current and future VLBI facilities and international cooperation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Invited speakers:&lt;/p&gt;

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	&lt;li&gt;Markus Ackermann (DESY, Zeuthen, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Bia Boccardi (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Roger Deane (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Simon Garrington (Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Giancarlo Ghirlanda (Osservatorio di Brera, Milano, Italy)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Preeti Kharb (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Pune, India)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Michela Mapelli (Universit&amp;auml;t Heidelberg, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Benito Marcote (Joint Institute for VLBI-ERIC, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;James Miller-Jones (Curtin University, Melbourne, Australia)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Suma Murthy&amp;nbsp;(Joint Institute for VLBI-ERIC, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Alexander Plavin (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Eduardo Ros (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Gabriele Surcis (Osservatorio di Cagliari, Italy)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Kiyoaki Wajima (KASI Daejeon, Korea &amp;amp; Shanghai Observatory, PR China)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Winkel (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching, Germany)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jun Yang (Chalmers University of Technology, G&amp;ouml;teborg, Sweden)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Scientific Organising Committee:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Tao An (Shanghai Observatory, China)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Pikky Atri (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Paola Castangia (INAF Cagliari, Italy)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Talvikki Hovatta (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Marcin Gawroński (University of Torun, Poland)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Michael Lindqvist (Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Andrei Lobanov (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany; chair)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Sara Motta (INAF Milano, Italy)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Tom Muxlow (University of Manchester, UK)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Zsolt Paragi (JIV-ERIC, Dwingeloo, Netherlands)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Kazi Rygl (INAF Bologna, Italy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Local Organising Committee:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Si&amp;acirc;n Adey&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Vieri Bartolini&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Petra Benke&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Lena Debbrecht&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Sergio Dzib-Quijano&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;JongSeo Kim&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Galina Lipunova&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Andrei P. Lobanov&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jan R&amp;ouml;der&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Eduardo Ros (chair)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Saurabh&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Conference proceedings will be published as result of the conference presentations and discussion (see the menu to the left).&amp;nbsp; Stay tuned for more information!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/371/picture/0.png" style="height:82px; width:700px" /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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