Cosmology Seminar Announcement Dr. Greg Taylor NRAO/KIPAC " The Future of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and AGN surveys at milliarcsecond resolution " Date: Thursday, February 3, 2005 Time: 12:10 pm 416 Physics Abstract: I will describe the recommendations of a recent report entitled "Mapping the Future of VLBI Science in the U.S." which has recently been accepted by the Directors of MIT Haystack Observatory and NRAO. The report (available from http://www.nrao.edu/VLBIfuture) considers the exciting scientific future of VLBI in the US, with emphasis on ground-based VLBI, and provides a science and technology plan for the next decade. Some of these recommendations are already being implemented. I will also discuss a major new VLBI survey known as the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS), and present results from the VIPS pilot survey of 24 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

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