Multiwavelength Astronomy with AMT in the context of Africa – Intercontinental collaborations
12 August 2024, 13:30 – 15:00
Venue: Nerina & Protea CTICC 2
Chair: Michael Janssen, AMT Project Scientist
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Heino Falcke | The Africa Millimetre Telescope project |
| 13:45 – 13:57 | James Chibueze | Perspective of the AMT in the context of the African VLBI Network and EVN |
| 13:57 – 14:09 | Roger Deane | A South African expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope: scientific, technical, and human capacity development synergies with the AMT |
| 14:09 – 14:21 | Senkhosi Simelane | Exploring candidate South African EHT sites with meteorological modeling and frequency-phase-transfer inteferometric simulations |
| 14:21 – 14:33 | Richard Dodson / Maria Rioja | FPT and SFPR at high observing frequencies |
| 14:33 – 14:45 | Patrick Woudt | The MeerKat interferometer |
| 14:45 – 14:57 | Cristiana Spingola | mm-VLBI monitoring/imaging of strongly lensed blazars |
