Science Operations and Support Group

The responsibilities of the Science Operations and Support Group at JIVE include (among other things):

• Comprehensive support of astronomers who are not familiar with the VLBI technique but wish to use the EVN.
• Support of EVN users in proposal preparation, schedule production, data correlation, and post-correlation review of experiments.
• Support of EVN users in analyzing their VLBI data, including data analysis visits to JIVE.
• Monitoring the reliability and performance of the Network via the ftp fringe-tests, Network Monitoring Experiments (NME) and other Feedback programmes.
• Support of the EVN TOG.
• Providing an interface between the EVN and the Space VLBI Missions.
• Maintaining the EVN Home Page.

The head of the group is Bob Campbell (campbell [at] jive [dot] nl).