Huib is just puting a number of items up, really needs other sections to be finished
MOU established in lengthy process Strong support from NWO STFC programmatic review
Mike goes to ASTRON
Huib takes directorship.
Management responsibilities Cormac and Mark Short staffing
Good press is important
New correlator Roadmap EVN SKA
New records in efficiency, long correlation Improved fractional bit shift in 2007 More complex schedules
1.4 TB experiment 7mm fringes Yebes TADU Max debugging
Introduction 5B
Introduction of Newstar in early 2007 Most distant quasar?
Expres milestones
Science
Note
Gone
New
[rmc: added bullets from SciOps&Supp group – can be filled out more if desired]
Support Scientist Losses Lisa Harvey-Smith departed to the University of Sydney in September 2007. Rebeca Soria-Ruiz deparated to OAN in December 2007. Cormac Reynolds and Hayley Bignall departed to Curtain University of Technology in Perth in February 2008. Giuseppe Cimo will depart the Science Operations Group to the VLBI * Group within JIVE in January 2008. Support Scientist Gains Stefanie Muehle arrived in September 2007, coming from the University of Toronto. Antonis Polatidis arrived in January 2008, coming from MPIfR; will depart to ASTRON in February 2009. Yang Jun [in chinese name-order] arrived in November 2008, coming from SHAO. Operator Losses/Gains Nico Schonewille retired from his position as chief operator in February 2008. Hans Tenkink moved into the (revised) senior operator position. Jan Buiter retired from his position as tape-recorder engineer in February 2008. Martin Leeuwinga moved into the (revised) hardware-support engineer position. Bert Harms filled the ensuing open operator position, arriving from ASTRON.