Upcoming and Past ngVLA-Related Events

Conference • January 14th - 15th, 2025 • National Harbor, Maryland, USA • 2:00 PM

The NRAO and the ngVLA project were pleased to invite all AAS 245 attendees to splinter sessions on "The Next-Generation VLA: Update and Community Forum", "Exploring the Radio Sky with the DSA-2000 and the ngVLA" and "Fundamental Physics and New Messengers". [Image credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF]

Conference • November 11th - 14th, 2024 • Morelia, Mexico • 9:00 AM

This ngVLA international science conference was held in person in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Morelia, Mexico. The conference highlighted and explored the novel scientific opportunities that will unfold with the unprecedented angular resolution and sensitivity capabilities offered by this new flagship facility.

Conference • August 6th - 7th, 2024 • Cape Town, South Africa • 10:00 AM

Over two days, 36 talks plus 81 posters explored how the work taking place at existing facilities is shaping our understanding of the interstellar medium structure and feedback in the Milky Way and external galaxies, and how this work is re-framing the science that will be addressed by the remarkable capabilities of future radio observatories.

Conference • January 9th, 2024 • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA • 9:00 AM

The NRAO and the ngVLA project convened a Special Session titled "Space Weather on Other Worlds" on January 9, 2024 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in New Orleans, LA. [Image credit: Danielle Futselaar]

Workshop • September 28th, 2023 • Leipzig, Germany • 2:00 PM

mtex antenna technology has been contracted to design, develop, and produce the 18m ngVLA prototype antenna. Open Day participants were briefed on the cutting edge technology of the prototype antenna and the overall status of the ngVLA project. Portions of the prototype antenna were then unveiled to an excited crowd of government and business leaders, scientists, engineers, and the press from Germany and the US.

Conference • September 27th - 28th, 2023 • Leipzig, Germany • 9:00 AM

Following the first conference last December, a second conference was held on September 27-28 at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The goal was to discuss the interests of the German community in ngVLA science and opportunities. We thank our German colleagues for organizing this event and its 50+ participants for sharing their ideas.

Conference • September 25th - 27th, 2023 • Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico • 9:00 AM

To promote and drive the participation of Mexico in the ngVLA, the Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics welcomed the Mexican community to this kick-start conference. Held in Morelia, Mexico, September 25-27, the conference's presentations focused on design and performance aspects of the ngVLA, and the science it could enable. We thank our Mexican colleagues for organizing this event and its ~100 ...

Workshop • June 6th, 2023 • Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA • 2:00 PM

The ngVLA will be the premier cm-wavelength facility for astronomy and astrophysics, building on the substantial scientific legacy of the VLA and VLBA. Open to all AAS 242 attendees, this splinter session was a community working meeting anchored by three presentations and with ample opportunity for audience input.

Conference • May 1st - 5th, 2023 • Vancouver, Canada • 8:00 AM

Held 1-5 May 2023 in vibrant Vancouver, Canada, this conference brought together 310+ attendees. Their 60+ talks and 110+ posters laid out the cutting-edge science opportunities enabled by the three decades of frequency spanned by the Square Kilometer Array Observatory and the next-generation Very Large Array.

Conference • January 11th, 2023 • Seattle, Washington, USA • 9:00 AM

The NRAO and the ngVLA Project convened a Special Session titled "Chemical Probes of Astrophysical Systems" on January 11, 2023 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, WA. [Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF]

Conference • June 7th - 9th, 2022 • Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA • 8:00 AM

The goal of this meeting was to bring together theoreticians, modelers, and observers to discuss the computational astrophysics and observational challenges for the next generation of observatories, focusing on the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). [Image Credit: Emily Tan]

Talk • August 19th, 2021 • Online EDT • 2:00 PM

The next-generation Very Large Array Science Advisory Council (SAC) is organizing a cycle of weekly short online talks over the summer that focus on timely open science questions. Talks are scheduled to be 20-25 min, with another 15-20 min reserved for questions from the audience. The goal of the series is to draw a contingent of early-career researchers and students who are interested in open astronomy...

Workshop • March 27th, 2021 • Zoom • 1:00 PM

The first public tour of the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) occurred in March. The virtual tour featured presentations, interviews of ngVLA staff, and a question-and-answer session. Anyone who missed the live event is welcome to view its archived version.

Conference • January 14th - 15th, 2021 • Virtual • 12:00 AM

[Image credit: Nicolle R. Fuller, NSF] Sensitive ground- and space-based astronomical facilities are pushing the detection of galaxies well into the Epoch of Reionization, less than 1 Gyr after the Big Bang. Such detections are allowing us to begin piecing together a picture for how and when the first galaxies formed, along with the physical processes driving their evolution into the mature systems that we...

Workshop • December 16th, 2020 • Zoom • 1:00 PM

The ngVLA Project Office recently held a Town Hall on the ngVLA Project status, which is now available for online viewing. There were a total of 154 participants from 17 countries. This forum provided background on the next round of ngVLA Community Studies, a funding opportunity for the community to further develop the most pressing science questions that can be tackled by the ngVLA; an update on recent...

Talk • September 10th, 2020 • Online EDT • 3:00 PM

The next-generation Very Large Array Science Advisory Council (SAC) is organizing a cycle of weekly short online talks over the Summer that focus on timely open science questions. Talks are scheduled to be 20-25 min, with another 15-20 min reserved for questions from the audience. The goal of the series is to draw a contingent of early-career researchers and students who are interested in open astronomy...

Conference • July 14th - 15th, 2020 • Virtual • 12:00 AM

Now, at the dawn of the multi-messenger era, electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles, and gravitational waves are jointly revealing previously-hidden clues into the workings of compact objects. These clues are guiding observers, theorists, and computational researchers to new and deep insights about compact objects. Stunning progress has been made in understanding the energetic mergers, and merger...

Conference • January 7th, 2020 • Honolulu, Hawaii • 12:00 AM

The NRAO and the ngVLA will convene a Special Session entitled "The Scientific Quest for High Angular Resolution" on 7 January 2020 at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) winter meeting. Sensitive ground- and space-based astronomical observations acquired at high angular resolution are enabling new insights across many frontier fields of astrophysics, such as star and planet formation. At the dawn of...

Workshop • June 25th - 27th, 2019 • Charlottesville, VA • 8:00 AM

This workshop reviewed the astrophysical frontiers identified in the Science White Papers submitted to the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey. A particular focus was those science frontiers that demand observations at centimeter and/or millimeter wavelengths across all Astro 2020 thematic areas. A broad range of innovative ideas and approaches were described, and this workshop allowed those ideas to be explored in...

Conference • February 16th, 2019 • Washington, DC • 10:00 AM

This symposium discussed the essential role radio astronomy plays in improving our understanding of the physics of gravitational wave events now being detected in the Universe. This field of multi-messenger astrophysics is rapidly advancing and maturing, with the first generation of gravitational wave telescopes now online, and the discovery of diverse numbers of gravitational wave events. The most recent...

Conference • January 9th, 2019 • Seattle, WA • 2:00 PM

This Special Session highlighted recent theoretical breakthroughs enabled by the VLA and ALMA, summarized planned VLA and ALMA improvements, discussed theoretical leaps that are likely to follow, and underscored the relevance of the VLA and ALMA to the science themes motivating the great observatories that will be commissioned in the next decade. This Special Session featured invited oral presentations and an...

Conference • January 9th - 12th, 2019 • Boulder, CO • 12:00 AM

This special session at the URSI National Radio Science Meeting focused on recent technical development of the ngVLA concept and enabling technologies.

Conference • June 26th - 29th, 2018 • Portland, OR • 8:00 AM

New research facilities and the scientific vision outlined by New Worlds, New Horizons have motivated the exploration of vast new discovery space, and astrophysics has seen extraordinary progress in the past decade, opening new frontiers across many fields. This conference brought together a substantial cross-section of the astronomical community to discuss how to effectively address the highest priority...

Workshop • June 19th - 20th, 2018 • Pasadena, CA • 12:00 AM

This was a small workshop on the topic of reflector optics and feeds for ngVLA held at Caltech, Jun 19-20, 2018. The main questions I see for the workshop are as follows: 1) Reflector Shape and Sub Reflector Size; 2) Receiver Frequency Ranges; and 3) Receiver Calibration.

Workshop • March 12th - 13th, 2018 • Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX, USA • 8:00 AM

This workshop focused on the future of VLBI astronomy in the North America.

Conference • January 11th, 2018 • National Harbor, MD • 2:00 PM

This Special Session showcased cutting-edge research. It also addressed future transformative scientific opportunities that could be enabled by new capabilities that would ensure the instrument's pre-eminence well into the 21st century.

Conference • August 2nd - 4th, 2017 • Berkley, CA • 8:00 AM

Futures III continued discussions and analysis of two key opportunities emerging from the Futures I and II meetings – ngVLA and Spectral-Line Cosomology & Low Frequency Instruments, including HERA and related intensity mapping opportunities. An update on other key areas – CMB, Pulsars and mid-scale developments was also given. 

Workshop • June 26th - 29th, 2017 • Socorro, NM • 8:00 AM

This workshop focused on developing the key science goals and associated technical requirements for the ngVLA. The program consisted of invited and contributed talks talks that highlighted recent results from existing instruments (e.g., JVLA, ALMA), discussed synergies between the ngVLA and future major astronomical facilities (e.g., JWST, LUVOIR, HABEX, OST, LSST, ELTs and the SKA), and summarized the...

Conference • January 6th, 2017 • Grapevine, TX • 4:00 PM

A total of 13 posters described both key science requirements and critical technical aspects of the ngVLA. Posters were presented both by members of the community and by NRAO.

Conference • January 4th, 2017 • Boulder, CO • 8:00 AM

A technical session dedicated to the ngVLA was held at the 2017 URSI meeting.

Conference • August 3rd - 5th, 2016 • Baltimore, MD • 8:00 AM

At the second radio/millimeter/sub-millimeter futures meeting, four parallel sessions were held to broadly discuss potential radio-millimeter-submillimeter “Flagship” and “Small/Midscale” initiatives. The primary flagship option that was discussed was the ngVLA, which received a tremendous amount of support from the nearly 140 attendees.

Workshop • January 4th, 2016 • Kissimmee, FL • 8:00 AM

This second ngVLA AAS workshop continued the community discussion on various concepts for a next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The session was split between science presentations and discussion of high-level technical issues, while also allowing for substantial open discussion time.

Workshop • December 8th - 9th, 2015 • Socorro, NM • 8:00 AM

This second ngVLA technical workshop was broadly patterned after the first. It additionally addressed a number of key topics by holding sessions focused on operation concepts, computer architectures, time and frequency distribution, and data transmission.

Workshop • April 8th - 9th, 2015 • Pasadena, CA • 12:00 AM

This workshop focused on science opportunities and enabling technologies for a next-generation cm-to-mm interferometer. The principal conclusion from this workshop was that the technical requirements for achieving a scientifically transformational ngVLA demand only a plausible extrapolation of current technologies.

Workshop • January 4th, 2015 • Seattle, WA • 12:00 AM

This first ngVLA AAS workshop discussed the scientific impact of a facility operating in the few cm to few mm regime with a substantially larger (factor 5 to 10) collecting area, and improved spatial resolution relative to the current VLA (i.e. the ngVLA).