Day-1, Wednesday, 9 March 2016
09:00-09:15 Welcome and practical information (Rüdiger Haas + Alet de Witt)
09:15-10:00 L01: Introductory lecture, (Axel Nothnagel)
10:00-10:30 — Coffee break —
10:30-12:00 L02: Technical equipment at stations (Bill Petrachenko)
12:00-13:00 — Lunch break —
13:00-14:30 L03: Digital backends, (Gino Tuccari)
14:30-15:00 — Coffee break
15:00-16:30 L04: Data acquisition, data formats, data transfer (Harro Verkouter)
16:30-17:00 — Stretch your legs break
17:00-19:00 EX1: Exercises on technical aspects (Bill, Gino, Harro)

Day-2, Thursday, 10 March 2016
08:30-10:00 L05: Experiment scheduling (John Gipson)
10:00-10:30 — Coffee break
10:30-12:00 L06: Observing an experiment (Alexander Neidhardt)
12:00-13:00 — Lunch break
13:00-14:30 EX2: Exercises on scheduling (John + tbd)
14:30-15:00 — Coffee break
15:00-16:30 L07: Correlators for geodesy and astrometry (Walter Brisken)
16:30-17:00 — Stretch your legs break
17:00-18:30 EX3: Exercises on running an experiment (Alexander + tbd)

Day-3, Friday, 11 March 2016
08:30-10:00 L08: Post-correlation analysis, fringe-fitting (Roger Cappallo)
10:00-10:30 — Coffee break
10:30-12:00 EX4: Exercise-4 on correlation (Walter + Roger)
12:00-13:00 — Lunch break
13:00-14:30 L09: Geophysical modelling (Thomas Hobiger)
14:30-15:00 — Coffee break
15:00-16:30 L10: Signal propagation (Johannes Böhm)
16:30-17:00 — Stretch your legs break
17:00-18:30 EX5: Exercises on modelling (Thomas H. + Johannes + tbd)

Day-4, Saturday, 12 March 2016
08:30-10:00 L11: Radio sources (Patrick Charlot)
10:00-10:30 — Coffee break
10:30-12:00 L12: Data analysis for geodesy (Thomas Artz)
12:00-13:00 — Lunch break
13:00-14:30 L13: Data analysis for astrometry (Chris Jacobs)
14:30-15:00 — Coffee break
15:00-18:00 EX6: Exercises on data analysis (Thomas A. + Chris)
19:00-22:00 — VLBI school dinner

Last update: 2016-03-02, by Rüdiger Haas