The 14th General Meeting of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS GM2026)
Linking the Celestial and Terrestrial Realms
April 12-17, 2026
We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth General Meeting of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS GM2026) will be held during the week of April 12-17, 2026, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. All IVS Associate Members and individuals who have interests in the application of VLBI in the fields of geodesy, Earth sciences, astrometry, and other astronomical applications in geodesy are invited to attend the meeting.
The International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) holds a General Meeting every two years. The purpose of the General Meeting is to assemble representatives from all IVS components to share information, hear reports, and plan future activities. The meeting also provides a forum for interaction with other members of the VLBI and Earth science communities.
In addition to the General Meeting, an IVS Analysis Workshop and an IVS Directing Board meeting will be held.
Hosting institutions
Research Facility Satellite Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with the Chair of Astronomy and the Earth Observation Research Cluster of the Julius- Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Important dates
- First Announcement: August 31, 2025
- Second Announcement: November 19, 2025
- Abstract submission deadline: January 30, 2026
- Early-bird deadline: February 1, 2026
- Registration deadline: March 1, 2026
Contact information
LOC: Alexander Neidhardt (Chair), Stefanie Daurer, Urs Hugentobler, Matthias Kadler, Florian Kroner, Simon Seidl, Chanye Fu
PC: IVS-gm-pc <ivs-gm-pc@lists.nasa.gov>
Dirk Behrend, Chris Dieck, Rüdiger Haas, Masafumi Ishigaki, Chris Jacobs, Matthias Kadler, Pepe Lopez-Perez, Lucia McCallum, Alexander Neidhardt, Fengchun Shu, Benedikt Soja, Chet Ruszczyk, Tobias Ullmann, Alet de Witt
