Second Summer School in Spectrum Management for Radio Astronomy

 

Castel San Pietro, Italy

6-10 June, 2005

 

Sponsored by RadioNet and IUCAF

 

 

- Programme -

 

 

 

 

Monday, 6 June 2005

 

 

08:00 – 09:00 Registration

 

09:00 Introduction

 

Welcome: INAF  ………………………………………………………… Tofani (INAF) 10

                 IUCAF ….……………………………………………….   van Driel (IUCAF) 10

                 RadioNet ………………………………………………… Ambrosini (CRAF) 10

 

Spectrum management: a view from the Italian administration ……  Troisi (Ministero I) 30

Spectrum management: a view from the European Commission   ……. Sorsaniemi (EC)  30

 

 10:30-11:00 Break

 

11:00 Technical Framework

 

The Basics of Radio  ………………………………… ……………………   . Ponsonby 90

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

 

The Basics of Radio  - continued                                                                        Ponsonby 60     

Units & stuff: understanding each others’ lingo …………………………. .   Clegg (NSF) 30

 

15:00-15:30 Break

 

Propagation models   ………………………………………………     Emerson (NRAO) 30

Front-end receivers……… ………………………………………  Bolli, Monari (INAF) 30

Digital backends ………………………………………………………    Tuccari (INAF) 45

Analogue filters ……………………………………………………….              Ponsonby 20

 

 

18:00 Town hall: welcome with cocktail offered by the Castel San Pietro Major

 

 

Tuesday, 7 June 2005

 

 

09:00 Regulatory Framework

 

Interference to radio astronomy

 

Interference to telescopes   …………..………………………...…  Cohen (Jodrell Bank) 30

Monitoring the evolution of the RFI environment ……………………    Lewis (Arecibo)  30

Local solutions to local problems …………………………………..   Ambrosini (INAF) 30

 

10:30-11:00 Break

 

National and regional regulatory structures

 

Europe             ……………………………………………………….  Spoelstra (CRAF) 30

Americas   ……………………………………………………………… .Gergely (NSF) 30

Asia-Pacific Region  ……………………………………………….   Tzioumis (CSIRO) 30

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

 

Interational regulatory structures

 

ITU-R Recommendations ………………………………………  Thompson (NRAO)      90

 

15:00-15:30 Break

 

ITU-R Recommendations - continued …………………………………………………    90

 

 

 

Wednesday, 8 June 2005

 

 

09:00  Interational regulatory structures - continued

 

The ITU Structure ………………………………………………             Ohishi (NAOJ) 50

WRCs and preparatory mechanisms    ………………………………        Gergely (NSF) 40

 

10:30-11:00 Break

 

ITU Notification mechanism in practice ……………………………       Gergely (NSF) 30

IUCAF  ……………………………………………………………   van Driel (IUCAF) 20

 

Case studies in satellite coordination

 

Satellite coordination. …………………………………………     Cohen (Jodrell Bank) 30

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 Excursion

 

Transportation by bus to the Medicina radio astronomy station, with a technical presentation. Afterwards, visit to the wine exhibits in Dozza Imolese and social dinner there.

Return by bus to Hotel Terme

 

 

 

Thursday, 9 June 2005

 

 

09:00  Case studies in satellite coordination  - continued

 

IRIDIUM …………………………………………………………          Gergely (NSF) 15

                                                                                                              Spoelstra (CRAF) 15

GLONASS  …………………………………………………….    Cohen (Jodrell Bank) 30

CLOUDSAT ………………………………………………………         Liszt (NRAO) 30

 

10:30-11:00 Break

 

Other science services and expanding the spectrum frontier

 

Space Frequency Coordination Group          ……………………              Marelli (ESA) 20

EESS – passive …………………………………………………  ……   Meens (CNES) 35

EESS – active …………………………………………………………   Meens (CNES) 35

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch

 

Meteorology ………………………………………………………         Meens (CNES) 30

Remote sensing of the middle atmosphere ………………………… De la Noe (Bordeaux) 20

Regulation of high frequencies (sub-mm to optical) …………………   Ohishi (NAOJ) 30

 

15:00-15:30  Break

 

Regulatory implications of new interfering technologies

 

Ultra-wideband + vehicular Short Range Radar …………………… Spoelstra (CRAF) 30  

Power Line Communications  ……………………………………          Ohishi (NAOJ) 30

Software-defined Radio ………………………………………………    Liszt (NRAO) 15

 

 

 

Friday, 10 June 2005

 

 

09:00  New telescopes and interference mitigation

 

Integrating RFI mitigation into next-generation telescopes …………  Baan (ASTRON) 45

The NRAO and ALMA Radio Quiet Zones …………………………      Liszt (NRAO) 30

 

10:15-10:45 Break

 

Towards an SKA Radio Quiet Zone…………………………             Baan (ASTRON) 30

 

Concluding remarks

 

The future of regulation of radio astronomy …………………………    Gergely (NSF) 30

 

12:00-13:00 Lunch

 

How can the regulatory structure be improved? ………………………Open discussion   60   

 

 

13:30 Excursion

 

A bus will bring all interested participants:

 

first to Marconi's villa Griffone (where he made the first ever telecommunication experiment) for a visit to its museum, and then to

 

STOP  1)         the BLQ airport                 (arrival there by 16:30)

STOP  2)         in downtown Bologna        (around 17:30)

STOP  3)         back in Castel San Pietro  (around 18:30)

 


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