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Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises |
Monday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
8:30 AM | Introduction of participants | All | ||||
Computer needs and other logistics | Bill Rideout/Katherine Cariglia | |||||
Group Assignments | ||||||
9:15 AM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | To make | |||
10:00 AM | Break | |||||
10:15 AM | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as a black box | ISR as a black box | ISR BlackBox Exercise | |
11:00 AM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf | ||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
1:00 PM | NSF Facilities Lecture | Roman Makarevich | ||||
1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2023.pdf | ||
2:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Katherine Cariglia/Pablo Reyes/Lara Kamal | Madrigal | Madrigal_ISR_School_2024.pdf | ||
Group work on Madrigal Exercises | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | |||||
3:30 PM | ISR Data Examples | Phil Erickson/Asti Bhatt | ISR Theory | |||
Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||
Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||
4:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | ||
5:00 PM | Experiment design | Asti Bhatt | ||||
6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
Tuesday July 23 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney/Josh Semeter | ||||
9:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ||||
10:30 AM | Break | |||||
11:00 AM | High-latitude Science | Asti Bhatt/Toshi Nishimura | ||||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
1:00 PM | Experiment Design/Tonight's Space Weather Forecast | Anthea Coster/Asti Bhatt | ||||
1:20 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | |||||
3:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | |||||
5:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All instructors attend Block 1 | ||||
7:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | |||||
9:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | |||||
Wednesday July 24 | 4:00 AM | Student time block 4 (2 hrs) | ||||
6:00 AM | Student time block 5 (2 hrs) | |||||
8:00 AM | Breakfast | |||||
9:30 AM | Leave for Haystack/Millstone Hill | |||||
11:00 AM | Arrive at Millstone | |||||
11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | ||||
12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | |||||
1:00 PM | Space Weather | Anthea Coster | ||||
2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | |||||
4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | |||||
4:45-8:00 PM | Lake House Dinner | |||||
8:00 PM | Return to Boston | |||||
Thursday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf | ||
9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | |||
10:30 AM | Break | |||||
10:45 AM | ISR science | Josh Semeter | ||||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
1:00 PM | Group Work | |||||
5:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | ||||
6:30 PM | End | |||||
Friday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
8:30 AM | Phased Array/EISCAT_3D | Craig Heinselman | ||||
9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | |||||
10:15 AM | Break | |||||
10:30 AM | Group work | |||||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
1:00 PM | Stratospheric Warming | Larisa Goncharenko | ||||
1:45 PM | Group work | |||||
6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
Saturday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
8:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | |||||
9:00 AM | Group 2 Presentation | |||||
9:30 AM | Group 3 Presentation | |||||
10:00 AM | Break | |||||
10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation | |||||
11:00 AM | Group 5 Presentation | |||||
11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | |||||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
Depart |