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| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises |
| Time in ET for July 9 | |||||
| July 9 | 12:00 PM | Introduction of participants | Andrey Krywonos | ||
| Group Assignments | Andrey Krywonos | ||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | ||||
| 12:30 PM | ISR as a black box | Phil Erickson | ISR as a black box | ||
| 13:15 PM | Madrigal Database | K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes | |||
| Work on Madrigal Exercises - only web exercises | split into groups - instructor/group, everyone does the exercise | Data examples: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 1: Web interface Ex 2: Script interface Ex 3: MadrigalWeb exercises | |||
| 14:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 15:00 PM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | Intro_Ionosphere.pdf | ||
| 16:00 PM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2025.pdf | |
| 17:00 PM | Open Q&A | All | |||
| 17:30 PM | End | ||||
| Sunday July 19 | 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner/Meet & greet | |||
| Monday July 20 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, setting up school expectations | Andrey Krywonos | |||
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks - NSF Program Director | Lina Patino | |||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Josh Semeter | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Radar_SignalProcessing_2025.pdf | |
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing basics + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| 2:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All lecturers attend Block 1 | Reichardt Building | ||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | Reichardt Building | |||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | Reichardt Building | |||
| Tuesday July 21 | 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 Hill | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | |||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | ||||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | ||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | ||||
| 4:00 PM | PFISR Tour | ||||
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Lake House dinner (pizza) and swimming | ||||
| 7:30 PM | Bus departs for Boston | ||||
| Wednesday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Josh Semeter/Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | ||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | IS Theory 2025.pdf | |
| 11:15 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Auroral Science | Don Hampton | |||
| 1:45 PM | Start of group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Thursday July 24 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Data_analysis_and_fitting_part1.pdf 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf | |
| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | ||
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:45 AM | Guest Lecture | Paul Bernhardt | Extraction of Plasma Parameters from Non-Thermal Ion Distributions using Incoherent Scatter Radar | RSSTalkFInal.pptx | |
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Guest Lecture | Doga Ozturk | Bridging Input and Evaluation: Leveraging PFISR Data in I-T Modelling Studie | Dsozturk_ISR2025_Drivers.pdf | |
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 7:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Greg Charvat) Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles (Radar, Sonar, and Navigation) (Mark Richards) | ||
| Friday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/EISCAT-3D | Craig Heinselman | Advanced Phased Array comp.pdf | ||
| 9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | ||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group work | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | ISR Science | Josh Semeter | ISR_Science_2025.pdf | ||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Saturday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Group 5 Presentation | TEC from ISR (Gr-5).pdf | |||
| 9:00 AM | Group 3 Presentation | NRAWHAL Final Presentation.pdf | |||
| 9:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 2 Presentation | ISR Presentation 2025 Group 2.pdf | |||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart | ||||