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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	ISR_blackbox_2026.pdf ISR Black Box Exercise

	13:15 PM	Madrigal Database	K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes	Madrigal tutorial videos Madrigal database	Madrigal tutorial slides
		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_20252026.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, Expectations, Logistics	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		radarStats2.pdf AMISR_experiment_design_2025.pdf

	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
	8:00 PM	Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs)
	10:00 PM	Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs)


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

	1:00 PM	Midlatitude and Sub-auroral Science using IS Radars	Haystack Geospace Group

	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	PulseDopplerRadar_Semeter_July2025.pdf radarStats3.pdf

	10:00 AM	Break

	10:15 AM	ISR Theory	Phil Erickson	ISR Theory	IS Theory 2025.pdf

	11:30 AM	Open Q&A

	12:00 PM	Lunch

	1:00 PM	Start of group work

	6:00 PM	End

Thursday July 2423	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 01_introduction_2021.pdf 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf 04_calibration_2021.pdf summary_slides_fitting.pdf

	9:30 AM	Data analysis and fitting 2	Phil Erickson	Data analysis and fitting 2	05_fitting_examples.pdf 06_common_sense_isdata_interp.pdf 07_isr_basic_derived_science_examples.pdf

	10:30 AM	Break

	1011:45 00 AM	Guest Lecture	Paul Bernhardt	Extraction of Plasma Parameters from Non-Thermal Ion Distributions using Incoherent Scatter Radar	Extracting Ionospheric Features from Long-Term Observations	Yue DengRSSTalkFInal.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		Build a small radar system Tiny spectrum analyzer NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Doppler Process.ipynb Ranging Process.ipynb fan.wav rangetest.wav 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			JouNeuW.pdf u_n.mp4 u_e.mp4 Ne.mp4 Te.mp4 Qj.mp4
	10:00 AM	Break
	10:30 AM	Group 4 Presentation			ISR Summer School Group 4.pptx ne_fan_plot_animation.mp4
	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

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