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ISR SUMMER SCHOOL 

21–27 July 2018

University of Massachusetts, Lowell/MIT Haystack Observatory

 

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PDF of student groups

Walking directions

List of Lowell restaurants 

Lecturers

 

 

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Saturday - CHELMSFORD

-Summer school staff will be at the hotel to answer questions 

-Dinner vouchers available for participants, as arrivals are staggered

 

Sunday – MILLSTONE HILL

07:30 Breakfast

08:00 Drive to Millstone Hill

08:30 Welcome (Phil Erickson)

 Introduction of participants and instructors (Elizabeth Kendall)

 Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Bill Rideout)

 Group assignments (Elizabeth Kendall

09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere (Elizabeth Kendall)

10:15 Break

10:30 ISR as a black box (Bill Rideout)

Black box exercise

11:15 Radar 1: Radar Physics (Anthea Coster) 

12:00 Lunch (pizza at Millstone)

13:00  ISR Theory 1: ISR phenomena (Anthea Coster)  

14:15 Ionosphere – radar data example delivery (Millstone Science Staff)

14:30 Break

14:45 Group 1&2: Millstone Hill Tour

Group 3&4: Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)

16:00 Group 1&2: Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)

 Group 3&4: Millstone Hill Tour

17:15 Drive to BBQ dinner

17:30 Dinner (BBQ at Anthea’s house)  

19:30 Drive to UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center

 

Monday - UML

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Ionosphere – radar data example discussion (Millstone Science Staff)

Examples with references to papers

08:45  Radar 2a: Radar Signal Processing (Josh Semeter)

09:30 Radar 2b: Radar Signal Processing Problem Sets (Josh Semeter)

10:15 Break

10:45 Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing (Roger Varney)

11:30 The Millstone Hill Geospace Facility Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 (Phil Erickson)

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Millstone experiment design and data analysis (Phil Erickson and Bill Rideout)

13:45 Support from non-Millstone ISRs during experiment (Ashton Reimer) 

14:00  Experiment Design (group work)

15:00 Break

15:30  Experiment Design (group work continued)

18:00  Deadline to submit group experiments

18:30 Dinner on own

19:30 Group experiments

 

Tuesday - UML

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Lowell Excursion

12:00 Lunch

13:00  ISR Theory 2 (Phil Erickson)

13:45 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities Program (Carrie Black)

14:15 ISR Theory 3 (Phil Erickson)

15:00 Break

15:15 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments

19:00 Dinner on own

20:00  Elective at Lowell Inn and Conference Center (Phil Erickson)

 

Wednesday - UML

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Data Analysis and Fitting 1 (Ashton Reimer and Roger Varney) 

10:00 Break

10:15  Data Analysis and Fitting 2 (John Swoboda and Ryan Volz)

11:30 Millstone Science part 1 (Phil Erickson)  and part 2 (Shunrong Zhang)

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Work on presentations (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner on own (Note: Lecturers meet for dinner discussion)

 

Thursday - UML

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Question and answer session

10:00 Break

10:30 Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (Supriya Chakrabarti)

11:00 Digisonde Science (Ivan Galkin)

11:30 Phased arrays (Roger Varney)

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Work on presentations (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner on own (Note: Lecturers meet for dinner discussion)

 

Friday - UML

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Student presentations (2x30 min)

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

09:30 Break

09:45 Student presentations (2x30 min)

10:45 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions

11:30 Lunch and Depart for Airport


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