ATRASC 2024

  4th URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting

Programme

AT-RASC 2024 Programme

Link to the Preliminary Programme

Programme-at-a-Glance

Instructions for Presenting Authors (will be updated soon)

Instructions for Session Chairs (will be updated soon)

 

AT-RASC 2024 General Lectures

 

GENERAL LECTURE 1 : A Journey through Past, Present, and Future Radio Astronomy Activities in Spain (Monday 20 May, 2024)

Speaker : Prof. Cristina Garcia-Miro (Yebes Observatory, IGN, Spain)

Cristina Gacia-Miro holds a degree in Astronomy from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and an M.Sc. in Astrophysics from the University of Granada (Spain). Her first job was as spacecraft controller and telescope operator of the International Ultraviolet Explorer Space Telescope (IUE, ESA/NASA). For 17 years she was support radio astronomer at the NASA Deep Space Communications Center in Madrid, specialising in VLBI and single dish observations with large scientific facilities and supporting different NASA projects. From 2017 to 2021 she worked for the H2020 JUMPING JIVE EU project as SKA-VLBI scientist, first at the SKA headquarters at Jodrell Bank in the UK, and later at the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC in the Netherlands. Three years ago, she joined the Yebes Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatory of Spain (IGN) as a VLBI support scientist, participating in international research projects. She has recently been appointed President of the Radio Astronomy Commission of URSI-Spain.

 

 

GENERAL LECTURE 2 : Precision GNSS-R for Ionosphere and Earth Observations (Tuesday 21 May, 2024)

Speaker : Dr. Jade Morton (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

 

Dr. Jade Morton is Helen and Hubert Croft Professor and head of the Satellite Navigation and Sensing (SENSE) Lab in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Her research expertise lies at the intersection of satellite navigation technologies and remote sensing of the ionosphere, troposphere, and Earth surface properties.  Dr. Morton is a recipient of AGU SPARC award, IEEE PLANS Richard Kershner Award, the Institute of Navigation Burk, Thurlow, and Kepler award.  She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Penn State.  Dr. Morton is a fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Navigation, and UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation.

 

 

GENERAL LECTURE 3 : ITU-R Study Groups Activities relating to the Efficient Use and Management of Radiofrequency Spectrum (Wednesday 22 May, 2024)

Speaker : Prof. Sergio Buonomo (ITU)



Sergio Buonomo is the Chief of the Study Group Department at the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and he is responsible for the organization and management of all ITU-R Study Groups In the past, he worked for about ten years as microwave engineer at European Space Agency in charge of antenna and propagation studies to support space projects. In 1998, he joined ITU where has covered several positions in different departments. As of 2007 he has been working as Counsellor of Study Group 3 on Propagation and, from 2010, as Counsellor of Study Group 5 on Terrestrial systems which includes fixed services, land mobile, wireless access, and IMT systems. Sergio Buonomo holds a PhD in electromagnetics engineering at the University of Naples, Italy and a PhD in Physics.

 

 

GENERAL LECTURE 4 : Echoes of Sound and Radio (Thursday 23 May, 2024)

Speaker : Prof. Sana Salous (Durham University, UK)

Professor Salous started her academic career as an Assistant Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan. In 1989 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at UMIST. In 2003 she joined Durham University where she currently holds the Chair in Communication Engineering and is the Director of the Centre for Communication Systems. Professor Salous radio propagation reseacrh covers HF for sky wave propagation for long range communication and UHF to the millimeter wave band for 5G mobile communications. In this area she introduced the digital frequency sweep technique for high bandwidth channel sounders for radio propagation studies. She is an active member of URSI, various COST actions and a member of the UK delegation to the International Union of Telecommunications

 

GENERAL LECTURE 5 : Make Optical Lattice Clocks Compact and Useful for Real-world Applications (Friday 24 May, 2024)

 

Speaker : Prof. Hidetoshi Katori (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

 

Dr. (Prof.) Hidetoshi Katori is a Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also the chief scientist at Quantum Metrology laboratory, Riken, leading the Space-Time Engineering research team at Riken, Japan.   He served as a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany.

Professor Katori is widely regarded as the inventor of “Neutral atom-based optical lattice clocks”. In early 2000s, his work related to “Ultrastable Optical Clock with Neutral Atoms in an Engineered Light Shift Trap”, and its demonstration in 2005 has provided the breakthrough for the start of work on optical lattice clocks and its various applications in timekeeping, geodesy, and fundamental physics. He demonstrated optical lattice clocks with Strontium(Sr), Ytterbium(Yb), Mercury (Hg) and Cadmium (Cd) neutral atoms. He measured the frequency ratios between Sr, Yb and Hg atoms, a prerequisite for the adoption of optical atomic clocks as the primary time standard and is a highly cited work. Neutral atom optical lattice clocks are one of the primary candidates for the re-definition of the SI second and already has been accepted as the secondary representation of the second.

Recently, Prof. Katori started experimenting on a compact transportable optical lattice clocks for field experiments. Dr. Katori demonstrated geodesy by using Einstein’s relativity idea that two clocks at different heights will be ticking at different rates. He did the famous Tokyo-Skytree experiment where he took one of his transportable clocks to one of the viewer's gallery and demonstrated height difference measurement at centimeter level accuracy.

Prof. Katori group is also involved in the research for Thorium based nuclear clock and has recently been successful in the measurement of energy of 229Th nuclear clock isomer. He proposed the idea for “Internet of clocks” for various geoscience-related measurements like earthquakes, which has opened up a new field of application for such clocks.

He led various prestigious projects like CREST (Japan science & technology), ERATO Katori innovative space-time project, the JST Mirai program etc. Prof. Katori has been a recipient of many prestigious awards. To name a few in this long list is Julius springer prize (2005), RABI award (2008), The Philipp Franz von Siebold prize (2011), Micius quantum prize (2020), Breakthrough prize in Fundamental Physics (2021),  the 20th IBM Japan science award (2006), The Asahi prize (2011), Medal with Purple ribbon (2014), The 54th Fujihara award (2013), The 14th Leo Esaki Prize (2017), The Honda prize (2022).


 

 

AT-RASC 2024 ECR TUTORIALS (will be updated soon)

The ECR-turorials are lectures which will be scheduled in a late afternoon-slot and which aim at providing young researchers with an introduction in 1 of the research areas in which URSI is involved. The presenters will be the ECR (Early Career Representatives) in the respective Commissions

AT-RASC 2024 WORKSHOPS & Co-located conferences (will be updated soon)