Agenda

All times are ET. Note that some items in the agenda, including the Green Bank Telescope tour and the Star Party, are weather-dependent. The agenda listed below assumes that the weather will cooperate both days. If the weather is bad on one or both days, you can anticipate changes in the agenda, so please, check back frequenty.

Sunday, September 8, 2024
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12:00 PM (Noon) Latest advisable time to arrive at Dulles International Airport.

2:00 PM Shuttle departure from Dulles to GBO.

6:00 PM Arrival at GBO and local lodging.

7:00 PM General Reception.

Monday, September 9, 2024
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7:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Greetings and Welcome from the Organizers and the Observatory

• Dr. Mariya Zheleva, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University at Albany
• Dr. Chris Anderson NTIA, ITS
• Dr. Chris DePree, NRDZ Program Director, Deputy Spectrum Manager, NRAO
• Dr. Jim Jackson, Green Bank Observatory Director
• Angela Damery, Public Outreach Manager, Green Bank Observatory

9:00 AM Keynote --- Dark Skies, Bright Future: Improving Space Exploration with SpaceX.

• David Goldman, Vice President Satellite Policy, SpaceX.
• Talk slides

10:10 AM Coffee Break and Poster Session #1

• Spectrum Coexistence and RFI Mitigation Beyond the 5G Era, List of posters.

10:55 AM Lightning talk

• Operational Data Sharing, Bang Nhan, NRAO.

11:10 AM Panel 1: “Anything is devastating: How do we enable spectrum sharing with less anxiety and more trust?”

• Moderator Dr. Chris DePree, NRDZ Program Director, Deputy Spectrum Manager, NRAO
• Panelists
• Dr. Sarah Marie Bruno, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Talk slides
• Dr. Priscilla Mohammed, NASA, Talk slides
• Dr. Monisha Ghosh, Professor, Notre Dame Univeristy

12:30 PM Lunch

Attendees must be ready by 12:25pm to proceed to the parking lot outside of the cafeteria where we will be picked up for the GBT tour.

1:30 PM Tour of the Green Bank Telescope

• We will have an opportunity to visit the largest steerable radio telescope. Depending on the weather and operational schedule, we may be able to climb the telescope as part of the tour. Closed-toed shoes and slacks are required to climb the telescope.

3:00 PM Coffee Break and NRDZ Demo Session

• NRDZ Components in Action, List of demos.

4:00 PM Live Lean Coffee: The NRDZ multiverse: Creating a sustainable ecosystem

Facilitators
• Dr. David DeBoer, Research Astronomer, Radio Astronomy Lab, UC Berkeley
• Dr. Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

5:30 PM Dinner

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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7:30 AM Breakfast

8:35 AM Outbrief from Live Lean Coffee

9:00 AM Keynote --- Our Window On the Universe, or Why Scientists Love the Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Dr. David DeBoer, Research Astronomer, Radio Astronomy Lab, UC Berkeley
• Talk slides

10:10 AM Coffee Break and Poster Session #2

• Mechanisms for Harmonious Coexistence and Shared Spectrum, List of posters.

10:55 AM Technology Demonstration

• ASM2, Dr. David Bordenave, NRAO

11:10 AM Panel 2: “Building Trust Through Spectrum Awareness: Data storage, analysis, QA, sharing & metadata”

• Moderator Dr. Monisha Ghosh, Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering, Notre Dame University
• Panelists
• Dr. Sofie Pollin, Professor, KU Leuven, Talk slides
• Dr. Damon Bradley, DeepSpace Technologies, Talk slides
• Dr. Greg Durgin, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech

12:30 PM Lunch.

1:30 PM Lightning talk

• Renee Leduc, Founder and Principal at Narayan Strategy - international government affairs for the climate, weather & aerospace sectors
• Talk slides

1:45 PM Panel 3: “From Policy to Practice: Translating NRDZ Principles into Experimental Facilities”

• Moderator Dr. Chris Anderson NTIA, ITS, Panel overview slides
• Panelists
• Dr. Elliot Eichen, Research Professor, CS, CU Boulder, Talk slides
• Dr. Arupjyoti Bhuyan, Director, Wireless Security Institute, Idaho National Labs, Talk slides
• Dr. Charles Deitlein, Senior Research Engineer, Institute of Telecommunication Sciences (ITS)
• Dr. Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah, Talk slides

3:00 PM Green Bank Observatory High-Tech Tour

• Observatory engineers will provide an in-depth and behind-the-scenes tour of the observatory, and will include (pending operational schedules) electronics lab, telescope receivers, and the control room.

4:00 PM Coffee Break and Poster Session #3

• New Frontiers in Spectrum Analysis and Management, List of posters.

4:45 PM NRDZ-EEL Presentation and QnA

• Dr. Curtis Watson, Principal Signal Processing Engineer, MITRE
• Talk slides

5:15 PM Parting Thoughts from NSF

• Dr. John Chapin, Special Advisor for Spectrum, Division of Astronomical Sciences, U.S. National Science Foundation

5:25 PM Meeting Wrapup

5:30 PM Dinner

8:00 PM Star Party

• An evening of optical astronomical observations as part of our dinner/reception exploring some of the best dark skies in West Virginia. We will be using professional optical telescopes at the observatory under the direction of observatory staff, and participants are welcome to bring their own. Clear skies must prevail for this event.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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7:30 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM Shuttle departure from GBO to Dulles