Agenda

DAY 1  VLA TOUR

7:30AM Departure from the hotel lobby
5:30PM Arrival to the hotel lobby

DAY 2  MAIN WORKSHOP

(All NRDZ Workshop Sessions will take place in the Chapel)

7:30-8:20AM Breakfast (Promenade)

8:20-9:00AM CRFID Welcome (Mesa A&B)

9:00-9:15AM NRDZ Workshop Welcome
– Mariya Zheleva, UAlbany
– Chris Anderson, NTIA
– Chris DePree, NRAO

9:15-9:50AM Keynote Presentation
– Paul Ransom, NTIA

9:50-10:00AM Poster Lightning Talks

10:00-10:30AM Coffee and Networking (Mesa C)

10:30-11:00AM Panel
Moderator: Joel Dumke, NTIA
Panelists:
– Paul Ransom, NTIA
– Curtis Watson, MITRE
– Kobus Van der Merwe, University of Utah

11:00AM-12:10PM Paper Session 1

• • Telecommunications Modernization in the National Radio Quiet Zone: Balancing Federal Facility Protection with Regional Connectivity Needs, Dennis A. Roberson (Roberson and Associates, LLC & Illinois Institute of Technolgy, USA); Paul Steinberg and Paul Erickson (Roberson and Associates, LLC, USA); Mark Birchler (Roberson and Associates, USA); Nat Natarajan and John Grosspietsch (Roberson and Associates, LLC, USA)
  • Analysis of Digital Twin Channel Impulse Response Predictions, Cassie A Jeng (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA)
  • Sea Surface Reflectivity in IMT Propagation Models: Impact on Spectrum Coexistence in the Lower 7 GHz Band, Paolo Testolina and Ergest Beshaj (Northeastern University, USA); Elliot Eichen (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Michele Polese and Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Modulation Recognition to detect Satellite Interference at Radio Telescopes, Andrew Nguyen and Curtis M Watson (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
  • Paper Discussion and Q&A

12:10-1:30PM Lunch (Canyon 1&2)

1:30-3:10PM Invited Papers Session

• • Radio Dynamic Zone Management System for Urban Environments, Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas, Jay Nilesh Doshi, Malobika Roy Choudhury and Akshay Kumar Huliyar Prabhakara (Syracuse University, USA); Abhishek Adhikari and Kevin L. Hermstein (Columbia University, USA); Abhishek Kumar Singh (Princeton University, USA); Yiming Li and Tingjun Chen (Duke University, USA); Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University, USA); Nick Akulov and Igor Kadota (Northwestern University, USA); Fred Moshary (City College of New York, USA); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA); Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA)
  • Lessons learned from ongoing coordination between NRAO/GBO and LEO NGSO satellite constellations, Bang D. Nhan, Chris De Pree, Sheldon Wasik and Aaron Lawson (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA); Daniel Bautista (National Radio Astronomy Observatory – Green Bank Observatory, USA); Frank Schinzel (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
  • Bounding Box Analysis of Energy Activity in a Radio Dynamic Zone, Erick Caspers, Eric Powell, Patricia Larkoski, Curtis M Watson and William F Young (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
  • Paper Discussion and Q&A

3:10-3:40PM Coffee and Networking (Mesa C)

3:40-5:20PM Paper Session 2

• • ARMS: The Arecibo Observatory RFI Mitigation System, Papia Tanjia, Liam Gallagher, Hector Ramos, Hannah Peter and Anish Roshi (University of Central Florida, USA); Mitchell Burnett (Brigham Young University, USA); Wei Liu and Dan Werthimer (University of California Berkeley, USA); Allison Smith and E. J. Morales Butler (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico); Rafael Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA)
  • Open-Source Software Tools for Mitigating Satellite Interference to Astronomy, Bo Pearce (University of Colorado, USA); Arvind Aradhya (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Kevin Gifford (University of Colorado, USA)
  • RFObserver: Continuous RFI detection and fingerprinting at a Radio Observatory, Oren R Collaco (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Bo Pearce (University of Colorado, USA); Arvind Aradhya and Sylvia Llosa (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Kevin Gifford (University of Colorado, USA)
  • Analysis of Interference between Conical-Scanning Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (86-92 GHz) and Uplink Fixed Satellite Service (81-86 GHz), Yuxi Chen (University of Notre Dame, USA); Bertrand Hochwald (USA); Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame, USA)
  • Spectrogram-Based Interference Source Attribution at OVRO: An Over-the-Air Validation Using Pseudonymetry, Meles G Weldegebriel (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA); Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA); Ning Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Gregory Hellbourg (California Institute of Technology, USA); Zihan Li (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
  • Paper Discussion and Q&A

5:20-5:40PM NRDZ Workshop Series Retrospective
– Mariya Zheleva, UAlbany
– Chris Anderson, NTIA
– Chris DePree, NRAO

5:40-5:45PM Wrap Up