Date
November 16, 2020
– November 17, 2020
Time
9:00 am
–
4:00 pm
EST
location
Online (Zoom link to be provided to registrants)
NEROC Fifth Annual Radio Science Symposium (2020)
Fireside Chat format
This year’s Fifth Annual NEROC Symposium will feature a welcoming and participatory “fireside chat” format that includes several single-themed, small-panel discussions.
Each Fireside Chat will include a single moderator, three or four panelists, and time for discussion with the audience. The moderator will facilitate the conversation; each panelist will briefly address aspects of the theme. Community members will then have the opportunity to discuss various aspects of the ideas presented.
The Fireside Chats all provide an opportunity for the panelists and audience to help craft action items together for the NEROC community. At the end of the symposium, each moderator will present the action items and a summary of the discussion in a wrap-up session.
Fireside Chat topics for 2020:
- Polar radio science
- Radio science education
- Traveling ionospheric disturbances
- Radio science in space
Virtual poster session: Call for submissions
Posters are solicited for a virtual session. Posters will be available on-line as PDFs. In addition, each presenter will be asked to upload a 3-minute presentation for a poster lightning session.
Please register to present/attend by November 12, 2020 by clicking on “Registration” below.
Important Dates
Annual Radio Science Symposium 2020
November 16, 2020
–
November 17, 2020
9:00 am
–
4:00 pm
EST
Keynote speakers
- Min Yun (University of Massachusetts–Amherst), NEROC: Community Vision
- Kazunori Akiyama (MIT Haystack Observatory), Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope: Past, Present, and Future
Program 2020
This year’s Fireside Chat panelists will be announced shortly, as will details regarding the virtual poster session. Links will be mailed Friday 13 November to registered attendees. All sessions will be conducted via Zoom.
| Monday | 16 November 2020 | |
| 9:00am–10:00am | Welcome to NEROC 2020 Keynote: NEROC: Community Vision | Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory Min Yun, UMass–Amherst |
| 10:15am–12:15pm | Fireside Chat: Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances | MODERATOR: Shunrong Zhang PANELISTS: Richard Fallows, ASTRON – the Netherlands Toshi Nishimura, Boston University Ivan Galkin, UMass–Lowell Jim Labelle, Dartmouth College |
| 12:15pm–1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm–2:00pm | Poster and Networking Session | POSTER PRESENTATIONS (italic: linked to PDF): Abdelaziz Hussein, Boston University Christopher Sterpka, University of New Hampshire Emily Hudson, Dartmouth College Cole Tamburri, University of Colorado–Boulder Diego Sanchez, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| 2:00pm–4:00pm | Fireside Chat: Radio Science Education | MODERATOR: Patricia Doherty, Boston College PANELISTS: John Swoboda, MIT Haystack Observatory Julia Kregenow, Penn State University Allan Weatherwax, Merrimack College Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Tuesday | 17 November 2020 | |
| 9:00am–10:00am | Keynote: Photographing Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope: Past, Present, and Future | Kazunori Akiyama, MIT Haystack Observatory |
| 10:15am – 12:15pm | Fireside Chat: Polar Radio Science | MODERATOR: Andrew Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology PANELISTS: Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire Pedro Elosegui, MIT Haystack Observatory Gareth Perry, New Jersey Institute of Technology Larisa Goncharenko, MIT Haystack Observatory |
| 12:15pm–1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm–2:00pm | Poster and Networking Session | POSTER PRESENTATIONS (italic: linked to PDF): Ercha Aa, MIT Haystack Observatory Lindsay Goodwin, New Jersey Institute of Technology Larisa Goncharenko, MIT Haystack Observatory Kotaro Moriyama, MIT Haystack Observatory Sovit Khadka, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| 2:00pm–4:00pm | Fireside Chat: Radio Science in Space | MODERATOR: Phil Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory PANELISTS: James Clemmons, University of New Hampshire Michael Hecht, MIT Haystack Observatory Kristina Lynch, Dartmouth College Supriya Chakrabarti, UMass–Lowell |
| 4:00pm–5:00pm | Wrap-up: Discussion and Action items | MODERATOR: Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory |
NEROC institutions
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Brandeis University
- Dartmouth College
- Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
- Harvard University
- MIT
- Merrimack College
- UMass–Amherst
- UMass–Lowell
- UNH
- Wellesley College
Registered Attendees as of 11/13/20
| Ercha | Aa | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| John | Ackermann | TAPR |
| Kazunori | Akiyama | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Parisa | Borhani Darian | Northeastern University |
| Tim | Brothers | MIT |
| Sandra | Bustamante | UMass Amherst |
| Kerri | Cahoy | MIT |
| Supriya | Chakrabarti | UMass Lowell |
| Kristina | Collins | Case Western Reserve University |
| Anthea | Coster | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Geoffrey | Crew | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Mark | Czerwinski | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Patricia | Doherty | Boston College |
| Eliezer | Ehrenkranz | UMass Amherst |
| Pedro | Elosegui | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Philip | Erickson | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Richard | Fallows | ASTRON – the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy |
| Susanna | Finn | UMass Lowell |
| Vincent | Fish | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Nathaniel | Frissell | The University of Scranton |
| Ivan | Galkin | UMass Lowell, Space Science Lab |
| Aaron | Golden | National University of Ireland Galway |
| Larisa | Goncharenko | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Lindsay | Goodwin | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Michael | Hecht | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Emily | Hudson | Dartmouth College |
| Abdelaziz | Hussein | Boston University |
| Devin | Huyghebaert | University of Saskatchewan |
| William | Irvine | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Heidi | Johnson | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Dev Raj | Joshi | The University of Scranton |
| Patrick | Kamieneski | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Jens | Kauffmann | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Sovit | Khadka | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Sue | Kim | University at Buffalo |
| Nancy | Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Kathleen | Kraemer | Boston College |
| James | LaBelle | Dartmouth College |
| Cindy | Le | University at Buffalo |
| Carlos | Martinis | Boston University |
| Lynn | Matthews | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Russ | McWhirter | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Dhiman | Mondal | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Kotaro | Moriyama | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Sebastijan | Mrak | Boston University |
| Arthur | Niell | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Toshi | Nishimura | Boston University |
| Dualta | O Fionnagain | NUIG |
| Jonathan | Parham | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Gareth | Perry | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Violet | Pfeiffer | MIT |
| Rezy | Pradipta | Boston College |
| Ganesh | Rajagopalan | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Bodo | Reinisch | Lowell Digisonde International |
| Alan | Rogers | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Diego | Sanchez | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| John | Seney | Teledyne LeCroy (retired) |
| Irwin | Shapiro | Harvard |
| Christopher | Sterpka | University of New Hampshire |
| John | Swoboda | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Cole | Tamburri | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| David | Themens | University of Birmingham |
| Claire | Trop | Dartmouth College |
| Ryan | Volz | MIT Haystack Observatory |
| Min | Yun | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Shunrong | Zhang | MIT Haystack Observatory |