[Baps] Fwd: Radio Lectures over IAP!

[Kerri Cahoy]

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From: Daniel B Sheen <dsheen at mit.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 6:02 PM
Subject: Radio Lectures over IAP!
To: w1mx-officers <w1mx-officers at mit.edu>


*Lectures on Radio Technology, History, and Applications*

*by guest speakers from Nokia, MIT Haystack, and CWRU*

*Hosted by The MIT Radio Society and EECS*

Beginning Tuesday January 8th at 5:30PM in room 3-270

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Have you ever wondered about the underlying principles behind WIFI? How
radar works, or how we know so much about the early universe? Or even just
what those people are doing up on the Green Building roof at such odd hours?



This IAP, the MIT Radio Society (W1MX, MIT's Amateur Radio Club) and EECS
are hosting a lecture series on everything radio, taught by speakers
hailing from MIT Haystack, CWRU, and Nokia. Each talk will be a
self-contained window into a different facet of radio, ranging from signal
modulation, radio propagation, and amateur radio, to radar, radio
astronomy, and space-based applications, to the technologies behind
cellular communications and 5G. No prior experience with radio is necessary
or expected and all are welcome. Feel free to attend individual lectures,
or better yet come to all of them!



*Philip Erickson*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*An Introduction to Radio Experimentation, Technology, and Histor*y

Tuesday January 8, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Kristina Collins, David Kazdan, and Nathaniel Vishner*

CASE Amateur Radio Club W8EDU

*Baba Yaga’s Hut: A Laboratory Experience in Signal Modulation and Phasor
Analysis*

Wednesday January 9, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Frank Lind*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*Software Defined Radio*

Thursday January 10, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Philip Erickson*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*The Ionosphere, Shortwave Radio, and Propagation*

Friday January 11, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Alan Rogers*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*Experimental Radio Astronomy*

Tuesday January 15, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Mary Knapp*

MIT Haystack Observatory, MIT Radio Society W1MX

*The Final Frontier:*

*Unveiling the Low Frequency Universe Through Space Based Radio Astronomy*

Wednesday January 16, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Frank Lind*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*Principles of Radar*

Thursday January 17, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270



*Anthea Coster*

MIT Haystack Observatory

*Space Weather Observations and Phenomena*

Monday January 21, 5:30-7:00pm Room 3-270 (location pending final
confirmation from schedules office)



*Joel Dawson*

Nokia, Co Founder of Eta Devices and Eta Wireless

*5G, Cellular Communications, and the Future of Radio*

Thursday January 17, 3:00-4:00pm Room 3-270 (note this is not the same time
as other lectures)





The schedule can also be found on the IAP Guide here
http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns313.html  along with a few other radio society
events, as well as on the EECS IAP page. More info about all our speakers
is below:)





*Dr. Phil Erickson*



Dr. Philip J. Erickson, W1PJE, is an assistant director and head of the
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences group at Haystack Observatory, operated
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Since the late 1950s, MIT
Haystack (http://www.haystack.mit.edu), located in Westford, MA, has used
radio science to conduct frontier research into the properties of the
near-Earth space environment, including the ionosphere, neutral atmosphere,
overlying plasmasphere, and the magnetosphere that surrounds our planet.
Dr. Erickson is a licensed Extra class amateur and a member of ARRL, RSGB,
the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club (NVARC; http://n1nc.org), and the
HamSCI initiative (http://hamsci.org). He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering and space plasma physics from Cornell University and
is a member of both the American Geophysical Union and the International
Radio Science Union.  Dr. Erickson is the lead principal investigator of a
National Science Foundation sponsored UHF megawatt class ionospheric radar
at MIT Haystack, and has authored or co-authored 75+ refereed articles in
the areas of ionospheric and magnetospheric phenomena and radio physics.
Dr. Erickson started his radio career with a random wire and a
Hallicrafters SX-110 receiver, and enjoys 6 meter and HF propagation, QRP,
EME, RF design, and digital weak signal modes.





*Kristina Collins*



Kristina Collins KD8OXT is a PhD student in electrical engineering at Case
Western Reserve University and a longtime member of the Case Amateur Radio
Club, W8EDU. She does research on space laser robots and virtual hands. She
likes bells, boats, and radios, among other things.





*Dr. Dave Kazdan*



David Kazdan AD8Y SB VI-1 '81, SB XXI (music) '81, MD University of
Cincinnati '85, PhD Case Western Reserve University '92.  He has been an
active amateur radio operator since 1970.  At MIT, he maintained an amateur
station on Burton One with his roommate Joe Pingree WB2TVB, and was a
member of MIT Radio Society.  He has retired from his anesthesiology
practice and is now adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering
at Case Western Reserve University, where he is the faculty advisor of the
Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU.





*Nathaniel Vishner*



Nathaniel Vishner KB1QHX recently finished a BA in History and Philosophy
of Science at Case Western Reserve University on the circuitous route.  He
reestablished the Case Amateur Radio Club, W8EDU as a student group mainly
as a way to get free pizza from the student government and has watched the
club snowball and grow into a force to be reckoned with.  He enjoys
tinkering, poking at equipment, and seeing what loopholes can be exploited
for profit.





*Dr. Frank Lind*



Dr. Frank D. Lind is a Research Engineer at MIT Haystack Observatory where
he works to develop and use radio science instrumentation. At
the Observatory he leads many technical efforts involving software
radio instrumentation cutting across Geospace, Astronomy, and Space
science. These instruments are used to make detailed physical measurements
and have been part of many NSF, NASA, and DoD supported investigations.
Key instrumentation includes the National Science Foundation’s
Millstone Hill Geospace Radar Facility, the RAPID (Radio Array of
Portable Interferometric Detectors) system, low cost array radars,
software defined radio architectures for radio telescopes, and efforts to
develop a space borne electromagnetic vector sensor for the upcoming NASA
AERO (Aurora Emissions Radio Observer) and VISTA (Vector Interferometry
Space Technology using AERO) cubesat missions.  Dr. Lind studied at
the University of Washington where he received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in
1994. He then joined the UW Geophysics Program and pursued studies leading
to the Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics in 1999. His work there
focused on Passive Radar observations of the Aurora Borealis. He is a
prior chair of USNC URSI Commission G (United States National Committee of
the International Union of Radio Science), a member of the
American Geophysical Union (AGU), and a member of the IEEE.





*Dr. Alan Rogers*



Alan E. E. Rogers was born in Zimbabwe in 1941 and as an amateur radio
operator ZE6JG published his first paper in QST in 1962. He came to MIT as
a student in 1962 and worked on his thesis under Alan H. Barrett at
Haystack and in 1967 received his Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering.
He joined the staff of Haystack Observatory in 1968 where he carried out
research in Radio and Radar Interferometry. He aided in the development of
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) for Geodesy and Astronomy. From
1994 to 2002 he worked with industry in the development of radio location
systems for cellular phones and from 2002 to 2006 helped build an array of
antennas at 327 MHz used to measure the deuterium abundance in the
interstellar gas of the Galaxy.

In 2006 he retired to his present position of M.I.T. Research Affiliate at
Haystack Observatory to work on an Experiment to Detect the Global EoR
Signature (EDGES) project and low cost spectrometers used to measure the
Ozone concentration and wind velocity in the Mesosphere. In 2012 he helped
with the holographic measurements of the surface of the new 37m antenna at
Haystack. In 2018 the EDGES project detected an absorption in the
sky-averaged spectrum at 78 MHz which if confirmed to be real and not the
result of instrumental effects could be from the epoch of the first stars
in the universe at about 180 million years after the Big Bang.

His outreach activities include the development and support of the Small
Radio Telescope (SRT) used by students around the world to observe the
21-cm hydrogen line at 1420 MHz and to demonstrate the presence of dark
matter by measuring the galactic rotation curve.

In 2008 he received the Dellinger Gold Medal and in 2010 the Grote Reber, a
founder of radio astronomy and radio amateur W9GFZ, Medal for his
contributions to Radio Astronomy. Alan Rogers is a fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and a member of the American Astronomical as well as the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Meteorological Society.





*Dr. Mary Knapp*



Mary Knapp (‘11, PhD ‘18) is a research scientist at MIT Haystack
Observatory. Dr. Knapp is Project Scientist for ASTERIA, a CubeSat technology
demonstration mission.  Her research interests include development of
space-based radio telescopes, CubeSats mission design and instrumentation
for novel science applications, and radio detection of exoplanets.  Dr.
Knapp’s PhD thesis research focused on interferometric imaging to search
for Jovian-like radio emission from extrasolar planets.





*Dr. Anthea Coster*



Dr. Anthea J. Coster is an Assistant Director and principal research
scientist at the MIT Haystack Observatory. Her research interests include
space weather, ionospheric and atmospheric coupling, and GPS positioning
and measurement accuracy. She received her Ph.D. in Space Physics and
Astronomy from Rice University in 1983, under the guidance of William E.
Gordon, the founder of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. In 1991, she
and her co-workers developed the first real-time ionospheric monitoring
system based on GPS.  In 2001, she used GPS total electron content (TEC)
maps to image the plume of storm enhanced density (SED) that is frequently
observed over the United States following geomagnetic storms.  This SED
feature has severe impacts on the FAA’s wide area augmentation system
(WAAS).  Recently, she has used GPS to monitor the effect of the 2017 solar
eclipse, and to monitor traveling ionospheric disturbances following large
space weather storms.  She is a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation, and
has served on the Institute of Navigation (ION) Council (2001-2006) and as
secretary for the ION Satellite Division (2013-2015).  She is the past
commission G chair for URSI, and has also served on the NSF CEDAR steering
committee.  She is a lecturer in the ION-sponsored Workshop on Science
Applications in GNSS in Developing Countries, and has traveled to Italy,
Azerbaijan, Rwanda, and Ethiopia to present space weather lectures.





*Dr. Joel Dawson*



Dr. Joel Dawson is well known in the RF world for his many contributions to
RF architectures and efficient power amplifier systems. He got his
undergraduate degree at MIT, did his doctoral work at Stanford with Tom Lee
and later returned to MIT as a Professor.  He left MIT to found Eta Devices
(as CTO)  based on some of his MIT research - a new architecture enabling
major improvement in the achievable efficiencies of cell phone and base
station transmitters.  Eta Devices was successfully acquired by Nokia in
2016 (which is deploying this new technology in basestations) and led to a
follow-on startup company Eta Wireless (which is pursuing the handset and
wifi spaces for the technology).  Joel now leads a group at Nokia both
disseminating the technology into 4G basestations and developing new 5G
systems which exploit these ideas to achieve much higher efficiency.









Before ending this very long email, I'd also just like to extend a big
thank you to all our speakers, to everyone else who has helped make this
happen, and a special thanks to Anne Hunter. We couldn't have hoped to pull
this off without all of you!



Thank you all!

And Best,

Daniel Sheen, KC1EPN



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-- 
Kerri Cahoy, KB1ZSS
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 37-367
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Cell phone: 650 814-8148
E-mail: kcahoy at mit.edu, kerri.cahoy at gmail.com
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