IEEE UFFC Society Sponsors Students to Attend NIST Time and Frequency Seminar

Nine graduate students from around the world were sponsored by the UFFC Society to attend the 41st Annual NIST Time and Frequency Seminar in Boulder, Colorado, USA (http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/seminars/TFSeminar2016/Seminar2016.html). The Seminar was a four-day comprehensive course from June 7th through June 10th that covered clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, rf and optical synchronization, optical oscillators, techniques for making precise frequency, time, phase-noise, and jitter measurements, and establishing measurement accuracy and traceability.

The opportunity was announced on the UFFC's Facebook page and also via email to student members of the UFFC Society in early April, and the application deadline was May 7, 2016. The applications were reviewed by members of the Frequency Control Standing Committee. The sponsorship covered the Seminar registration fee, airfare, and hotel expenses.

The UFFC hopes to offer this opportunity in future years to continue to promote a long-term interest in a career in Frequency Control for the next generation of professional scientists and engineers.

UFFC-Sponsored Students: Adarsh Ganesan (U. of Cambridge, UK), Elizabeth Donley (NIST host), Maxime Auchlin, (U. of Houston, USA), Andres David Rodriguez Salas (U. of São Paulo, Brazil), Alper Ozgurluk (UC Berkeley, USA), Dipenkumar Barot, (U. of Alabama, Huntsville, USA), Aishik Acharya (NPL, India), Megha Agrawal (U. of Cambridge, UK), Etienne Vaillant (FEMTO-ST, France), Ruonan Liu (UC Berkeley, USA).