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Time Synchronization and the Origins of GPS

Name: Time Synchronization and the Origins of GPS
Start: 2016-06-08T10:45:00-04:00
End: 2016-06-08T11:05:00-04:00
Location: Northwest Building – Harvard

June 8, 2016 @ 10:45 am - 11:05 am EDT

Richard Easton will present a talk, “Time Synchronization and the Origins of GPS,” at the forthcoming conference, The Science of Time, June 5-9, 2016, hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.

Richard is scheduled to speak Wednesday, June 8, at 10:45. His talk will focus on how the need to synchronize clocks at widely separated satellite tracking stations sparked the idea of placing highly accurate clocks, and eventually atomic frequency standards, aboard satellites. This led directly to the Global Positioning System, which enabled worldwide time synchronization.

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Details

Date:: June 8, 2016
Time:: 10:45 am - 11:05 am EDT
Event Categories:: Conference Presentations, Speaking Engagements
Event Tags:: conference, Global Positioning System, GPS, presentation, speech, synchronization, talks, Timation, time
Website:: http://sot2016.cfa.harvard.edu

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: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Venue

Northwest Building – Harvard; 52 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States + Google Map
Website:: http://sot2016.cfa.harvard.edu/