[Everyone] URSI National Radio Science Meeting 2024 (Call for Abstracts/Papers for CHIME/FRB Outriggers Special Session)

[Aaron B. Pearlman]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that there will be a special session (as part 
of Commission J: Radio Astronomy) focused on the CHIME/FRB Outriggers 
project at the upcoming URSI National Radio Science Meeting (URSI-NRSM), 
which will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from January 
9th to 13th, 2024.

The CHIME/FRB Outrigger project aims to expand the capabilities of the 
CHIME/FRB instrument, by enabling FRBs discovered by CHIME/FRB to be 
localized to an ultimate precision of ~50 milliarcseconds through VLBI, 
using 3 new Outrigger telescopes located at transcontinental distances 
across North America.

We (Aaron Pearlman & Pranav Sanghavi, co-chairs of the CHIME/FRB 
Outriggers special session) cordially invite you to submit either an 
abstract or a summary paper on any of the following topics that may be 
relevant to the CHIME/FRB Outrigger project:

  * Instrumentation
  * Algorithms (e.g., VLBI techniques)
  * Multiwavelength Follow-up
  * Astrophysical or Cosmological Scientific Applications

This venue will provide an opportunity to present your relevant work to 
an audience that specializes in, and is eager to learn about, 
instrumentation. This special session will consist of 10 talks, with 
each presentation scheduled for 15 minutes and an additional 5 minutes 
for Q&A. There will be no poster sessions.

Please note that there will be various other scientific sessions that 
may be of interest to many members of the radio astronomy community: 
https://www.nrsmboulder.org/topics. We encourage interested members from 
the scientific community to join us at URSI-NRSM 2024.

Authors may submit one-page abstracts or two-page summary papers, both 
of which may be archived in IEEE Xplore and thus indexed. The formatting 
guidelines and templates for both types of submission can be found here: 
https://nrsmboulder.com/submission.

Students are especially encouraged to consider submitting entries to the 
Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI Student Paper Competition. Monetary prizes are 
expected to be awarded for the top 3 papers.

The deadline for all abstracts, summaries, and student paper contest 
entries is at *11:59 pm Wednesday, September 13, 2023 (Hawaii time).*

Registration details may be found on this page: 
https://www.nrsmboulder.org/registration. The registration costs have 
not yet been updated on the website, but last year the registration 
costs were:

  * Students: $325 (Students may apply for support to help defray the
    costs of attending the 2024 NRSM meeting:
    https://www.nrsmboulder.org/student)
  * Early Career Member: $500
  * Member Fee: $600
  * Non-member fee: Approximately $700

It is possible to apply for membership while registering for this 
meeting. Further details can be found here: 
https://www.nrsmboulder.org/registration.

Conference logistics, as well as details about the group rate for 
hotels, may be found here: https://www.nrsmboulder.org/logistics.

For those of you that are interested in presenting during the special 
session on CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we are looking forward to reading your 
abstracts & papers!

Best wishes,

Aaron Pearlman (aaron.b.pearlman at physics.mcgill.ca)
Pranav Sanghavi (pranav.sanghavi at yale.edu)
Co-chairs of the URSI-NRSM 2024 CHIME/FRB Outriggers Special Session
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