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Death of Raymond Besson, “the man of the quartz at 10-14“Passionate scientist, professor at ENSMM (Besançon, France) until 2006 and director of the Chronometry, Electronics and Piezoelectricity Laboratory of Besançon between 1978 and 2002, Raymond Besson was renowned in the national and international time-frequency community for his so-called BVA quartz resonators. He died on April 15, 2020. -> More details about Raymond’s life
Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer: first use of a Software Defined Radio receiver in UTC calculationTwo-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer, improved by the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) receiver, has been used for Circular T calculation for the first time in March 2020. The comparison between the French and German local realizations of UTC, UTC(OP) and UTC(PTB), was performed using SDR receivers, a method that replaces part of the time-transfer hardware […]
How did the ancient Greeks conceive of time?Interdisciplinary traveling exhibition on the theme of time (in french) => informations
FIRST-TF Calls for projects 2020 are opened ; deadline April 10th 2020 [Update COVID19]The FIRST-TF calls for projects 2020 are now opened. The deadline is April 3rd 2020 April 10th 2020 [Update COVID 19]. IMPORTANT: this year, we introduce 2 parralel calls. The usual “one-year project” call, and in addition, a new “multi-year project” call. There is two distincts forms for these two calls. The texts of the calls and the […]
REFIMEVE+ General Assembly, 1-2 April 2020 in Grenoble (France) [UPDATE COVID19: event Postponed]The REFIMEVE+ project (fiber network of frequency reference distribution at ultra-high performance ) will take placeat the LIPhy laboratory (Grenoble) the 1st et 2nd of Avril 2020 [COVID19 : the event is postponed]. This general assembly is opened to REFIMEVE partners and every people interested in joining the project. An on-line registration form and a preliminary […]
International Timing & Synchronisation Forum 2020ITSF covers applications including Telecoms, Finance, Energy, Transport, Broadcast, Data Centers and Defence. November 2-5, Dusseldorf (Germany) => informations
Abstract submission deadline for IFCS 2020: February 17Joint conference of the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium & IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics. July 19-23, 2020, Keystone (Co, USA). => informations