2019 PNT Symposium
Our 2019 PNT Symposium was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29 and 30, in the Kavli Auditorium at SLAC, about 3.5 miles west of the Stanford campus off Sand Hill Road.
As in the past two years, Tuesday, the first day of the 2019 PNT Symposium, featured student presentations. On Tuesday evening, a banquet dinner was held at the Stanford Faculty Club. During the dinner, David Goldstein, Director of Special Programs at SpaceX, spoke on the topic: How to Launch a GPS III Satellite in Ten Easy Steps.
Wednesday, the second day of the symposium, featured eleven invited speakers. Following the invited talks, we concludrd the symposium with a tribute to the life and legacy of SCPNT co-founder, Jim Spilker, who passed away on September 24, 2019.
View photos from the 2019 PNT Symposium in the SCPNT Web Photo Gallery >>
Below is a summary of the 2019 PNT Symposium schedule. You can also download the 2019 PNT Symposium Information Packet (PDF) below. This PDF information packet contains the symposium flyer, the agendas for both student talks and invited talks, lists of symposium participants and their associated companies/institutions, a map and directions to Kavli Auditorium at SLAC, where the symposium was held, and a map/directions from SLAC to the Stanford Faculty Club where the banquet was held.
2019 PNT Symposium Schedule
| Date & Time | Symposium Activity | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, October 29 — All Day | Student Presentations | Kavli Auditorium, SLAC | |
| Tuesday, October 29 — Evening | Banquet Dinner Speaker: David Goldstein, Director of Special Programs, SpaceX Dinner Speech Topic: How to Launch a GPS III Satellite in 10 Easy Steps | 
| Stanford Faculty Club |
| Wednesday, October 30 — Morning & Early Afternoon | Invited Speaker Presentations | Kavli Auditorium, SLAC | |
| Wednesday, October 30 — Late Afternoon | Tribute to SCPNT Co-Founder, Jim Spilker, who passed away on September 24, 2019 View/Download Jim Spilker Memorial Photo Collage (JPEG File) | 
| Kavli Auditorium, SLAC |
| View/Download Jim Spilker Tribute Slide Show (PDF File) | 
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2019 PNT Symposium Speakers and Presentations
The two tables below display all of the 2019 PNT Symposium invited speaker and student presentations. The presentations are listed alphabetically by the last names of the presenters.
Click on any presentation title in blue text to view/download the presentation file, and in some cases, related video or other files.
2019 PNT Symposium • Invited Speaker Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title (Blue = Link to Presentation File ) |
|---|---|---|
| Col. John Claxton | USAF GPS Directorate | Update on GPS Program |
| James Garrison | Purdue University | GNSS Reflectometry for Earth Remote Sensing |
| David Goldstein | SpaceX | How to Launch a GPS III Satellite in 10 Easy Steps |
| John Hansman | MIT | Challenges in Achieving the Full Potential of PNT in Civil Aviation |
| Tom Langenstein | Stanford University | Welcome/Introduction and Symposium Information |
| Wei Lee | Air Force Test Center (AFTC) | Navigation Flight Test at the USAF Test Pilot School |
| Miriam Liedvogel | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology | Bird migration — The Genomic Architecture of Migration Behaviour |
| Xiaochun Lu | China's National Timing Service Center | Update on Beidou and PNT |
| Hayk Martiros | Skydio | Autonomous Flight in the Wild: Progress and Challenges from Skydio |
| Jade Morton | University of Colorado | Synergy between Navigation and Remote Sensing |
| Brad Parkinson | Stanford University, Emeritus | PNT Assurance |
| Pascal Rochat | Spectratime | Atomic Clocks Technologies for Galileo and Related Applications |