[IAU GA 2024] August 8: Venue 2.61 – 2.63

Welcome to the 32nd International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024. The assembly is not only historic as the first IAU assembly on African soil, but also the first GA to adopt an open-access format. From August 6 to 15, 2024, scientific contributions will be freely accessible to science enthusiasts, school students and the general public around the globe.

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*CPS-4: Priorities and Pathways Forward *

8:00 Federico Di Vruno Summary of CPS sessions on August 7

8:30 Connie Walker Priorities for Volunteer Involvement

09:00 Richard Green Discussion on Pathways for Implementation

09:30 END

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*Session FM5-4: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum*

The most important questions in pulsar- and fast transient research including FRBs (and limitations through RFI)

10:30 - 10:40 A Supervised Deep Learning Approach for Enhanced Pulsar Observation through Combined RFI Detection and Restoration (Xiao Zhang, oral)

RFI software excision techniques and their limitations

10:40 - 10:58 RFI mitigation software and limitations (Benjamin Hugo, oral)

10:58 - 11:08 GRIDFlag : RFI flagging in the UV domain (Srikrishna Sekhar, oral)

11:08 - 11:18 RFInder: Radio Frequency Interference data evaluation and reduction (Athanaseus Ramaila, oral)

11:18 - 11:28 Excising and Characterizing Radio Frequency Interference in the UCLA SETI search (Jean-Luc Margot, oral)

11:28 - 11:38 Application of anomaly detection to MeerKAT radio data using machine learning techniques (Hanwool Koo, oral)

11:38 - 11:48 TABASCAL: Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration (Chris Finlay, oral)

Discoveries and the future path for VLBI including geodetic VLBI (and limitations through RFI)

11:48 - 11:58 Advancements and Challenges in Astronomical and Geodetic Observations: The Impact of Broadband Radio Systems and Spectrum Congestion (Taehyun Jung, oral)

*Session FM5-5: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum*

Discoveries and the future path for VLBI including geodetic VLBI (and limitations through RFI)

13:30 - 13:48 VLBI Science in an increasingly crowded radio spectrum (Tiziana Venturi, oral)

13:48 - 13:58 Initiatives for the protection of astrometric and geodetic VLBI observations from unwanted radio signals (Vincenza Tornatore, oral)

Regulatory processes at the national and international level, including local regulatory and hybrid measures to protect radio astronomy

13:58 - 14:16 Regulatory processes at the national and international level, including local regulatory and hybrid measures to protect radio astronomy (B. Ashley Zauderer-Vanderley, oral)

14:16 - 14:26 Upcoming challenges for radio astronomy spectrum management in the 2023-2027 ITU-R study cycle (Boris Sorokin, oral)

14:26 - 14:36 Managing Australia's Radio Astronomy Facilities in a crowded spectrum (Douglas Bock, oral)

14:36 - 14:54 Introduction to the ITU processes (Vadim Nozdrin, oral)

*Session FM5-6: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum*

Radio astronomy on the Moon (and limitations through RFI)

15:30 - 15:48 Radio astronomy on the Moon and the lunar-orbit Hongmeng project (Yidong Xu, oral)

15:48 - 16:06 The Promise and Peril of Future Space-based Radio Astronomical Observations (Joe Lazio, oral)

16:06 - 16:16 Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside of the Moon (Xuelei Chen, oral)

Comparison and synergies with astronomy protection across the radio spectrum and at other wavelengths

16:16 - 16:34 Can you access the full radio spectrum? a realistic view on the use of a scarce resource! (Federico Di Vruno, oral)

Discussion

16:34 - 17:00 Discussion