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About the Annual PNT Symposium

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Each fall since 2007, the Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time has hosted an annual symposium, featuring a dozen invited speakers plus student presentations.

The symposium, which is held in the Kavli Auditorium at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory—a short drive or shuttle ride from the Stanford campus—now spans two days, with the first day devoted to student presentations and the second day devoted to invited speaker presentations. The symposium includes a banquet dinner and speaker during one of the evenings.

The purpose of the annual PNT Symposium is to provide a venue and forum in which professionals working on PNT-related technology and applications can exchange information and discuss current issues affecting this increasingly important and pervasive field. In addition to the formal group presentations, several coffee breaks scheduled throughout the symposium, plus lunchtimes and the dinner banquet on one of the symposium evenings offer opportunities for participants to mingle and talk informally.

Following each year's symposium, most presenters provide SCPNT with a digital file (typically PDF, sometimes augmented with video) of their presentation slides. On the current and past seminar pages in this section, you'll find lists of all the invited speaker presentations, as well as the student poster presentations. The lists are organized alphabetically by the last names of the presenters. Most of the presentations in these lists include links for downloading the corresponding presentation file(s).