The Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting is an annual conference sponsored by ION with a technical program designed to disseminate and coordinate PTTI information at the user level, review present and future PTTI requirements, inform government and industry engineers, technicians, and managers of precise time and frequency technology and its problems, and provide an opportunity for an active exchange of new technology associated with PTTI.

Eight of the UA Trainees attended the meeting January 27-30, 2025. Trainee, Vednarayan Iyer’s research titled Natural Oscillators for Deep Space Missions: Investigation of NANOGrav 15-year Pulsar Dataset was presented at the meeting. Dr. Thejesh Bandi, Assistant Professor of Physics and ACCEPT Technical Director, accompanied the group and arranged for a visit to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Through generous support from the NSF NRT-ACCEPT program, the UA Graduate School, and our NIST hosts, 10 students, postdocs, and faculty from the University of Alabama were able to attend the 2024 NIST Time and Frequency Seminar in August 2024.

Attendees gained 30 hours of classroom education on time and frequency metrology and applications, attended lab tours of NIST’s top notch facilities, and networked with industry and government experts. Thank you to NIST for hosting and training our students!

ACCEPT is currently accepting applications for our first graduate (MS and PhD students) cohort, to begin in August 2024. The application is on the NSF ETAP site and can be accessed here.

If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and welcome interdisciplinary graduate education in mathematics, computer science, physics and engineering, then we have a place for you. Experience is NOT a requirement to participate in this program. Financial assistance ($34K for first year) and health insurance are also provided. To be eligible, please apply to graduate school for the department of your choice and then complete our short application to begin the conversation. Please submit a resume/CV, an unofficial transcript copy, and a 1 page statement of your interest in precision timing / PNT, and what you hope to gain from participation in ACCEPT.

Applications received by Feb. 15, 2024 will receive full consideration for funding, and thereafter on a rolling basis. Applications for unfunded participation will be accepted until May 15, 2024, or thereafter with permission from Program Coordinator, Ms. Demetria Hereford (dhereford@ua.edu).
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Additional information regarding the ACCEPT Program can be found on our website (https://accept.ua.edu). For further assistance, please contact Ms. Demetria Hereford at 205.348.3777 or dhereford@ua.edu.