Hi Over the course of decades, we sent a lot of people to this workshop. It was typical to have a new engineer head out to it after a year or so on the job. I don’t remember any of them coming back saying that they had found it all way past their ability to comprehend. Compared to doing the same sort of training in-house, the NIST workshop is dirt cheap ….
Indeed *some* of what was presented each year was a challenge. I would be very surprised if that was not the case. NIST is targeting a wide range of people and thus presents a lot of information as part of the workshop. Some of it (inevitably) will be targeted in an area that is not your primary focus. Bob > On Feb 18, 2019, at 8:39 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) > <li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > > I'm actually debating on whether to attend this or not. I really > need to understand a lot of the things related to time and Frequency > better, and it looks like this covers pretty much all of the bases. > The price, although high, isn't out of the range of expectations for > this type of workshop. > > For those who have attended in the past, I'd appreciate it if someone > could characterize how much underlying time and frequency knowledge is > needed to be able to at least follow along. Based on Tom's > description and the topic titles in the agenda, I suspect that I'll be > better than ok, but it is $1900 and I'd really hate to show up and > find out that I'm lost 30 seconds into the first session on the first > day. > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 12:09 AM Tom Van Baak <t...@leapsecond.com> wrote: >> >>>> https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/06/2019-nist-time-and-frequency-seminar >>> >>> Mother of God, John, what makes this meeting worth the price? >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> Yes, it sounds high but perhaps not out of line for multi-day professional >> conferences / seminars these days. True, you have to factor in Denver >> flights and Boulder hotels. But when you consider where it's held and who's >> speaking and how long it lasts, it starts to look like something between a >> bargain and a worthy bucket list item. NIST takes T&F seriously; this is not >> some sort of cheap corporate or product marketing show. >> >> Look over the agenda and note both the wide range of topics covered and the >> personnel doing so. The sessions tend to be very high quality. A portion of >> attendees are the kind sent by their companies to "learn about time & >> frequency" this week, so as a practicing time nut you are well above that. >> On the other hand, NIST keeps the conference current and practical and >> detailed so even the most seasoned time nut will learn a great deal. You may >> also meet lifelong contacts. I have attended and highly recommend it. >> >> If it's just registration price that keeps an energetic curious time nut >> from attending let me know. In years past I've recommended NIST allow a >> limited time nut discount and that's worked. Let me know off-list if this is >> something you'd like to be considered for. >> >> /tvb >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com >> and follow the instructions there. > > > > -- > - Forrest > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
