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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Based on early discussions at the RFI Working Group Meeting last month, we are planning to start a monthly RFI Journal Club meeting. The goal of this meeting will
be to raise awareness and discuss articles that deal with RFI in the context of our instrumentation and operations. The article can be one that you wrote, or could also be an article from the literature that interests you, either a recent result, or something
of historical interest. The hope is to foster discussions between scientists, engineers, policy folks, technicians: anyone dealing with RFI at our sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">The first meeting will be on December 12, 2023 from 3:05-3:55 PM. The meeting will run 40-45 minutes, and will be made up of ~20 minutes of presentation and ~20 minutes
of discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">For our first meeting, the journal article will be a recent work by Evan Smith "Simulating Spectral Kurtosis Mitigation Against Realistic RFI Signals",</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">which can be found<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07642" title="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07642"><span style="color:#0078D7">here</span></a>.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">
The hope is that you will read the article beforehand, but even if you cannot, the speaker each month will present the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">basics of the article of interest during the first part of the meeting.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">We will likely start with AUI employees only (e.g. VLA/VLBA/GBO/ALMA), but can open it up to a larger group if there is interest in that.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">So for now, please save the date, and Zoom link information will be sent out ~2 weeks before our first meeting (early next week).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Please share this save the date email with other members of your teams who might be interested in this group.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Chris, Bang & Sheldon</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Christopher G. De Pree</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Deputy Spectrum Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">National Radio Astronomy Observatory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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