The Civil GPS Interface Committee (CGSIC) will meet during the ION GNSS 2012 conference at the Nashville Convention Center in Tennessee, USA on Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18. This will be the 52nd meeting of the group.

The plenary session on Tuesday morning features updates by the U.S. National Space-Based PNT director, the Air Force GPS Directorate commander,  the Air Force Second Space Operations Squadron commander and State Department and Homeland Security senior officials.

The Inertial Sensors and Systems symposium will take place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 18 and 19, 2012. The conference will be held in English.

At this conference, formerly the Symposium Gyro Technology, the latest state of inertial sensors and navigation systems as well as gyro technology will be presented.

This includes applications of this technology, the development of new systems, components and test procedures as well as investigations on cost and marketing aspects.

The 39th scientific assembly of COSPAR, the Committee On Space Research, willl take place from July 14 to July 22, 2012 at the Global Education Centre-2, Infosys Training Centre, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore is known as the "City of Palaces."

The topics are fundmentals and relevance of space science and technological innovations and applications. Of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS are sessions on atomic clocks, space weather, space debris, satellite dynamic and the ionosphere.

SIRGAS 2012, the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system for the Americas, will be held at the Universidad de Concepción auditorium in Concepción, Chile October 29 through 31, 2012.

The event will also be hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Militar of Chile.

In addition to the meeting sessions, a technical visit to the Transportable Integrated Geodetic Observatory (TIGO) of the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) is scheduled.

"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: Galileo's Here" is the theme of the 6th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.

The European Space Agency event will be held from December 5 to 7, 2012 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.

The event will also include the Navigation Signal Workshop, sponsored by the French Space Agency (CNES), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and University FAF Munich (UniBwM).

The next APEC GIT/17 meeting is planned to be held in conjunction with the APEC Transportation Working Group (TPTWG) Meeting on August 3-6 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Details will appear on the website below as they become available.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum that facilitates economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region for its 21 member economies.

Billed as the "First International Conference" on new trends and applications of GNSS, this new event is sponsored and organized by the Space Science Center at Cairo University.

It will take place at Cairo University in Giza city from September 1 to 4 2012. The conference language is English.

With more services and signals, the GNSS landscape is changing and new trends and applications must be considered.

The International Committee on GNSS will hold a workshop on GNSS spectrum protection, interference detection and mitigation on June 7 and 8, 2012 in the United Nations International Centre in Vienna, Austria.

The workshop will take place in conference room M-7. It will be held in conjunction with the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) 2012 session, which runs from June 6 to June 16.

The 2012 IGS workshop will take place at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland from July 23 to 27.

The topic areas are:

The National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) offers this comprehensive course on clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, quantum information and more for those who work with time and frequency systems at all levels of experience.

The seminar will take place June 5 through 8 at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado, source of the United States' official time.

The Nordic Institute of Navigation general assembly and one-day seminar on GNSS interference and jamming will take place at the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo on Thursday, May 24. It will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. Participation is free to all.Lunch is free for NNF members.

Presentations will cover:

The 2012 Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, previously known as the GNSS Workshop, will be held on November 8 and 9 at Phoenix Island resort on Jeju, Korea.

The general chair is Philho Peter Park, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.

The event has been held since 1994, when Korea's GPS Technology Council (now GNSS) was established.

The 44rd PTTI systems and applications meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center in Reston, Virginia on November 26-29, 2012.

PTTI 2012 focuses on time dissemination, GNSS timing performance, user applications, precision time and frequency transfer techniques and future timing equipment.

Paper abstracts are due by August 1, 2012 as a Microsoft Word attachment to abstracts@pttimeeting.org.

The 19th International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems will take place  at Central Scientific and Research Institute "Elektropribor" in St. Petersburg on May 28-30, 2012.

The conference is being held during the lively "White Nights" tourist season, when the sun stays up until 11 p.m. or later. An English-language sight-seeing tour of St. Petersburg the evenoing of May 28 is included in the conference fee.

The 11th GPS Partnership Council meeting will take place on May 1 and 2,
2012 at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air
Force Base in El Segundo, California. It is located about four miles
south of the Los Angeles Airport.

As of April 27, the meeting is full, however registration is open for the golf tournament on Wednesday and social evening on Tuesday.