Presentations

The meeting program is available for download (PDF). The preprints of the proceedings will available on the Preprints page.

Session 1: Retrospectives on Time

• Steve Allen, "Planes Will Crash! Things That Leap Seconds Didn't, and Did, Cause"
• Yasuhiro Koyama, et. al., "Experiences of Leap Second Adjustment Operations and Questionnaires in Japan"
  
• Martin Burnicki, "Technical Aspects of Leap Second Propagation and Evaluation"

Session 2: The Terminology of Time

• Paul Gabor, "Diplomacy of Legal Translations: GMT v. UT"
• David Finkleman, "On the Term Coordinated Universal Time" (see program p. 9 for abstract)
• Russell Redman, "Vocabulary for Time-Scales"

Session 3: The Application of Time

• James Kiessling, "Robust Navigation Issues in the Event of GNSS Failures"
• Stephen Malys, "The GPS SVN59 Satellite Anomaly of 17 June 2012"
• John Seago, "The Leap Minute"
• Servando Diaz, Chris Tuason, "Adapted Universal Time (UTA) - Stretching Each Day with Milliseconds"
• Henno Boomkamp, "Recommendations on UTC Definition from IAG Working Group 1.1.1"

Session 4: The Perception of Time

• Paul Gabor, "Impractical Precision of Calendars"
• Rob Seaman, "The Meaning of a Day"
• Kevin Birth, "The Princess and the Pea: Strategies for the Study of Non-Experts’ Use of Time Scales"(see program p. 12 for abstract)
• Kevin Birth, "Zmanim, Salat, Jyotish and UTC: The Articulation of Religious Times and the Global Time Scale" (see program p. 13 for abstract)

Session 5: The Programming of Time I

• Andrew Main, "Programming Perspective on Time Scales"
• Harlan Stenn, "Time, Timestamps, and Timescales"

Session 6: The Programming of Time II

• Arnold Rots, "UTC in Astronomical Metadata Standards"
• Stephen Colebourne, "Date and Time for Nine Million Java Developers"

Session 7: The Future of Time

• Daniel Gambis, "Improving the Predictability of Leap Seconds Announcements"
• Dennis McCarthy, "Considering Timescale Requirements for the Future"
• P. Kenneth Seidelmann, "Future Options for Civil Timekeeping: UTC and the Alternatives"