The primary objectives for the workshop are to:
The Workshop will provide NDCs an opportunity to get involved in activities related to the IDC Progressive Commissioning Plan. The focus will be on the NDCs roles and responsibilities in the IDC Progressive Commissioning as specified in the IDC Validation and Acceptance Test Plan as well as their participation in the IDC Experiments.
The objective is to continue the process of completing the IDC Validation and Acceptance Test Plan. The focus for this particular meeting will be on reviewing the changes made since the September 2018 meeting and to continue improving the test content. Progress in this regard will be presented at WGB 52.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) relies on innovation to enhance the capabilities of the Treaty’s verification regime as well as to help move the Treaty closer to universalization and entry into force. As the seventh event in the CTBT: Science and Technology conference series, SnT2019 will bring together around 1000 scientists, technologists, academics, students, CTBTO policy makers, members of the media and representatives of organizations involved in research and development that is relevant to all aspects of Treaty verification.
More details are provided at www.ctbto.org/SnT2019.
Cette table ronde a pour ambition d’enrichir le débat, pour la première fois à SnT en français, sur des pistes et initiatives innovantes pour encourager l’adhésion au TICE et stimuler l’entrée en vigueur du traité. L'importance de la science dans la diplomatie, la valeur des réseaux du monde francophone, la perspective des pays en développement et les enjeux du multilinguisme seront autant de points abordés lors des discussions.
Ambassadeur Maria Assunta Accili Sabbatini
Participants:
Représentante permanente de la République d’Italie auprès de la Commission préparatoire de l’Organisation du traité d’interdiction complète des essais nucléaires
Ambassadeur Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki
Représentante permanente d’Algérie
Représentante du Co-Président désigné de la 11ème Conférence de promotion de l’entrée en vigueur du TICE (Conférence de l’Article XIV)
Ambassadeur Roger Albéric Kacou
Représentant permanent de la Côte d’Ivoire auprès de la Commission préparatoire de l’Organisation du traité d’interdiction complète des essais nucléaires Président du Groupe des ambassadeurs francophones à Vienne
Monsieur Jacques Krabal
Secrétaire général parlementaire de l’Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie
Député de la République française
Monsieur Rémi Quirion
Scientifique en chef du Québec, Gouvernement du Québec
Ambassadeur Malik Sarr
Représentant régional, Bureau régional de l’Océan indien, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
Modérateur: Monsieur Alain Foka, journaliste et producteur des émissions “Archives d’Afrique” et ”Le débat africain”, Radio France Internationale (RFI)
En esta mesa redonda se propone entablar un debate sobre la contribución de las tecnologías, datos y programas de capacitación de la OTPCE con el objetivo de reforzar la capacidad de gestión de desastres a nivel internacional y a su vez promover el desarrollo sostenible. Por primera vez la mesa redonda se celebrará en lengua española, lo que representa una oportunidad para resaltar el vínculo existente entre multilingüismo y multilateralismo y, en particular, dentro del contexto de los tratados y organizaciones internacionales de carácter altamente técnico.
Embajador Marcel Fortuna Biato
Participantes:
Representante Permanente de la República Federativa de Brasil ante La Comisión Preparatoria de la Organzacíon del Tratado de Prohibición Completa de los Ensayos Nucleares
Embajadora Alicia Buenrostro Massieu
Representante Permanente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ante La Comisión Preparatoria de la Organzacíon del Tratado de Prohibición Completa de los Ensayos Nucleares
Señor Ignacio Cartagena Núñez
Subdirector General de No Proliferación y Desarme, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, España
Embajador Luis Gallegos-Chiriboga
Representante Permanente del Ecuador ante las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York
Señora Emma Polanco Melo
Rectora de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
Señor José Fidel Santana Núñez
Vice-Ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, Cuba
Moderador: Señor Jordi Kuhs, Director de la oficina en Austria de la agencia internacional de noticias española EFE
The purpose of this panel discussion is to examine the obstacles that hamper real gender equality in the field of science and technology, and to discuss policies that might help improve the current status of affairs at the national, regional and global levels.
Ms. Sabah AlMomin
Panellists:
Research Scientist in Biotechnology, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Director, Indian Statistical Institute
Ms. Joanne Bartley
Principal, Culture and Change, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Kirrawee (ANSTO)
Ms. Grace Liu
Research Associate, East Asia Nonproliferation Program (EANP), James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Ms. Alena Yakovleva
President, Women in Nuclear, Russia
This panel discussion is followed by a cocktail reception which begins at 21:30 hours
The second phase of the IDC Reengineering program, completed in April 2017, focused on significant enhancements to individual components of the SHI automatic and interactive processing as well as data and product dissemination and software quality assurance.
In January 2018 the IDC initiated, in parallel with the second phase, the scoping and resource estimations for the third phase of its Reengineering program that considers the software development, testing and roll-out of SHI applications. It aims at producing, by the last quarter of 2023, the software based on an upgraded, modern architecture and software framework for SHI applications.
Reengineering Phase 3 (RP3) follows system design techniques based on UML (Unified Modelling Language) and RUP (Rational Unified Process). Technical meetings are periodically held to provide a forum for experts from Member States to review and give feedback on RP3 deliverables.
This technical meeting marks the beginning of Phase 3 of IDC Reengineering and will focus on:
Meeting participants are invited to contribute to the technical meeting by making a 15 minutes presentation related to one of the following themes:
The objectives of IHW2019 is to support the CTBTO verification regime by creating a forum for scientific knowledge exchange on three main topics:
The objectives of this NDC training are:
The objectives of the East Asia Regional National Data Center Workshop are:
The PTS is actively pursuing initiatives to improve the performance of the IDC waveform automatic processing pipeline. Some active research and development areas are :
The PTS is initiating procedures for issuing the Updated Event Bulletin (UEB) and a State Requested Method Report (SRMR) as part of Special Studies and Expert Technical Analysis. The status of this work will be reviewed. A first release of the tool will be discussed with a view of eliciting expert input on algorithms and methodologies to incorporate.
The objective of this technical expert meeting is twofold:
Meeting participants are welcome to contribute to the technical meeting by making a 15 minute presentation related to one of the topics above.
Special Studies provide in-depth, technical reviews by expert analysis of data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) to improve the estimated values for the standard signal and event parameters resulting in an Updated Radionuclide Report (URR).
The purpose of the Expert Technical Analysis (ETA) of IMS data and other relevant data provided by the requesting State Party is to assist the State Party concerned to identify the source of specific events. The output is the State Requested Methods Report (SRMR).
URR and SRMR need to be seen in the context of the standard products they are building on, specifically the Standard Screened Radionuclide Event Bulletin (SSREB). Beyond its current implementation it may contain among others the use of atmospheric transport modelling results to combine field of regard information from all radionuclide samples sharing a possible common source region related to a single event. If available, information derived from isotopic ratios is included and may be used to confine the field of regard.
The objectives of this technical expert meeting are:
Meeting participants are welcome to contribute to the technical meeting by making a 15 minute presentation related to one of the Agenda topics.
The objectives for the NDC Capacity Building Workshop are:
• to strengthen participants’ knowledge of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the work of the Preparatory Commission;
• to further build up the national and regional capacities in implementing the Treaty and participating in the verification regime, as well as to promote the civil and scientific application of verification technologies, in particular to promote the importance of Ground-Truth (GT) event locations in defining regional seismic velocity structures and models;
• to share data and to develop the Regional Seismic Travel Time Model (RSTT) in Asia through the acquisition of GT seismic locations.
The additional objectives for the Data Sharing and Integration Training:
• to understand and learn how RSTT can help regional networks achieve more precise event locations;
• to learn how RSTT can be interfaced with current locators used in daily earthquake location procedures;
• to recognize the importance of obtaining better regional locations for future tomographic studies;
• to stimulate regional cooperation in data exchange through the NDCs and/or regional network operators.
The purpose of the workshop is to present and evaluate the most recent advances in noble gas monitoring in support of the CTBT.
