Round Table Plenary Session Organizing Committee would like to inform that on 15th of June (Wednesday) - the First Day of Symposium - will be organized the Round Table Panel Discussion under chairmanship of Prof. Vidal Ashkenazi, UK. The title of Round Table Plenary Session is "GNSS Challenges in Maritime Navigation". Professor Bernd Eisfeller
Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University of FAF, Munich, Germany Mr Rafael Lucas Rodriguez
Head of Future GNSS Systems and Technology Office, Dept of Galileo Operations & Evolution, ESA/ESTEC Mr Colin M D Beatty
Managing Director, CBIL, Aylesbury, and President-Elect of the Royal Institute of Navigation, United Kingdom Dr Captain Refaat Rashad
President of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN), Alexandria, Egypt Mr Carlo Des Dorides
Executive Director of the European GNSS Agency Prof Dr Adam Weintrit
Dean, Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland
Prof. Vidal Ashkenazi brief CV
Vidal Ashkenazi is Chief Executive of UK-based Nottingham Scientific Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was the founding Director of the IESSG (Institute of Space Geodesy) at the University of Nottingham, where he has supervised about 50 doctoral (PhD) students, many of whom now occupy senior positions in universities or industry in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has published well over 600 papers and has been invited to give keynote lectures at many international conferences and symposia.
Vidal has acted as a Consultant to a large number of government and commercial organisations around the world, and has had short overseas appointments in several countries. These included the US, where he spent 6 months in 1976 as Senior Visiting Research Scientist, at the invitation of the US National Academy of Science, Canada, Australia, India and Brazil. Professor Ashkenazi has the degrees of Dr of Philosophy and Dr of Science from the University of Oxford.
In 1996, he received a medal from the Royal Society for his "significant contribution to the exploitation of GPS in a wide ran-ge of scientific and commercial applications". In 2008, he was awarded the Harold Spencer Jones Gold Medal, the highest award of the Royal Institute of Navigation (the RIN) for "an outstanding contribution to navigation".