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 ====== Program ======
 ==== Lectures ====
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-  * **Introduction to TF** – Basic concepts and vocabulary (quality, certification, traceability etc), and technical issues (oscillators, frequency standards, accuracy, stability, phase noise, jitter, physical environment, etc.).
+  * **Introduction to TF** – Basic concepts and vocabulary, and technical issues (oscillators, frequency standards, accuracy, stability, phase noise, jitter, physical environment, etc.).
-  * **Measurement methods and experimental techniques** – Spectra (phase noise and L(f), amplitude noise), variances, frequency measurement and comparison.
+  * **Measurement methods and experimental techniques** – Spectra (phase noise, Sphi(f) and the deprecated L(f), amplitude noise), variances, frequency measurement and comparison.
-  * **Atomic clocks** – Physics, traditional clocks (atomic beam, vapor cell, and maser), cold atoms, optical clocks, small-size clocks.
+  * **Atomic clocks** – Physics, traditional clocks (atomic beam, vapor cell and maser), cold atoms, optical clocks, and small-size clocks.
-  * **Oscillators** – RF/microwave, cavity-stabilized lasers, optical frequency combs.
+  * **Oscillators** – RF and microwave oscillators, cavity-stabilized lasers, optical frequency combs.
   * **Timing and applications** – Time scales, navigation, frequency transfer and synchronization.
   * **Physics, applications, and trends.**
-====  Hands-on Laboratory Courses ====
+====  Hands-on laboratory sessions ====
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-Every day, the the participant do real experiments and measurements
+Participants access 7.5-H labs in three sessions, where they do real experiments and measurements
-  * Frequency stability and AM/PM noise,
+  * Analysis of frequency and phase data,
-  * Data analysis
+  * Phase noise and amplitude noise,
-  * Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS (GPS, Galileo, etc)
+  * Software-Defined Radio techniques for time and frequency metrology,
-  * Resonators and oscillators
+  * Classical resonators
-  * Atomic clocka
+  * Spectroscopy and atomic clocks
-==== Social Events and Visits ====
-  * Visit at the Observatory of Besancon
-  * FEMTO-ST Laboratory Tour
+==== Social events and visits ====
-  * Visit at the Time Museum, Besancon downtown
+  * Visit at the Observatory of Besançon
+  * FEMTO-ST Laboratory Tour
+  * Visit at the Time Museum, Besançon downtown
   * Social dinner
-  * Night session at the Observatory (depending on weather).  Observe celestial bodies, and adjust your watch to stars using the original ancient instruments
+  * Astronomy session at the Observatory (if weather permits).  Observe celestial bodies, and adjust your watch to stars using the ancient methods and instruments
+====  The EFTS is a training course, not a conference  ====
+  * Program and topics are decided by the Scientific Council
+  * Thee is no "call for papers"
+  * All lecturers are invited by the Scientific Council, no exception admitted
+  * Students shall not present lectures/posters
+  * There is no room for exhibitors or advertisers
+==== New, since 2026 ====
+  * We plan to accept **//up to 60 participants//**, all accessing 7.5 H labs in small grpups.\\
+  * A small fraction of such places may be reserved, based on scientific criteria.\\
+  * There are **//two tracks//**: //Metrology// (max 24 people) and //Research// (max 36 people).\\
+    * The tracks differ in two of the three 2.5-H lab sessions.
+    * All lectures and one lab session are the same.\\
+    * Applicants express their preference, but they may be assigned to the other track depending on the availability of places.\\
+  * Companies/Institutions sending multiple participants shall indicate a **//correspondant//**, our unique interlocutor if we need to arbitrate in applications.\\
+  * The full-labs (12H), half-labs (6H) and no-labs options are suppressed.
-====  Week Schedule  ====
+====  Preliminary agenda  ====
-** {{:current:Week-Schedule-2020.pdf| Download the Week Schedule in pdf format}} **\\
+** Download the preliminary {{:current:Week-Schedule-2026.pdf|timetable}} (pdf) **
-You may also like the [[http://rubiola.org/pdf-static/Enrico's-chart-EFTS.pdf|Enrico's Chart]] of Phase Noise and Two-Sample Variances.
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+=== Monday "Science, beer and chips" session ===
+Informal discussions about the //research projects running in Besançon//, around posters, beer and chips.  This session is an opportunity for private discussions between students, lecturers and our researchers.  It helps to plan the Friday laboratory tour, and it may open the opportunity to private visits on specific topics in the free time during the week.  Students shall not bring their own posters.
-==== Navigate through the EFTS web pages ====
+==== Site map ====
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 [[previous:00_start|Previous EFTS]] sessions, since 2013
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+**The EFTS is kindly hosted by [[https://www.supmicrotech.fr/en|SUPMICROTECH ENSMM]]**\\
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