Poster Information

Displaying a poster at WSTS 2027 offers a unique opportunity to showcase your cutting-edge research in a highly interactive format. Designed to encourage discussion on any WSTS topic, the poster session enables presenters to engage directly with attendees during designated periods of the Workshop. 

During these sessions, presenters can answer questions, exchange ideas, and receive valuable feedback from fellow attendees — many of whom are among the world’s leading experts in synchronization and timing. This dynamic, real-time dialogue fosters a level of interaction and technical exchange that is often not possible during a formal Workshop talk. 

Posters will be featured during dedicated poster sessions, giving attendees ample time to review each display before engaging with presenters. Posters may also remain on display throughout the Workshop during breaks and networking events, providing additional opportunities for visibility and for the audience to formulate questions for the poster presenter. 

WSTS 2027 features Industry and Student & Academia poster tracks. 

Industry Posters

 Covering the same topics and stakeholders as the Main Stage presentations, the Industry Poster Session at WSTS is designed to be an opportunity for technical experts to discuss their work with Workshop attendees in an individualized, casual setting. Authors of industry posters get to dive deep into a particular topic or technology and are encouraged to exhibit out-of-the-box thinking in their proposals.

Industry poster presenters are required to:

  • Attend the 2027 Workshop in Ottawa, ON in person and permit WSTS to publish their work in its digital library.
  • Comply with WSTS’ Presentation Guidelines.
  • Provide a near-final draft to the WSTS Steering Group for review six weeks before the Workshop.
    • Prepare and print the Poster ahead of the Workshop. On-site printing facilities are not guaranteed.
    • Dimensions: 36″ wide x 46″ high 

 

Additional Information:

  • Depending upon speaking slot availability, the author of a superb proposal may be asked to convert their poster into a talk formatted for the WSTS Main Stage.
  • The poster’s content must be prepared concisely in an appropriate font size. Text and supporting graphics must be readable from a few feet away.
  • Posters are permitted to have contact information listed and one QR code with supplemental materials linked.
  • Poster numbers will be provided by the organizers, and the corresponding posters shall be displayed on the designated easel. WSTS organizers will provide easel, pins, and corkboard for display.

In 2027, WSTS is hosting a Student Poster Session designed to welcome young professionals to the field of precise time and frequency. This provides an opportunity to display your work, learn from experts, and expand both your knowledge and network. Student Posters will be on display for the duration of the Workshop, alongside the Industry Posters, to provide Workshop attendees with ample time to view the posters and engage in discussion.

Posters must adhere to WSTS’ Presentation Guidelines.

Open to undergraduate and graduate students.

 

How to Develop a Successful Student Poster Proposal

  • The WSTS review team seeks technical posters from students that explain innovative research on a challenge, solution, and/or technology related to the Workshop’s Technical Areas.
  • THINK BIG
    • WSTS features cutting-edge, creative work that covers applications from quantum, through data center, to CPNT/APNT, and beyond.  
  • Review the Tutorial Session and past presentations in the WSTS Library.
  • Explain how your research is an innovative, new, novel or otherwise unique contribution to the precision timing community.
  • Preliminary research showing works in progress is welcome. 
  • Authors are encouraged but not required to have a Faculty Sponsor. However, the principal author and presenter at WSTS must be a student.
  • Provide a near-final draft to the WSTS Steering Group for review six weeks before the Workshop.
  • Prepare content with final poster specifications in mind.
    • Prepare and print the Poster ahead of the Workshop. On-site printing facilities are not guaranteed.
    • Dimensions: 36″ wide x 46″ high 

 

Student Poster Award Opportunity

Student Posters are automatically entered into a competition for Best Student Poster, determined by the WSTS Steering Group. The winner will be awarded a plaque and a certificate, along with WSTS social media promotion for their work. 

In addition, all Student Poster presenters will be awarded a certificate for their participation and their work will be published in the 2027 WSTS Library after the Workshop.

Proposal Guidelines

Abstracts should be ~200 words concisely explaining the research, innovation, procedure, results and discussion, identifying why the poster topic is important and innovative in the field. They should be designed to cover niche topics in detail and in an informal, highly interactive setting. Each poster’s abstract will be used as its description in the Workshop Agenda.

Authors may submit one file containing supplementary information along with the abstract.

Proposals may address any of the Workshop’s Technical Areas:

This technical area focuses on new developments, breakthroughs, and forward-looking innovations on foundational technologies, architectures, standards, and measurement techniques used to generate, distribute, transfer, and synchronize time and frequency. It is intended for foundational timing technologies rather than operational deployments or application-specific implementations.  

We seek contributions that introduce novel updates, disruptive concepts, or advance the state of the art in timing generation, distribution, transfer, measurement, and synchronization technologies. Example areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Advances in PTP, SyncE, NTP, and related synchronization protocols, including enhanced robustness, interoperability, performance, and next-generation capabilities 
  • Advances in GNSS timing architectures, augmentation techniques, and timing performance 
  • Time and frequency transfer technologies (terrestrial, wireless, optical, and satellite) 
  • Next-generation oscillator technologies including quartz, MEMS, atomic, microwave, and optical clocks 
  • New approaches to clock architectures and timing system design, and related testing and validation techniques 
  • Time scales and timing ensembles 
  • Data/Traffic or In-band Network-based timing distribution architectures 
  • Advances in synchronization standards, interoperability, and performance characterization 
  • Novel timing technologies and unconventional synchronization methods 

This technical area focuses on ensuring accurate, trusted, secure, and resilient timing in the presence of failures, attacks, interference, degraded conditions, or loss of primary timing sources. It is intended for resilience, trust, integrity, and security challenges rather than synchronization architectures or application-specific deployments. 

We seek contributions that improve the trustworthiness, integrity, availability, and resilience of timing systems, or innovative strategies for trusted and resilient timing. Example areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Complementary PNT and Alternative PNT 
  • Timing integrity monitoring and assurance 
  • Timing security architectures and threat‑resilient designs 
  • GNSS spoofing, jamming, and interference detection 
  • Trusted timing distribution and verification 
  • Holdover technologies and performance analysis 
  • Multi-source timing architectures for robustness and redundancy 
  • Timing resilience for critical infrastructure 
  • Assured timing for aerospace and defense systems 
  • Telecom, power grid, and financial timing resilience strategies and advanced monitoring techniques 
  • Advanced network monitoring techniques 
  • Failure detection, mitigation, and recovery techniques 

This technical area focuses on synchronization challenges associated with distributed systems where timing enables coordination, observability, scheduling, monitoring, diagnostics, and system correctness. Contributions should emphasize system architectures, methodologies, analysis techniques, observability frameworks, and coordination mechanisms rather than deployment experiences or operational case studies. 

We seek contributions that demonstrate how timing is used to coordinate, monitor, analyze, and improve distributed systems. Example areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Data center synchronization 
  • Multi-cloud timing architectures 
  • AI infrastructure synchronization 
  • Distributed observability and telemetry 
  • Event ordering and causality analysis 
  • Time-aware scheduling and orchestration 
  • Root cause analysis using timing information 
  • Distributed control systems 
  • Hybrid infrastructure synchronization 
  • Financial trading infrastructure timing 
  • Smart grid monitoring and control 
  • Network coordination and synchronization 
  • Timing-aware diagnostics and fault analysis 

This technical area focuses on new and evolving domains where timing and synchronization are becoming critical enablers of performance, reliability, autonomy, trust, and future infrastructure. It is intended for emerging and forward-looking applications and emerging system behavior rather than established deployments or foundational timing technologies. Contributions should focus on synchronization, timing, coordination, and observability challenges associated with emerging systems rather than the underlying application domain itself.

We seek contributions that explore novel applications and related requirements, emerging architectures, and future synchronization challenges. Example areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • AI-native systems and autonomous agents 
  • Autonomous systems and robotics 
  • Quantum timing and quantum networks 
  • Space infrastructure and orbital data centers 
  • Space interconnection and inter-orbital synchronization 
  • Next-generation public infrastructure 
  • Edge computing environments 
  • Future network architectures 
  • Time-sensitive applications in emerging industries 
  • Research innovations in synchronization systems 
  • Novel synchronization use-cases and experimental architectures 

This technical area focuses on practical implementation, deployment, operation, validation, troubleshooting, and lessons learned from real-world synchronization systems. Contributions should emphasize operational experience, deployment results, performance measurements, field observations, best practices, and lessons learned, rather than proposing new synchronization architectures or methodologies.

We seek contributions that share operational experience and practical insights gained through deployment and field operations. Example areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Large-scale synchronization deployment 
  • Telecom deployment experiences 
  • Power grid deployment experiences 
  • Transportation infrastructure experiences 
  • Aerospace and defense deployment experiences 
  • Financial infrastructure deployment experiences 
  • Migration and modernization efforts 
  • Operational monitoring and maintenance 
  • Troubleshooting synchronization failures 
  • Performance measurements and field validation 
  • Operational scaling challenges 
  • Failure analysis and recovery experiences 
  • Lessons learned and best practices 
  • Case studies from production environments 

 

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Curious about past presentations? Posters and Main-Stage Presentations are archived in the WSTS Library for reference.

Questions? Reach out to Jo Seibel (jseibel@atis.org).  

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