A Workshop to Honor Donald T. Farley (belatedly) on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday and to Consider the Future of Radio and Space Physics

After receiving his B.Eng. Phys. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, Donald Farley spent a year at Cambridge University as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, a year as Docent at Chalmers University in Sweden, and then six years in Peru at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory, three of them as director, before returning to the United States and joining the Cornell faculty as a full professor in 1967. He returned to Sweden in 1985 for a year as the Tage Erlander Visiting Professor at the Uppsala Ionospheric Observatory and was, in 1995, the Von Humboldt Senior Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute für Aeronomie in Katlenberg-Lindau. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Farley received U.S. Department of Commerce Distinguished Authorship awards in 1963 and 1964 as well as the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 1967. He is the recipient of the 1996 URSI Sir Edward Appleton Prize, the 1997 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for Geophysics, and the 2010 Hannes Alfvén Medal from the European Geophysical Union in addition to awards for teaching and advising at Cornell. Farley was the J. Preston Levis Professor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell before becoming Professor Emeritus in 2006.