Radio frequency interference mitigation strategies: Summary of the E. and F. White Conference Held in Sydney, Australia, December 1999

The E. & F. White Conference held in Sydney in December 1999 brought togeth er expertise on a range of interference mitigation techniques from CSIRO, A ustralian and international industry and universities. Key goals were to en hance the understanding of techniques and their inter-relationship, to incr ease awareness of advanced technologies such as software radios and photoni cs, and to foster a cooperative approach to the development of interference mitigation techniques. The foremost application in mind was the square kil ometre: array (SKA) and the need to find ways to develop a hierarchical sch eme for removing unwanted signals from astronomical data. This paper gives an overview of the topics discussed at the conference and summarises some o f the key ideas and results that were presented.