Registration: Main Building Lobby (main entrance); Administrative Formalities: upon registration Enrico Fermi Building
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K.R. Sreeenivasan (Director, ICTP) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | S.M. Radicella / J. Forbes, M. Messerotti (Local Organizer/School Co-Directors) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Grassberger (ICTP Scientific Computer Section, Trieste) |
Space Weather and Space Climate describe the short- to long-term time evolution of inner and outer perturbations originated by a variety of astrophysical processes occurring in the Solar System, where anthropogenic processes are relevant as well, and in exoplanetary systems. To define a suitable terminology, a foundation ontology for Space Meteorology will be introduced and the related observational framework will be outlined by means of Concept Maps to emphasize the interrelationships among the various phenomena and their effects on planetary environments.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Messerotti (INAF-OATs, Trieste) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | V. Cadez (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | V. Cadez |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | V. Cadez |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Messerotti |
Material: | lecture notes |
The first lecture will deal with generalities and address the following questions. What is our place in the universe? Where is the solar system located in the Milky Way? How does the Sun fit into the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram? What is the final state of the Sun? What is the structure of the Sun?
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | N. Gopalswamy (NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt,MC) |
Material: | lecture notes |
The second lecture will deal with how energy is generated and transported in the solar interior. The following topics will be discussed: Thermonuclear fusion with proton-proton and Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen cycles; the solar neutrino problem and its final resolution; details of the internal structure of the Sun; Helioseismology/solar oscillations; the solar dynamo; solar cycle and polarity reversal
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | N. Gopalswamy |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
This lecture will deal with photosphere, Chromosphere and Corona. The following topics will be discussed: granulation, sunspots, faculae, physics of the chromosphere, chromospheric network and super granulation, chromospheric heating, flares, prominences, The solar corona and phenomenology.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | N. Gopalswamy |
This lecture will deal with the solar corona, where most of the actions directly affecting space weather take place. In particular, the following topics will be discussed: Closed and open magnetic fields on the Sun; coronal heating and solar wind, slow and fast solar wind; coronal mass ejections, shocks, energetic particles, general comments on geoeffectiveness and SEP effectiveness.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | N. Gopalswamy |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | R. Bentley (MSSL/UCL, Surrey) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | W. H. Matthaeus (Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, USA) |
The first lecture will review observations of solar activity. Focus will be on magnetic field measurements and associated helioseismics observations. Observed phenomena will be classified according to a definition of solar activity.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | H. Lundstedt (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Lund) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Solar activity is often characterized by transient events, and by oscillations that arise and die away. Wavelet methods are therefore particularly suitable. Solar activity variations on all times scales will be described.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | H. Lundstedt |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Solar drivers such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), solar proton events, solar flares, and fast solar wind from coronal holes will be discussed. Some of the precursors of these drivers have been know almost hundred years, others have recently been discovered. Examples of geoeffects of these drivers will also be given.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | H. Lundstedt |
Material: | lecture notes |
Finally, I will illustrate how solar activity and solar drivers have been predicted with data-based and more physics-based neural networks including also results of MHD models. Today, real-time forecasts are available, based on space-based observations. Real-time forecast service is given by Regional Warning Centers of International Space Environment Service (ISES).
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | H. Lundstedt |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | P. Vanlommel, A. Zhukov (Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
What are CRs? - CRs Discovery CR Energy Spectrum CR Source/Acceleration A Picture of the Heliospheric Environment
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Storini (INAF-IFSI, Rome) |
Material: | lecture notes |
CR Populations CR Propagation in the Heliosphere CR Modulation (long-, medium- and short-term) Solar Cosmic Ray Events
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Storini |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
CRs: Probe of the Heliospheric Environment CRs: Hazard for Space Vehicles and Life CRs and Planets
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Storini |
Material: | lecture notes |
Terrestrial Effects of CRs: An Overview CR data: Direct Use in Space Weather CR data: Indirect Use in Space Weather
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Storini |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | R. Bentley |
Material: | Solar Soft Library lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
The lecture discusses the formation of the magnetosphere under steady-state solar wind conditions. We start with early yet still valid models of the formation of the magnetosphere developed half a century ago. The basic physical principles of the electrodynamic coupling between the supersonic solar wind plasma and embedded magnetic field on one hand and the geomagnetic field and thermospheric ion reservoir on the other hand are described. Characteristic properties of various magnetospheric plasma regimes prevailing under stable condition are oulined. The lecture leads eventually to a presentation of a basic model of the magnetosphere in the unperturbed state.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Watermann (Danish Meteorological Institute,Copenhagen) |
Material: | lecture notes |
The lecture discusses the response of the magnetosphere to various types of solar wind variations, including the arrival of plasma clouds and shocks at the magnetosphere and the impact of the dynamic pressure changes and interplanetary magnetic field rotations on the state of the magnetosphere. Resulting phenomena such as geospace magnetic storms and magnetospheric substorms and their relation to the energetics and dynamics of the magnetosphere are discussed.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | I. Daglis (Natonal Observatory of Athens, Athens) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
The lecture addresses the origin, formation and dynamics of two highly important magnetospheric particle populations: the radiation belts and the ring current. These populations constitute the particle radiation environment of the near-Earth space, and they are part of the chain that interconnects the Sun and interplanetary space with the terrestrial magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere – and often even the surface of the Earth.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | I. Daglis |
Material: | additional material lecture notes |
Two fundamental objectives of magnetospheric physics include building realistic physical models of the state and behaviour of the magnetosphere and the design of schemes to nowcast the state and potentially forecast the evolution of the magnetosphere. Many years ago scientists started to devise parameters (proxies or indices) which aid in categorizing magnetospheric properties and deriving systematic aspects of its behaviour. It is now possible to nowcast the state of the magnetosphere (describing its actual state) using a comprehensive suite of near-real-time observations. In principle it is even possible to forecast the evolution of the magnetosphere (though with limited accuracy) using observations from solar and solar wind monitors such as the ACE and SOHO spacecraft. Recent attempts and developments of forecast schemes are outlined in order to prepare for the afternoon lab class.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Watermann |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | E. Amata(INAF-IFSI, Rome), I. Daglis, J. Watermann |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Low energy particles: guiding center approach. High energy particles: Stormer theory for dipolar field. Allowed and forbidden trajectories. Concept of cutoff rigidity and asymptotic directions.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Kudela (Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Numerical solution of equation of particle motion. Geomagnetic field models used for cosmic ray trajectory computations. Results for particular disturbed intervals
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Kudela |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Ground level events. Observations of solar energetic particles by satellites. Transmissivity computed for low earth orbits.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Kudela |
Material: | lecture notes |
External exposure to natural radiation. Cosmic rays in the atmosphere. Dose at the airplane altitudes. High energy electrons and their effects. Spacecraft failures and high energy particles
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Kudela |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | I. Stanislawska, H. Rothkaehl (Space Research Centre,Warsaw) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Terrace |
Neutral temperature and composition vertical structures; hydrostatic law; energy sources and sinks; interaction between solar radiation and neutral atmosphere.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J.M. Forbes (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | S.R. Dasso (IAFE, Buenos Aires) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Photoionization; ionospheric chemistry; ambipolar diffusion; ionosphere morphology; ionosphere measurements and models; plasma irregularities.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Mendillo (Boston University, Boston) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
The Birkeland's Terrella Experiment: The Underlying Physics and Plans for Reconstruction of a Terrella Experiment
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Lilensten (Laboratory of Planetology, Grenoble) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Momentum balance; dynamical effects on diurnal, seasonal and magnetic storm variations in composition; influences of waves propagating upward from the lower atmosphere.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J.M. Forbes |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | A. Mahrous (Helwan University, Cairo) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Momentum balance of the ionospheric plasma; current continuity; electrical conductivity; ionospheric dynamo; electric field and wind effects on ionosphere plasma.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | R. Heelis (University of Texas, Dallas) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | N. Parihar (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | M. Mendillo |
Material: | solar2000 software package |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | ICTP-INFN Laboratory (Mlab) |
Speaker: | J. Lilensten, C. Simon |
Material: | solar2000 software package |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | R. Bucik et al. (Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | E.Y. Kassie (IGPP/UCLA) |
Field-aligned currents; high-latitude electric fields and plasma transport; Joule heating; magnetic activity effects.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | R. Heelis |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | R. Kombiyil (Tohoku University, Sendai) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Description of thermosphere-ionosphere general circulation models and how they are used to gain insight into the physics of the system and the interpretation of observational data.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Hagan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | Qinghe Zhang (Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | M. Hagan |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | ICTP-INFN Laboratory (Mlab) |
Speaker: | J. Lilensten, C. Simon |
Material: | lecture notes |
Speaker: | M. Messerotti |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | C. Bianchi (INGV, Rome) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | C. Bianchi |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | E.T. Senalp (METU, Ankara) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | G.K. Seemala (Andhra University, Visakhapatnam) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | D. Hui (S.K. Mita Center for Research in Space Environment, Kolkata) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | Yanhong Chen (Centre for Space Science & Applied Research, Beijing) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | E.I. Astafieva (Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | S.M. Radicella (ICTP, Trieste) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | B. Zolesi (INGV, Rome) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
Speaker: | L. Kersley (Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
The 2005 ICTP Prize in honour of Armand Borel will be awarded to Xiaohua Zhu, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University ====== The presentation of the Prize by Professor K.R. Sreenivasan, Director of the Abdus Salam ICTP, will be followed by the 2005 ICTP Prize Lecture by Xiaohua Zhu on "Canonical metrics in Kähler geometry" Abstract: This will be a review of "canonical metrics" in Kähler geometry; examples are Kähler-Einstein metrics, Kähler-Ricci solitons, and extremal metrics. I will touch upon the following topics: 1) Calabi's conjecture. 2) Existence results for Kähler-Einstein metrics with c_1>0. 3) Geometric Invariant Theory related to the existence problem. 4) K-energy and K-stability on toric manifolds. 5) Kähler-Ricci flow and Kähler-Ricci solitons ===== XIAOHUA ZHU Citation for the award of the 2005 ICTP Prize The 2005 ICTP Prize in honour of Armand Borel is awarded to Xiaohua Zhu, Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University. Xiaohua Zhu has made fundamental contributions to complex differential geometry. He is best known for his work (jointly with G. Tian) on the uniqueness of “Kähler-Ricci solitons”. This work introduced a new holomorphic invariant, and also a deep a priori estimate for solutions of certain complex Monge-Ampere equations. This was a major breakthrough in Kahler geometry. Zhu has also to his credit (jointly with X. Wang) an important existence theorem for Kahler-Ricci solitons, as well as impressive results on minimal submanifolds. More recently he has proved an important convergence theorem for the Kähler-Ricci flow, using the spectacular results of Perelman. At 37, he is one of the foremost young Chinese geometers, a mathematician who attacks and solves tough problems in geometric analysis. His excellent papers are published in front-line journals. The 2005 ICTP Prize is named after Armand Borel, who was a professor at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and lectured at ICTP.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
Speaker: | L. Kersley |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
Location: | Main Building Lecture Room C |
Introduction to minor constituent chemistry and pathways for solar energy transformation within the middle atmosphere.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | D. Marsh (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | A. Kilcik (Akdeniz University, Antalya) |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
An introduction to extra-tropical middle atmosphere circulation, including the mean circulation, gravity waves, radiative equilibrium and quasi-stationary planetary waves.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Hamilton (University of Hawaii, Honolulu) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | A.B. Rabiu (Federal University of Technology, Akure) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Observed and modeled atmospheric response to changes in solar radiation and particle fluxes.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | D. Marsh |
Calculation of the Solar Energy Reposition Rates within the Middle Atmosphere.
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | D. Marsh |
Material: | Practicum 17May.doc |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Tropical dynamics: the quasi-biennial oscillation, semiannual oscillation, wave-mean flow interaction near the equator, and QBO effects on the extratropical circulation.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | K. Hamilton |
Overview of the climate system; radiative processes and dynamics of the lower atmosphere; the “greenhouse effect”; clouds.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Haigh (Imperial College, London) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Evidence of solar variability effects within the climate record over a range of timescales.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Haigh |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | A.M. Da Costa (INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos) |
Material: | presentation |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Exercises with Global Circulation Model Output
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
Speaker: | K. Hamilton |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Computer Lab. (M) |
The role of Space Weather and Space Climate on life emergence and evolution on Earth is considered with special emphasis on the effects of inner and outer energy sources.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | M. Messerotti |
Material: | lecture notes |
Long-lived cosmogenic isotopes such as Beryllium-10 and Carbon-14 can be analysed in geological archives such as tree rings, ice cores, sea sediments and meteorites. Changes in their production rate in the past can give information on solar variability. This area of research will be reviewed and recent results presented.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | C. Tuniz (ICTP, Trieste) |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
In the first lecture we will discuss the new science of astrobiology that is concerned with the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and destiny of life in the universe.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Chela Flores (ICTP, Trieste / IDEA,Caracas) |
Material: | lecture notes |
In the second lecture we will restrict the discussion to the origin, evolution and distribution of life in our Solar System. Special emphasis will be given to the problem of the search for a second emergence of life beyond the Earth, as well as the implications that space weather has on this problem.
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Speaker: | J. Chela Flores |
Material: | lecture notes |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |
Location: | Main Building Main Lecture Hall |