International Space Weather Initiative Workshop

Administration

Description

The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) is a programme of international cooperation to advance space weather science by a combination of instrument deployment, analysis of space weather data from these instruments in conjunction with other data, and the communication of such results.

The ISWI activities are coordinated by a Steering Committee, supported by its Secretariat. A ISWI newsletter is published by the International Center for Space Weather Science and Education (ICSWSE) of Kyushu University, Japan, and the ISWI website is maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (www.iswi-secretariat.org).

The aims of the workshop are deployment of instruments in developing nations and analysis of space weather data. A particular focus will be on new research results and findings and to encourage greater cooperation in developing partnerships and ISWI networks. International experts will lecture at the workshop.

The International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), Boston College and the Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) and the US Institute of Navigation are co-sponsors of this workshop.

TOPICS:

Instrumentation;
Solar Physics;
Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, and Thermosphere;
Solar-Terrestrial Coupling and Space Weather;
Space Weather effects on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS);
New Space Weather scientific results;
Capacity-Building, Education and Outreach.

GRANTS:

A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Material

Final List of Participants General Information Poster group photo

International Space Weather Initiative Workshop | (smr 3292)

Go to day

Monday, 20 May 2019

08:30 - 10:00

Location:

Leonardo Building - Lobby

08:30 Registration and Administrative Matters 1h30'

REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo Building Lobby from 8.30 till 10.00.

TRAVEL UNIT (Only for those Visitors receiving daily living allowance/travel reimbursement, who have not provided their bank account data through the on-line portal)  
Only after having completed registration formalities, please go to the Travel Unit, EF, Main Entrance, Room T17, ground floor, open two days:  Monday and Friday, 08.30 - 12.00  and 13.30 - 14.30
Please bring with you: badge/identity card or passport/any travel tickets and boarding passes, if reimbursement due.

10:00 - 11:30 Opening Remarks

Convener:

Prof. Sandro Radicella (ICTP)

10:00 Welcome 20'

Speaker: Prof. Fernando Quevedo (Director, ICTP)

10:20 The International Space Weather Initiative 20'

Speaker:	Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (ISWI Executive Director, NASA)
Material:	Slides

10:40 The Role of the Office of Outer Space Affairs in Support of the International Space Weather Initiative 20'

Speaker:	Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA))
Material:	Slides

11:00 The Scientific Committee for Solar Terrestrial Physics 10'

Speaker:	Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (SCOSTEP President)
Material:	Slides

11:10 The International Committee for GNSS 10'

Speaker:	Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UNOOSA)
Material:	Slides

11:20 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 10'

Speaker:	Prof. Sandro Radicella (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

11:30 - 14:00 Keynote
- 11:30 Global Response to Space Weather 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Dr. Daniel Baker (University of Colorado, USA)
- 12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 - 17:00 Session 1: Space Weather Instrumentation and Data 1

Convener:

Dr. A. Babatunde Rabiu (Nigeria)

14:00 Distributed Arrays for Space Weather Sensing and the SCINDA Network 20'

Speaker:	Keith Groves (Boston College, USA)
Material:	Slides

14:20 VLF measurements via ISWI projects SOFIE and GIFDS 20'

Speaker:	Alexander Kasten (DLR, Germany)
Material:	Slides

14:40 Improvement of instruments and capacity-building activities under the CHAIN-project 20'

Speaker:	Seki Daikichi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Material:	Slides

15:00 New Space Weather Measurements from MACAWS: Monitors for Alaskan and Canadian Auroral Weather in Space (MACAWS) 20'

Speaker:	Anthea Coster (MIT-Haystack, USA)
Material:	Slides

15:20 Coffee break 30'

15:50 Investigation of the ionospheric absorption response to flare events during the solar cycle 23 as seen by European and South African ionosondes 20'

Speaker:	Veronika Barta (Hungary)
Material:	Slides

16:10 On the simulation of ionospheric scintillation of GPS signals for resilient PNT testing and the challenges in developing a standardised framework for GNSS testing under space weather conditions 20'

Speaker:	Talini Pinto Jayawardena
Material:	Slides

16:30 CoMIC: A customizable multicolor camera for solar-terrestrial interaction studies 30'

Speaker:	Supriya Chakrabarti (UMass Lowell, USA)
Material:	Slides

17:30 - 18:30

Location:

Leonardo Building - Cafeteria

17:30 Get-together drink 1h0'

All participants of the ISWI Workshop are cordially invited to attend the get-together drink.

Tuesday, 21 May 2019

08:30 - 09:30 Keynote

08:30 METIS Coronograph and its Implications for Space Weather Studies 1h0'

Speaker:	Ester Antonucci (INAF, Italy)
Material:	Slides

09:30 - 14:00 Session 2: Space Weather Instrumentation and Data 2

Convener:

Dr. Keith Groves (USA)

09:30 A radio spectro-polarimeter for monitoring the activities on the Sun 20'

Speaker:	Anshu Kumari (IIA, India)
Material:	Slides

09:50 UV Ionospheric Observations from the ISS 20'

Speaker:	Susanna Finn (UMass Lowell, USA)
Material:	Slides

10:10 On the effect of several geomagnetic storms of March and June 2015 at low-equatorial D-region dynamics using very low-frequency radio waves 20'

Speaker:	Ajeet Kumar Maurya (Doon University, India)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Progress on the Development of GNSS Station Networks in West Africa 20'

Speaker:	Olivier Obrou (University FHB Cocody, Cote d'Ivoire)
Material:	Slides

11:20 The CDAW Data Center and Space Weather 20'

Speaker:	Seiji Yashiro (Catholic University, USA)
Material:	Slides

11:40 Challenges in Space Weather and GNSS Data Aggregation and Consolidation for Research 20'

Speaker:	Renato Filjar (Zagreb University, Croatia)
Material:	Slides

12:00 Questions and Discussion 30'
12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 - 14:40 Session 3: Space Weather Modeling

Convener:

Dr. Bruno Nava (ICTP, Italy)

14:00 Data-Driven Models for Space Weather Prediction 20'

Speaker: Chun Ming Mark Cheung (Stanford University, USA and Australia)

14:20 Predicting the interplanetary evolution of the 2017 September 6 CME with an improved drag-based model with variable solar wind 20'

Speaker:	Roberto Susino (INAF, Italy)
Material:	Slides

14:40 - 17:30 Session 4: Regional Space Weather Studies

Convener:

Dr. Bruno Nava (ICTP, Italy)

14:40 Equatorial Upper Atmosphere and Space Weather - Results in India 20'

Speaker:	Tarun Pant (SPL VSSC, India)
Material:	Slides

15:00 Characteristics of storm time TEC variations observed over the equator-ward end of the mid-latitude regions 30'

Speaker:	Patrick Sibanda (Kwame Nkrumah University, Zambia)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 The Effects of the Recurrent Storms on Fof2 at Ouagadougou Station during Solar Cycles 21-22 20'

Speaker: Frederic Ouattara (Burkina Faso)

16:20 Sensitivity of the ionosphere parameters, long-term variations, and its irregular structures in the Caucasus on geomagnetic activity 20'

Speaker:	Goderdzi Didebilidze (Ilia State University, Georgia)
Material:	Slides

16:40 On the nighttime enhancement of ionospheric electron density over the equatorial region 20'

Speaker:	Sneha Yadav (SPL VSSC, India)
Material:	Slides

17:00 Questions and Discussion 30'

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

08:30 - 09:30 Keynote

08:30 Extreme Solar Eruptions: Sources and Consequences 1h0'

Speaker:	Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (NASA)
Material:	Slides

09:30 - 13:30 Session 5A: Solar Physics

Convener:

Dr. David Webb (Boston College, USA)

09:30 Small-scale motions in solar filaments as the precursors of eruptions 20'

Speaker:	Seki Daikichi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Material:	Slides

09:50 Intercycle and Intracycle Variation of Halo CME Rate Obtained from SOHO/LASCO Observations 20'

Speaker:	Fithanegest Kassa Dagnew (Entoto Observatory, Ethiopia)
Material:	Slides

10:10 Declining solar polar fields, the terrestrial magnetosphere and the forthcoming solar cycle 20'

Speaker: Janardhan Padmanabhan (Physical Research Laboratory, India)
10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Recent developments in solar energetic particle research 20'

Speaker:	Pertti Mäkelä (Catholic University USA)
Material:	Slides

11:20 Machine learning analysis of SDO/HMI full disk images: property ranking and flare prediction 20'

Speaker: Michele Piana (University of Genova, Italy)

11:40 A potential mission for solar-corona observation using Earth as occultor 20'

Speaker:	Bingxian Luo (NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Material:	Slides

12:00 Lunch 1h30'

13:30 - 17:30 Session 5B: Solar Physics Continued

Convener:

Dr. Pertti Makela (Catholic University, USA)

13:30 Characterization of CMEs from the associated High Frequency type II Solar Radio Bursts 20'

Speaker: Jean Uwamahoro (University of Rwanda, Rwanda)

13:50 CME and ICME Rates over 4 Solar Cycles 20'

Speaker:	David Webb (Boston College, USA)
Material:	Slides

14:10 Space Weather activities in Argentina' and 'The role of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections on Sun-Earth coupling' 20'

Speaker:	Sergio Dasso (UBA-CONICET, Argentina)
Material:	Slides

14:30 Preliminary observational investigation of the variability of nighttime equatorial thermospheric winds over Nigeria, West Africa 20'

Speaker:	A. Babatunde Rabiu (NASRDA, Nigeria)
Material:	Slides

14:50 Questions and Discussion 40'
15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Poster Session 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby )

Please have posters up today before the afternoon session begins. 
Magnetic boards and fasteners will be provided for your use.
The boards will be numbered according to the poster list attached.

Magnetic board size is 1.25 meters height and 1.22 meters width.

Material:

List of posters

Thursday, 23 May 2019

08:30 - 09:30 Keynote

08:30 Multi-point ground network of the Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs) and the PWING project for measurements of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere 1h0'

Speaker:	Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa (Japan)
Material:	Slides

09:30 - 14:00 Session 6: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling

Convener:

Dr. Christine Amory-Mazaudier (France)

09:30 Electrodynamic coupling between high and low latitudes: recent advances in the framework of the ISWI network 20'

Speaker:	Christine Amory-Mazaudier (LPP Polytechnique, France and ICTP, Italy)
Material:	Slides

09:50 On the Multiscale Nature of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System 20'

Speaker: Giuseppe Consolini (INAF, Italy)

10:10 High-energy magnetospheric electrons and their dependence on interplanetary conditions 20'

Speaker:	Olga Kryakunova (Institute of Ionosphere, Kasakhstan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Group photo 10'
10:40 Coffee break 20'
11:00 Space Weather in the Magnetosphere: Causes and Consequences 20'

Speaker: Qiugang Zong (Peking University, China)

11:20 The Complex Ionosphere 25'

Speaker:	Massimo Materassi (CNR-ISC, Italy)
Material:	Slides

11:45 Questions and Discussion 45'
12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 - 15:00 Keynote

14:00 Space Weather Effects on Critical Operations and Activity in the High North 1h0'

Speaker:	Dr. Pal Brekke (Norway)
Material:	Slides

15:00 - 17:30 Space Weather Effects

Convener:

Dr. Ashik Paul (India)

15:00 A preliminary estimation of the risk due to GICs over the Italian territory 20'

Speaker: Roberta Tozzi (INGV, Italy)

15:20 Effects of the Great American Solar Eclipse on the lower ionosphere observed with VLF waves 20'

Speaker:	Rok Vogrinčič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Material:	Slides

15:40 Coffee break 20'

16:00 Cosmic Rays' Effect on Critical Frequencies and Ionospheric Heights 20'

Speaker:	Seray Sahin (Akdeniz University, Turkey)
Material:	Slides

16:20 Solar and interpanetary effects on ionospheric processes 20'

Speaker: Mirela Voiculescu (University of Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Romania)

16:40 Multi-technique characterization of ionospheric Space Weather effects 20'

Speaker:	Ashik Paul (University of Calcutta, India)
Material:	Slides

17:00 Questions and Discussion 30'

19:00 - 21:00

19:00 Banquet at Ristorante Le Terrazze 2h0'

All participants of the ISWI Workshop are cordially invited to attend the Banquet at:
Ristorante Le Terrazze
Riviera & Maximilian Hotel
Strada Costiera 22
34151 Trieste, Italy

Friday, 24 May 2019

08:30 - 11:00 Session 8: International Agency Space Weather Activities

Convener:

Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (NASA)

08:30 ESA Space Weather Activities 20'

Speaker:	Alexi Glover (ESA)
Material:	Slides

08:50 The Space Weather Italian Community (SWICO) Organization 20'

Speaker:	Umberto Villante (Universita L'Aquila, Italy)
Material:	Slides

09:10 Space Weather Research Support at the National Science Foundation 20'

Speaker: Lisa Winter (NSF, USA)

09:30 Geospace Environmental Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory 20'

Speaker:	Ron Caton (AFRL, USA)
Material:	Slides

09:50 The Ionosphere Prediction Service: an EC project to support GNSS users 20'

Speaker:	Claudio Cesaroni (INGV, Italy)
Material:	Slides

10:10 Questions and Discussion 20'
10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 14:00 Session 9: Outreach and Education

Convener:

Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UNOOSA)

11:00 International Community Coordination in Space Weather 20'

Speaker:	Judith Karpen (USA)
Material:	Slides

11:20 Strategies that Engage Students to Learn about Space Weather 20'

Speaker:	Marie Chantale Damas (City University of New York, USA)
Material:	Slides

11:40 The Boston College and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Research Collaboration for Outreach and Capacity Building 20'

Speaker:	Patricia Doherty and Sandro Radicella (BC, USA and ICTP, Italy)
Material:	Slides

12:00 Questions and Discussion 30'
12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 - 16:00 Session 10: National Space Weather Programs

Convener:

Prof. Patricia Doherty (Boston College)

14:00 The INAF National Space Weather Service Network 20'

Speaker:	Mauro Messerotti (INAF, Italy)
Material:	Slides

14:20 Space weather studies related activities in Azerbaijan 20'

Speaker: Elchin Babayev (Baku State University, Azerbaijan)

14:40 Space Weather Services in Nigeria, A case of TEC Forecasting over Nigeria 20'

Speaker:	Rasheedat Abdularahim (NASRDA, Nigeria)
Material:	Slides

15:00 Recent Space Weather Advances by Research Community in Italy 20'

Speaker:	Vincenzo Romano (INGV, Italy)
Material:	Slides

15:20 Closing Remarks 40'