Список международных и российских симпозиумов
по солнечной и солнечно-земной физике в 2004 г.
1. International
Conference on Physics, Iran, Teheran, 6-9 January 2004, http://www.icpconf.com/
2. Waves in Solar and Magnetospheric Plasmas, Royal Astronomical Society, Parallel 'G' Specialist Discussion Meetings, Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK, 9 January 2004, http://www.astro.warwick.ac.uk/ras_waves.html
3.
Международное совещание по научному проекту «РЕЗОНАНС», Москва, ИКИ,
февраль 2004 г.
4. Symposium on Space Weather, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, will be held 11-15 January 2004, as part of the 84th AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS
5. Conference on Sun-Earth Connection:
Multi-Scale Coupling in Sun-Earth Processes
Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University,
and SCOSTEP. Additional Sponsors are expected in the future. February 9-13,
2004, Kona, Hawaii, USA.
Convenors: A. T. Y. Lui and Y. Kamide http://csec.jhuapl.edu
6. Third International CME Workshop, Switzerland, Bern, International Space Science Institute (ISSI), March 2004 (Horst Kunow): To be confirmed, see a list of the ISSI Workshops-2004, http://www.issi.unibe.ch/
7. Второй Международный Симпозиум "Проблемы ритмов в
естествознании", 1-3 марта 2004, Москва, Российский Университет Дружбы
Народов, ул.Миклухо-Маклая,
8, Медицинский факультет УДН (тезисы - до 15 декабря 2003 г.). (http://med.pfu.edu.ru/_new/russian/win/conference/rithm.htm).
8. Семинар в Апатитах (ПГИ), 1-3
марта 2004 г. , http://pgi.kolasc.net.ru/seminar.
9.
Международное ежегодное совещание «Рентгеновская оптика 2004» (совещание
посвящено разработкам, исследованиям и научному применению рентгено-оптических
элементов и систем), Нижний Новгород, Институт физики микроструктур РАН,
Минпромнауки России, т.(8312)67-51-20, ф.(8312)67-55-53, (xray@ipm.sci-nnov.ru), март 2004 г.
10.
Winter school -
34th Advanced Course in Astronomy and Astrophysics. "The Sun, solar
analogs and the climate", Davos, Switzerland, The Swiss Society of
Astrophysics & Astronomy (SSAA) March 15 to 20, 2004.
11. Living With a Star Science Workshop (LWS
Science Workshop) “Connecting our Dynamic Sun to the Heliosphere and Geospace”,
Boulder, Colorado, March 23-26, 2004.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdo/meetings/Workshop2004First.html
12. 2nd
RHESSI/NESSI WORKSHOP “Distribution Functions of Energetic Flare Particles”, Glasgow,
Scotland, March 24-26, 2004.
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/eduard/rhessi/workshop2/
13.Семинар «Биологические эффекты солнечной
активности», Пущино, 5-8 апреля 2004г.
Тамара Константиновна Бреус (ИКИ РАН, Москва), breus@mx.iki.rssi.ru,
Анатолий Алексеевич Петрукович (ИКИ РАН, Москва), 8(095)-3334024 (сл.), apetruko@iki.rssi.ru,
Александр Анатольевич Конрадов (ИБХФ РАН, Москва), 8(095)-9397138 (сл.), ak@sky.chph.ras.ru,
Татьяна Александровна Зенченко
(ИТЭБ РАН, Пущино), zenchenko@iteb.ru
14. The 2004 Space Weather Week conference, Boulder, Colorado,April 13-16, 2004, Terry.Onsager@noaa.go,
15. IHY 2007 US Planning Workshop, National Solar Observatory. Sacramento Peak Sunspot, NM 88349, USA, April 20-22, 2004, e-mail: ihy2004@nso.edu.
http://www.nso.edu/general/workshops/ihy2004/
http://www.nso.edu/general/workshops/ihy2004/ihy2004.html.
16. The European Geosciences Union (EGU) First General Assembly, France, Nice, 25-30 April 2004)
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu04/index.html.
1) "New Radio Instrumentation for Solar and Heliospheric Physics", Acropolis in Nice,
2) Session ST4: Sun-Earth Connection: Joint Science with SOHO and Cluster.
17. VI Международная конференция «Проблемы геокосмоса», Санкт-Петербург, май 2004
г.
18. II Всероссийская научная конференция «Проектирование научных и инженерных
приложений в среде МАТЛАБ», Москва, Компания SoftLine, Компания MathWorks, Институт
проблем управления им. В.А.Трапезникова, т.(095)334-89-51, ф.(095)334-93-31, (info@matlab), май 2004 г.
19. AGU/CGU/SEG 2004 Joint Assembly Special Session SPA11: Space
Weather: Linking Research and User Needs, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May 2004.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/.
20. Challenges in
the Climate Sciences, XVIth
Rencontres de Blois, France,
23-28 May 2004
http://opserv.obspm.fr/confs/climates.html.
21. AGU/CGU/SEG 2004 Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May 2004.
Special
session: SPA20: Violent Sun-Earth Connection Events of October-November 2003
http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/.
22. 14th Plenary Meeting of ISO TC20/SC14, http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage,
24-28 May 2004, Korolev, Moscow Region, Mikhail Bulkanov, mbulkanov@podlipki.ru
23. Special Sessions at the 2004 Solar Physics Division Annual Meeting in conjunction with the AAS's Summer Meeting, Including SPD Special Session on Oct./Nov. 2003 Solar Flares, Denver, Colorado, 30 May to 3 June, 2004.
http://www.aas.org/meetings/MeetingContent.html
24. Cosmic Ray International Seminar "GZK and Surroundings", Italy, Catania, 31 May - 4 June 2004 http://www.ct.infn.it/~cris/.
25. Workshop “Equation of State
and Phase Transition Issues in Models of Ordinary Astrophysical Matter”,
Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2 June 2004 -
Friday, 11 June 2004.
http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/lc/web/2004/20040602/info.php3?wsid=97
26. Третья Всероссийская Астрономическая Конференция (ВАК-2004), «Горизонты Вселенной», посвященная
250-летию Московского Государственного Университета им. М.В. Ломоносова,
Москва, МГУ, 3 - 10 июня 2004 г., <vak2004@sai.msu.ru>
http://inasan.rssi.ru/rus/conferences/VAK_2004
27. Всероссийская конференция по космическим лучам, Москва, МИФИ, 7 - 11
июня 2004 г.,
28. Конференция «Актуальные вопросы физики солнечной атмосферы и
космической погоды», Пос. Нижний Архыз, Специальная астрофизическая обсерватория
РАН [369167 пос. Нижний Архыз, Карачаево-Черкесская Республика, т./факс
(901)498-2931], июнь 2004 г.
29. 5-я всероссийская конференция по
космической погоде, Иркутск, ИСЗФ СО РАН, июнь 2004 г,.т. (3953)46-19-19, ф.
(3952)46-25-57.
30. Всероссийский семинар
«Самоорганизация систем», Институт оптического мониторинга СО РАН, Томский ГУ,
июнь 2004 г., т.(3822)25-92-65, ф.(3822)25-89-50.
31. XII Международная конференция по методам аэрофизических исследований ICMAR
2004,
Новосибирск, Институт теоретической и прикладной механики СО РАН,
т.(3832)30-39-21, ф.(3832)34-22-68, 14-18 июня 2004 г.
32. IAU Symposium 223 "Multi-Wavelength Investigations
of Solar Activity" St. Petersburg, Russia, Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory,
June 14-19, 2004.
http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS223.
33. First International
Symposium on SPACE CLIMATE: Direct and Indirect Observations of Long-Term Solar
Activity, Oulu, Finland, University of Oulu, 20-23 June 2004.
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/spaceclimate1/.
34. The Industrial Revolution in
Astronomy, Scottish Exhibition and Convention Centre, Glasgow, Scotland United
Kingdom, 21-25 June 2004
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/04/as/
35. CENTER FOR TURBULENCE RESEARCH: SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY, Center for Turbulence Research, Bldg. 500, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3030, Ph: (650) 723-2959, Fax: (650) 725-3525, Nagi Nicolas Mansour, Nagi.N.Mansour@nasa.gov, Jun 21-July 16, 2004
36. Exploring the X-ray universe: hot plasma in space , Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK, 22-24 June 2004
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/meeting/main.html
37. Plasma Astrophysics of Heating, Flares and Wind, Final Meeting of the PLATON Research Training Network, Strasbourg, France, 24 June - 25 June 2004
http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~baty/PLATON/
38. The SHINE 2004 workshop, Big Sky Montana, June 27-july 2, 2004.
39. Chicago 2004 workshop, Chicago, USA, June 28-29, 2004
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/Chicago2004
40. The First AOGS meeting, 5-9 July 2004,
Special session SP7--Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, Singapore. http://www.asiaoceania.org/index.html.
41. The joint SOHO 14 - GONG 2004 Workshops: Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future, New Haven CT, hosted by Yale University, July 12-16 2004.
http://www.astro.yale.edu/sogo04.
42. Solar Extreme Events of
2003:Fundamental Science and Applied Aspects (SEE), International Symposium, Moscow,
Russia, (Moscow
State University), 12-14 July, 2004
Международный симпозиум “Экстремальные события на
Солнце в 2003 году: фундаментальная наука и прикладные аспекты (SEE-2003)”, (Российской Академии наук,
Росавиакосмоса (Российское космическое агентство), Московского государственного
университета, Российского
министерства науки и технологий,
КОСПАР, Национального научного фонда США и НАСА), МГУ, Москва, Россия, 12-14
июля 2004 года
Михаил Игоревич Панасюк (председатель, panasyuk@sinp.msu.ru
Игорь Станиславович Веселовский (veselov@dec1.sinp.msu.ru)
Владимир Владимирович Калегаев (klg@dec1.sinp.msu.ru)
43. COSPAR
2004, http://www.cospar2004.org (cospar@cosparhq.org)
35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly and Associated Events, Paris,
France, 18 - 25 July 2004 http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html
44. SCI 2004 Conference, USA, Florida, 18-21 July 2004 (Nagib Callaos), http://www.iiisci.org/sci2004/.
45. The 8th International Symposium on Nuclei in Cosmos, Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, 19-23 July 2004 , http://www.triumf.ca/nic8/speakers.html.
46. Chapman Conference on Solar Energetic Particles and Plasmas, Finland, Turku, 2-6 August 2004 http://www.agu.org/meetings/cc04bcall.html.
47. Astrophysics and cosmology after Gamow: theory and observations. George Gamow Centennial International Conference, Odessa, Ukraine, August 8-14, 2004, http://www.iki.rssi.ru/gmic100.
48. Международный симпозиум «Физика атмосферы. Оптика атмосферы и океана»,
Томск, ИСЗФ СО РАН, Институт оптики атмосферы СО РАН, август 2004 г., т.(3952)46-19-19,
т.(3822)25-90-50, ф.(3952)46-25-57, ф.(3822)25-90-86.
49. III Международная конференция «Солнечно-земные связи и электромагнитные
предвестники землетрясений», Паратунка, Камчатская область, ИКФИА СО РАН,
август 2004 г., т. (41531)93-193, ф. (4152)11-18-18, (ikir@ikir.elrus.kamchatka.su).
50. 14-я Международная конференция по компьютерной
графике и компьютерному зрению, посвященная 50-летию ИПМ им. М.В.Келдыша, GRAFICON 04 – Выставка по компьютерной
графике и визуализации, Москва, МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова, Институт прикладной
математики (ИПМ) им. М.В.Келдыша РАН, т.(095)250-78-17, август 2004 г.
51. Международная конференция «Солитоны, коллапс и
турбулентность», Черноголовка, Московская обл., Институт теоретической физики
им. Л.Д.Ландау РАН, т.(095)702-93-17, ф.(095)702-93-17, август 2004 г.
52. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Honolulu,
Hawaii, 16-20 August 2004
http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp04/
53. An
international Solar Eclipse Conference 2004 (SEC2004), Open University, Milton
Keynes, England, Aug 20-22, 2004
http://solareclipsewebpages.users.btopenworld.com/SEC_files/SEC2004.html
54. 19th ECRS, Italy, Florence, 30 August - 3 September 2004
http://www.fi.infn.it/conferenze/ecrs2004/.
55. SOHO 15: Coronal Heating, University of St.
Andrews, Scotland, UK, 6th-9th September, 2004,
Robert Walsh, rwwalsh@uclan.ac.uk Website: www.soho15.org.
56. Magnetohydrodynamics of stellar interiors, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 6 - 17 september 2004 http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/msiw01.html
57. IAU Symposium 226 on
Coronal and Stellar Mass Ejections, Beijing, China, September 13-17, 2004
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/~avourlid/cme_mtg.
58. The following PPARC advanced Summer School in
Solar Physics, 12-17th September 2004.
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/summmerschool2004.html.
59. JENAM '2004 "The many scales in the
Universe", Granada (Spain), on 13-17 September 2004 (http://www.iaa.csic.es/jenam2004/).
60. «VII
Международная Байкальская молодежная научная школа по фундаментальной физике "Взаимодействие полей и излучения с
веществом", Иркутск, 20-25 сентября 2004 г. т.(3952)46-19-19,
ф.(3952)46-25-57, (http://bsfp.iszf.irk.ru/bsfp2004/).
61. III
Международная конференция «Физика волновых процессов», Волгоград, ВолГу, т.(8442)43-35-56,
ф.(8442)43-81-24, (phys@volsu.ru), сентябрь 2004 г.
62. Intelligent Feature Recognition & Classification on Astrophysical Images, 8th Annual meeting on Knowledge based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, University of Wellington, New Zeeland, 20-24th September 2004 http://www.cyber.brad.ac.uk/egso/KES2004/KES2004.html
Valentina Zharkova, v.v.zharkova@Bradford.ac.uk
63. The 4th EMS Annual Meeting, Nice, France, 26-30 September 2004,
http://www.emetsoc.org/ems_4th_annual_meeting.html,
http://www.emetsoc.org.
64. Dynamos of the Sun, stars and planets, Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics, Freiburg, Germany, 4-6 October 2004.
http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/dynamo2004/
Hardi Peter, peter@kis.uni-freiburg.de
65. Huntsville Modeling Workshop: “Challenges to Modeling the Sun-Earth System”, October 18-22, 2004, Abstracts due: August 20, 2004, Registration due: September 20, 2004
http://science.nasa.gov/HSVWorkshop
66. 22nd NSO Workshop on "Large Scale
Structures and their Role in Solar Activity", National Solar
Observatory/Sacramento Peak, Sunspot, New Mexico, USA, October 18-22, 2004 http://www.nso.edu/general/workshops/2003/ws22.html.
67. Конференция «Астрофизика высоких энергий сегодня и заавтра» (последние
результаты проектов рентгеновской и гамма-астрономии (информация о новых
проектах), Москва, ИКИ, т. (095)333-20-45, ф.(095)333-51-78, октябрь-ноябрь
2004 г.
68. Конференция «Современные проблемы дистанционного зондирования Земли из
космоса», Москва, ИКИ, т. (095)333-52-12, ф.(095)333-51-78, октябрь-ноябрь 2004
г.
69. Международная научная конференция «Научные результаты проекта
ИНТЕРБОЛ», Москва, ИКИ, т. (095)333-52-12, ф.(095)333-51-78, ноябрь 2004 г.
70. Conference "Sun-Earth Connection Physics: The GeoImpact of CMEs, CIRs and Ordinary Solar Wind", Merida, Mexico, 8-12 November 2004, ( http://www.lanl.gov/csse/merida/).
71. RHESSI-SOHO-TRACE workshop on "Flares and Eruptive Events" just preceding the AGU meeting, San Francisco Area, December 8-10, 2004.
Более подробная информация о некоторых из симпозиумов.
Waves in Solar and Magnetospheric Plasmas, Society of Antiquaries Lecture
Theatre, Burlington House,Piccadilly, London, UK, 9 January, 2004
Royal Astronomical Society
Parallel 'G' Specialist Discussion Meetings
RAS Discussion Meeting on January 9, 2004, Society of Antiquaries
Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, start time 10.00.
Summary: Solar wave processes show a number of similarities with wave phenomena in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosphere. The joint discussion of theoretical and observational studies of waves in heliospheric plasmas is expected to deepen our understanding of these phenomena.
In view of the breadth of topic, and the limited time available for oral presentations, we would like to have a poster session. Posters would be available for viewing at the pre-meeting coffee, and during lunch. In order to assess the demand for a poster session, would anyone who wishes to present a poster please contact one of the convenors (see below) before October 31.
Details of the programme for this event may be found at the web-site http://www.astro.warwick.ac.uk/ras_waves.html.
Valery Nakariakov (Warwick; valery@astro.warwick.ac.uk),
Bernie Roberts (St Andrews; bernie@mcs.st-and.ac.uk),
Andy Wright (St Andrews; andy@mcs.st-and.ac.uk).
Symposium on Space Weather, 11-15 January 2004, Seattle, Washington
A Symposium on Space Weather, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, will be held 11-15 January 2004, as part of the 84th AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS ) in mid-September 2003.
The theme of "prediction" for the 84th Annual Meeting is highly appropriate for the space weather science and operations communities which, while lagging several decades behind their counterparts in meteorology, anticipate developing stronger forecast capabilities in the near future. Space weather environments include those regions of the atmosphere upward from the thermosphere and ionosphere through the magnetosphere, interplanetary medium to the sun. To date, these regions have been data starved and operational capabilities to model or forecast these environments are in their infancy. With the recent and near-future space weather sensors on NASA, NOAA and USAF research and weather satellites, this situation is rapidly improving and the prospects for substantial real-time data to feed improved generations of specification and prediction models are excellent. Space weather scientists, operators and vendors are in a unique position to benefit from the past 20 to 50 years of developments in meteorology as their discipline achieves a new level of maturity.
A major theme of the Symposium on Space Weather will be to examine the similarities between space weather and tropospheric weather in a number of areas with emphasis on data assimilation and new efforts to produce seamless models from the oceans upward toward the sun. Over the past few years there have been a number of discoveries that challenge our understanding of the lower and upper atmospheric regions as distinct regions. We now know that atmospheric electrical discharges can extend upward from cloud tops to 100 km or more and new models show the importance of dynamics and waves coupling between the surface and the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Space weather modelers are in the early stages of developing an assimilating model for the ionosphere and scientists working in other space weather domains are just beginning to think about how to assimilate data into models. There is intense interest by space weather modelers in defining metrics and attempts to develop a measure of skill for environmental prediction. Additionally, there is interest in comparisons of operational products, industry needs and value added products from vendors.
The Symposium of Space Weather is soliciting papers on aspects of space weather that have an element of commonality with terrestrial weather applications. Users of space weather services, the airlines as an example, have relied on terrestrial weather services for many years, and now are including space weather information in flight planning. What are the parallels between the integration of the terrestrial and space weather information? What are the contrasts?
The Symposium on Space Weather will involve one day of presentations. Most will be invited but contributed papers will be solicited. A poster session will be included as appropriate. A session in this Symposium will be held jointly with a session in the Symposium on Education. Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 1 August 2003 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS for instructions.) An abstract fee of $60 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by mid-September 2003. A preprint CD-ROM is being prepared, authors of invited and accepted papers will be asked to contribute to this volume. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended manuscripts for the preprint CD-ROM will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 3 November 2003 to AMS Headquarters. A preprint CD charge will be assessed to defray production costs. Registrants will receive a preprint CD-ROM at the conference.
Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS) in mid-September 2003.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Bob McCoy, (703-696-8699; email: mccoyr@onr.navy.mil ) or Genene Fisher (202-737-9006 ext 422; email: fisher@dc.ametsoc.org ).
From "Bogdan, Tom" <tbogdan@nsf.gov>
Conference
on Sun-Earth Connection: Multiscale Coupling in Sun-Earth Processes Kona, Hawaii, USA, February 9-13,
2004
Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University,
and SCOSTEP. Additional Sponsors are expected in the future.
Convenors: A. T. Y. Lui and Y.
Kamide
Strong evidence exists pointing to the tight coupling between
various space plasma regions in the Sun-Earth system which are traditionally
investigated separately, and to the multiscale nature of several phenomena
occurring in such a coupled system. Recent progress and significant public
interest gained in linking the entire chain of space disturbances from
"sun to mud" testify to the usefulness of this system-wide approach.
Indeed, this research approach fits in well with the national goal defined by
the National Space Weather program and NASA Living With a Star (LWS) program.
These developments have led to a new perspective in space plasma dynamics of
examining the system as a whole within the Sun-Earth Connection framework.
From this new perspective, it is now being realized that
additional understanding of this coupled system can be gained from an approach
different from the traditional ones. This new approach is based on concepts
developed in the modern statistical mechanics to address the physical processes
governing the evolution of out-of-equilibrium and complex systems and on the
techniques to investigate the multiscale phenomena prevalent in nature.
This Conference on Sun-Earth Connection (CSEC) will provide a
forum to discuss and exchange knowledge and ideas on recent observational and
theoretical results on multiscale coupling in the Sun-Earth processes. Both
traditional and new innovative approaches to treat Sun-Earth Connection
phenomena and their multiscale coupling based on observations, simulations, and
theoretical considerations are appropriate. In particular, topics in nonlinear
dynamics included in CSEC are complexity, chaos, criticality,
self-organization, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, and turbulence.
Conference Hotel:
King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel
75-5660 Palani Road
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740
Telephone: (808) 329-2911
Facsimile: (808) 329-4602
http://www.konabeachhotel.com/
Tel: 1-800-367-6060
For the hotel reservation: conference room rate (single/double):
is USD $ 105 + tax; make reservation directly with the hotel before November 3,
2003 and be sure to mention Conference on Sun Earth Connection to get the
conference rate.
Further details on registration, abstract submission, and
financial support application for students and young scientists (not over the
age of 35) are available at the website http://csec.jhuapl.edu which
will be updated periodically as additional information becomes available.
Register early (number of participants for this meeting is limited).
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Tom Chang - CSR/MIT, USA
Sandra Chapman - Warwick University, UK
Giuseppe Consolini - IFSI/CNR, Italy
Yohsuke Kamide - STEL, Japan
Alexander Klimas - GSFC, USA
Anthony Lui - JHUAPL,
USA
Nicolas Watkins - BAS, UK
"The
Sun, solar analogs and the climate", Davos, Switzerland, March 15 to
20, 2004.
The Swiss Society of Astrophysics & Astronomy (SSAA) is now
organizing its 34th Advanced Course in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This winter
school will be held in Davos, Switzerland from March 15 to 20, 2004. The
subject of the course is: "The Sun, solar analogs and the climate.
The course will address the subject of the solar variability and
its interaction with the terrestrial climate. In these times of concern about
global warming, it is important to understand the solar variability and its
interaction with the atmosphere, in order to be able to distinguish between the
solar and anthropogenic contributions to the raising temperatures in the last
century. One third of the course will be devoted to the observed variability of
the Sun, its theoretical origin and the present understanding of the
variability. The second third of the course will address the Earth's climate
and how solar variability affects it. Finally, the last third will discuss the
variability of solar analog stars. This helps to better understand the solar
cycle and to estimate how large the solar variations could be on longer time
scales, and consequently, which effect the long term solar variability has on
the Earth's climate.
The lectures will be given in English by three experts, each
covering one of the three topics: Mike Lockwood (Solar variability), Mark Giampapa
(Stellar variability), Joanna Haigh (Sun-Earth relationship).
The course is intended mainly for post-graduate astronomers and
physicists who wish to broaden their knowledge in the field. More information
on the course program, general information and registration is available on the
following web-site: http://www.pmodwrc.ch.
Registration deadline: 31 january 2004.
Isabelle Redi, i.ruedi@pmodwrc.ch.
Living With
a Star Science Workshop (LWS Science Workshop), Connecting our Dynamic Sun to
the Heliosphere and Geospace, Boulder, Colorado, March 23-26, 2004
We
cordially invite you to attend the LWS Community Workshop "Connecting our
Dynamic Sun to the Heliosphere and Geospace" to be held March 23-26, 2004
in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop will be hosted by LASP (University of
Colorado) and HAO (National Center for Atmospheric Research). The meeting will
be devoted to the scientific topics that connect the Sun's variability to the
effects on Earth and near-Earth space. Topics will include:
Solar irradiance and the ionospheric response,
Solar 3-D magnetic field modeling and solar structure
Solar interior processes which enable prediction of emerging flux regions,
Coupling the solar wind and
transient phenomena to the 3-D heliosphere.
The
science organizing committee will be releasing a detailed schedule of topics
soon, along with guidelines for submitting abstracts to the workshop. The
abstract deadline is February 13, 2004. Lodging, registration, abstract
submittal, and travel information will be provided in mid-December, when we
release the second circular for the workshop.
All
members of the solar-terrestrial physics community are invited to attend. We
encourage your attendance and hope that you will share this announcement with
colleagues.
Meeting
information can be found at the meeting website:
http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdo/meetings/Workshop2004First.html.
We cordially invite you to attend this Living With a Star Science Workshop. The meeting will be devoted to the scientific topics that connect the Sun's variability to the effects on Earth and near-Earth space. Topics will include :
* Introducing SDO and Working Groups to the LWS Community,
* Solar Drivers of the Sun-Earth Connection,
* Geospace Responses to Variable Solar Outputs,
* Magnetic Field Topology and Solar Atmospheric Dynamics,
* Sub-Photospheric Phenomena Associated with Solar Activity,
* Coupling the Transient Events Through the Heliosphere to Geospace.
For additional information, visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdo/meetings
Abstracts Due: Feb. 13
Pre-Registration Due: Feb. 27
Семинар
«Биологические эффекты солнечной активности», Пущино, 5-8 апреля 2004г.
Междисциплинарный семинар посвящен обсуждению
воздействия солнечной активности, и в
основном главного ее фактора – вариаций электромагнитных полей (ЭМП) вблизи Земли, - на биологические объекты,
включая человеческий организм. Одной из тем семинара является уточнение тех
характеристик ЭМП, которые могут оказывать максимальное биотропное воздействие.
Для этого предлагается проанализировать биотропные характеристики ЭМП,
выявленные в лабораторных экспериментах с животными, при наблюдениях над
биологическими объектами и в клинических исследованиях. Естественные ЭМП имеют
очень слабую интенсивность, сопоставимую с интенсивностью тепловых колебаний
органов и клеток. Поэтому первостепенное значение приобретают проблемы
механизмов такого воздействия. На семинаре предлагается детально обсудить
существующие представления и гипотезы о возможных механизмах воздействия,
выявить возникающие при этом нерешенные задачи, рассмотреть возможности дальнейших
междисциплинарных исследований. В качестве еще одной важной задачи семинара
предлагается обсудить те проявления солнечной активности, которые характеризуются биотропными свойствами ЭМП.
Предполагается также проанализировать возможности прогнозов негативных
последствий космической погоды. Итогом семинара могут стать предложения по
программе дальнейших исследований и подготовка сборника публикаций.
Продолжительность
приглашенных докладов порядка 30-40 мин.
Список
предполагаемых докладчиков и названий их
сообщений.
5 апреля – вечер
Биотропные характеристики ЭМП и
свойства их «мишеней»
Наталья Арменовна Темурьянц (Таврический Университет, Симферополь). Обзор
результатов по выявлению биотропных частот в экспериментальных исследованиях
воздействия слабых искусственных СНЧ ЭМП на животных. timur@tnu.crimea.ua
Иван Антонович Степанюк (Российский Гидрометеорологический Университет,
Ст.- Петербург) Обзор наблюдений эффектов воздействия слабых естественных СНЧ
ЭМП полей на живые объекты. stepanuk@IS10282.spb.edu
Тамара Константиновна Бреус (ИКИ РАН), Сердце - как мишень для воздействия
солнечной активности
Тел. 155 33 68(д) 333 21 44 (р), breus@iki.rssi.ru
Сергей Александрович Черноус (ПГИ, Апатиты), Изменения вариабельности
сердечного ритма – как реакция на возмущение геомагнитного поля
Тел. 7(81555)79135 (р),
7(81555)40975 (д) Chernouss@pgi.kolasc.net.ru
Семен Исаакович Рапопорт, Н.К.Малиновская (Московская Медицинская Академия
им. И.А.Сеченова), Мелатонин как
биохимический посредник эффектов воздействия ЭМП.
Тел. 2487826 сл. 89165634213 моб. sirap@mail.transit.ru
Азарий Григорьевич Гамбурцев (ИФЗ РАН), Характерные ритмы различных
биологических систем, выявленные спектрально – временными методами
Тел.254 2405 (р) 273 3206 (д) azgamb@mail.ru
6 апреля – утро
Механизмы воздействия слабых ЭМП на биологические объекты
Владимир Николаевич Бинги (ФИАН), Обзор теоретических моделей в
магнитобиологии.
Info@biomag.info, тел. 216 48-39 (или спросить у Савина
А.В.
Дмитрий Сергеевич Чернавский (ФИАН), Слабые воздействия на организм.
Тел. 134 0609 д. 89161612295 м. chernav@lpi.ru
Макеев (ФИАН), Условия параметрических резонансов и их возможная роль в
биологических эффектах. 1326455 сл.
Владимир Васильевич Леднев (ИТЭБ), Биоэффекты слабых комбинированных,
постоянных и переменных магнитных полей.
Нейл Чэрри (Новая Зеландия), Обзор биологических эффектов шумановских
резонансов и роли мелатонина в передаче воздействия.(прореферирует
Н.Г.Клеменова)
В.В. Новиков (Ин-т биофизики клетки), Молекулярные механизмы биологического
действия слабых магнитных полей.
Евгений Евгеньевич Фессенко (Ин-т биофизики клетки), Воздействие слабых
полей на биологические объекты. fessenko@ibfk.nifhi.ac.ru
Михаил Николаевич Жадин, (Ин-т биофизики клетки), Возможные физические
механизмы биологического действия комбинированных постоянных и переменных
магнитных полей.
Тел.8.27739228 д. 8.27733043 д. zhadin@online.stack.net
Борис Михайлович Владимирский (КрАО), Обзор биотропных факторов и
механизмов воздействия на биосферу.
Тел. 8.10380652546250 bvlad@crao.crimea.ua
6 апреля – вечер
Оригинальные доклады – 10—15 мин, постеры и/или дискуссия
Ольга Валерьевна Хабарова (ИЗМИРАН), Параметрический резонанс как возможный
механизм воздействия на биосистемы olik3110@izmiran.troitsk.ru
7 апреля – утро
Биотропные факторы солнечной активности
Георгий Наумович Застенкер (ИКИ РАН), Характеристики солнечного ветра,
ответственные за геомагнитные возмущения
Владимир Александрович Пилипенко (ИКИ РАН), Спектральные характеристики
геомагнитных возмущений.
Наталья Георгиевна Клеменова (ИФА РАН), Рс- портреты геомагнитных бурь
Тел. 254 42 90 (р) 154 09 47(сл)
А.А.Петрукович (ИКИ РАН), Методика краткосрочных прогнозов геомагнитных
возмущений
А. В. Белов (ИЗМИРАН), Среднесрочный прогноз
геомагнитных возмущений.
7 апреля – вечер
Оригинальные доклады – 10—15 мин, постеры и/ или дискуссия
8 апреля – утро
Общая дискуссия, итоги
Обсуждение программы совместных
работ
Оргкомитет
Лев Матвеевич Зеленый (ИКИ РАН,
3332155 сл., lzelenyi@iki.rssi.ru)
Ажуб Ибрагимович Газиев (ИТЭБ
РАН, 8.27731886 сл, gaziev@iteb.ru)
Петрукович Анатолий Алексеевич
(ИКИ РАН, 3334024 сл., apetruko@iki.rssi.ru)
Бреус Тамара Константиновна (ИКИ
РАН, 3332144 сл., breus@space.ru, breus@iki.rssi.ru
Застенкер Георгий Наумович (ИКИ
РАН, 3331388 сл., gzastenk@iki.rssi.ru)
Шноль Симон Эльевич (ИТЭБ РАН, 8.27731460 д. shnoll@iteb.ru)
Конрадов Александр Анатольевич (ИБХФ РАН, 9397138 сл., 2471716 д. ak@sky.chph.ras.ru)
Space
Weather Week 2004
(Conference scheduled for April 13-16, 2004), Boulder, Colorado.
The 2004 Space Weather Week conference will be held this spring, April
13-16, 2004, in Boulder, Colorado. This meeting will focus on the recent solar
and geomagnetic activity, and will cover the specific space weather impacts
that occurred and our scientific understanding of this activity. The conference
program will highlight recent space weather impacts in several areas of the
environment, including ionospheric disturbances, satellite drag, auroral
currents, geomagnetic storms and their solar drivers, radiation belts, and
solar energetic particles. We anticipate that representatives from industries
impacted by space weather will attend, including those from electric power,
commercial airlines, satellite operations, and navigation/communication. Space
Weather Week 2004 is co-organized by the NOAA Space Environment Center, the Air
Force Research Laboratory, the NSF Division of Atmospheric Science, and the
NASA Sun-Earth Connection Program. Further details regarding the meeting agenda
and travel will be posted on our web site: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/sww.
Space
Weather Week is approaching, and partial support for student attendance is
available. This support could be applied to registration fees, room and board,
and/or travel costs. Please email the following information to Terry Onsager
(terry.onsager@noaa.gov) by no later than February 27, 2004:
1. Name
2. Institution and contact
information
3. Academic level
4. Topic of research that will be presented
5. Academic advisor and
contact information
6. Level of support required
to attend
This
meeting will focus on the recent solar and geomagnetic activity, and will cover
the specific space weather impacts that occurred and our scientific
understanding of this activity. The conference program will highlight recent
space weather impacts in several areas of the environment, including
ionospheric disturbances, satellite drag, auroral currents, geomagnetic storms
and their solar drivers, radiation belts, and solar energetic particles. We
anticipate that representatives from industries impacted by space weather will
attend, including those from electric power , commercial airlines, satellite
operations, and navigation/communication. Space Weather Week 2004 is
co-organized by the NOAA Space Environment Center , the Air Force Research
Laboratory, the NSF Division of Atmospheric Science , and the NASA Sun-Earth
Connection Program. Further details
regarding the meeting agenda and travel will be posted on our web site http://www.sec.noaa.gov/sww.
IHY 2007 US Planning Workshop, April 20-22, 2004 (Tuesday through Thursday), National Solar Observatory. Sacramento Peak Sunspot, NM 88349, USA
We are pleased to announce a workshop to begin planning the US International Heliophysical Year (IHY). The workshop will be held at Sacramento Peak Observatory, April 20-22, 2004. Because of space limitations, the participation is limited to the invited attendees. To express your interest in attending this workshop, please, email the registration form http://www2.nso.edu/general/workshops/ihy2004/registration.txt to ihy2004@nso.edu.
In 1957 a program of international research, inspired by the International Polar Years of 1882-83 and 1932-33, was organized as the International Geophysical Year (IGY) to study global phenomena of the Earth and geospace. The IGY involved about 60,000 scientists from 66 nations, working at thousands of stations, from pole to pole to obtain simultaneous, global observations on Earth and in space. There had never been anything like it before. On the fiftieth anniversary of the IGY an international program of scientific collaboration , the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) will commence. Like its predecessors , the IHY will focus on fundamental global questions of Sun-Earth Connected science. The IHY will enhance existing programs like CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) - a new SCOSTEP Program for 2004-2008, and NASA's LWS (Living with a Star) program.
The objective of the IHY is to discover the physical mechanisms at work which link the Earth to events within the heliosphere. It has been obvious for some time that events on the Sun can affect geospace, and even the Earth's climate. The systematic global study of this connection is to be the central theme of the IHY. In view of these aims, the following objectives are proposed for the IHY.
- To obtain a coordinated set of observations to study, at the largest scale, the heliospheric events and their effect on life and the climate of Earth
- To document and report the observations and provide a forum for the development of new scientific results utilizing these observations
- To foster international cooperation in the study of heliophysical phenomena now and in the future
- To communicate the unique scientific results of the IHY to the interested scientific community and to the general public
It is a logical step to expand our focus to include the heliosphere in which Earth and Sun have a central place. The ultimate objective is to set up distributed collaborations that utilize ground and space based assets to further the science achievements in all subdisciplines: solar physics , polar physics, geophysics, space physics, and heliospheric physics with a resounding emphasis on cross-disciplinary science.
For Further Information: Visit http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (the International Heliophysical Year home page) and http://www2.nso.edu/general/workshops/ihy2004/
Nat Gopalswamy, gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) First General Assembly, France, Nice, 25-30 April 2004 (abstracts - before 11 January).
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu04/index.html.
"New Radio
Instrumentation for Solar and Heliospheric Physics"
We
are organizing a half-day session entitled "New Radio Instrumentation for
Solar and Heliospheric Physics" which is being jointly sponsored by the
Solar-Terrestrial (ST), Planetary and Solar System (PS) sciences, and
Geosciences Instrumentation (GI). This session is intended to highlight
next-generation radio instrumentation and developing techniques for the exploration
of the Sun and the heliosphere. Both ground- and space-based instrumentation
and techniques will be discussed. Of particular interest are the Frequency
Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR), the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the STEREO
mission WAVES instrument, the Solar Imaging Solar Array (SIRA), future
directions for studies of interplanetary scintillations, and future prospects
for radar studies of the Sun. The session will introduce these exciting new
instruments and missions to the wider community, as well as highlight some of
the outstanding scientific questions and space weather issues that they will
confront.
We
invite interested members of the solar, space, and heliospheric communities to
participate in this session. A limited number of contributed talks will be
available as well as poster papers. We encourage submissions of papers about
new radio instrumentation relevant to solar and heliospheric physics,
innovative techniques for exploiting radio data to address outstanding
scientific questions in solar and heliospheric physics, and theory
contributions that make predictions that could be tested by next-generation
instruments.
Abstracts
must be submitted to the EGU by 11 January 2004. Applications for support to
attend the meeting must be received by the EGU on or before 1 January 2004. The
deadline for pre-registration to the meeting is 8 April 2004.
EGU General Assembly, Session ST4:
Sun-Earth Connection: Joint Science with SOHO and Cluster, Nice, France, April
25-30, 2004.
Website: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu04/
The SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and Cluster missions, originally designed as an ESA cornerstone project, have greatly improved our current knowledge about the key processes of the energy release and transfer in the Sun-Earth system, including its consequences for geospace. This session on joint science with SOHO and Cluster aims to provide an overview of the new results obtained by both missions in an interdisciplenary manner.
Key topics of the session include:
Origin of the solar wind; physics of coronal mass ejections, flares and solar energetic particle events; heliospheric evolution of the solar wind flow and its coupling with the Earth's magnetosphere and subsequent modulations ; responses of the different plasma and atmospheric layers of the geospace system; theoretical results on particle acceleration, plasma interaction and magnetic reconnection processes on various scales in the Sun-Earth system.
Important deadlines:
11 January 2004 Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts.
Under extraordinary circumstances, abstracts may be sent to the conveners after the official deadline.
Main Scientific Organizer/Convener:
Volker Bothmer, bothmer@linmpi.mpg.de
Max-Planck-Institut f?r
Aeronomie
Max-Planck-Str. 2
37191 Katlenburg-Lindau
Germany
Tel.: +49 5556 979-409
Fax: +49 5556 979 6409
E-mail: bothmer@linmpi.mpg.de
Co-Convener:
Hermann Opgenoorth
Solar and Solar Terrestrial Missions Division
ESTEC (SCI-SH)
P.O.Box 299
2200 AG Noordwijk
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 71 565 3573
Fax:+ 31 71 565 4697
E-mail: Hermann.Opgenoorth@rssd.esa.int
AGU/CGU/SEG 2004 Joint Assembly Special Session SPA11 : Space Weather:
Linking Research and User Needs, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May
2004.
Space Weather is a
geophysical science that offers extensive applications to support a broad range
of users affected by the dynamic space environment .
These applications involve models,
observations, and an ever-increasing understanding of the coupled
solar-terrestrial system. This session will be a forum for hearing from those
affected by the space environment - about the actions they take based on the
information available today, and about their
future needs. It will also provide an opportunity for future research
missions and new modeling and
observation programs to describe the specific contributions those activities will make to space weather
forecasting and to those impacted by
space weather effects.
The session especially
welcomes papers on technological effects and user impacts of the Oct/Nov 2003
Storms.
David Boteler,
Geomagnetic Laboratory, Natural Resources Canada
7 Observatory Crescent,
Ottawa, ONK1A 0Y3 Canada
Tel: 613-837-2035 Fax:
613-824-9803
email: dboteler@nrcan.gc.ca
Howard Singer,
NOAA Space Environment
Center
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305 USA
Tel:
303-497-6959 Fax:
303-497-5388
email: howard.singer@noaa.gov
Deadlines:
- 12 Feb 2004: Deadline for
abstract submissions by postal or express mail
- 19 Feb 2004, 1400 UT:
Deadline for electronic online abstract submissions
Further meeting details at: http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/.
Научная
междисциплинарная конференция " Проблемы наук о климате" (Challenges
in the Climate Sciences), посвященная обсуждению актуальных проблем в климатических науках и поиску
наиболее перспективных путей их решения, состоится в городе Blois (недалеко от
Парижа) во Франции в период 23 - 28 мая, 2004.
Challenges in the Climate
Sciences - XVIth Rencontres de Blois
This
is an announcement of and call for contributions to an international
interdisciplinary conference on the terrestrial climate system. The purpose of the
conference is to emphasize our current lack of understanding of certain key
processes in the stability and evolution of the terrestrial climate, at all
time scales, and to highlight which avenues of research could improve that
understanding. This includes solar drivers of climate change.
The
conference will consist of plenary sessions and long poster sessions; for
contributed papers, we have programmed two one hour long poster sessions per
day, coupled with the coffee breaks. Parallel sessions for short oral
contributions can be organized if there is sufficient demand for them.
The
conference will take place in the Chateau de Blois (France), an ancient Royal
residence in the Loire valley; all sessions and meals (except breakfast ) will
be in the Chateau itself in order to maximize contacts between specialists of
divers disciplines. Participants will be lodged in neighboring hotels in the
town of Blois.
Details
(both scientific and administrative) are available on our web site, where you
will find a scientific programme for the plenary sessions, including a list of
the invited speakers who have accepted to give a talk:
http://opserv.obspm.fr/confs/climates.html
An on-line registration form
is also available on this site; please send it in as soon as possible,
indicating in particular whether you would be interested in contributing to a
parallel session, since this will enable us to optimize the conference, and in
particular to judge whether parallel sessions are in demand.
The
deadline for registration and hotel reservation is March 22, 2004, but please
do not wait until the last minute - our secretaries have quite enough work
already!
Some
limited financial assistance may be available; if you do require this, please
fill in and send to the indicated address the financial supportapplication
form. The deadline for application is February 22, 2004.
If you require urgent information which is not on the web site, please contact: Ludwik Celnikier, at: blois.confs@obspm.fr
AGU/CGU/SEG 2004 Joint Assembly: 17-21 May 2004 in Montreal, Canada.
Special session: SPA20: Violent Sun-Earth Connection Events
of October-November 2003
Three solar active regions during October 22 to November 04 2003 produced some of the largest Sun-Earth connection events on record. Fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs), X-class flares, solar energetic particles, and interplanetary shocks were abundantly observed during these events. A few of the flares also produced gamma-rays. CMEs originating from close the center of the Sun arrived at Earth in less than a day and resulted in huge geomagnetic storms (Dst ~ -350 nT). Record speeds were observed in the solar wind and magnetosheath, which bear comparison with the events following the historical flare seen by Carrington in 1859. Intense aurora, substantial enhancements of the Earth's radiation belts and high fluxes of escape velocity flows from the ionosphere to the magnetosphere were observed. The multiple magnetic storm sequences revealed interesting behavior illuminating the processes behind the injection of plasmasheet materials into the inner magnetosphere and the subsequent ring current and then ionospheric responses. The effects on particles, composition and fields comprising our environment were seen all the way from their inception at the Sun, to the interplanetary medium at 1 AU, to the magnetosheath, to the nose of the magnetosphere and up to the distant tail at 150 earth-radii downtail. The October-November events amply demonstrated the sudden and unexpected nature of solar eruptions and provide an important opportunity to understand what remains to us the unpredictable response of the magnetosphere during extreme, solar events. Papers on all aspects of the solar eruptions - their solar origin, interplanetary propagation, and geospace impact - are welcome. Modeling, data analysis and theory papers related to these events are anticipated. Comparison with other strong events in this or other cycles will help to bring the observations of these Sun-Earth Connection Events par excellence into proper perspective.
Conveners:
Nat Gopalswamy, Code 695.0
Bldg 21, Room 260, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt MD 20771-0001, ph: 1-301-286-5885, fax:
1-301-286-1433; email: gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov
Charlie Farrugia, Space
Science Center and Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Morse
Hall, Rm 414, Durham, NH 03824.
Phone: 603-862-4596; fax:
603-862-0311; email: charlie.farrugia@unh.edu
Barbara Giles, Code SS, NASA
Headquarters, Washington DC 20546, Ph: 301-286-0447, e-mail:barbara.giles@nasa.gov
Robert Lin, Space Science
Laboratory, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 ph:510-642-1149,
fax: 510-643-8302, email: rlin@ssl.berkeley.edu
Ruth Skoug, Los Alamos Natl
Lab, Group NIS-1 MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545, ph: 505-667-6594,
fax:505-667-7395, email:
rskoug@lanl.gov
Chuck Smith, Space Science
Center and Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Room 207 Morse
Hall, 39 College Road, Durham, NH
03824. ph:603-862-0890; fax:
603-862-3584, email: Charles.Smith@unh.edu
Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber,
Institut fuer Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, University of Kiel,
Leibnizstrasse 11, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, ph: (+) 49 431 880 3964; Fax: (+) 49
431 880 3968, email:wimmer@physik.uni-kiel.de
Deadlines:
* 01 Jan 2004: Deadline for
applications for Berkner Travel Fellowships.
* 12 Feb 2004: Deadline for
abstract submissions by postal or express mail. * 19 Feb 2004, 1400 UT:
Deadline for electronic online abstract submissions
Further details in: http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/
Nat Gopalswamy, gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov
Special
Sessions at the 2004 Solar Physics Division Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 30 May to 3 June, 2004.
Deadline 15 November, 2003
The
'04 Meeting will be held 30 May to 3 June, 2004 in Denver, Colorado in
conjunction with the AAS's Summer Meeting, and we need to get our ideas about
special sessions to them by the end of November. Recall that the AAS Summer Meeting
runs from Monday through Thursday and it is organized so that the middle two
days are completely given over to "Topical Sessions" - one for the
SPD and three for the rest of the universe - and there are no other competing
activities those two days. There will be "Special Sessions" on Monday
and Thursday which we can pre-organize in response to proposals, or structure
as regular contributed paper sessions in response to abstract pressure.
If
you have ideas for topical or special sessions, would you please send me a
short proposal describing the individual(s), their potential topic for
presentation, some explanation of why they should be invited to speak at the
meeting, and whether you would like a topical or special session by 15
November.
In
addition, we will be suggesting speakers for plenary talks before the whole
Society, and we solicit your suggestions, before 1 December.
Workshop
“Equation of State and Phase Transition Issues in Models of Ordinary
Astrophysical Matter”,
Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Wednesday, 2 June
2004 - Friday, 11 June 2004.
Organizers: Vladan
Celebonovic (Belgrade), Werner Dappen (Los Angeles), Douglas Gough (Cambridge)
We
cordially invite you to attend the Workshop "Equation of State and Phase
Transition Issues in Models of Ordinary Astrophysical Matter", to be held
June 2-11, 2004 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The meeting will be devoted to
issues of the equation of state for dense plasmas, as well as to possible
plasma phase transitions. Such issues arise frequently both in basic physics
and in astrophysics (interiors of stars, brown dwarfs, planets). The purpose of
the workshop is to bring together a group of physicists and astronomers with an
interest in this interdisciplinary field.
If
you are interested, we suggest that you contact one of the organizers. To keep
interactions at an effective level, there is maximum number of participants of
about 35 people. The Lorentz Center has limited funds to help pay the travel
and/or local expenses of participants. However it is expected that most
participants will pay for their own travel expenses. We strongly encourage your
attendance and would appreciate if you would share this announcement with
colleagues.
Further
information can be found at the meeting website:
http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/lc/web/2004/20040602/info.php3?wsid=97
Третья Всероссийская Астрономическая Конференция
(ВАК-2004) "Вселенная и мы", посвященная 250-летию Московского
Государственного Университета им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ), пройдет с 3 по 10 июня
2004 г. в Москве, на территории МГУ на Воробьевых Горах. Предполагается участие
в конференции астрономов всех астрономических учреждений России, а также коллег
из СНГ, стран Балтии, Восточной и Центральной Европы.
Рабочий язык конференции русский. Отдельные доклады могут быть на
английском языке.
Соорганизаторы конференции: Научный Совет по Астрономии РАН, Международная
общественная организация "Астрономическое общество", Государственный
Астрономический институт им. П.К.Штернберга при МГУ (ГАИШ МГУ),
Астрокосмический Центр Физического Института им. Лебедева РАН (АКЦ ФИ РАН),
Институт Астрономии РАН (ИНАСАН).
Программа конференции включает пленарные заседания
и ряд мини-симпозиумов.
В их числе:
1. Телескопы будущего и
виртуальные обсерватории
2. Солнце и планетные системы
3. Эволюция и динамика галактик
4. Образование и эволюция звезд
5. Вселенная за пределами
стандартной модели
6. Космология и релятивистские
объекты
7. Астрометрия и небесная механика
8. История астрономии и астрономическое образование
Оргвзнос участника конференции -
300 рублей.
Важные даты:
Заявки на участие в конференции
принимаются до 31 марта 2004 г.
Представление аннотаций докладов:
до 31 марта 2004 г.
Подробная информация о конференции (состав
научного и местного оргкомитетов, регистрационная форма, возможности проживания
в гостинице/общежитии и т.д.) размещена на странице конференции в интернете по
адресу: www.inasan.rssi.ru/rus/conferences/VAK_2004
Заполненную регистрационную форму и аннотации докладов просьба присылать в
оргкомитет конференции по электронной почте на адрес: vak2004@sai.msu.ru (секретариат местного оргкомитета).
В случае трудностей с получением регистрационной формы через интернет форму
можно запросить по электронной почте по адресу: vak2004@sai.msu.ru
Контактные адреса оргкомитета конференции:
Почтовый:
119992 Москва, Университетский проспект, 13.
Электронные:
mistery@sai.msu.ru и moulin@sai.msu.ru -
(секретариат научного оргкомитета)
vak2004@sai.msu.ru (секретариат местного оргкомитета)
Телефоны: 7 (095) 9395006 (секретариат научного
оргкомитета)
7 (095) 9328844 (секретариат местного оргкомитета)
Факс: 7 (095) 9328841 (для
оргкомитета конференции ВАК-2004)
IAU Symposium 223 "Multi-Wavelength Investigations of
Solar Activity", St. Petersburg, Russia, Pulkovo Astronomical
Observatory, June 14-19, 2004
The IAU Symposium 223 "Multi-Wavelength Investigations of Solar Activity" will take place on June 14-19, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia, hosted by Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory. The symposium will focus on the most fundamental problems of solar activity the solution of which requires cross-discipline investigations and discussions, and will include the following topics:
- Solar cycle in the interior, atmosphere and heliosphere
- Structure and evolution of active regions from the sub-photospheric layers to the corona
- Formation and instabilities of filaments and prominences and their relationship to the evolution of the global magnetic field
- Multi-scale chromospheric and coronal structures and their coupling with the photospheric magnetic fields and dynamics.
- Energy transport, storage and release in the solar atmosphere and corona
- Heliospheric effects of solar activity and space weather forecast
For further information see http://sun.stanford.edu/IAU223.
This
announcement outlines the highlights of the meeting and invites the submission
of abstracts for oral and poster sessions. This announcement also contains
information on visa applications and financial support. The abstract, registration
and financial support forms are found on the meeting Web site at http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS223.
Hotel reservation information is now available at http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS223/. The reservation deadline is 15 March, 2004.
Participants needed Russian visa should send all required documents for letters of invitations to Dr Kirill Maslennikov (km@gao.spb.ru) as soon as possible.
First International Symposium on SPACE CLIMATE: Direct and
Indirect Observations of Long-Term Solar Activity will be held around the Summer Solstice
(20-23 June 2004) in Oulu, Finland, hosted by the University of Oulu.
Full updated information on the Symposium is available at the Symposium web-site
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/spaceclimate1/ .
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Deadline for financial support applications - 29
February 2004
Deadline for abstract submission - 31 March 2004
Deadline for early
registration - 31 March 2004
Symposium starts - 20 June
2004
SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE
The
Symposium aims to cover a wide range of topics nowadays covered under the apt
nickname of Space Climate, i.e., the long-term change in the Sun, heliosphere
and near-Earth space.
The topics of the Symposium
include, e.g.,
Long-term cyclivities in
solar activity;
Extremes in solar activity:
Great minima and active times;
Long-term hemispheric and
longitudinal asymmetries of solar activity;
Stellar magnetic cycles;
Long-term behaviour of solar
magnetic field;
Long-term helioseismic
observations;
Different modes of stellar
dynamos;
Long-term changes in the
heliosphere;
Cosmogenic isotopes as
long-term solar proxies;
Long-term cosmic ray variations;
Long-term geomagnetic and
auroral activity;
The
Symposium aims to discuss the above and related topics in an inspiring and
informal atmosphere of the Northern Finland during the time of continuous
lightness. The program will consist of a number of invited talks, shorter
contributed oral presentations and posters. Since this is the first symposium
on a new topic, a relatively large number of invited review lectures will be
included in the program in order to acquaint all participants with the various
aspects of Space Climate. Also, some time will be reserved in the program for
for discussions on the most interesting aspects of space climate.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
J. Beer, E. Cliver, A.
Ferriz-Mas, D. Hoyt, H. Moraal, K. Mursula (Co-Chair), H. Nevanlinna, J.-P.
Rozelot (Co-Chair), M. Shea, S. Solanki, I. Tuominen, I. Usoskin
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
K. Alanko, S. Berdyugina, T.
Hiltula, T. Jamsen, S. Joki-Huuki, J. Jussila, L. Kalliopuska (secretary), K.
Mursula (Co-Chair), V-MPelkonen, I. Usoskin (Co-Chair)
INVITED SPEAKERS
J. Beer, S. Berdyugina, E.
Cliver, A. Ferriz-Mas, L. Gizon, B. Kromer,
H. Moraal, K. McCracken*, H.
Nevanlinna, J.-P. Rozelot, E. Smith*, D. Sokoloff, S. Solanki, L. Svalgaard, J.
Sykora, Y.-M. Wang (* to be confirmed)
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The deadline for abstract
submission is 31 March 2004.
Abstract (up to
400 words) can be submitted
either in plain text or
LaTeX format using
web-based form (available
after Jan. 15 2004) or by
e-mail to
mailto:spaceclimate1@oulu.fi. In the latter case please clearly indicate
the presenting author.
Abstracts will be printed in
an abstract booklet
and distributed during the
Symposium.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND
CONTACT ADDRESSES
Further updated information
will be placed on the Symposium web-site: http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/SpaceClimate1/
A formal contact address is
e-mail: SpaceClimate1@oulu.fi
fax: +358-8-5531303 or
+358-8-5531287
Address: Space Climate Symposium
Department of Physical
Sciences
P.O.Box 3000
FIN-90014 University of Oulu
Finland
The SHINE
2004 workshop is set
for june 27-july 2 in Big Sky Montana.
SHINE
workshops are the premier venue for lively scientific exchange between solar
and heliospheric physicists. SHINE workshops are sponsored by NSF, but
participation is community-wide. This year the workshop will be held in the
magnificent resort of Big Sky, Montana. The main workshop will be held on June
28-July 2. The SHINE student day workshop will be held on Sunday, June 27.
The
workshop will convene three working groups on current research topics
concerning Solar Sources, Interplanetary Connections, and Solar Energetic Particles.
Working group leaders are Nick Arge (AFRL), Mihir Desai (U. of Maryland), Joe
Giacalone (U. of Arizona), Tom Metcalf (Lockheed Martin), Simon Plunkett (NRL),
and Chuck Smith (U. of New Hampshire).
Plan
to attend, YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE! Future announcements will provide
instructions for registration, housing, and details of the scientific program.
These will also be posted on the SHINE website http://www.shinegroup.org as
they become available.
SHINE Steering Committee:
Jon Linker (SAIC), Chair; Nat Gopalswamy, (NASA/GSFC), Workshop Coordinator;
David Alexander (Rice U.), Joan Burkepile (HAO), Christina Cohen (Caltech), Jim
Klimchuk (NRL), Pete Riley (SAIC), Allan Tylka (NRL), and Thomas Zurbuchen (U
of Mich).
The First AOGS meeting, Special session SP7--Solar Flares and
Coronal Mass Ejections,
Singapore, 5-9 July 2004.
Abstracts deadline: February
15 2004.
Additional information : http://www.asiaoceania.org/index.html.
Solar
flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are fundamental key factors
controlling space weather. Recent development of space solar observations such
as by Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI has revealed that the solar atmosphere is
full of reconnection events, and there are increasing evidence of reconnection
in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which leads to a unified view of
these phenomena.
It
is now necessary to review and summarize recent observations and theories of
solar flares and CMEs in a unified and critical way. In this session,
considering these. both solar flares and CMEs are discussed in detail,
especially on following topics, (1) preflare/ preCME conditions, (2) particle
acceleration associated with them, (3) coronal and interplanetary shock waves,
and (4) theoretical models.
Invited speakers: C. Z.
Cheng, P. F. Chen, K. Dere, N. Gopalswamy,
S. Gibson, R. Lin, N. Nitta,
H. Wang, J. Wang, M. Yamada,
T. Yokoyama, M. Zhang
Main Organiser
K. Shibata, Kwasan Observatory,
Kyoto University shibata@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Co-Organisers
S.T. Wu, University of
Alabama, wus@cspar.uah.edu
B.C. Low, High Altitude
Observatory, low@jabba.hao.ucar.edu
C. Fang, Dept. of Astronomy,
Nanjing University, fangc@nju.edu.cn
Abstracts must be submitted
to AOGS Web by February 15 2004. Additional information with instructions for
abstract submission and registration can be found at http://www.asiaoceania.org/index.html.
The joint SOHO 14 - GONG 2004 Workshops: Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future, New Haven CT, hosted by Yale University, July 12-16 2004.
The past decade or so has seen a tremendous improvement in our knowledge of the solar interior because of helioseismic data from instruments on SOHO, the GONG network and other ground based networks. These data are now providing new insights into previously encountered problems related to time-dependent (activity dependent) structural and dynamical changes in the Sun. In addition to all helioseismic data that are available, rapid strides are being made in obtaining asteroseismic data. There have been very successful ground-based measurements of stellar frequencies. The Canadian space-craft MOST has been launched successfully, and we look forward to seeing new results soon. The workshop will therefore be focused on results obtained so far with helioand asteroseismic data and what we can look forward to in the future. A pre-registration form will be mailed to prospective participants in September. For further information contact sogo04@astro.yale.edu. Materials will also be posted at the conference web-site, http://www.astro.yale.edu/sogo04.
Sarbani Basu <basu@astro.yale.edu>
International Symposium “Solar Extreme Events of 2003: Fundamental Science and
Applied Aspects (SEE)”, Moscow, Russia, (Moscow State
University), 12-14 July, 2004.
Phone: 7 095 939 18
18
Fax : 7 095 939 08 96
E-mail:
see@see.magnetosphere.ru
Sponsoring Organizations and Individual Sponsors
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Rosaviacosmos (Russian Space
Agency),
Moscow State University,
Russian Ministry of Sciences and
Technology.
COSPAR
National Science Foundation
(USA)
Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2004
Abstract submission: electronic submission on International
Advisory Committee
Dr. D. Baker, University of
Colorado, USA (Co-convenor)
Prof. M. Panasyuk, Moscow State
University, Russia (Co-convenor)
Prof. S. Avdyushin, Institute of
Applied Geophysics, Russia
Dr. D. Boscher, ONERA, France
Dr. V. Bothmer, Max-Plank Institute, Lindau, Germany
Dr. N. Crosby, BIRA, Belgium
Dr. I. Daglis, NOA, Greece
Dr. T. Fritz, Boston University,
USA
Dr. R. Horne, BAS, Great Britain
Dr. M. Geller, State University
of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Prof. S. Kuznetsov, Moscow State
University, Russia
Prof. L. Lazutin, Moscow State
University, Russia
Dr. V. Obridko, IZMIRAN, Russia
Prof. I. Veselovsky, Moscow
State University, Russia
Prof. F. Wei, Centre for Space Physics, China
Prof. L. Zelenyi, IKI, Russia
Local Organizing Committee:
Prof. M.Panasyuk – chairman, panasyuk@sinp.msu.ru
Prof. I. Veselovsky - deputy
chairman, veselov@dec1.sinp.msu.ru
Dr. V. Kalegaev - deputy chairman, klg@dec1.sinp.msu.ru
Mrs. M. Blokhina
Dr. S. Bobrovnikov
L. Grigor’eva
Dr. S.Krasotkin
Mr. M. Podzolko
Mrs. M. Ryazantseva
Mrs. E. Sigaeva
Dr. S. Svertilov
Dr. A. Varkovitskaya
Dr. N . Vlasova
Mrs. O. Yakovchuk
Deadlines
·
Abstracts: April 15, 2004
·
Registration (electronic): June 1, 2004
Registration Fee
·
250 Euro for foreign participants
·
The registration fee for Russian participants
consists of two parts: 200 roubles, which the participant pays at registration,
and contributing payments of the Russian Institutes, which are Symposium Organisers.
(The detailed information will be provided in the 2nd
circular)
Abstract Format & Submission
(The information for electronic submission will be provided in the 2nd
circular)
Publications
We hope to publish the proceedings in the “Space Weather” journal,
edited by Dr. L. Lanzerrotti (the detailed information will be provided in the
3nd circular)
Venue
Moscow State University, the Main building
Hotels & Accommodation
Some hotels around Moscow State University will be available
(the detailed information will be provided in the 2nd
circular)
Address
Moscow State University, Leninskie Gori, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Visas
The information will be provided in the 2nd circular
Scientific Rationale
Two years ago,
solar cycle 23 entered its declining phase, following its maximum in 2000-2001.
Nevertheless, the solar atmosphere and solar magnetic field exhibited numerous
extremely strong energy releases in October and November 2003, with powerful
solar flares and majestic coronal mass ejections. As a result of this rather
unexpected solar activity enhancement, the heliospheric plasma, electromagnetic
fields and energetic particle populations as well as cosmic rays were strongly
perturbed. Many travelling shock waves, magnetic flux ropes and sporadic high
speed solar wind streams were observed. The terrestrial magnetosphere responded
to these perturbations with strong magnetic storms, broad aurora, radiation
belt, and ionosphere variations. Moreover, significant upper atmosphere and
ground disturbances were recorded.
The famous
October and November 2003 events attracted the attention of scientists,
engineers and the public worldwide. These events offer new scientific insights
to help us better understand how our world and the surrounding space
environment are connected. They are also of special interest because of their
impacts on both technological and biological systems.
The extreme
solar-terrestrial events of October and November 2003 were recorded by many
ground-based and space-borne instruments. We propose to present and discuss
observations made by SOHO, Cluster, CORONAS-F and “METEOR” spacecraft, the
International Space Station, several geo-stationary satellites, as well as
ground observatories located world-wide and especially in Russia.
The aim of the
Symposium is twofold:
1.) to have a forum for discussing the recent October and November
2003 solar extreme events in context of
the coupled solar-terrestrial system both from a scientific and a technological
point of view,
2.) to create opportunities for new
scientific contacts and collaborations.
The following topics will be
covered at the Symposium:
1. Sun, heliosphere and solar
wind properties/dynamics during the extreme events
2. Magnetospheric response to
the solar extreme events in 2003
3. Space weather applications.
The dates of the Symposium are
particularly suitable for the participants of the COSPAR Assembly. You are
welcome!
Scientific program
·
A. Events of October - November 2003 in retrospect of solar activity
·
B. Solar and heliospheric activity
-
neutrons, gamma-ray and X-ray emissions
-
generation of solar energetic particles
-
solar images in different wavelengths
-
solar magnetic fields
-
coronal mass ejections and solar flares
-
solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field
-
galactic cosmic ray variations
·
C. Magnetic storms
-
magnetic field and plasma dynamics in the disturbed magnetosphere
-
storm-time current systems
-
storm - substorm relationship
-
magnetospheric boundaries
-
dynamics of the magnetospheric tail
-
auroral phenomena
-
dynamics of energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere, radiation
belts
-
sources and losses of magnetospheric particles
-
magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction
·
D. Space weather
-
space weather monitoring and forecasting
-
terrestrial impact of magnetic storms
-
impact of magnetic storms on technological systems in space
-
satellite damages and effects of energetic particles
·
E. Discussion (“Round Table”)
Sessions Schedule (preliminary)
We propose 4
lectures (overall retrospective, Sun and heliosphere, magnetosphere, space
weather) before every morning sessions. 3 scientific sessions devoted to
heliosphere, magnetosphere and space weather will be organized.
Monday, 12
July 2004
08:30 - 09:30 - Registration
09:30 - 10:00 - Opening
Morning
session:
Solar and heliospheric activity
10:00 - 10:40 - Invited Lecture A "Retrospective of
solar extreme events
of October - November, 2003"
10:40 - 11:20 - Invited Lecture B
11:20 - 11:40 - Coffee Break
11:40 - 13:00 - Oral reports B (20 min each)
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
Afternoon
session:
Solar and Heliospheric Activity
14:30 - 15:50 - Oral reports B (20 min each)
15:50 - 16:50 - Coffee break and poster session B
16:50 - 18:30 - Oral reports B (20 min each)
18:30 - Icebreaker
Tuesday, 13
July 2004
Morning
session:
Magnetic Storms
09:00 - 10:00 - Invited Lecture C
10:00 - 11:00 - Oral reports C (20 min each)
11:00 - 12:00 - Coffee break and poster session C
12:00 - 13:00 - Oral reports C (20 min each)
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
Excursion
Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 14
July 2004
Morning
session:
Magnetic Storms and Space Weather
09:00 - 11:00 - Oral reports C (20 min each)
11:00 - 11:20 - Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 - Invited Lecture D
12:00 - 13:00 - Oral reports D (20 min each)
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
Afternoon session:
Space Weather and Discussion
14:30 - 15:50 - Oral reports D (20 min each)
15:50 - 16:50 - Coffee break and poster session D
16:50 - 18:30 - Discussion (“Round Table”) E
18:30 - 19:00 - Closing of the conference
Poster Sessions
Every day ~1 hour
Round Table:
The last day, 2 – 3 hours duration
Social Programme
Monday, July 12: Icebreaker
Tuesday, July 13: Excursion. More
information will be provided in the 3nd circular)
Tuesday, July 13: Conference dinner
(More information will be provided
in the 3nd circular)
List of invited lecturers
The information will be provided in the 3nd circular
COSPAR 2004
<cospar@cosparhq.org>
35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly and
Associated Events, Paris, France, 18 - 25 July 2004
Contact: COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd
de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France Tel:
+33 1 45 25 06 79 / Fax: +33 1 40
50 98 27 / cospar@cosparhq.org
/
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html
Scientific Program Chair:Dr. M.-L.
Chanin, CNRS, Service d'Aeronomie, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France
Abstract
Deadline: 15 February 2004
Topics: Approximately 90 meetings covering
the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and Panels:
* - SC A: The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate
* - SC B: The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar
System
* - SC C: The Upper
Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including
Reference Atmospheres
* - SC D: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary
Magnetospheres
* - SC E: Research in Astrophysics from Space
* - SC F: Life Sciences as Related to Space
* - SC G: Materials Sciences in Space
* - SC H: Fundamental Physics in Space
* - Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
* - Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
* - Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space
(PEDAS)
* - Panel on Standard Radiation Belts (PSRB)
* - Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
* - Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
* - Panel on Space Research in Developing Countries (PSRDC)
* - Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)
* - The Public Understanding of Space Science
* - Space Science Education and Outreach
35th COSPAR
Assembly Session D2.1/C2.2/E3.1: "Influence of the Sun's Radiation and Particles on the Earth's
Atmosphere and Climate", the Palais des Congres (Paris Congress
Center) in Paris, France, between July 18 and 25, 2004.
Description of the Session:
New results from various space and ground-based experiments monitoring the radiative and particle emissions of the Sun, together with their terrestrial impact, have opened a new era in both solar and atmospheric physics. These studies clearly show that the variable solar radiative and particle output affects the Earth's atmosphere and climate in many fundamental ways. The main goal of this event is to review our current database and knowledge on solar variability and related terrestrial effects on time scales of hours to millennia.
The main topics are:
1. Solar Interior and Surface Activity,
2. Solar Atmosphere and Eruptive Events,
3. Results of Multi-Decade Long Irradiance and Particle Variations,
4. Effect of Solar EUV, UV
and Particle Variations on the Earth's Atmosphere,
5. Solar Variability and Climate on Various Time Scales, and
6. Solar Variability and Space Weather.
These topics will be grouped into 5 half day sessions, where both solicited and contributed papers will be presented. In addition, poster papers will be presented as well. We call for contributed paper on the above-listed topics.
Important Deadlines:
1. Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2004:
Abstracts must be submitted directly to COSPAR, see further information on the COSPAR web site: http://www.cospar2004.org
We urge authors to send a copy of their abstracts to Judit M. Pap (MSO).
2. Financial Support Application: February 15, 2004, forms should be returned to Judit M. Pap and a copy to COSPAR. Please note that COSPAR will make the final decision about the applications.
3. Early Registration Deadline: May 15, 2004 (400 EU)
4. Accomodation: if possible by April 30, 2004. Further information on
accomodation can be found on http://www.cospar2004.org
Please visit the COSPAR webpage http://www.cospar2004.org for further details.
Scientific Organizing Committee:
G. Bazilevskaya, J. Beer (DO), J. Haigh, L. Hood (DO), C. Jackman, A. Krivolutsky (DO),
J. Lastovicka, A. Ondraskova, J.M. Pap (MSO), R. Schwenn, J. Singh, A. Smith, W. Sprigg, G. Thuillier, S.T. Wu
We are looking forward to seeing you at the COSPAR 2004 General Assembly.
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Sincerely,
Judit Pap (MSO),
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 680.0
Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA
Ph: 301-286-7511
Fax: 301-286-1753
E-mail:
papj@marta.gsfc.nasa.gov
35th COSPAR Assembly Session
"Energy Release and Particle
Acceleration at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere"
The
Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) will hold its 35th scientific assembly in
Paris, France, 18-25 July 2004 http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html.
We are organizing a two-day
session entitled "Energy Release and Particle Acceleration at the Sun and
in the Inner Heliosphere" (E2.3 event). The goal of this event is to
present an integrated view of recent advances in the study of energy release,
particle acceleration and transport in flares, CME's and the inner heliosphere.
It will be largely based on the two and a half years of new RHESSI X-ray and
gamma-ray data and on the combination of these data with coronal observations
from TRACE, SOHO, GOES/SXI, radio observations and in situ particle data (ACE,
ULYSSES, WIND). This broad observational prospective will be strengthened by
discussions of relevant theoretical frameworks. This event will last two days and
will bring the flare, CME and particle communities together. Part of this event
(one day) will be organized jointly with event D1.3/E2.4 entitled
"Energetic Particle Acceleration - the Injection Problem: Who Gets to
Play?"
We invite interested members
of the solar and heliospheric communities to participate in this event.
Solicited talks will provide a broad introduction and overview of the different
topics addressed in the event (i.e. energy release, particle acceleration and
transport in flares, diagnostics of energetic electrons and ions, energetic
particles in the interplanetary medium, flares and CMEs?). Contributed talks as
well as poster papers will be available. We encourage submissions of papers
relevant to these topics in solar and heliospheric physics
Abstracts
must be submitted to COSPAR by 15 February 2004. Applications for support to
attend the meeting must be received together with the abstract by 15 February
2004 (one copy to the Main Scientific Organizer of the event and one copy to
the COSPAR secretariat). The deadline for pre-registration to the meeting is 15
May 2004.
Nicole
Vilmer (LESIA-Paris Observatory), nicole.vilmer@obspm.fr
Gordon Hurford (Space
Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)
35th COSPAR
Assembly Session E1.9: “Contributions of
X-ray and EUV Spectroscopy to Solar Physics and Astrophysics”
A 2-day meeting to be held
during the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, 18 - 25 July, 2004
Abstract Deadline: 29
February, 2004
Observations
with EUV and X-ray spectrometers are increasingly leading to new insights into
the physics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and other Galaxies, Clusters of
Galaxies, Accretion in Binary Systems, Main Sequence Stars and the Interstellar
Medium (Astrophysics) and to enhanced understanding of a range of topics e.g.
Chromospheric Network, Active Regions and Bright Points, Coronal Structure and
Motion, Flares and CMEs, in Solar Physics. Although the physical environments
in these targets can be enormously different, spectroscopy is greatly
increasing our knowledge of these high energy situations through missions like
Chandra and XMM Newton, Yohkoh, SOHO and RHESSI. Observations with high
resolution X-ray and EUV spectrometers have lead to spectacular results in the
above areas. A combination of invited and contributed papers will review these
recent developments and explore the similarities and differences among the
various disciplines.
We invite members of the
Astrophysics and Solar Physics communities to participate and to submit
abstracts for contributed talks and posters via the COSPAR web-site:
Len Culhane, Main Scientific
Organiser (jlc@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)
Joan Schmelz, Deputy
Scientific Organiser (jschmelz@memphis.edu)
On behalf of the Scientific
Organising Committee:
Ester Antonucci, Jeremy
Drake, Alan Gabriel, Hajime Inoue, Steve Kahn, Rolf Mewe.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Day 1 Astrophysics
09:30 - 11:00: AGN
Review: X-ray Spectra of High Luminosity
AGN M. Sako 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
11:30 - 13:00: AGN and Other
Galaxies
Review: X-ray Spectra of Low
Luminosity AGN and Normal Galaxies M.
Page 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
14:30 - 16:00: Clusters of Galaxies
Review: X-ray Spectra of Galaxy
Clusters J. Petersen 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
17:00 - 18:30: X-ray Binaries and
Neutron Stars
Review: X-ray Spectra of X-ray
Binaries and Neutron Stars F.
Paerels 20 min (TBC)
Contributed Talks 15 min each
Day 2 (AM) Astrophysics (Continued)
09:30 - 11:00: SNR and the ISM
Review: X-ray Spectra of Supernova
Remnants J. Vink 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
11:30 - 13:00: Late Type Stars and
Stellar Coronae
Review: X-ray Spectroscopy of
Late-type Stars J. Schmitt 20 min (TBC)
Contributed Talks 15 min each
Day 2 (PM) Solar Physics
14:30 - 16:00: Solar Flares
Review: High Resolution Spectra of Solar Flares G. Doschek 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
17:00 - 18:30: Quiet Sun
Review: Quiet Sun X-ray and EUV
Spectroscopy P. Lemaire 20 min (TBC)
Contributed Talks 15 min each
Day 3 (AM) Solar Physics
09:30 - 11:00: Solar Wind
Review:
Spectral observations of the Solar Wind
E. Antonucci 20 min
Contributed
Talks 15 min each
11:30 - 13:00: Coronal Mass
Ejections
Review: Emission Line and Wave
Observations of CMEs L. Harra 20 min
Contributed Talks 15 min each
35th COSPAR Assembly:Session E2.2: “Mechanisms of the Solar Activity Cycle”
Much has been learned about the mechanisms of solar activity in the last solar cycle. Improved observations have helped lead the way through helioseismology , high-resolution photospheric observations, and multi-spectral measurements of the solar atmosphere. Significant insights have come on the theoretical side as well. However, the understanding of the the only stellar magnetic activity cycle available for close scrutiny is far from complete.
The organizers, Todd Hoeksema, Takashi Sekii, and Sami Solanki, welcome contributions to Session E2.2 entitled "Mechanisms of the Solar Activity Cycle" at the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Paris, France, 18 - 25 July 2004. Contributors are encouraged to synthesize their understanding of the various processes that operate on various temporal and spatial scales, identify gaps in our knowledge, and plan for exploiting future capabilities. The session will include invited and contributed talks and posters concerning the solar dynamo, the latest helioseismic observations of the sub-surface, solar cycle evolution of the magnetic field on large and small scales, and the corresponding variability in the solar atmosphere.
The COSPAR web site, http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html, provides further details about the meeting.
The abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2004.
Todd Hoeksema, THoeksema@solar.stanford.edu
35th COSPAR Assembly Session
D2.5/E3.5 “Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar
Particle Events in Solar Cycle 23”
The
COSPAR Event D2.5/E3.5 "Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Particle Events
in Solar Cycle 23" will be held at the Palais des Congres (Paris Congress
Center) in Paris, France, between 18 and 25 July 2004. The COSPAR2004 web site,
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/,
provides further details about the meeting. The organisers encourage your
participation in this event.
The abstract submission
deadline is 15 February 2004.
Description of the Session:
In 2004 the maximum of solar
cycle 23 will be over. This will be a good time to review the cycle, in
particular its activity in Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events and in Coronal
Mass Ejections (CMEs). Topics include:
1) CME onset including
related flare activity and SEPs. SEP events of Solar Cycle 23 have been better
observed than those of any previous solar cycle . The current array of
spacecraft, including ACE, Wind, SOHO, Ulysses, SAMPEX , RHESSI, GOES, and
IMP-8, as well as ground-based neutron monitors, has allowed a broad range of
energies, species, and intensities to be closely examined. In an effort to put
these observations in context and to test new theoretical models it is useful
to compare this solar cycle to previous ones.
2) CME expansion and
signatures observed in in interplanetary space (ICMEs ). Owing to new
instrumentation using time-of-flight, ICMEs of cycle 23 were also better
observed than in any previous cycle, mostly on the same spacecraft as above.
Nevertheless, the relation between (optical) CMEs and their interplanetary
counterparts is still not well established. In anticipation of the Stereo and
Solar Orbiter Missions this relation ought to receive particular attention.
We
invite papers that survey the characteristics of SEP events (energy spectra,
intensity, elemental, isotopic, and charge state composition) and of CMEs and
ICMEs (kinetic, magnetic, elemental, isotopic, and charge state composition )
during solar cycle 23. We especially welcome papers that 1) relate solar cycle
23 to earlier cycles using long-term databases, and 2) summarize new
understanding that has emerged from this past solar maximum period. The
symposium will also serve to present to a wider community the results of the
Elmau and ISSI workshops in 2000-2004.
Rudolf von Steiger, ISSI,
Bern, Switzerland (vsteiger@issi.unibe.ch) Chris Cohen, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
(cohen@srl.caltech.edu)
and the scientific organizing committee.
35th COSPAR Assembly Special Session D2.3/E3.3/PSW2: “International Living with a Star (ILWS) Program” will take place during the forthcoming 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Paris, France, 18 - 25 July 2004.
The symposium invites contributions in the form of programmatic, scientific or technical reports in the following realms of importance for ILWS:
-
ILWS Space Flight Missions to be launched within the next decade
- Mission payloads or subsystems
- Additional data sources supporting ILWS flight missions (e.g. sounding rockets, balloons, or ground-based instrument networks)
- Models and theory of relevance for ILWS
- New methods of coordinated data dissemination and value adding data systems
- End user aspects and relations to space weather initiatives.
Oral and poster presentations on this topic are most welcome. See the COSPAR2004 website, http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html, for further information on the Scientific Sessions, Abstract Preparation and Submission, Financial Support etc.
The abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2004.
Main Scientific Organizer: Hermann Opgenoorth, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
E-mail: Hermann.Opgenoorth@rssd.esa.int.
Deputy Organizer: Lika Guhathakurta, NASA HQ,
Washington DC, USA. E-mail: mguhatha@hq.nasa.gov
David Sibeck, dsibeck@hq.nasa.gov
35th COSPAR Assembly Session E2.1. “Towards the science of Solar-B and STEREO” to be held at the 35th COSPAR Assembly in Paris, France.
The STEREO and Solar-B missions, due for launch in 2005 and 2006 respectively ,will provide us with new and complementary views of the Sun and its effects in the heliosphere and on the Earth. With Solar-B we will have a microscope to study the processes that transfer energy from beneath the photosphere to the Sun's outer atmosphere and their dynamic consequences, while STEREO's unique 3-D perspective will allow us to follow the evolution of these disturbances out through the heliosphere towards the Earth.
The purpose of this meeting is then to look forward to these missions and the new science that we will be able to achieve in the areas of: magnetic flux emergence and transport; 3-D structure of the corona and solar wind ; flare and CME initiation, evolution and effects in the heliosphere and particle acceleration at the Sun and in the heliosphere. The meeting will take place over two successive days and will include a number of invited talks that will describe the capabilities of the Solar-B and STEREO missions and the new science they will enable.
We would like to invite members of the solar and heliospheric community to participate in all areas related to the science of these two missions and to submit abstracts for contributed talks and posters via the COSPAR web-site :
The deadline for abstract submission is: 15 Feb 2004.
We hope to see you in Paris,
Sarah Matthews (for the SOC)
35th COSPAR Assembly Session
D2.4/E3.4 “Solar Encounter - the Solar
Orbiter Mission” - a
one-day meeting to be held during the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris,
France, 18 - 25 july 2004
Abstract deadline: 15 February
2004.
The
purpose of this meeting is to discuss our current understanding of the Sun, the
solar wind and the heliosphere, and to look to the future to determine how an
encounter mission can expand our knowledge. The meeting has been inspired by the
future planned Solar Orbiter mission. However this does not exclude
contributions on other encounter missions such as the Solar Probe . The meeting
is be co-sponsored by NASA, ESA, CNES and IAS.
For
more details, programme of invited speakers and links for submitting abstract
or applying for financial support, go to
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/cospar_encounter2004.html
Alan Gabriel, Main
scientific organiser, on behalf of the SOC (gabriel@ias.fr),
The 5th
Thermospheric/Ionospheric Geospheric Research (TIGER) Symposium to be held at the 35th COSPAR Scientific
Assembly.
SUBJECT: Long-term
measurement of solar EUV/UV fluxes for thermospheric/ ionospheric modelling and
for space weather investigations.
We
are pleased to inform you that the web page http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html
for the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Paris is now open and accepting
electronic submission of abstracts. Please note the dates of the Assembly,
18-25 July 2004, in your agenda and that the abstract deadline is 15 February
2004. More details you will find on the web pages. For example within
"3.Details of the Scientific Program" "Scientific Commission
C" "C1.2 Thermospheric-Ionospheric-Geospheric (TIGER)
Symposium", public links: information, organisation, lodging, transportation,
registration...
The
topics and subtopics of the scientific program of the symposium are:
1.0 Measurement of solar
EUV/UV radiation
1.1 Results from recent
missions
1.2 XUV monitoring missions
1.3 Intercomparison of
EUV/UV measurements
1.4 EUV/UV data base
1.5 Are there solar XUV
precursers to space weather activities?
2.0 EUV/UV space
intrumentation and its calibration
2.1 Calibration standards
2.2 Common use of
calibration equipment/procedures
2.3 Effects causing
efficiency changes in EUV/UV instruments
3.0 Modelling of solar
EUV/UV radiation
3.1 Empirical modelling of the solar EUV/UV irradiance
3.2 Physical modelling of
solar EUV/UV emissions
3.3 Intercomparison of
results from EUV/UV models
3.4 Definition and needs
of/for solar EUV/UV indices
3.5 Is the use of the MgII
index an improvement over the F10.7 index?
3.6 ISO solar irradiance
standard
3.7 Can a XUV Space Weather
index be derived?
4.0 Modelling of the thermosphere/ionosphere
4.1 General circulation
modelling
4.2 Semi-empirical modelling
4.3 Photochemical and
airglow modelling
Main Scientific Organizer:
Gerhard Schmidtke gerhard.schmidtke@ipm.fhg.de
Deputy Organizer: W. Kent
Tobiska ktobiska@spacenvironment.net
Scientific Organizing
Committee:
Topic
1: Tom Woods Tom.Woods@lasp.colorado.edu
Topic 2: Gerhard Schmidtke gerhard.schmidtke@ipm.fhg.de
Topic
3: Kent Tobiska ktobiska@spacenvironment.net
Topic
4: Stan Solomon stans@ucar.edu
Sincerely,
the TIGER organizing team
SOHO 15:
Coronal Heating,
University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, 6th-9th September, 2004, Website: http://www.soho15.org/
SOC Co-Chairs:
R.W. Walsh (University of
Central Lancashire, UK) , rwwalsh@uclan.ac.uk
J. Ireland (L3Com/GSI
NASA-GSFC, USA)
Aim of Workshop:
Understanding coronal
heating is fundamental to our understanding of the Sun. We are in an
unprecedented era in solar physics research with several space- and
ground-based observatories as well as sophisticated computer modelling revolutionizing
our understanding of the Sun. One of the three principal scientific objectives
the SOHO mission has been the "study of the heating mechanisms of the
solar corona".
This timely meeting will focus on developments in our understanding of
coronal heating brought about by SOHO, Yohkoh, TRACE, RHESSI and theoretical
advances.
Issues the workshop will address will include:-
What
exactly is the Coronal Heating Problem?
Role of the magnetic carpet
and small-scale structures in coronal heating Wave Heating: theoretical
constraints and observational analysis
Coronal Heating by Magnetic
Reconnection (Theory and Observations)
The Heating of Stellar
Coronae
Remote sensing of plasma
properties relating to coronal heating
Determining the local form
of the heat input to coronal loop atmospheres.
Please
note that the workshop will place special emphasis on looking towards the
"next generation" missions that will be arriving in the
not-to-distant future (in particular Solar-B, STEREO, SDO and Solar Orbiter).
In that regard, a few months before the workshop, it is planned that a short
paper will be made available on the website that will outline the instrumental
capabilities of future space-based solar instrumentation. Participants will be
encouraged to assess their contribution to the workshop programme in the light
of these.
Further
details on the workshop can be found at http://www.soho15.org .
Registration will open at the end of January 2004.
Robert W. Walsh (rwwalsh@uclan.ac.uk)
Jack Ireland (ireland@cdso8.nascom.nasa.gov)
REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT
SUBMISSION:
The registration fee is GBP
200.00. This covers attendance at the workshop, a pack/bag, a copy of the proceedings,
lunch each day at New Hall and tickets to a welcome reception (on Monday 6th),
the conference dinner and ceilidh (Wednesday 8th), and a whisky tasting event
(on Thursday 9th). If you wish to bring an accompanying person (e.g., spouse or
partner), then there is an additional conference fee of GBP 70.00 to attend the
above events. Registration closes on 18th June 2004.
Abstract submission for
either a contributed talk or poster is via the online submission form on the
website. Please note that a MAXIMUM of two contributions per delegate only will
be considered. The closing date for abstract submission is 14th May 2004.
ACCOMMODATION
Superior en-suite
accommodation is available in New Hall owned by the University of St Andrews
from Sunday 5th September till the morning of Friday 10th September. This
accommodation is listed as a 3 Star hotel and is 2-3 minute walk from the
Physics and Mathematics buildings where the workshop is taking place. It is
also a 5-10 minute walk from the centre of town. Also, rooms have been reserved
in the Scores Hotel (3 star) and the Rusacks Hotel (4 star), both within a few
minutes walk of the Mathematics and Physics buildings. All of these can be
booked through the workshop website.
If you wish to book
alternate accommodation yourself, there are many local hotels and guest houses
within a 10-15 minute walk from the Mathematics and Physics Buildings and a
list of possible places has been compiled by the LOC. St Andrews is a popular
tourist town so please book your accommodation early.
NOTE: SOHO 15 will finish on
Thursday 9th at 5pm and will be followed by a whisky tasting event. Due to the
location of St Andrews and the extra time required for transport connections,
we are recommending that delegates book accommodation for the Thursday evening
and thus plan to leave on Friday 10th September 2004. Unfortunately it is not
possible to book accommodation in New Hall on the night of Friday 10th; this is
due to Leuchars Air Show which takes place on Saturday 11th September 2004 and
that accommodation is already taken.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
1st
February 2004 :
Registration and abstract submission open
30th
April 2004 :
Closing date for accommodation at Scores
and Rusacks hotels
14th
May 2004 : Closing date for abstract submission
28th
May 2004 : Scientific programme
finalised
18th
June 2004 : Closing date for
registration and
accommodation
in New Hall
28th
June 2004 :
Closing date for payment of workshop
registration and
accommodation
6th September 2004 : SOHO 15 starts
9th September 2004 : SOHO 15 ends (5pm)
We are looking forward to
seeing you in St. Andrews in September 2004.
Robert W. Walsh (rwwalsh@uclan.ac.uk)
Jack Ireland (ireland@cdso8.nascom.nasa.gov)
Local Organising Committee (office@soho15.org)
IAU Symposium 226 on Coronal and Stellar Mass Ejections, Beijing, China, September 13-17, 2004
We are pleased to announce that our proposed symposium has been accepted by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Sydney. The goal of this meeting will be to discuss and summarize the latest research on coronal and stellar mass ejections. Both invited and contributed presentations will be included in the scientific program which will cover the following main topics:
1. Observed properties of CMEs
2. Source regions (magnetic and coronal structure)
3. Theoretical models of CMEs
4. Comparisons of theories and observations
5. ICMEs in the heliosphere
6. CMEs and energetic particles
7. CMEs and geomagnetic storms
8. Stellar ejecta
The scientific organizing and advisory committee consists of K. Dere (USA, co-chair) J. Wang (China, co-chair) S. Antiochos (USA) R. Howard (USA)
V. Bothmer (Germany) H. Hudson (USA)
J.-L. Bougeret (France) S. Kahler (USA)
A. Cameron (UK) D. Reames (USA)
H. Cane (Australia) R. Schwenn (Germany)
I. Chertok (Russia) K. Shibata (Japan)
C. Fang (China) S. Solanki (Germany)
T. Forbes (USA) B. Tsurutani (USA)
R. Harrison (UK) P. Venkatakrishnan (India)
If you are interested in receiving
further information on this meeting in the future, please visit our web page: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/~avourlid/cme_mtg
Use the email link to provide us with your email address so that we can send you future announcements.
Ken Dere <dere@halcyon.nrl.navy.mil>
Advanced
Summerschool in Solar Physics, 12-17th September 2004.
We are pleased to advertise
the following PPARC advanced summerschool in solar physics which will take place
from 12-17th September 2004. The organisation is in progress and details are
given on the following website.
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/summerschool2004.html
Louise Harra, lkh@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
JENAM '2004
"The many scales in the Universe", Granada (Spain), on 13-17 September, 2004
Dear colleagues,
It
is my pleasure to announce you that the next Joint European and National
Astronomical Meeting (JENAM '2004), entitled "The many scales in the
Universe", will be held in Granada (Spain), on 13-17 September, 2004,
organized jointly by the European Astronomical Society and the Spanish
Astronomical Society, and hosted by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia
(CSIC).
Looking
at the Universe at different scales is the most comprehensive way of learning
about the Universe. It also serves the purpose of gathering together
astronomers and astrophysicists of wide ranging interests in a single meeting.
These scales offer different (but complementary) physics for discussion: from
the very largest scales, the origin of the Universe (including dark energy,
dark matter and exotic particles), to the sun and the solar and other planetary
systems. The aim is to encompass all branches of astronomical research from the
theoretical, observational, and instrumentation points of view. Learning what
our colleagues are doing in other areas while going in depth in our own fields
of research is the main objective of this 2004 Joint European and National
Astronomical Meeting (JENAM). Furthermore, teaching and popularizing astronomy
are important for the present and future of astronomy, thus there will also be
a place for these activities.
Besides the scientific sessions the LOC aims at organizing a fair where scientific publishers, industrial companies with interest in astronomy, large astronomical institutions and organizations, and science museums and planetariums may have a place for exhibiting their products and/or facilities, and where professionals of astronomy can contact them directly. This is a new feature from former JENAM's that we hope will increase the interest of the community for attending the meeting.
All
the current information about the meeting can be found in our Web page: http://www.iaa.csic.es/jenam2004/.
Please drop by and browse it.
If you have any suggestion, please look for the
closest session to your scientific interests and talk directly to the
convenors.
Yours sincerely,
Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta
(Chair of the LOC), jti@iaa.es
Instituto
de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC)
Apdo.
de Correos 3004
E-18080 Granada
Spain
Phone: +34 958 121311
Fax: +34 958 814530 e-mail: jti@iaa.es
«VII Международная Байкальская молодежная научная школа по фундаментальной
физике "Взаимодействие полей
и излучения с веществом",
Иркутск, 20-25 сентября 2004 г.
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информационное сообщение об очередной
VII конференции молодых ученых «Международная Байкальская молодежная научная
школа по фундаментальной физике "Взаимодействие полей и излучения с
веществом", см http://bsfp.iszf.irk.ru/bsfp2004/.
Организаторами конференции выступают Институт солнечно-земной физики СО РАН, Иркутский
государственный университет, Физический факультет МГУ и Московский
физико-технический институт. Тематика школы формируется по следующим
направлениям: 1.Дистанционное зондирование околоземного космического пространства,
2. Солнечное излучение и межпланетная среда, 3. Взаимодействие излучения с
конденсированными средами. Для участия в работе Школы необходимо в срок до 28
февраля 2004 г. представить тезисы докладов и
лекций и заявку на участие
в школе, а в срок до 1 сентября 2004 г.
представить тексты докладов и
лекций.
The 4th EMS Annual Meeting, Nice, France, 26-30 September 2004,
http://www.emetsoc.org/ems_4th_annual_meeting.html.
The European Meteorological Society organizes and hosts a conference on climatological and meteorological interdisciplinary topics with an emphasis on plications such as - Instruments and methods of observations - Atmosphere and the water cycle - a real-time look - Applied Climatology - the 5th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) is featured as part and partner of the EMS Annual Meeting - Computing in Atmospheric Sciences - Information provision and education - Strategies with respect to the development of operational meteorology as well as symposia and side meetings The conference is currently in its Call for Programme stage, which enables you to be part of the evolution of the final programme. For further information and input please visit http://www.emetsoc.org/ems_4th_annual_meeting.html more general information on the European Meteorological Society is found at http://www.emetsoc.org
The Call for Programme's deadline is 11 January 2004
The organizers apologize should cross-posting occur and you receive this message by more than one route. I am convinced that the items proposed and the input by the Call for Programme warrant a lively and fascinating 4th EMS Annual Meeting and I hope to welcome you in 2004 in Nice.
Sincerely,
Hans Sandebring,
Chair, Programme Committee, 4th EMS Annual Meeting
Prof. Werner Wehry,
President, European Meteorological Society,
Applied Synoptics, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10,
12165 Berlin, Germany,
Phone: +49 30 838 71197, +49 30 7970 8324, Fax: +49 30 791 9002,
wehry@met.fu-berlin.de; http://www.emetsoc.org
Challenges in Modeling the Sun-Earth System - 2004 Huntsville Modeling
Workshop. It will be held at the Hilton in Huntsville Alabama,
October 11-15, 2004.
This is the first
announcement of the 2004 Huntsville Workshop entitled Challenges in Modeling
the Sun-Earth System. It will be held at the Hilton in Huntsville Alabama,
October 11-15, 2004.
Steering Committee:
Barbara Giles - NASA/HQ
Jack Gosling - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rod Heelis - University of
Texas at Dallas
Jeff Hughes - Boston
University
Janet Kozyra - University of
Michigan
Terry Kucera - NASA/GSFC
Bob Lin - University of
California at Berkeley
Bob Robinson - National
Science Foundation
Ray Roble - NCAR/University
of Colorado at Boulder
Chris Russell - University
of California at Los Angeles
Steve Suess -
NASA/MSFC/NSSTC
Larry Zanetti - JHU/APL
Conveners:
S. T. Wu - UAH/CSPAR
Jim Spann - NASA/MSFC/NSSTC
Abstract: The transfer of mass, energy and momentum through the coupled Sun-Earth system spans a wide range of scales in time and space. While profound advances have been made in modeling isolated regions of the Sun-Earth system, minimal progress has been achieved in modeling the end-to-end system. Currently, end-to-end modeling of the Sun-Earth system is a major goal of the National Space Weather and NASA Living With a Star (LWS) programs. The uncertainty in the underlying physics responsible for coupling contiguous regions of the Sun-Earth system is recognized as a significant barrier to progress. Our limited understanding of the underlying coupling physics is illustrated by the following example questions:
- How does the propagation
of a typical CME/solar flare influence the measured properties of the solar
wind at 1AU?
- How does the solar wind
compel the dynamic response of the Earth?s magnetosphere?
- How is variability in the
ionosphere-thermosphere system coupled to magnetospheric variations?
Why do these and related
important questions remain unanswered? What are the primary problems that need
to be resolved to enable significant progress in comprehensive modeling of the
Sun-Earth system? Which model/technique improvements are required and what new
data coverage is required to enable full model advances?
This
workshop will be a forum for identifying and exploring promising new directions
and approaches for characterizing and understanding the system. To focus the
discussion, the workshop will emphasize the genesis, evolution, propagation and
interaction of high-speed solar wind streamers or CME/flares with geospace and
the subsequent response of geospace from its outer reaches in the magnetosphere
to the lower edge of the ionosphere-mesosphere-thermosphere. Particular
emphasis will be placed on modeling the coupling aspects of these phenomena
across boundaries between regions and on data analysis that guides and
constrains model results.
Session topics:
Corotating Interacting
Regions (CIRs)
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Energetic Particles
Preconditioning
Super Storms
End-to-End Modeling Activities
Jim Spann, jim.spann@nasa.gov
22nd NSO Workshop
on "Large Scale Structures and their Role in Solar Activity", National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak,
Sunspot, New Mexico, USA, October 18-22, 2004.
This
workshop intends to review the current state of theory and observations of
large-scale structures on the Sun, and develop an understanding of the
large-scale organization of solar activity. Structures larger than a typical
active region are present throughout the solar atmosphere. In the convection
zone, they are indicative of the large-scale circulation (giant cells and jet
streams). At the photosphere and chromosphere they appear as complexes of
activity, large-scale magnetic fields, and patterns of filament channels. In
the corona, large-scale organization can be seen as coronal holes, polar caps
and extended connectivity between regions. A comprehensive understanding of the
physics of large-scale organization on the Sun is necessary.
Issues
this workshop intends to address include: What is the role of large-scale
structures in solar activity? What is the physical relationship between
patterns observed in different layers of solar atmosphere? How are photospheric
and coronal structures related to the underlying dynamo or circulation in the
convective zone? Recent theoretical developments and observations with
space-borne instruments (e.g., SoHO, TRACE, YOHKOH) and groundbased telescopes
(e.g., GONG, ISOON, SOLIS) may provide some answers to these questions.
The Workshop will
concentrate on the following major topics:
(1) Large-scale organization
in the solar dynamo and its observational signatures.
(2) Large-scale circulation
in the convection zone and photosphere. The influence of this circulation on
the activity cycle, formation of active regions, and the large-scale bipolar
and unipolar fields.
(3) The formation and evolution of complexes of activity and activity nests.
(4) Role of large-scale
magnetic fields and material flows in formation of filaments and filament
channels.
(5) Large-scale organization
related to eruptive phenomenon on the solar surface.
(6) Magnetic field and flows
in coronal holes and polar caps; large-scale connectivity in the corona.
(7) Influence of small-scale
processes in the formation and evolution of large-scale structures.
Further details about the
workshop will be found at the NSO webpage at http://www.nso.edu/general/workshops/2004/ws22.html
or by contacting the organizers.
K. Sankarasubramanian (sankara@nso.edu)
Matt Penn (mpenn@noao.edu)
Alexei Pevtsov (apevtsov@nso.edu)
RHESSI-SOHO-TRACE
workshop on "Flares and Eruptive Events", San
Francisco Area, December 8-10, 2004.
This note announces a RHESSI-SOHO-TRACE workshop on "Flares and Eruptive Events", to take place December 8-10, 2004, in the San Francisco Area just preceding the AGU meeting.
Hugh Hudson, hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu