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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.

The workshop's website is now open for pre-registration: http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/

We announce the "Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop" to be hosted by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and held in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.

The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including white-light, EUV, and radio observation, together with modellers in order to tackle key outstanding science and space-weather operational issues, establish closer working relations, and devise the best ways to move the field forward as a whole. In addition, the science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-weather forecasting. The workshop aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and sub-communities and to officially launch the IPS Common Data Format v1.0 (IPSCDFv1.0) now in use. It also aims to allow investigations into ways in which we model the inner heliosphere looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the available modelling, updates on present and future remote-sensing capabilities, and investigating further the ways in which these data sets all complement each other and are necessary to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical processes that occur within the inner heliosphere. These are critical processes that are key to both Heliophysics science as well as to space-weather operations and forecasting.

It is anticipated that the Workshop will focus on topics such as:

  • Stream and co-rotating interaction regions (SIRs/CIRs).
  • Numerical modelling of the inner heliosphere through comparison with remote-sensing observations.
  • The solar wind in the initiation phase/acceleration phase and its modelling.
  • Present and future observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS).
  • A look at CME events where remote-sensing observations failed us, how and why this occurred, and how might we improve upon this in the future.
  • The future of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere - from IPS opportunities (MEXART, STEL, ORT, LOFAR, SKA, etc...) to Heliospheric Imager (HI) opportunities.

Key Dates

Pre-registration: Friday 31 July 2015
Early Registration (US$100): Friday 28 August 2015
Abstract Deadline (Free): Friday 28 August 2015
Final Registration (US$150): Friday 25 September 2015
Updated Workshop Dates: Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 October 2015

Venue

Unidad Michoacán, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

1st Announcement

We are please to announce the "Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop" to be hosted by the Instituto de Geofisica, Michoacan Seat, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and held in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.
The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote­sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including white­light, EUV, and radio observation, together with modellers in order to tackle key outstanding science and space­weather operational issues, establish closer working relations, and devise the best ways to move the field forward as a whole. In addition, the science learned from remote­sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space­weather forecasting. The workshop aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and sub­communities and to officially launch the IPS Common Data Format v1.0 (IPSCDFv1.0) now in use. It also aims to allow investigations into ways in which we model the inner heliosphere looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the available modelling, updates on present and future remote­sensing capabilities, and investigating further the ways in which these data sets all complement each other and are necessary to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical processes that occur within the inner heliosphere. These are critical processes that are key to both Heliophysics science as well as to space­weather operations and forecasting.

Core Organizers

  • J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza (UNAM, Mexico)
  • Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK)
  • Bernard V. Jackson (UCSD, USA) David Webb (BC, USA)