United Nations/Austria
Symposium on Space Weather Data, Instruments and Models: Looking Beyond the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI)
16-18 September 2013, Graz, Austria
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Space Research
Hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs,
State of
Styria and City of Graz
and co-sponsored by European Space Agency (ESA)
Symposium Programme
Monday, 16 September 2013
08:00 Registration
09:00 Opening
Chairperson: Otto Koudelka, Graz University of Technology and JOANNEUM RESEARCH
| 09:00 | Welcome/Opening Remarks o Wolfgang Baumjohann, Austrian Academy of Sciences o Peter Piffl-Percevic, City of Graz o Christine Stix-Hackl, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs o Werner Balogh, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs | |
| 10:00 | Introduction, Keynote Addresses | |
| 10:00 | 20 Years UN/Austria Symposium, Objectives and Logistics of the 2013 Symposium  | Werner Balogh, OOSA |
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
| 11:00 | The International Space Weather Initiative a Follow-on to the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) | Joseph M Davila, NASA-GSFC Hans Haubold |
| 11:30 | The International Space Weather Initiative | Hans Haubold OOSA and Centre for Mathematical Sciences, India |
12:00 Lunch
| 13:30 | Session 1: Worldwide Instrument Arrays, Data Products | |
| 13:30 | Building on ISWI to Improve Space Weather Services and Global Benefits to Society | Terry Onsager, NOAA |
| 14:10 | SCOSTEP Scientific Programme VARSITI (2014-2018) | Katya Georgieva, Space Research&Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 14:30 | MiniMax24 - a One-year SCOSTEP Campaign on Solar-Terrestrial Connections | Tanja Rollett, University of Graz, Austria |
| 14:45 | Current status and plan of the Optical Mesosphere | Kazuo Shiokawa, STELab, Nagoya University, Japan |
15:00 Coffee/Tea Break
| 15:30 | ICSWSE/MAGDAS Project | Akimasa Yoshikawa, ICSWSE, Kyushu University, Japan |
| 15:50 | Solar radio spectrometer network e-Callisto | Christian Monstein, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 16:10 | Contributions of UKM towards the International Space Weather Initiative | Siti Aminah Bahari, Institute of Space Science, UKM, Malaysia |
| 16:20 | Laboratory of Space Environment (LSEE) and Our Effort in Solar EUV Observation for Space Weather | Jilong Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| 16:30 | Panel Discussion: Towards Reliable Space Weather Forecasts: Results of the ISWI | |
| 09:00 | Session 2: Data Analysis and Models | |
| 09:00 | Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: | Constantino Tsallis, National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Brazil |
| 09:45 | Stochastic Models via Pathway Idea | A.M. Mathai, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, India Hans Haubold |
| 10:00 | Standard Deviation Analysis vs. Diffusion Entropy Analysis | Hans Haubold, OOSA and Centre for Mathematical Sciences, India |
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
| 11:00 | Modelling the Dynamic of the Ionosphere over Malaysia and | Karthigesu Nagarajoo, University Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia |
| 11:20 | Ionospheric response to the geomagnetic storm of 15 May 2005 | Praveen Galav, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India |
| 11:40 | Analysis of solar, interplanetary and ground-based data to study forbush decreases, GLEs, and geomagnetic storms | Badruddin Nil, Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, India |
| 12:00 | Data Analysis of Ground-based Observations - Automatic flare recognition and filament eruption detection at Kanzelhöhe Observatory | Werner Poetzi, Kanzelhöhe Observatory/University of Graz, Austria |
12:20 Lunch
| 13:30 | Session 3: Data Analysis and Tools | |
| 13:30 | New products for monitoring and forecasting space weather in South America: regional magnetic indices | Clezio Marcos De Nardin, Head of the Embrace Space Weather Programme, INPE, Brazil |
| 13:50 | GPS-TEC measurements at low latitude using UNB Ionospheric Modeling Technique | Dadaso Jaypal Shetti, Department of Physics, Smt. Kasturbai Walchand College, India |
| 14:10 | The Operational Space Weather Observing and Data Processing System in NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Cai Yanxia, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| 14:30 | Magnetic reconnection - the mechanism of the space weather changes | Alexandra Alexandrova, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria |
14:50 Coffee/Tea Break
| 15:30 | Solar and interplanetary precursors of geomagnetic storms in solar cycle 23 | Jean Uwamahoro, Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda |
| 15:50 | Space Weather on Extra-solar Planetary Systems | Arnold Hanslmeier, University of Graz, Austria |
| 16:10 | Space weather affects on (human) terrestrial life | Christian Bartsch, Center for Research in Medical and Natural Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 16:30 | European Space Weather Week - "Wall of Peace" Initiative | Jean Lilensten, CNRS, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), France |
| 16:50 | The ISWI Website and the ISWI Newsletter | Dimitar Danov, Space Research&Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 9:00 | Session 4: Discussions on the Report and Future Activities Beyond ISWI | |
| 09:00 | Panel Discussion: Recommendations for the Space Weather Expert Meeting at STSC in February 2014 | Chair: Terry Onsager, NOAA |
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
| 11:00 | Symposium Review, Observations and Recommendations |
| 12:30 | Closing Session Distribution of Certificates and Closing Remarks by the organizers
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