The 3rd AOSWA Workshop March 2-5, 2015, Fukuoka, Japan
The workshop completed successfully web-address:http://aoswa.nict.go.jp/workshop_3/index.html
BackgroundSession Schedule 
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Asia Oceania Space Weather Alliance was established in 2010 for encouraging cooperation and sharing information among institutes in Asia-Oceania region concerned with and interested in space weather. Asia-Oceania has become one of the most important regions for space utilities and require close communication and cooperation. We hope the AOSWA framework will help us improving space weather activities.
We are glad to see you all again on AOSWA-3 meeting. As the third meeting, we now prepare some new trial in the conference. The first one is to have a cooperative conference with United Nation / International Space Weather Initiative (UN/ISWI). The participants of UN/ISWI are not only from Asia/Oceania but also from Africa, South America and more. We hope to expand our communication, discussion and cooperation with these new friends in this opportunity. The second trial is to have an "event report", in which we will discuss some space weather events in specific period. We have already held the meeting for many times but this is the first time to have an international session. We hope it will bring lots of fruitful results.
Also Fukuoka is a historical city which has been the gate connecting Japan and the East Asia for a long time. The Asian continent is very close to Fukuoka, and it has been exchanging foods, culture, technology and information. So it is much meaningful to have AOSWA meeting in Fukuoka. Please join us to attend to AOSWA-3 and enjoy your stay in Fukuoka. In addition to exciting discussions, you must have very nice local foods and cultures.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Fukuoka.
Mamoru Ishii
March 3, 2015 15:30-18:00 AOSWA/UN/ISWI Joint Session
Read the AOSWA Newsletter Issue4 (May 2014)
2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather
"Science and Data Products from ISWI Instruments"
March 2-5, 2015, Fukuoka, Japan The workshop completed successfully
Program & Presentations online (click here)
web-address:http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/act2015/japan/index.html
BackgroundISWI is a program of international cooperation to advance space weather science by a combination of instrument deployment, analysis and interpretation of space weather data from these instruments in conjunction with space data, and the communication of the results to the public. While the ISWI was formally concluded in 2012, most of the activities continued beyond the formal end of the initiative. They contribute to the discussion under a new agenda item on Space Weather in the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
The key function of the present Workshop is to follow-up on ISWI recommendations and to maintain the capacity building momentum established by IHY and ISWI.
March 3, 2015 15:30-18:00 AOSWA/UN/ISWI Joint Session
The objective of the Workshop is to provide a global forum for participants to discuss capacity building, global observation, and science/education on space weather, building on the achievements of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI).
Workshop Programme
The Workshop Programme will consist of a series of Sessions with technical presentations, panel discussions and working group meetings. Sessions will cover:
- Space weather instrumentation: (a) Space-based, (b) Ground-based (ISWI)
- Solar weather
- Solar wind and inter-planetary medium
- Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Atmosphere
- Coupling processes
- Sun-to-Earth space weather modeling
- Space weather impact or awareness
The programme may also include a field trip and a social events programme for all Workshop participants. The detailed Workshop Programme will be made available here in due course.
Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)
Dr. Nat Gopalswamy NASA, ISWI, SCOSTEP (SOC Chair)
Dr. Akimasa Yoshikawa Kyushu University, Japan (SOC Co-Chair)
Dr. Werner Balogh Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations (SOC Co-Chair)
Dr. Christine Amory France
Dr. Fairos Asillam ANGKASA, Malaysia
Dr. Vafi Doumbia l’University Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Cote d’Ivoire
Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta NASA HQ
Dr. Mamoru Ishii NICT, Japan
Dr. Jose Ishitsuka IGP, Peru
Dr. Ian Mann University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. P. K. Manoharan NCRA, India
Dr. Christian Monstein ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Takahiro Obara Tohoku University, Japan
Dr. Young-deuk Park KASI, Republic of Korea
Dr. Babatunde Rabiu NASRDA, Nigeria
Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa Nagoya University, Japan
Dr. Manuela Temmer University of Graz, Austria
Dr. Rami Vainio University of Turku, Finland
Dr. Kanya Kusano Nagoya University, Japan
Dr. Satoru Ueno Kyoto University, Japan