Meetings related to VarSITI in 2018

ISEST 2018 Workshop XVIth Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium         September 24÷28 2018, Hvar, Croatia

web-address http://oh.geof.unizg.hr/index.php/en/meetings/isest-2018

This workshop directly addresses the scientific goals of the VarSITI project The International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST). The workshop aims to bring together scientists around the world to carry out focused study and information exchange on the set of scientific questions laid out by the ISEST program. The overarching goals are: i) to advance physical understanding of the origin and heliospheric propagation of solar transients, including coronal mass ejections (CMEs), corotating interaction regions (CIRs) and solar energetic particles SEPs; ii) to comprehend their impact on the Earth; iii) to advance space weather prediction capabilities. Basic questions to be addressed are how do CMEs and CIRs propagate and evolve, drive shocks, and accelerate energetic particles in the heliosphere. The workshop will include observational, theoretical, and modelling aspects of these questions.

The ISEST 2018 Workshop is the latest of a series of workshops organized by the ISEST project, which is one of the four projects of SCOSTEP's VarSITI program (2014-2018). The ultimate goal of the ISEST project is to develop the capability to predict the arrival and geoeffectiveness and other space-weather consequences of solar transients. The ISEST project, involving a truly global network of scientists, consists of seven active working groups: (1) Data, (2) Theory, (3) Simulation, (4) Event campaign, (5) Bs challenge, (6) Solar Energetic Particles, and (7) MiniMax campaign. The project provides a standing website for hosting event catalogs, data and presentations and offers a forum for discussion available at http://solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/.

Confirmed work group leaders: Jie Zhang (GMU, USA, WG1), Bojan Vrsnak (OH/UNIZG, Croatia, WG2), Dusan Odstrcil (GSFC/GMU, USA, WG3), Fang Shen (NSSC, China, WG3), David Webb (ISR/BC, USA, WG4), Spiros Patsourakos (UOI, Greece, WG5), Olga Malandraki (NOA, Greece, WG6),
Manuela Temmer (UNIGRAZ, Austria, WG7)

Confirmed invited speakers: Teresa Nieves Chinchilla (IACS/CUA, USA), Christina Cohen (SRL/CALTECH, USA), Lucie Green (UCL, UK), Philip Hess (NRL, USA), Meng Jin (LMSAL, USA), Christina Kay (NASA/GSFC, USA), Dusan Odstrcil (GSFC/GMU, USA), Rui Pinto (IRAP, France), Camilla Scolini (KUL/SIDC, Belgium), Cheng Long Shen (USTC, China)

Venue

The meeting will be held on the mediterranean island Hvar in the medieval town Hvar located only 15 km from one of the oldest Greek settlements in the Adriatic, Pharos (Stari Grad) which was founded in 384 BC.

The conference will take place at Amfora Hotel, which is located 5 - 10 minutes walk distance to the west along the coast from Hvar town main square.

Hvar town on Google maps

Climate The weather in September is usually is usually warm and calm with average daytime temperatures between 22⁰ and 26⁰C. The sea temperature is usually around 22⁰C.