UN/ICTP Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative

08:30 Registration and Administrative Matters

10:00÷11:30 Opening Remarks    Convener: Prof. Sandro Radicella (ICTP)

10:00 Welcome; Prof. Fernando Quevedo (Director, ICTP)

10:20 The International Space Weather Initiative;
Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (ISWI Executive Director, NASA)   

10:40 The Role of the Office of Outer Space Affairs in Support of the International Space Weather Initiative; Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA))   

11:00 The Scientific Committee for Solar Terrestrial Physics;
Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (SCOSTEP President)   

11:10 The International Committee for GNSS; Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UNOOSA)   

11:20 ICTP: a successful model of internatonal collaboraton ; Prof. Sandro Radicella (ICTP)   

11:30÷14:00 Keynote

11:30 Global Response to Space Weather; Dr. Daniel Baker (University of Colorado, USA)

12:30 Lunch

14:00÷17:00 Session 1: Space Weather Instrumentation and Data 1
Convener: Dr. A. Babatunde Rabiu (Nigeria)

14:00 Distributed Arrays for Space Weather Sensing and the SCINDA Network;
Keith Groves (Boston College, USA)   

14:20 VLF measurements via ISWI projects SOFIE and GIFDS;
Alexander Kasten (DLR, Germany)   

14:40 Improvement of instruments and capacity-building activities under the CHAIN-project;
Seki Daikichi (Kyoto University, Japan)   

15:00 New Space Weather Measurements from MACAWS: Monitors for Alaskan and Canadian Auroral Weather in Space (MACAWS); Anthea Coster (MIT-Haystack, USA)   

15:20 Coffee break

15:50 Investigation of the ionospheric absorption response to flare events during the solar cycle 23 as seen by European and South African ionosondes; Veronika Barta (Hungary)   

16:10 Simulating Ionospheric Scintillation of GPS Signals for Resilient PNT Testing and Challenges in Developing a Standardised Test Framework for Ionospheric Threats ;
Talini Pinto Jayawardena   

16:30 CoMIC: A customizable multicolor camera for solar-terrestrial interaction studies;
Supriya Chakrabarti (UMass Lowell, USA)   

17:30÷18:30 Get-together drink Location: Leonardo Building – Cafeteria ;

08:30÷09:30 Keynote

08:30 METIS Coronograph and its Implications for Space Weather Studies;
Ester Antonucci (INAF, Italy)   

09:30÷14:00 Session 2: Space Weather Instrumentation and Data 2
Convener: Dr. Keith Groves (USA)

09:30 A radio spectro-polarimeter for monitoring the activities on the Sun;
Anshu Kumari (IIA, India)   

09:50 UV Ionospheric Observations from the ISS; Susanna Finn (UMass Lowell, USA)   

10:10 On the effect of several geomagnetic storms of March and June 2015 at low-equatorial D-region dynamics using very low-frequency radio waves;
Ajeet Kumar Maurya (Doon University, India)   

10:30 Coffee break'

11:00 Progress on the Development of GNSS Station Networks in West Africa;
Olivier Obrou (University FHB Cocody, Cote d'Ivoire)   

11:20 The CDAW Data Center and Space Weather; Seiji Yashiro (Catholic University, USA)   

11:40 Challenges in Space Weather and GNSS Data Aggregation and Consolidation for Research; Renato Filjar (Zagreb University, Croatia)   

12:00 Questions and Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00÷14:40 Session 3: Space Weather Modeling
Convener: Dr. Bruno Nava (ICTP, Italy)

14:00 Data-Driven Models for Space Weather Prediction;
Chun Ming Mark Cheung (Stanford University, USA and Australia)   

14:20 Predicting the interplanetary evolution of the 2017 September 6 CME with an improved drag-based model with variable solar wind; Roberto Susino (INAF, Italy)   

14:40÷17:30 Session 4: Regional Space Weather Studies
Convener: Dr. Bruno Nava (ICTP, Italy)

14:40 Equatorial Upper Atmosphere and Space Weather÷Results in India;
Tarun Pant (SPL VSSC, India)   

15:00 Characteristics of storm time TEC variations observed over the equator-ward end of the mid-latitude regions; Patrick Sibanda (Kwame Nkrumah University, Zambia)   

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 The Effects of the Recurrent Storms on Fof2 at Ouagadougou Station during Solar Cycles 21-22; Frederic Ouattara (Burkina Faso)

16:20 Sensitivity of the ionosphere parameters, long-term variations, and its irregular structures in the Caucasus on geomagnetic activity; Goderdzi Didebilidze (Ilia State University, Georgia)   

16:40 On the nighttime enhancement of ionospheric electron density over the equatorial region; Sneha Yadav (SPL VSSC, India)   

17:00 Questions and Discussion

08:30÷09:30 Keynote

08:30 Extreme Solar Eruptions: Sources and Consequences; Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (NASA)   

09:30÷13:30 Session 5A: Solar Physics
Convener: Dr. David Webb (Boston College, USA)

09:30 Small-scale motions in solar filaments as the precursors of eruptions;
Seki Daikichi (Kyoto University, Japan)   

09:50 Intercycle and Intracycle Variation of Halo CME Rate Obtained from SOHO/LASCO Observations; Fithanegest Kassa Dagnew (Entoto Observatory, Ethiopia)   

10:10 Declining solar polar fields, the terrestrial magnetosphere and the forthcoming solar cycle; Janardhan Padmanabhan (Physical Research Laboratory, India)   

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Recent developments in solar energetic particle research;
Pertti Mäkelä (Catholic University USA)   

11:20 Machine learning analysis of SDO/HMI full disk images: property ranking and flare prediction; Michele Piana (University of Genova, Italy)

11:40 A potential mission for solar-corona observation using Earth as occultor;
Bingxian Luo (NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)   

12:00 Lunch

13:30÷17:30 Session 5B: Solar Physics Continued
Convener: Dr. Pertti Mäkelä (Catholic University, USA)

13:30 Characterization of CMEs from the associated High Frequency type II Solar Radio Bursts;
Jean Uwamahoro (University of Rwanda, Rwanda)

13:50 Coronal Mass Ejection Rates over 4 Solar Cycles; Dr David Webb (Boston College, USA)   

14:10 ICMEs as drivers of Sun-Earth coupling and Space Weather initiatives of LAMP in Argentina'; Sergio Dasso (UBA-CONICET, Argentina)   

14:30 Preliminary observational investigation of the variability of nighttime equatorial thermospheric winds over Nigeria, West Africa; A. Babatunde Rabiu (NASRDA, Nigeria)   

14:50 Questions and Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Poster Session ( Leonardo Building÷Lobby )

08:30÷09:30 Keynote

08:30 Multi-point ground network of the Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs) and the PWING project for measurements of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere; Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa (Japan)   

09:30÷14:00 Session 6: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling
Convener: Dr. Christine Amory-Mazaudier (France)

09:30 Electrodynamic coupling between high and low latitudes: recent advances in the framework of the ISWI network; Christine Amory-Mazaudier (LPP Polytechnique, France and ICTP, Italy)   

09:50 On the Multiscale Nature of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System;
Giuseppe Consolini (INAF, Italy)

10:10 High-energy magnetospheric electrons and their dependence on interplanetary conditions; Olga Kryakunova (Institute of Ionosphere, Kasakhstan)   

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Space Weather in the Magnetosphere: Causes and Consequences;
Qiugang Zong (Peking University, China)

11:20 The Complex Ionosphere; Massimo Materassi (CNR-ISC, Italy)   

11:45 Questions and Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00÷15:00 Keynote

14:00 Space Weather Effects on Critical Operations and Activity in the High North;
Dr. Pal Brekke (Norway)  

15:00÷17:30 Session 7 Space Weather Effects
Convener: Dr. Ashik Paul (India)

15:00 A preliminary estimation of the risk due to GICs over the Italian territory;
Roberta Tozzi (INGV, Italy)

15:20 Effects of the Great American Solar Eclipse on the lower ionosphere observed with VLF waves; Rok Vogrinčič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)   

15:40 Coffee break

16:00 Cosmic Rays' Effect on Critical Frequencies and Ionospheric Heights;
Seray Sahin (Akdeniz University, Turkey)   

16:20 Solar and interpanetary effects on ionospheric processes;
Mirela Voiculescu (University of Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Romania)

16:40 Multi-technique characterization of ionospheric Space Weather effects;
Ashik Paul (University of Calcutta, India)   

17:00 Questions and Discussion

19:00÷21:0019:00 Banquet at Ristorante Le Terrazze

08:30÷10:00 Session 8: International Agency Space Weather Activities
Convener: Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (NASA)

08:30 ESA Space Weather Activities; Alexi Glover (ESA)   

08:50 The Space Weather Italian Community organization (SWICO);
Umberto Villante (Universita L'Aquila, Italy)   

09:10 Space Weather Research Support at the National Science Foundation; Lisa Winter (NSF, USA)

09:30 Geospace Environmental Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory;
Ron Caton (AFRL, USA)   

09:50 The Ionosphere Prediction Service: an EC project to support GNSS users;
Claudio Cesaroni (INGV, Italy)   

10:10 Questions and Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

11:00÷12:30 Session 9: Outreach and Education
Convener: Ms. Sharafat Gadimova (UNOOSA)

11:00 International Community Coordination in Space Weather;
Judy Karpen, Masha Kuznetsova, Shing Fung (USA)   

11:20 Strategies that Engage Students to Learn about Space Weather;
Marie Chantale Damas (City University of New York, USA)   

11:40 The Boston College and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Research Collaboration for Outreach and Capacity Building;
Patricia Doherty and Sandro Radicella (BC, USA and ICTP, Italy)   

12:00 Questions and Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00÷15:20 Session 10: National Space Weather Programs
Convener: Prof. Patricia Doherty (Boston College)

14:00 The INAF National Space Weather Service Network; Mauro Messerotti (INAF, Italy)   

14:20 Space weather studies related activities in Azerbaijan;
Elchin Babayev (Baku State University, Azerbaijan)

14:40 Space Weather Services in Nigeria, A case of TEC Forecasting over Nigeria;
Rasheedat Abdularahim (NASRDA, Nigeria)   

15:00 Recent Space Weather Advances by Research Community in Italy;
Vincenzo Romano (INGV, Italy)   

15:20 Closing Remarks