Agenda of the YSWG workshop

    Coimbra (Portugal), 26-28 March 2019

     

    Tuesday, 26 March

    8.30

    Arrival, Registration

    9.00- 9.10

    Welcome from Coimbra Observatory

    Nuno Peixinho

    9.10- 9.20

    Welcome from Europlanet

    Melinda Dosa

    9.20- 9.35

    BepiColombo status

    Go Murakami

    9.35- 9.50

    Mendeley Tool Presentation

    Daniel Heyner

    Session 1: surface

    9.50- 10.10

    Explosive Vents on Mercury: Common Place Multiple Eruptions and Their Implications

    David Pegg

    10.10- 10.30

    Spectral Properties of Pyroclastic Deposits on Mercury: Physical Extent, Geomorphology and Eruptive History

    Océane Barraud

    10.30- 11.00

     Coffee break

    11.00-11.20

    Lithology of the Shakespeare (H-03) quadrangle of Mercury

    Nicolas Bott

    11.20-11.40

    Complex Craters on Mercury: MIXS Target Selection.

    Graeme Hall

    11.40-12.00

    Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Mercury: Combining laboratory measurements to telescope data supporting MERTIS instrument onboard BepiColombo mission

    Indhu Varatharajan

    12.00-12.20

    Surface Processes of Mercury, opportunities for BepiColombo

    Susan Conway

    12.30

     Lunch at Restaurant Observatório

     

    Session 2: surface, exosphere and dust environment

    13.45-14.05

    Modelling of thermal-IR spectra of forsterite: application on remote sensing for Mercury 

    Claudia Stangarone

    14.05-14.25

    Thermophysical properties of Mercury surface: possible influence on composition and exosphere

    Edoardo Rognini

    14.25-14.45

    Review of the paper by Plainaki et al. (2017) on the Ca exosphere of Mercury, in view of the BepiColombo mission

    Adrian Kazakov

    14.45-15.05

    Dust environment around Mercury and Mercury Dust Monitor onboard Mio (MMO)

    Takayuki Hirai

    15.05- 15.25

    Dust detection by electric field instruments

    Jakub Vaverka

    15.25- 15.55

     Coffee break

    Session 3: Internal Magnetic field

    15.55-16.15

    Mercury's Dynamo: Recent Developments and Implications on the Internal Structure

    Patrick Kolhey

    16.15- 16.35

    Hermean Main Field Determination

    Johannes Mieth

    16.35- 16.55

    Crustal Magnetic Field of Mercury. What do we know from MESSENGER? What do we shall expect from Bepi?

    Joana Oliveira

    16.55- 17.15

    Paleomagnetospheric Modelling of the Hermean Magnetosphere

    Daniel Heyner

    17.15

     End of first day (room available until 18h30)
           

     

    Wednesday, 27 March

    Session 4: Magnetosphere modelling

    9.00- 9.20

    Mercury as a space weather laboratory

    Melinda Dosa and Aniko Timar

    9.20- 9.40

    SHOTS: Young Joint Modeling Group

    Willi Exner

    9.40- 10.00

    Effects of plasma conductivity on the structure of the Hermean magnetosphere

    Shahab Fatemi

    10.00- 10.30

     Coffee break

    10.30- 10.50

    Modelled magnetic reconnection at the Mercury’s magnetopause in support of the scientific objectives of SERENA

    Ivanovski Stavro

    10.50- 11.10

    Transport and energization of planetary ions in the magnetospheric flanks of Mercury

    Sae Aizawa

    11.10- 11.30

    Mercury's Magnetotail: Structure, Asymmetries, and Transport of Mass and Energy

    Gang Kai Poh

    Session 5: Magnetosphere observations

    11.30- 11.50

    MESSENGER observations on the proton energization in near Mercury tail

    Weijie Sun

    11.50- 12.10

    MESSENGER observations of flow braking in Mercury's magnetotail

    Ryan Dewey

    12.10- 12.30

    Multi-point observations of energetic particles in the Mercury magnetosphere

    Simon Lindsay

    12.30

    Lunch at Restaurant Observatório

    14.00- 14.20

    BERM Status and first results

     Richard Moissl

    Session 6: Open questions

    14.20- 14.40

    BepiColombo Venus flybys

    Valeria Mangano

    14.40- 14.50

    Venus Flyby: Science and Ground based support campaign

    Pedro Machado

    14.50- 15.10

    Venus ion outflow - prospect for BepiColombo

    Markus Fraenz

    15.10- 15.30

    Discussion on Venus science

    Chair: Valeria Mangano

    15.30

     Leave to the University

    16.15-18.00

     Visit to the old University

    19.30

     Social dinner

     

    Thursday, 28 March

    General discussion

    9.00- 10.00

    Discussion on open questions on Mercury's environment Discussion on summary of presented science cases. Selection of cases to be further discussed in the frame of BepiColombo coordinated observations

    Anna Milillo

    All

    10.00

     Coffee break

    10.30- 11.00

    Case 1: TBD

    chair: TBD

    11.00- 11.30

    Case 2: TBD

    chair: TBD

    11.30- 12.00

    Case 3: TBD

    chair: TBD

    12.00- 12.30

    Case 4: TBD

    chair: TBD

    12.30

     Lunch at Restaurant Observatório

    14.00- 15.00

    AOB: Feedback about workshop; future meetings

    Daniel Heyner

    15.00

    End of meeting

    16.00-16.45

     FYI: Press release

     

    Johannes Benkhoff and Go Murakami.