“Heliophysics in Europe” Workshop Session SCHEDULES

A Summary and set of recommendations was drawn up following the meeting.

They can be found here:

Meeting Summary and Recommendations

Discussions during the meeting, and posters, can be found on Zulip

There is also an open area to allow community discussion and suggestions after the meeting

Zulip page


The meeting was split into the following four sessions,

Session 1: ESA Heliophysics activities  - presentations are availible here: 

ESA HWG intro

ESA HWG SCI overview

ESA HWG SWE overview

ESA HWG TEC overview

ESA HWG HRE overview

ESA HWG EOP overview

ESA HWG overview

 

Session 2: Building Bridges in Heliophysics: open questions, missing observations, measurements, models, and investigative techniques 

Topic 1: Interdisciplinary science targets

Topic 2: Mission Concepts

Topic 3: Multi-Instrument and general Science

Topic 4: Data, analysis methods, instruments

Session 3: Building a European Heliophysics network and community hub 

Session 4: Workshop Reporting, Summary, SWOT discussion and next steps

 

The full week schedule in detail is shown below.

An excel version is availible here, with abstracts included.

Session 2 and 3 schedules, including abstracts

Posters are also availible in Zulip.

 

Monday 30 October 2023

 

Session 1 : Conveners: Matt Taylor, Piers Jiggens, Jussi Luntama, Astrid Orr and Anja Strømme

14:00

   

Welcome and introduction to meeting , opening comments

14:15

Matt

Taylor

Heliophysics in D/SCI

14:40

Juha-Pekka

Luntama

Heliophysics in D/OPS

15:05

Piers

Jiggens

Heliophysics in D/TEC

15:30

COFFEE

   

16:00

Sebastien

Vincent-Bonnieu

Heliophysics in D/HRE

16:25

Anja

Stromme

Heliophysics in D/EOP

16:50

Matt

Taylor

The ESA Heliophyics Working Group - activities , output and outlook

17:30

Discussion

   

18:00

 

NETWORKING SESSION

19:30

 

END

 
       

Tuesday 31 October 2023

 

Session 2: Building Bridges in Heliophysics: open questions, missing observations, measurements, models, and investigative techniques

 Conveners: Heli Hietala, Manuela Temmer, Sophie Musset, Lisa Baddeley, Caitriona Jackman, Jan Soucek, Ashley Smith, Christina Plainaki,
Laura Hayes, Liisa Juusola, Zoe Faes

09:00

Intro - interdisciplinary science targets

09:03

1) Anita

Aikio 

Challenges of the ionosphere-thermosphere research and space weather
forecasting

09:06

2) Christopher

Chen

Turbulence and fundamental processes as cross-cutting topics:
current progress and future directions

09:09

3) Iannis

Dandouras

Ion escape processes in the solar system and beyond

09:12

4) Christian

Möstl (ONLINE)

Predicting the geomagnetic effects of solar coronal mass ejections

09:15

5) Anders

Tjulin (ONLINE)

EISCAT_3D and potential areas for collaborations

09:18

6) Emma

Woodfield (ONLINE)

Strange new worlds, comparing wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts
of the Solar System.

09:21

 

a moment of contemplation 

09:24

Natalia

Ganushkina

Challenges and open questions in modeling of substorm effects upon partcile
dynamics in the inner Earth's magnetosphere
 WITHDRAWN

09:27

7) Fenn

Leppard

Modelling Soft X-Ray Emissions from Solar Wind Charge Exchange in
Jupiter's Magnetosheath

09:30

8) Evgeny

Panov

What Drives Magnetotail Dipolarizations?

09:33

9) Hardi 

Peter

An integrated approach for observations and models of the upper
solar atmosphere

09:36

10) Veerle

Sterken (ONLINE)

Synergies between heliospheric and dust sciences

09:39

11) Lucile

Turc

Upstream mesoscale transients and their impact on planetary
plasma environments

09:42

12) Daniel

Verscharen

Electron-astrophysics — Building bridges from electron measurements in
space to the physics of the
biggest structures in the Universe

09:45

13) Martin

Volwerk

On the importance of cruise phase science

09:48

14) Olivier

Witasse

The JUICE mission: Science opportunities during cruise

09:51

Discussion on interdisciplinary science targets

10:30

COFFEE

   

11:00

Intro - mission concepts part 1

11:03

1) David

Andrews

Science rationale for ground-based space physics measurements at Mars

11:06

2) Pontus

Brandt

Cross-divisional exploration of the Heliosphere, the Solar System,
the Very Local Interstellar Medium and beyond

11:09

Jennifer 

3) Ravindra

Carter

Desai

Elfen: A CubeSat to measure heavy ions in the magnetosphere 

11:12

Beatriz

4) Dave

Sanchez-Cano

Andrews

Mars Space Weather and how to effectively address it:  Mars Magnetosphere
Atmosphere Ionosphere and Space weather SciencE (M-MATISSE)
An ESA Medium class (M7) candidate

11:15

5) Nils

Janitzek

Building upon Solar Orbiter: New solar and heliospheric science from a polar
perspective and other vantage points

11:18

6) Roberta

Sparvoli (ONLINE)

The CSES multi-satellite program as a Space-Weather sentinel

11:21

 

a moment of contemplation 

11:24

7) Alex

Chartier

Remote Sensing Space Plasmas Using Networked Sounding

11:27

8) Ravindra

Desai

ROARS: Revealing Orbital & Atmospheric Responses to Solar activity
A multi-spacecraft mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

11:30

9) Rico

Fausch

Towards real-time measurements of total number density and chemical
composition in LEO: the CHESS mission

11:33

10) Peter

Gallagher

SURROUND: A Constellation of CubeSats to Track Solar Radio Bursts

11:36

Matina

11) Pontus

Gkioulidou

Brandt

Observing the Global Geospace in Mesoscale Resolution

11:39

12) Laura

Hayes

The Solar Particle Acceleration, Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) mission:
a mission to understand the nature of particle acceleration

11:42

Larry

13) Rumi

Kepko

Nakamura

ISTPNext and the Heliophysics Great Observatories

11:45

14) Yuri

Khotyaintsev

The Need for Better In-Situ Measurements of Collisionless Shocks

11:48

Discussion on mission concepts topics 1

13:00

Lunch

   

14:00

Poster session 1 - interdisciplinary science targets and mission concepts

15:30

COFFEE

   

16:00

Intro - mission concepts part 2

16:03

1) Monica

Laurenza

HENON: a pioneer mission for advanced Space Weather science
and predictions

16:06

2) Maria Federica

Marcucci

Unveiling plasma energization and energy transport with multi-scale
observations in the Earth’s Magnetospheric System: the Plasma
Observatory ESA M7 candidate mission.

16:09

3) Nour E.

Raouafi WITHDRAWN

The Firefly (4π) Mission: Enabling a Holistic View of the Sun
and its Environment

16:12

4) Jonathan 

Rae

European interest in the GDC + Dynamic missions

16:15

5) Krzysztof

Barczynski (ONLINE)

Solar and ionospheric physics linkage

16:18

6) Daniel

Kastinen

Very minor ions in the magnetosphere: an interdisciplinary subject involving
mesosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, the Moon, and the solar wind.

16:21

7) Konstantinos

Dialynas

The science of the large scale heliosphere: in-situ ions from the Voyagers
and remotely sensed ENAs from Cassini

16:24

 

a moment of contemplation 

16:27

8) Elias

Roussos

Jupiter’s radiation belts as a prime target for heliophysics
and the COMPASS mission concept

16:30

9) Ondřej

Santolík

Measurement of the nonlinear response of electron distribution function to
chorus emissions in the Earth's radiation belt

16:33

10) Theodoros

Sarris

The need for in-situ measurements to resolve outstanding questions on
plasma-neutral interactions in the Lower Thermosphere - Ionosphere:

16:36

11) Rolf

Schlichenmaier   (ONLINE)     The European Solar Telescope (EST)

 

16:39

Matthias 

Drusch

New Earth Observation Mission Ideas

16:42

Discussion - mission concepts part 2

18:00

END

   
       

Wednesday 1 November 2023

 

Session 2: Building Bridges in Heliophysics: open questions, missing observations, measurements, models, and investigative techniques

 Conveners: Heli Hietala, Manuela Temmer, Sophie Musset, Lisa Baddeley, Caitriona Jackman, Jan Soucek, Ashley Smith, Christina Plainaki,
Laura Hayes, Liisa Juusola, Zoe Faes

09:00

Intro - Multi-instruments and general science

09:03

Jennifer

1) Malcolm

Carter

Dunlop

Ground-based and additional science support for the SMILE mission

09:06

2) Lakshmi Pradeep

Chitta

Sun's farthest reach: tracing the birth of the solar wind

09:09

Savvas

3) Florian

Raptis

Koller

Connecting solar and near-earth upstream conditions to foreshock,
bow shock and magnetosheath environment

09:12

4) Ioannis

Daglis (ONLINE)

Improving the prediction accuracy of Van Allen belt dynamics

09:15

5) DR. Bheem Singh

Jatav (ONLINE)

Kinetic Alfven Wave to study coronal heating

09:18

6) Coralie

Neubüser (ONLINE)

Observation of VLF transmitter induced electron precipitation with the HEPP-L
onboard CSES-01

09:21

 

a moment of contemplation 

09:24

7) Miho

Janvier

Coordinating multiple space and ground-based assets with the
Solar Orbiter mission

09:27

8) Florian

Koller

Connecting Solar Wind Structures with the terrestrial Magnetosheath:
Jet Occurrence and Plasma Stability

09:30

9) Octav

Marghitu 

Energy transport from bursty bulk flows to aurora by Cluster, Swarm,
and ground data: a multi-point bridge between magnetosphere
and ionosphere

09:33

10) Nicolina

Chrysaphi

Multi-spacecraft observations of solar radio bursts and the effects of
heliospheric scattering 

09:36

11) Alex

Pietrow (online)

On the detection of two X-class solar flares in the Sun-as-a-star with the
HARPS solar telescope

09:39

12) Audrey

Schillings

Space weather on Earth: how could we better preserve our technologies
from space weather events?

09:42

13) Gherardo

Valori

Observing the Sun from multiple viewpoints: Synergies between Vigil/PMI,
SO/PHI and NE

09:45

Discussion on Multi-instruments and general science

10:30

COFFEE

   

11:00

Intro - Data, analysis methods, instruments- part 1

11:03

1) Matthieu

Berthomier

Electron and ion scale plasma measurements on small satellites: the Plasma
Camera development
program

11:06

2) Alex

Chartier

FAIR Access to Heliophysics Data: SuperDARN Case Study

11:09

3) Vlad

Constantinescu

Space weather monitoring by Swarm field-aligned current data and possible
extension to LEO satellites: a bridge between scientific investigation, Earth
observation, and application to space safety

11:12

4) Maxime

Grandin

Auroral Research Coordination: Towards Internationalised Citizen Science
(ARCTICS): a new ISSI working group

11:15

5) Sandro

Manuela

Krauss (ONLINE)

Temmer

SODA – a tool to predict storm induced satellite orbit decays

11:18

6) Christina

Plainaki

Building ASPIS to further foster interdisciplinarity in Space Weather research

11:21

7) André

Galli (ONLINE)                                                          The Radiation Monitor onboard JUICE: Science opportunities during cruise

11:24

8) Johannes

Hulsman (ONLINE)

Development of a High Rate and High Energy Penetrating particle Analyzer

11:27

 

a moment of contemplation or interpretive dance

 

11:30

9) Dario

Del Moro

The CAESAR project:  Comprehensive spAce wEather Studies for the ASPIS
prototype Realization

11:33

10) Eelco

Doornbos

A timeline viewer tool for monitoring space weather

11:36

11) Alexandra

Fogg

Bi- and Multi-variate Extreme Value Theory for Heliophysics

11:39

12) Laura

Hayes

The SunPy Project: An interoperable ecosystem for solar data analysis

11:42

13) Alessandro

Ippolito

Characterization of mid latitude ionosphere by means of ground and
satellite-based measurements

11:45

14) Alexis

Jeandet

Simplified Access to Plasma Physics Data: Speasy's Integration, Features
and Impact

11:48

Discussion - Data, analysis methods, instruments- part 1

13:00

LUNCH

   

14:00

POSTER SESSION 2 - Multi-instruments and general science, + data , analysis methods and instruments

15:30

COFFEE

   

16:00

Intro - Data, analysis methods, instruments- part 2

16:03

1) Karl

Laundal

Beyond 2D Models: A Dynamic Approach to Unraveling Space-Atmosphere
Coupling

16:06

2) Simon

Mackovjak

Data -> Information

16:09

3) Shane

Maloney

SolarMonitor2

16:12

4) Helen

Middleton

Accessing Heliophysics data in simple Python for studies across missions

16:15

5) Michiko

Morooka (ONLINE)

Heliophysics science possibilities by the JUICE/RPWS during the cruise phase

16:18

6) Matthew

Lang (ONLINE)

Using solar wind data assimilation to improve CME forecasts

16:21

7) Giovanni

Lapenta (ONLINE)WITHDRAWN

Modelling the role of electrons in heliospheric processes

16:24

 

a moment of contemplation and/or interpretive dance

16:27

 8) Jorge

Padial WITHDRAWN

Automatically Labelled EUV and XRay Incident Solarflare pipeline

16:30

9) Michele

Piana

About operational issues in machine learning, deep learning, and physics-driven
AI space weather forecasting

16:33

10) Georgios

Balasis 

Complex Systems Methods Characterizing Nonlinear Processes in the
Near-Earth Electromagnetic Environment: Recent Advances and
Open Challenges

16:36

11) Frederic

Schuller

Solar energetic particle events: new constraints from joint observations
by remote-sensing and in-situ instruments on Solar Orbiter

16:39

12) Ashley

Smith

Disseminating Swarm data, models, and tools with VirES and SwarmPAL

16:42

13) Christine

Verbeke

ESA’s Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre: running web-based
model chains

16:45

14) Paul

Wright

ARCAFF: Active Region Classification and Flare Forecasting

16:48

Discussion - Data, analysis methods, instruments- part 2

18:00

END

   
       

Thursday 2 November 2023

 

Session 3: Building a European Heliophysics network and community hub

Conveners: Charlotte Goetz,  Lina Hadid, Yuri Shprits, Elisabetta Iorfida, Rob Wicks, Emma Woodfield, Noora Partamies, Liisa Juusola,
Lisa Baddeley, Sophie Musset, Laura Hayes, Louise Harra, Miho Janvier, Marco Pinto, Zoe Faes

09:00

Welcome

   

09:10

Manuela

Temmer

Exploring synergies in Graz - the space capital city of Austria

09:30

Yoshifumi

Futaana

Lunar Plasma Interdisciplinary Network (LuPIN)

09:50

Thomas

Ulich (ONLINE)

Nordic Observatory Collaboration

10:30

COFFEE

 

 

11:00

Chris

Nelson

Coordinated solar observations - space and ground

11:20

Masatoshi (Yama)

Yamauchi

Earth mission planning: Need for a community covering both the satellite
observation and ground-based observations

11:40

Arnaud

Masson

Bringing the ESA D/SCI heliophysics archives within the global heliophysics
information architecture

12:00

Discussion

 

 

13:00

LUNCH

   

14:00

Jonathan

Rae

how does ESA interface with the community? a committee members
perspective of D/SCI

14:20

Luca

Spogli

Sustaining the European Space Weather and Space Climate community
on the long term through E-SWAN

14:40

Yuri

Shprits

Future of the European Heliophysics Community

15:30

COFFEE

   

16:00

Discussion

   

17:30

Wrap up and action items

 

18:00

 

NETWORKING SESSION

19:30

 

END

 

Friday 3 November 2023

 

Session 4: Workshop Reporting, Summary, SWOT discussion and next steps

Conveners Lucile Turc, Minna Palmroth, Heli Hietila + Session 1- 3 conveners

09:00

Minna

 Palmroth

An introductions to Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

09:10

 

 

Small Group discussion - participants in person and online will be broken into
groups for discussion

09:50

 

General discussion - representatives from each group will summarise main points to the larger group

10:30

COFFEE

   

11:00

 

Meeting Reporting and Discussion

   

Representatives of each session and sub- topic will provide a brief summary (5 minutes) of their sessions. Followed
by discussion and way forward on all topics.

12:55

Close of meeting

   

13:00

LUNCH