Goals of the Workshop
This workshop is being held in conjunction with the Australian Space Research Conference.
The idea of the workshop is to i) get an overview of the current research efforts towards understanding the components of space weather; from the Sun’s magnetism, solar wind propagation, and the corresponding magnetospheric, ionospheric and ground-based impacts, as well as ii) identify connections between our research areas and the needs of space weather users.
The workshop will bring together key players in the different relevant areas in Australia. We will close by identifying the current open questions we think we could tackle together, and discuss avenues of research to make further progress.
This meeting has been made possible with the support from the University of Newcastle's Women In Research 2022 Fellowship.
Program
The University shuttle bus will leave University House, King St bus stop at 17:45 on Wednesday 28th September to travel to the Callaghan campus for the public talk. The return shuttle will leave at 20:25 from the Design bus stop at Callaghan campus and return to University House, King St at 20:45.
| Wednesday | 28/9/22 | |||||
| 19:00 | A/Prof Katarina Miljkovic | Impacts! Rocks from space colliding with planets | Public lecture | Callaghan | ||
| Thursday | 29/9/22 | |||||
| 8:50 | Hannah Schunker | Welcome | ||||
| session 1 | Speaker | Chair | David | |||
| 9:00 | Richard Marshall | A new era of Space Weather Services | ||||
| 9:40 | Jason Held | The Use of Space Weather in Live Mission Operations | ||||
| 10:20 | Alina Donea | Helioseismic EXtrapolator of MAgnetic-Polarity distribution (HEXMAP) | ||||
| 10:40 | Paul Cally | Disentangling Mixed MHD Modes | ||||
| 11:00 | MORNING TEA | |||||
| session 2 | Speaker | Chair | Alina | |||
| 11:30 | William Roland-Batty | Effects of Solar Rotation on Convection and Active Region Evolution | ||||
| 11:50 | Camron Alley | Emergence mechanisms of solar active regions | ||||
| 12:10 | Geoff Skinner | Pre-emergence signatures of active region emergence using convoluted neural networks | ||||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | |||||
| session 3 | Speaker | Chair | Hannah | |||
| 13:20 | Mark Cheung | Solar Drivers of Space Weather | ||||
| 14:00 | Abbas Raboonik | Mode conversion (and decomposition) of MHD waves in the lower solar atmosphere | ||||
| 14:20 | Mike Wheatland | Solar flares and stellar superflares | ||||
| 14:40 | AFTERNOON TEA | |||||
| session 4 | Speaker | Chair | Mike | |||
| 15:10 | Brad Carter | The solar-stellar connection | ||||
| 15:30 | James Crowley | Observed rate variations in superflaring G-type stars | ||||
| 15:50 | Charlotte Gehan | Chromospheric activity of red giants: impact of close binarity | ||||
| 16:10 | ALL | DISCUSSION | Chair | Iver / Colin | ||
| 16:45 | END SESSIONS | |||||
| 17:30-22:00 | CONFERENCE DINNER | NEWCASTLE CRUISING YACHT CLUB | GROUP PHOTO | |||
| Friday | 30/9/22 | |||||
| session 5 | Speaker | Chair | Julie | |||
| 9:00 | Harald Richter | Ensemble forecasting in terrestrial weather | ||||
| 9:40 | John Morgan | Space Weather Research at the Murchison Radio Observatory - ongoing projects and future opportunities | ||||
| 10:00 | Angelica Waszewski | Tracing transient features in the solar wind with MWA IPS observations | ||||
| 10:20 | Iver Cairns | Space weather effects on the CUAVA-1 orbit | ||||
| 10:40 | MORNING TEA | |||||
| session 6 | Speaker | Chair | Colin | |||
| 11:10 | Sergiy Shelyag | Machine learning for geomagnetic activity forecasting based on the solar wind data | ||||
| 11:30 | Julie Currie | A new index to correctly quantify Equatorial Plasma Bubble occurrence in COSMIC Radio Occultation data | ||||
| 11:50 | Brett Carter | Quantifying “success” in the prediction of equatorial plasma bubbles for GPS users | ||||
| 12:10 | LUNCH | |||||
| session 7 | Speaker | Chair | Abbas | |||
| 13:30 | Tam Dao | Modelling of Ionospheric Corrections for High Accuracy GNSS Positioning using the GINAN toolkit | ||||
| 13:50 | George Bowden | Regional and global numerical modelling of the ionosphere supporting SSA, HF radar and communication, and rocket launch monitoring | ||||
| 14:10 | Atishnal Chand | Comparison of the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model (GITM) Simulations with GOLD and TIMED/SABER Observation During Geomagnetic Storms | ||||
| 14:30 | Colin Waters | Solar wind shocks and Geomagnetic Induced Currents for the Australian power network | ||||
| 14:50 | Fred Menk | Overview of policy, user perspective & closing remarks | Chair | Fred / Hannah | ||
| ALL | DISCUSSION | |||||
| 16:00 | END MEETING | |||||
