2026 Heliophysics Summer School Schedule
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Welcome and Introductions |
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| - | Break |
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| - | Heliophysics Overview I: Astrospheres, Solar and Stellar Wind, Magnetic Activity | Marco Velli |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - | Heliophysics Overview II: Plasma Environments - Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Systems at Earth and Beyond | Fran Bagenal |
| - | Break |
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| - | Lab 1: Analyzing a Space Weather Event |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Foundations of Heliophysics I: Neutral fluids and plasmas | Marco Velli |
| - | Break |
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| - | Foundations of Heliophysics II: Particle orbits, transport, heating, and acceleration | Bob Ergun |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - | Foundations of Heliophysics III: Physics of the Geospace: Ionosphere-thermosphere | Bob Marshall |
| - | Break |
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| - |
CAPSTONE WORK |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Observational Heliophysics I (in situ): Particles, plasma, and fields | Jasper Halekas |
| - | Break |
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| - | Overview of data analysis and inverse problems | Farzad Kamalabadi |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - | Observational Heliophysics II (remote sensing): Across EM spectrum Photons, polarization; spatial dimensions (images, video) | Doug Rabin |
| - | Break |
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| - | Lab: Regression and Permutation Analysis |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Observational Heliophysics II (remote sensing): Across EM spectrum - Radio waves | Tim Bastian |
| - | Break |
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| - | Intro to ML: Discriminative Models | Farzad Kamalabadi |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - | Examples of Heliophysics Applications in Machine Learning | Enrico Camporeale |
| - | Break |
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| - |
CAPSTONE WORK |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Intro to Explorative Models | Farzad Kamalabadi |
| - | Break |
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| - | Lab: Clustering | |
| - |
Q&A |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
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Time off |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Intro to ML: Generative Models | Farzad Kamalabadi |
| - | Break |
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| - | Examples and emerging Topics of Explorative Models | Tomoko Matsuo |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - | Lab Activity: Supervised Learning | Andres Munoz-Jaramillo |
| - | Break |
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| - |
CAPSTONE WORK |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - | Examples of HSO recent and upcoming missions and their traceability matrices | Craig Deforst |
| - | Break |
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| - | Perspectives and Future Directions of Heliophysics | Tom Bogdan Lika Guhathakurta |
| - |
Q&A |
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| - | Lunch |
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| - |
CAPSTONE |
|
| - | Break |
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| - | Lab: (TBD) | |
| - | Farewell Dinner at NCAR |
| Time (MDT) | Session/Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| - |
Capstone Presentations |
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| - | Break |
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| - |
Capstone Presentations |
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| - | Wrap Up |
Lika Guhathakurta |
| - | Lunch |
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| - | Wrap Up |
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| - | Break |
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| - |
Adjourn |