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Summer School 2019 Schedule

Heliophysics Summer School: Year 13

"Heliophysics Exploration"

Center Green (CG1) Central Auditorium

UCAR/NCAR Conference & Workshop Code of Conduct

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Tuesday, July 23
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Welcome and Introductions

 Amitava Bhattacharjee and Nicholas Gross
10:00 to 10:30

Break
10:30 to 12:00

Core Lecture 1: Why does the Sun have a Corona and Wind?

 		Dana Longcope
12:00 to 1:30

Lunch
1:30 to 3:00

Solar Wind: Structure and Turbulence

  • Textbook I, Chapter 7
  • Textbook I, Chapter 9
  • Textbook III, Chapter 9
 		Ben Chandran
3:00 to 3:15

Break
3:30 to 5:30

Lab 1: Event Analysis

5:30 to 7:30

Welcome Reception

Location: Rayback Collective, Boulder
Wednesday, July 24
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Core Lecture 2: Kinetic Theory

 		Amitava Bhattacharjee
10:00 to 10:30

Student Talks and Break
10:30 to 12:00

Solar Wind: Particle Distribution Functions

  • Textbook II, Chapter 8
  • Textbook II, Chapter 9
  • Textbook IV, Chapter 12
 		Ben Chandran
12:00 to 1:30

Student Talks and Lunch
1:30 to 3:00

Lab 2a: Solar Wind

3:00 to 3:15

Break
3:30 to 5:00

Lab 2b: Solar Wind

Thursday, July 25
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Core 3:Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere Focus

 		Dana Longcope
10:00 to 10:30

Student Talks and Break
10:30 to 12:00

Magnetic Reconnection

  • Textbook I, Chapter 5
  • Textbook II, Chapter 10
 		Amitava Bhattacharjee
12:00 to 1:30

HAO Tour and Lunch
1:30 to 3:00

Magnetosphere: Reconnection & Substorms, Part 1

  • Textbook II, Chapter 2
  • Textbook II, Chapter 10
 		Robert Ergun
3:00 to 3:30

Student Talks and Break
3:30 to 5:00

Planetary Magnetospheres

  • Textbook I, Chapter 10
  • Textbook I, Chapter 13
 		Fran Bagenal
Friday, July 26
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Magnetopshere: Reconnection & Substorms Part 2

 Robert Ergun
10:00 to 10:30

Student Talks and Break
10:30 to 12:00

Lab 3a: Magnetosphere
12:00 to 1:30

Student Talks and Lunch
1:30 to 3:00

Lab 3b: Magnetospheres
3:00 to 3:30

Student Talks and Break
3:30 to 5:00

Orbital Mechanics

Dana Longcope
Saturday, July 27
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

In Situ Instruments and Measurements

  • Textbook II, Chapter 3
 		Jon Sample
10:00 to 10:15

Break 
10:15 to 12:00

Student Talks and Poster Session
12:00

Afternoon Off
Sunday, July 28
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:00

Free Day
Monday, July 29
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Ionosphere Part 1

  • Textbook I, Chapter 12
  • Textbook III, Chapter 13
  • Textbook IV, Chapter 8
 		Thomas Immel
10:00 to 10:30

Student Presentations and Break
10:30 to 12:00

Lab 4a: Ionosphere Lab 1

12:00 to 1:30

Lunch
12:00 to 1:00

A Conversation with an Astronaut/Scientist and Human Solar Cosmic Ray Detector

 John Grunsfeld
1:30 to 3:00

Ionosphere Part 2

Thomas Immel
3:00 to 3:30

Break 
3:30 to 5:00

Lab 4b: Ionosphere Lab 2
5:30 to 7:30

Farewell Dinner:  Mesa Lab
Tuesday, July 30
Time Session/Title Speaker
8:30 to 10:00

Big Data

Artificial Intelligence for Space Exploration and All Humankind

Applications of Deep Learning in Heliophysics

 		Lika Guhathakurta, Ryan McGranaghan, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo
10:00 to 10:30

Break
10:30 to 12:00

Career Panel

12:00 to 1:30

Lunch
1:30 to 3:00

Debrief and Commencement
3:00 to 3:30

Break