4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium Agenda

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Sunday, October 29, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
18:00 - 20:00	Welcome and Networking Reception

Monday, October 30, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
8:00 - 8:30	Full Breakfast
8:30 - 17:30	The Interconnection of Sun, Climate, Society		View Video
8:30 - 8:35	Opening remarks and welcome	Hanne Mauriello, Director, CPAESS; Director, Scientific Partnerships and Services Center (SPS)	View recording
8:35 - 8:50	4th Eddy Symposium Introduction	Dr. Madhulika “Lika” Guhathakurta	View recording
8:50 - 9:00	Code of Conduct and what we want to achieve in the meeting	Dan Marsh & Jim Colliander	View recording
9:00 - 9:30	(Keynote Speaker) Progress in modeling solar-climate interactions	Gavin Schmidt, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies	View recording
9:30 - 9:45	Question & Answer Session
9:45 - 9:55	(Virtual Talk) Large-scale EUV Waves in the Solar Corona and Their Diagnostic Implications	Wei Liu, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:55 - 10:05	(Student Speaker) Can the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) ultraviolet measurements predict the x-ray properties of flares?	Abigail Mthethwa, University of Johannesburg/SANSA	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:05 - 10:20	Question & Answer Session
10:20 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 11:10	(Keynote Speaker) If It’s Not Open, It’s Not Science	Greg Kopp, Univ. of Colorado / LASP	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:10 - 11:25	Question & Answer Session
11:25 - 11:35	(Student Speaker) Climate Impacts of Solar Cycle and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation: From the Polar Area to Mid-latitude	Lin Tan, University of California, Riverside	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:35 - 11:45	(Student Speaker) Solar Active Region Magnetic Parameters and Geo-effectiveness of Halo CMEs	Vijayalakshmi Prakash, Arul Anandar College, Madurai Kamaraj University	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:45 - 12:00	Question & Answer Session		View recording
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch on own (Informal Early Career Panel)
13:30 - 13:40	AI Foundation Models: More than just cheating on homework	Michael Little, LS Technologies LLC for NASA	View Presentation PDF View recording
13:40 - 13:50	(Student Speaker) The physical link of the polar field rise rate with the Waldmeier effect enables the scope of early solar cycle prediction	Pawan Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi	View Presentation PDF View recording
13:50 - 14:00	(Student Speaker) Study of Ionospheric Response to Geomagnetic Disturbances Using TEC Regional Maps and the NeQuick 2 Model.	Taiwo Olusayo Osanyin, National Institute for Space Research	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:00 - 14:20	Question & Answer Session		View recording
14:20 - 14:30	Outline for the Working Groups	Dan Marsh
14:30 - 14:50	Break
14:50 - 16:50	Working Groups
16:50 - 17:05	Break
17:05 - 17:30	GitHub Tutorial - Jim Colliander

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
8:00 - 8:30	Full Breakfast
8:30 - 17:00	Risk and Resiliency to Space Weather Disruption		View recording
8:30 - 8:50	Report Out from Previous Day's Working Groups
8:50 - 9:20	(Keynote Speaker) The Power of Open Data – a Grid Hazard Analysis	Jennifer Gannon, VP of R&D at Computational Physics, Inc.	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:20 - 9:35	Question & Answer Session
9:35 - 9:50	(Invited Speaker) Space Weather Nowcast and Forecast at NOAA SWPC	Tzu-Wei Fang, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:50 - 10:00	Question & Answer Session
10:00 - 10:10	(Student Speaker) Responses of the African and American Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) to 2014 Arctic SSW events	Omena Raphael Idolor, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:10 - 10:20	(Student Speaker) A Study of Southern Hemisphere Poleward Moving Radar Auroral Forms	Aidan Thayer, Pennsylvania State University	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:20 - 10:35	Question & Answer Session		View recording
10:35 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Craig DeForest - Keynote Presentation		View recording
11:30 - 11:45	Question & Answer Session
11:45 - 11:55	Building commercial applications to safeguard satellites from space weather hazards	Janet Green, Space Hazards Applications, LLC	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:55 - 12:05	(Student Speaker) Observation of Alfv ́en Ion Cyclotron Waves in ICME Magnetic Clouds at 1 au	Omkar Dhamane, University of Mumbai	View Presentation PDF View recording
12:05 - 12:15	Immersive Space Weather Analytics	Disha Sardana, Virginia Tech, Blaksburg, VA, USA	View Presentation PDF View recording
12:15 - 12:35	Question & Answer Session		View recording
12:35 - 14:05	Lunch on own
14:05 - 14:15	The CCOR Series of Compact Coronagraphs for Space Weather Forecasts	Natsuha Kuroda, Naval Research Laboratory/George Mason University	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:15 - 14:25	(Student Speaker) AIA is All You Need: SDO MEGS A&B virtualization via Convolutional Deep Learning	Daniel Gass, University of Central Lancashire	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:25 - 14:35	Multiscale Geoeffectiveness Forecasting using SHEATH and DAGGER	Vishal Upendran, BAERI/LMSAL	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:35 - 14:45	(Student Speaker) Estimating the daytime vertical E×B drift velocities in the F-region of the equatorial ionosphere using the IEEY and AMBER magnetic data in West Africa	Kassamba Abdel Aziz Diaby, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:45 - 15:05	Question & Answer Session		View recording
15:05 - 15:25	Break
15:25 - 15:35	(Student Speaker) ICME-Driven Geoeffectiveness: Insights from Planar Magnetic Structures	Kalpesh Ghag, Department of Physics, University of Mumbai	View Presentation PDF View recording
15:35 - 15:45	(Student Speaker) Advancing Space Weather Understanding: Deciphering Geomagnetic Storm Drivers through STORMI Simulated ICME-Magnetosphere Interactions.	Souvik Roy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata	View Presentation PDF View recording
15:45 - 16:00	Question & Answer Session		View recording
16:00 - 17:00	Working Groups

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
8:00 - 8:30	Full Breakfast
8:30 - 16:50	Open Science Methods: Emerging Open Science Methodologies		View recording
8:30 - 9:00	Jim Colliander - Keynote Presentation		View recording
9:00 - 9:20	Report Out from Previous Day's Working Groups		View recording
9:20 - 9:35	Question & Answer Session
9:35 - 9:50	(Invited Speaker) CryoCloud: Accelerating scientific discovery for Cryosphere communities with the open cloud infrastructure	Tasha Snow, Colorado School of Mines	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:50 - 10:00	Question & Answer Session
10:00 - 10:10	PyHC: answering the call for open-source software needs within Heliophysics	Julie Barnum, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:10 - 10:20	(Student Speaker) Agile Collaboration: Citizen Science as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Heliophysics	Vincent Ledvina, University of Alaska Fairbanks	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:20 - 10:35	Question & Answer Session
10:35 - 10:55	Break
10:55 - 11:25	(Keynote Speaker) Navigating Privacy in an Open Science Framework	Rebecca Ringuette, NASA Goddard	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:25 - 11:40	Question & Answer Session
11:40 - 11:55	(Invited Speaker) SDO Exploration And Research Community for Heliophysics (SEARCH): An experiment on using applied AI research to educate a diverse workforce	Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:55 - 12:05	Question & Answer Session
12:05 - 12:15	Group Photo!
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch on own
13:45 - 13:55	Improving thermospheric drag modeling with EUV images: an FDL-X 2023 project	Tom Berger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center	View Presentation PDF View recording
13:55 - 14:05	Your Mission’s Open Science Journey - A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Software in the Spectrum of Open Science	Rebecca Ringuette, NASA Goddard	View recording
14:05 - 14:15	Question & Answer Session
14:15 - 14:25	A Scientific Cloud Computing Platform for Ingestion and Processing of SDO Data	Manuel Indaco, Auburn University, Auburn (AL), Unites States, (Presentation by Daniel Gass)	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:25 - 14:35	AI Inference products, foundation models and multi-domain approaches to NASA Heliophysics.	James Parr, Trillium Technologies	View Presentation PDF View recording
14:35 - 14:55	Question & Answer Session
14:55 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 17:00	Working Groups - break into three groups by theme. Follow same format as day one, with same leads.
17:00 - 18:00	Personal Time
18:00 - 21:00	Banquet Dinner & Guest Speaker Holly Gilbert (HAO Director, NCAR) Presentation: A Piece of the Space Weather Puzzle: Understanding Solar Magnetism

Thursday, November 2, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
8:00 - 8:30	Full Breakfast
8:30 - 16:25	(Exo)Planetary Atmosphere: the Impacts of Stars and Solar Physics on Habitability & Life		View recording
8:30 - 9:45	Each working group will prepare their report
8:50 - 9:20	(Keynote Speaker) The Sun-Earth System in Time: Searching For Habitable Earth-like Exoplanets	Vladimir Airapetian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD and American University, Washington, DC	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:35 - 9:50	(Invited Speaker) Applications of 3D climate system models towards understanding exoplanetary atmospheres	Eric Wolf, University of Colorado	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:45 - 10:00	Break
9:50 - 10:00	(Student Speaker) Molecular Ion Outflow: Implications to Habitability	Mei-Yun Lin, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:00 - 10:15	Question & Answer Session		View recording
10:15 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 11:05	(Keynote Speaker) The "Missing Stellar CME Conundrum": Lessons from the Sun	Xudong Sun, University of Hawaii	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:05 - 11:20	Question & Answer Session
11:20 - 11:30	(Student Speaker) The Martian Upper Atmosphere: an intercomparison of LMD Mars GCM simulations and MAVEN observations.	Caitlin Gough, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:30 - 11:40	(Virtual Talk) (Exo)Planetary Space Weather: Way forward	Ankush Bhaskar, Space Physics Laboratory, ISRO/Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, India	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:40 - 12:00	Question & Answer Session		View recording
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch on own
13:30 - 15:30	Working Groups
15:30 - 15:50	Break
15:50 - 16:25	Working Groups

Friday, November 3, 2023
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations & Videos
8:00 - 8:30	Full Breakfast
8:30 - 9:45	Each working group will prepare their report
9:45 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 10:15	Final Report Out - ExoPlanets
10:15 - 10:30	Discussion
10:30 - 10:45	Final Report Out - Space Weather
10:45 - 11:00	Discussion
11:00 - 11:15	Final Report Out - Interconnection of Sun, Climate & Society
11:15 - 11:30	Discussion
11:30 - 12:00	Final Wrap Up

4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium Agenda

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