NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond
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Announcing several of the featured speakers for this year’s Symposium!
Our banquet will include special guest presentations from Scott Penberthy, Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Google, and John Grunsfeld, former astronaut and Chief Scientist at NASA.
Keynote speakers for the symposium’s theme discussions will include Hanli Liu, Senior Scientist, Section Head, High Altitude Observatory; Shannon Curry, Associate Professor in the Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (APS) Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently the Principal Investigator of the NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission; Hazel Bain, Space Weather Prediction Testbed (SWPT) Lead at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center; and Marcin Pilinski, Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Additional speakers will be announced as they are confirmed. We look forward to welcoming an outstanding group of experts to contribute to this year’s discussions.
Meeting Objective
The NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium is presented in collaboration with NASA's Living With a Star Program, and the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS). This ongoing series of events brings together great minds across the interdisciplinary field of heliophysics. It continues the legacy of the frontier-thinking, cross-disciplinary gathering that the Eddy Symposia have come to define. Each symposium has a unique theme, and within part of its framework, scientific discussions, and creative-thinking sessions, three specialized themes are explored.
Each Eddy Symposium is centered on a distinct overarching theme and explores three complementary subthemes. The 5th Symposium is organized around “Star–Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond.” Within this framework, participants will engage in three focused topic areas: Solar Influence on Earth and Planetary Environments, led by Robert Jarolim and Robin Ramstad; Risk and Resilience to Space Weather Disruption, led by Ankush Bhaskar and Tom Berger; and From Heliophysics to the Moon and Mars: The Impact of the Sun on Space Exploration, led by Vladimir Airapetian and Mei-Yun Lin. The theme and subthemes are investigated with both open data and AI in mind.
This year’s theme: Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond
This year's theme will be examined through the lenses of Open Data and AI, utilizing these three working group subthemes.
- Solar Influence on Earth and Planetary Environments
- Risk and Resilience to Space Weather Disruption
- From Heliophysics to the Moon and Mars: The Impact of the Sun on Space Exploration
Previous Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposia
Learn more about these symposia, including access to detailed agendas, talks on YouTube, and abstracts for the following symposia.
- 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
- 3rd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
- 2nd Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
Steering Committee
Vladimir Airapetian, NASA
Tom Berger, NSF NCAR / HAO
Ankush Bhaskar, ISRO, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Cindy Bruyère, UCAR / CPAESS
Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters
Robert Jarolim, Eddy Fellow
Mei-Yun Lin, University of Massachusetts
Robin Ramstad, CU LASP
Xudong Sun, University of Hawaii
Contacts
Programmatic questions: contact Cindy Bruyère
Logistic questions: contact Jessica Martinez
