Schedule / Science Program

Sep 30 – The detailed schedule and abstract book are now posted!

The abstract book is now available! All talks and posters are included, organized by topic and sorted by first name of first author.

Schedule Overview

Due to the hybrid and international nature of the workshop, we have deliberately shifted the session timing as a compromise to best accommodate the broad range of time zones that we expect to participate via the hybrid format.

The detailed block schedule is as follows.  All talks are 15 minutes unless otherwise specified. Specific session details with individual talks and titles can be found further down.

Please view the Meeting Code of Conduct that applies to both in-person and online attendance.

Scroll further for detailed daily schedules. You may also jump directly to detailed listings for each day with the following links:

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Detailed Schedule

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Monday, 3 October <– Day
Time (UTC) vvv
10:00–10:15 Amir Caspi, James Mason – Welcome & Introductions 14:00–14:15
Topic 1: Solar/Heliosphere Science
(Chair: Jim Spann)
10:15–10:30 Justin Kasper – Title TBD 14:15–14:30
10:30–10:45 R.D. Bentley – A Space Weather Forecasting System for the Inner Heliosphere 14:30–14:45
10:45–11:00 David Tsiklauri – Particle acceleration by dispersive Alfven waves 14:45–15:00
11:00–11:15 Craig DeForest – Tracking Space Weather Events with the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) 15:00–15:15
11:15–11:30 Rebecca Bishop – The LLITED Mission: Part of the Growing Grass-Roots Ionosphere/Thermosphere Constellation 15:00–15:30
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 15:30–16:00
Topic 3: Instruments/Missions
(Chair: Rebecca Bishop)
12:00–12:18 Neal Hurlburt – IPSOS, the Imaging Photonic Spectropolarimeter for Observing the Sun 16:00–16:18
12:18–12:36 L Alberto Canizares – SURROUND, A constellation of CubeSats around the Sun 16:18–16:36
12:36–12:54 Farzad Kamalabadi – High-Resolution Imaging of the Solar Corona Enabled by Constellation of Small Satellites 16:36–16:54
12:54–13:12 Marcel Ayora – Exploration of the Internal Flux Rope Current Density Using a Spacecraft Constellation 16:54–17:12
13:12–13:30 Romina Nikoukar – Enabling Scintillation Science with CubeSats 17:12–17:30
13:30–15:00  
CATERED LUNCH

17:30–19:00
Topic 3: Instruments/Missions
(Chair: Rebecca Bishop)
15:00–15:21 Bob Robinson – Small Satellite Constellations for Space Weather Research and Forecasting 19:00–19:21
15:21–15:39 Alex Hoffman – Boomless Magnetometry: Adaptive Noise Cancellation through Underdetermined Blind Source Separation 19:21–19:39
15:39–15:57 Brady Strabel – Quad-Mag Board for CubeSat Applications 19:39–19:57
15:57–16:15 Matt Orvis – Flight Proven ThinSat Constellations with Persistent EyeStar Communications and Miniaturized Space Weather Sensors 19:57–20:15
16:15–16:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK 20:15–20:45
Topic 4: Agencies
(Chair: Alexa Halford, Irfan Azeem)
16:45–18:00 Jesse Woodroffe – NASA
Mangala Sharma – NSF
Rich Ullman – NOAA/NESDIS
Melanie Heil – ESA
PANEL DISCUSSION
20:45–22:00

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Tuesday, 4 October <– Day
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Topic 1: Geospace Science
(Chairs: Jim Spann, David Jackson)
10:00–10:15 Ashwin Ashok – Monitoring Solar Effect with CubeSats on Cosmic Ray Flux Variation at Ground Level 14:00–14:15
10:15–10:30 Jesper Gjerloev – EZIE: A Cubesat Mission to Study The Electrojets 14:15–14:30
10:30–10:45 Xiaojia Zhang – New Insights on Energetic Electron Precipitation as Revealed by ELFIN 14:30–14:45
10:45–11:00 Jonas Santos – ITASAT2, SPORT, and the contribution that small satellites provide to answer big scientific questions about the phenomenology over low-latitude regions 14:45–15:00
11:00–11:15 Jaejin Lee – Introduction to the SNIPE mission for studying micro-scale space weather phenomena 15:00–15:15
11:15–11:30 Young-Sil Kwak – SNIPE Mission for Space Weather Research 15:00–15:30
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 15:30–16:00
Topic 3: Instruments/Missions
(Chairs: Rebecca Bishop, Lauren Blum)
12:00–12:18 Bruce Fritz – Ionosphere-Thermosphere Miniaturized Sensor Development at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory 16:00–16:18
12:18–12:36 Sidharth Misra – Microwave Electrojet Magnetogram (MEM) Instrument for the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) Mission 16:18–16:36
12:36–12:54 Alex Chartier – Remote-Sensing Ionospheric Network in Geospace (RING) 16:36–16:54
12:54–13:12 Bruce Fritz – Sporadic-E Detection from an Ultraviolet Remote-sensing Experiment 16:54–17:12
13:12–13:30 Angelos Vourlidas – miniCOR: Miniature Coronagraph for Heliophysics Research & Operations 17:12–17:30
13:30–15:00  
CATERED LUNCH

17:30–19:00
Topic 2: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
(Chairs: Wendy Carande, Alec Engell)
15:00–15:15 Introduction 19:00–19:15
15:15–15:30 Enrico Camporeale – How Machine Learning is reinventing Space Weather 19:15–19:30
15:30–15:45 Irina Kitiashvili – Development of HelioPortal to Enable Reliable Forecasts of the Solar Activity Through Data Assimilation and Machine Learning Approaches 19:30–19:45
15:45–16:00 Brianna Maze – Machine Learning Platform for Weather Applications at Scale 19:45–20:00
16:00–16:15 Discussion Panel 20:00–20:15
16:15–16:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK 20:15–20:45
Topic 2: Uncertainty Quantization
(Chairs: Wendy Carande, Alec Engell, Mangala Sharma)
16:45–17:00 Introduction 20:45–21:00
17:00–17:15 Enrico Camporeale – An overview on the state of Uncertainty Quantification in SWx 21:00–21:15
17:15–17:30 Piyush Mehta – TBD 21:15–21:30
17:30–17:45 Subhamoy Chatterjee – Forecasting the Probability of Solar Energetic Particle Event Occurrence using a Multivariate Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks 21:30–21:45
17:45–18:00 Discussion Panel 21:45–22:00

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Wednesday, 5 October <– Day
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Topic 3: Instruments/Missions
(Chairs: Rebecca Bishop, Lauren Blum)
10:00–10:18 Christopher A. Grasso – Spitzer-Resurrector Space Weather Research 14:00–14:18
10:18–10:36 John McCormack – ENLoTIS: ESA/NASA Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere Science Working Group 14:18–14:36
10:36–10:54 Sam Yee – Overview of the EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) SmallSat Mission 14:36–14:54
10:54–11:12 Rafael Mesquita – The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer mission design through OSSEs 14:54–15:12
11:12–11:30 Grant Berland – The AEPEX CubeSat Mission: Addressing Energetic Particle Precipitation through X-ray Imaging 15:12–15:30
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 15:30–16:00
Topic 3: Panel Discussion
(Chair: Chairs: Rebecca Bishop, Lauren Blum)
12:00–13:30 Scott Palo
Bill Blackwell
Kristina Lynch
Moderated Discussion
16:00–17:30
13:30–15:00  
CATERED LUNCH

17:30–19:00
Topic 1: Science uniquely addressed with SmallSats
(Chair: Jim Spann)
15:00–15:30 Charles Swenson – Science from an ad hoc ITM CubeSat Constellation (invited scene-setting talk) 19:00–19:30
15:30–16:15 Facilitated, open discussion 19:30–20:15
16:15–16:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK 20:15–20:45
POSTER SESSION
16:45–18:00 Annsley Greathouse – Methods of Managing the Student Led Impulsive Phase Rapid Energetic Solar Spectrometer (IMPRESS) CubeSat Mission
Savannah Perez-Piel – Quad-Timepix2 and 3 Detector Development and Applications
Suman Panda – FUV Spectrum of the Sun-as-a-star from a CubeSat
20:45–22:00

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Thursday, 6 October <– Day
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Topic 2: Big Data
(Chair: Alec Engell)
10:00–10:15 Introduction 14:00–14:15
10:15–10:30 Jack Ireland – Readying data for research and space weather applications 14:15–14:30
Town Hall: NASA Science Mission Directorate
10:30–11:30  
Live broadcast from NASA HQ 
14:30–15:30
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 15:30–16:00
Topic 3: Instruments/Missions
(Chairs: Rebecca Bishop, Lauren Blum)
12:00–12:18 Harlan Spence – HelioSwarm: A Multispacecraft Mission to Study Space Plasma Turbulence Enabled by Small Satellites 16:00–16:18
12:18–12:36 Ed Thiemann – Space Weather Monitoring of Thermospheric Density, Temperature, and Composition Using Compact Extreme Ultraviolet Photometers 16:18–16:36
12:36–12:54 James Mason – Overview of the upcoming Sun Coronal Ejection Tracker (SunCET) NASA CubeSat 16:36–16:54
12:54–13:12 Amir Caspi – CubIXSS: The CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer 16:54–17:12
13:12–13:30 Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros – The solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment: PADRE 17:12–17:30
13:30–15:00  
CATERED LUNCH

17:30–19:00
Topic 1: Panel – Space Weather Forecasting
(Chairs: David Jackson, Jim Spann)
15:00–16:15 Drew Turner
Melanie Heil
Tzu-Wei Fang
Conor Brown
Paul O’Brien
Moderated Discussion
19:00–20:15
16:15–16:45 REFRESHMENT BREAK 20:15–20:45
Topic 4: Programs
(Chairs: Alexa Halford, Irfan Azeem)
16:45–18:00 Steven Christe
Paul O’Brien
Jim Spann
Angelos Vourlidas
20:45–22:00

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Friday, 7 October <– Day
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Topic 2: Big Data & Virtual Constellations
(Chair: Wendy Carande, Alec Engell)
10:00–10:15 Introduction 14:00–14:15
10:15–10:35 Matt West – The PUNCH mission and designing a science operations center for a constellation mission 14:15–14:35
10:35–10:55 Jim Bednar – Open-Source Tools for Agile Big-Data Exploration, Visualization, and Analysis 14:35–14:55
10:55–11:15 Chris Pankratz – Two Tools to Enhance Access to Space Weather Data: One Tool to Access 100+ Data Sets and One Tool That Enables Interactive 3D Visualization of the Heliosphere 14:55–15:15
11:15–11:30 Discussion Panel 15:15–15:30
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 15:30–16:00
Wrap-up Discussion
(Chair: TBD)
12:00–13:30 SpWx Journal – special issue
Community plans
Where do we go from here?
16:00–17:30
END

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