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IHY SCHOOLSThis year space scientists around the globe are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the IGY through a wide range of international activities under the auspices of the International Heliophysical Year. The IHY's focus on developing new and exciting EPO programs provides unique opportunities for the global community to increase the visibility and accessibility of heliophysics outreach programs. To address this IHY focus, the IHY has an IHY Schools Program that is developing a series of schools in 2007 and 2008 with the purpose of educating students about Universal Processes and providing them with an opportunity to view their own research interests in a new context. Universal Processes are the organizational principles and universal laws that underlie our understanding of the universe. Examples of such processes are magnetic reconnection, boundaries and interfaces such as shock waves, turbulence, and particle acceleration. The establishment of heliophysics as a new discipline requires a cross-disciplinary comparative approach to understanding these underlying principles. If you are interested in joining or helping out with the IHY Schools Program or if you are part of a summer school program that can join in the IHY schools, contact David Webb at david.webb at hanscom.af.mil or call +1 781-377-3086.
IHY Schools CommitteeThe IHY Schools Program is organized and operated by the IHY Schools Committee (ISC), which currently consists of the following members:
Students and CurriculumBy enhancing the scope, impact, and outreach of existing space physics programs at various host locations, the IHY schools will enable student cultural exchange with the goal of establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in heliophysics. Moreover, the schools will provide fertile grounds for collaborative research in this field, and will facilitate the development of a diverse, globally-engaged scientific community that recognises the increasing relevance of heliophysics.The ISC is developing a general curriculum as a model for all the IHY schools. It includes seminars and hands-on sessions with databases acquired particularly through the CIP and UNBSSI programs, and collaborative efforts with other affiliated groups. The overall scope of the schools is heliophysics, including Universal Processes, Sun-Earth interactions as well as those at other planets, and the outer heliosphere. The lectures and data labs cover the cross-disciplinary studies of Universal Processes, responses to external drivers including lectures in the 5 main IHY science topic areas, achieving international scientific cooperation, preserving the history and legacy of the IGY on its 50th Anniversary, public outreach, and global studies with an emphasis on science in developing countries. Other lectures may include topics by science disciplines, such as Solar Physics; Solar sources of heliospheric variability; emission of energetic particles, and their acceleration and propagation through the Heliosphere; Atmospheric studies of the planets, involving ionospheres, thermospheres, and mesospheres; Interaction of energetic particles with magnetospheres (Earth and planets), and their effects in the planetary atmosphere; Coronal Mass Ejections and Space Weather, and solar irradiance and climate. The topics will be treated both from theoretical and modeling aspects as well as using observations focusing on new instrumentation and missions such as STEREO, Hinode, THEMIS and IBEX. The structure of the schools will consist of about 10 full day's class time, with brief morning and afternoon breaks and longer day and evening breaks for socializing and off time. There will be about 4 sessions per day with each session ~1.5 hr. The amount of time devoted to the data analysis labs will depend on the number of students and the amount of pertinent, analyzable data that will be available by the time of the school. Additionally, each student will be given individual attention and encouraged to focus on their own individual research area. A mentoring system will be used, so that at several times throughout the school, they will be paired with 1-2 workshop coordinators/lecturers who will assist them in identifying the heliophysical regimes and research topics that will allow them to view their own research in a broader heliophysical context. The Committee is currently developing the Curriculum for the Schools, and anyone with ideas or comments on the schools or the curriculum is encouraged to contact Dave Webb by email at david.webb at hanscom.af.mil. The Schools will initially invite and support students that are or will be associated with the two key elements of the IHY science program, the Coordinated Investigation Programs (CIPs) and the United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI) IHY instrument program. The CIPs are the primary means of coordinating IHY science by organising campaigns, coordinating access to and use of the necessary resources and as a forum for presenting and discussing the results. The UNBSSI IHY program is deploying arrays of small, inexpensive instruments around the world, especially in developing nations, to provide global measurements of geospace and heliospheric phenomena. It also hosts annual workshops dedicated to the IHY program through 2009. The summer schools will provide students with two unique opportunities not available through any current program: the chance to develop their studies as part of a new "basic" research discipline, and the ability to work with researchers active in the field during the summer school as a means of broadening their research. It is expected that upon completion of the program, graduates will be familiar with several new topics, will have made fundamental connections with and undergone personal mentoring by a number of leading researchers, and will have identified new arenas and pathways to apply their own knowledge in the future. To enhance the experience of each student and help guide them after the school, a CD or DVD containing all the presentations and additional material will be made available to the participants at the end of the School. Copies of one or more books related to IHY science will also be available. Finally, continuing contacts between the lecturers/mentors and the students will be encouraged to help them solidify their first exposure to this new scientific discipline.
2007 - 2009 IHY School Schedule
2008 Date: 23 - 30 July 2008 Location: Boulder CO, USA Contacts: Karel Schrijver, Don Hassler and David Webb Website: http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/HeliophysicsSummerSchool/ No. of students: 50 The LWS Heliophysics Summer Schools will occur over three years: 2007, 2008 and 2009. Each will yield a book covering the topics of that school. The first school in 2007 was on plasma physics of the local cosmos and is the only one officially affiliated with IHY. The school was held over 8 days with 34 students and about 25 lecturers and computer lab coordinators participating. The schedule, faculty and students and other details are listed on the website.
Location: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, INDIA Contacts: School Directors: Ashok Ambastha, R. Ramesh, K.E. Rangarajan, and Nat Gopalswamy. Local Organization: R. Ramesh Website: http://www.iiap.res.in/ihy/school/index.htm No. of students: approx. 50 The 2007 school was organized by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore and held at Kodaikanal Solar Observatory. This international school offered an intensive two-week course on topics related to heliophysics. The course was aimed at Ph.D. and post-doctoral research students. A similar 2006 school on Solar Physics was held at Kodaikanal in Dec. 2006.
Location: EE Presbyterian Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Contacts: Alisson Dal LagoJean-Pierre Raulin, Adriana VR Silva and Cristina Mandrini Website: http://www.craam.mackenzie.br/~asilva/IHY/index.html No. of students: ~80 This international school was organized by the Centro de Radioastronomia e Astrofisica Mackenzie (CRAAM). Lectures were in the mornings, and computer labs and other activities, such as visits to local institutes, were in the afternoons. The First IHY Summer School was held 25-29 September 2006 in Buenos Aires.
Location: Beijing, CHINA Contacts: L. W. Ren and J. Liang Tel. +86-(0)10-62582648 Website: http://www.ap-ihy.org/IHY-School/index.html No. of Students: 40 The Second Asia-Pacific IHY School will be held at Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, Oct. 20-Oct. 31, 2008. This IHY school is open to students and to researchers from Asia-Pacific and abroad, and we expect about 60~70 attendees, with about 40 students. The purpose of the school is to bring a greater understanding of the underlying universal processes and to promote the international collaboration and exchange of ideas and views in heliophysical studies. This two-week autumn school, focuses on a broad range of extended heliophysics topics, such as solar physics, heliospheric physics, geospace physics and space weather, related to the IHY science topic areas. The structure of school consists of about 50 lectures, as well as a series of lab exercises and observatory visits.
Location: Nsukka, Nigeria Contacts: Dr. A. Babatunde Rabiu Website: http://www.cbss-online.com/ No. of students: 60 IHY-Nigeria will host the African Regional IHY School to be held at the Centre for Basic Space Science, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), the University of Nigeria, Nsukka., Nigeria. The school will feature ~20 internationally recognized researchers from many branches of heliophysics. This international school offers an intensive two week course in topics related to heliophysics. The course is aimed at postgraduate students and new postdocs. The application deadline was 30 April 2008. Please contact Dr. A. Babatunde Rabiu for information.
Other IHY-Related Schools:
Date: 20 - 31 July, 2008 Location: Fairbanks and Gakona, Alaska 2 weeks long; school normally has 16 lectures and individually chosen hands-on experiments with ionospheric radars, heaters, atmospheric lidars, noctilucent cloud cameras etc. Average attendance is 40. There was also a PARS School at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks held 23 July - 3 August, 2007. Contact: Roger Smith Website: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/PARS/
Contacts: J-P Raulin; W. Guevara Day.
The next Latin American school was held 25-29 September 2006 in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA (IAFE)
Website:
http://www.riarche.iafe.uba.ar/wiki/index.php/Portada
The following Latin American school was held in San Jose dos Campos, BRAZIL (INPE), 23-26 October 2006.
Another school happened in conjunction with the 8th Latin American Conference on Geophysics (COLAGE) in Merida, MEXICO, 12-17 July 2007.
"Turbulence and Waves in Space Plasmas" The scientific programme "Series of Events on Relations in the Sun-Earth System and Space Weather" (SERSES) offers a coherent series of courses for young researchers in the years 2006-2009 in different disciplines which concur to the Sun-Earth relationships, and presents the solar-terrestrial environment as a global system in order to allow a significant improvement in the global knowledge of the entire system. SERSES courses will be organized at L'Aquila, in close cooperation, by the Consorzio Area di Ricerca in Astrogeofisica and the International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario di Fisica Spaziale: 1) Spring 2006: The Physics of the Sun (i.e. The Active Sun on your Active Desktop) 2) Fall 2006: Solar Terrestrial Physics 3) Spring 2007: Magnetospheric Dynamics (9-15 April 2007) 4) Fall 2007: Turbulence and Waves in Space Plasmas (9-14 September, 2007) 5) 7 - 12 April 2008: Geomagnetism and Ionosphere 6) Fall 2008: Solar-terrestrial relations in Antarctica Website: http://www.cifs-isss.org/
4th Tusi Summer Regional Astronomical School "Sun and Geosphere" and Young Scientists Conference - 2007, Azerbaijan
Young Scientists International School on "Heliosphere and Galaxy", May 3-5, 2007 in Bucharest, ROMANIA.
The Second International Symposium on Space Climate: Long-Term Change in the Sun, and its Effects in the Heliosphere and Planet Earth, International Conference Fifty Years of Romanian Astrophysics, Bucharest, September 26-30, 2006 - Organiser Cristiana Dumitrache Workshop on "Flows, Boundaries, Interactions", Bucharest, May 4-5, 2007
IHY-Africa Space Weather Science and Education Workshop, Nov 11-16, 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
If you are interested in
joining or helping out with the ISC, or if you are part of a summer school
program that can join with the IHY schools, contact David Webb at
david.webb at hanscom.af.mil
or call +1 781-377-3086.
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