ILWS contact ILWS science ILWS charter ILWS organization ILWSmissions ILWS news ILWS presentations ILWS history International Living With a Star ILWS home Living With a Star site Sun-Earth Connection site ILWS site map search NASA Web pagesInternational Living With a Star News

News

  • Cover image of Heliophysics Textbook 111 Textbooks from the NASA Heliophysics Summer Schools, which was
    sponsored by the Living With a Star program, are now available. These
    are the first textbooks explicitly addressing all aspects of
    heliophysics. They were produced by the faculty of the 2007, 2008, and
    2009 Heliophysics Summer Schools. All three volumes are available from http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/HeliophysicsScience/resources/textbooks.html
  • image of book cover A book on the International Heliophysical Year's activities has been published. The volume, titled "Putting the 'I' in IHY", consists of 370 pages describing IHY's science, outreach, and observatory development activities in more than 70 nations. It is available for purchase from amazon.com.
  • The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is organizing the 1st Asia-Pacific School to be held December 10-22, 2007 at Kodaikanal Observatory in India.
    Applications are now being accepted for the 1st Asia-Pacific Summer School. This international school offers an intensive two weeks course in topics related to heliophysics. The course is aimed at Ph.D. and post-doctoral research students.
  • ILWS Session (Sessions D2.1/E3.1 on Wednesday and Thursday) at COSPAR Beijing, China - 16-23 July 2006
  • ILWS Session (Union Session 1) at the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China - 24-27 July 2006
  • ILWS supports the forthcoming International Symposium on Recent Observations and Simulations of the Sun-Earth System (ISROSES) conference in Varna, Bulgaria from September 18-22, 2006. Symposia will include: solar cycle variations, the response of geospace to solar wind variations, CMEs, energetic particles, and modeling / prediction.For more information, see:
    http://dezeeuwg4.engin.umich.edu/~ilr/ISROSES/home.php
  • ILWS meeting held at the premises of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency/Aeronautics and Space in A-1010 Vienna, Canovagasse 7 on April 23 and 24, 2005. The steering committee meeting was on April 23, the working group meeting on April 24. Meeting Agenda Contact William Liu (william.liu@space.gc.ca) or David Sibeck
    (david.g.sibeck@nasa.gov) for further details about the meeting. Local contact information     for the Research Promotion Agency include:

- Michaela Gitsch (E: michaela.gitsch@ffg.at; T: +43 57755 3302):
Administration, Public Relations

- Michaela Dietl (E: michaela.dietl@ffg.at; T: +43 57755 3011): Reception,
requests concerning the FFG conference facilities

- Pamela Spork (E: pamela.spork@ffg.at; T: +43 57755 3012): Secretary to
Mr Posch"

  • ISSI Workshop - Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth, Bern, Switzerland, 18-22 April 2005

    **Please note: Attendance at this workshop is by invitation only.
    http://www.issi.unibe.ch/workshops/SolDyn/

Documents:

Invitation Letter
First Circular
Second Circular
Draft Program
Third Circular
List of Participants
Publication Plan
Editing Process

Convenors:

Roger M. Bonnet, ISSI, rmbonnet@issi.unibe.ch
Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA HQ, mguhatha@hq.nasa.gov
Gerhard Haerendel, IU Bremen, hae@iu-bremen.de
Hermann Opgenoorth, ESA-ESTEC, Hermann.Opgenoorth@rssd.esa.int
Götz Paschmann, ISSI, paschmann@issi.unibe.ch
Rudolf von Steiger, ISSI, vsteiger@issi.unibe.ch

Local Organisation:

Brigitte Fasler, ISSI, brigitte.fasler@issi.unibe.ch, ph. +41 31 631 4890, fax +41 31 631 4896


Objective: The SOHO and Cluster missions form a single ESA cornerstone. Yet they observe very different regions in our solar system: the solar atmosphere on one hand and the Earth’s magnetosphere on the other. At the same time the Ulysses mission provides observations in the third dimension of the heliosphere, and many others add to the picture from the Lagrangian point L1 to the edge of the heliosphere. It is the aim of this ISSI workshop, under the auspices of the International Living With a Star (ILWS) program, to tie these observations together in addressing the topic of Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth. The Workshop will start out with an assessment and description of the reasons for solar dynamics and how it couples into the heliosphere. The three subsequent days will each be devoted to following one chain of events from the Sun all the way to the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere: The normal solar wind chain, the chain associated with coronal mass ejections, and the solar energetic particles chain. The final day of the workshop shall be devoted to common physical processes occurring both at the Sun and in the magnetosphere such as reconnection, shock acceleration, dipolarisation of magnetic field, and others.

  • A special session entitled "International Living with a Star Program" took place during the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Paris, France, 18 - 25 July 2004
  • An ILWS Steering Committee was held on May 23, 2004.
    The ILWS Working Groups met on May 25-26, 2004.
    Both meetings were held in Banff, Canada.
  • Double Star Launched
  • The first ILWS Working Group meeting was held in Nice, France, April 13-15, 2003 - Meeting Agenda
  • The first meeting of the ILWS Steering Committee was held in Paris, France, January 16-17, 2003
  • ILWS Kickoff Meeting held 4-6 September 2002, Washington, D.C. (29 attendees - 27 agencies invited)