FINAL PROGRAMMEScientific Organizing Committee
Katya Georgieva (chair), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Dragan Roša (co-chair), Astronomical Observatory Zagreb, Croatia
Slobodan Bosanac, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Ashot Chilingarian, Alikhanyan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
Nat Gopalswamy, Solar System Exploration Division, NASA, USA
Bojan Vršnak, Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy, Zagreb, Croatia
Local Organizing Committee
Dragan Roša (chair)
Damir Hržina (co-chair)
Jaša Čalogović
Darije Maričić
Ivan Romštajn
Domagoj Ruždjak
Giuliana Verbanac
Zoran Vlašić
Programme Overview
Session 1
Solar ActivitySession 2
Magnetospheric and atmospheric variations
Session 3
Heliospheric conditions and cosmic rays modulations
Session 4
Space Weather impacts and climatic aspects
Session 5
Observing Techniques and Data Handling
Conference Site
Open University Campus “Luša”
Luša bb
HR-22010 Brodarica
Croatia
Contact Address
Zagreb Astronomical Observatory – Astronomical Association of Zagreb
Opatička 22, p.p. 943
HR-10001 Zagreb
Croatia
tel/fax: +385 1 4851355
www.zvjezdarnica.hr
ihy-iswi@zvjezdarnica.hr ihy-iswi@zvjezdarnica.hr
Programme
Monday, 7 September
18:00 Registration and Welcome party19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, 8 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 Opening Addresses (S. D. Bosanac)
Session 1 – Solar activity (chairman: B. Vršnak)
9:00 – 9:30 The forecast of the large solar flares: possibilities and restrictions (V. Ishkov)
9:30 – 9:50 A fast and slow chromospheric response of H-alpha and H-beta lines to effects of accelerated particles in the 26th April 2003 solar flare (L. K. Kashapova, P. Kortc, A. S. Frolova, N.S. Meshalkina)
9:50 – 10:10 A prediction for the solar cycle 24 (R. Brajsa, G. Verbanac, E. Cliver, L. Svalgaard, A. Hanslmeier, H. Woehl, M. Roth)
10:10 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session 1 – Solar activity (chairman: V. Ishkov)
11:00 – 11:20 Interaction of coronal mass ejections with large-scale structures (N. Gopalswamy, S. Yashiro, H. Xie, S. Akiyama, P. Makela)
11:20 – 11:40 Coronal Shock Formation in Various Ambient Media (T. Zic, B. Vrsnak, M. Temmer, A. Veronig)
13:30 – 14: 30 Lunch
Session 1 – Solar activity (chairman: N. Gopalswamy)
17:30 – 17:50 Interplanetary propagation of coronal mass ejections (B. Vrsnak, T. Zic, D. Vrbanec)
17:50 – 18:10 Scientific astrology: planetary effects on solar activity (K. Georgieva)
18:10 – 18:30 Solar active regions with peculiar spectral polarization emission and its possible diagnostics (T.I. Kaltman, V.M Bogod, L.V. Yasnov)
19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Wednesday, 9 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
Session 2 – Magnetospheric and atmospheric variations (chairman: D. Rosa)
9:00 – 9:20 The role of magnetospheric lobes in Solar wind-megnetosphere-ionosphere relations (R. Koleva, E. Grigorenko)
9:20 – 9:40 Magnetospheric ULF wave activity monitoring based on the ULF-index (O. Kozyreva, N. Kleimenova)
9:40 – 10:00 Solar wind-magnetosphere-atmosphere coupling: effects of magnetic storms and substorms in atmospheric electric field variations (N. G. Kleimenova, O. V. Kozyreva, S. Michnowski, M. Kubicki)
10:00 – 10:20 Morning – evening asymmetry of auroral precipitation during magnetic storms (O.I. Yagodkina, V.G. Vorobjev, I.V. Despirak)
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
Session 3 – Heliospheric conditions and cosmic rays modulations (chairman: E. W. Cliver)
10:50 – 11:10 Dynamics of the high speed streams during the last four solar minima (G. Maris)
11:10 – 11:30 Forewarning of upcoming radiation storm based on joint treatment of data from ASEC particle detectors and space-born measurements (A. Hovhannisyan, A. Chilingarian)
11:30 – 11:50 Investigation of daily variations of cosmic ray fluxes in the beginning of 24th solar activity cycle (A. Chilingarian, B. Mailyan)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon session – Round table: Future Prospects of Space Weather
17:30 – 18:45 Introduction by N. Gopalswamy: International Space Weather Initiative (N. Gopalswamy, J. Davila)
Discussion
19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Thursday 10 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 16:00 Excursion I (visiting archipelago by boat and Šibenik city)
17:30 – 18:00 Especially lecture about history of solar physics researches (E. W. Cliver)
18:00 – 19:00 Poster session – list of contributions
19:30 – 20:30 The Dangerous Face of the Sun – public lecture by N. Gopalswamy (City library “Juraj Šižgorić” Šibenik)
19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Friday, 11 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
Session 4 – Space Weather impacts and climatic aspects (chairman: R. Brajsa)
9:00 – 9:30 A Forecast for Cycle 24 Based on Fluctuations Above the Floor in the Solar Wind (E. W. Cliver)
9:30 – 10:00 Detection of 10-30 MeV electrons and gammas from the Relativistic Runaway Process by particle detectors at Aragats (A. Chilingarian, A. Daryan, K. Arakelyan, A. Reymers)
10:40 – 10:30 Coffee break
Session 4 – Space Weather impacts and climatic aspects (chairman: R. Brajsa)
10:30 – 10:50 Influence of space climate and space weather on the Earth (T. Kuznetsova)
10:50 – 11:10 New results of radiation environment investigation by Liulin-5 experiment in the human phantom aboard the International Space Station (J. Semkova, R. Koleva, S. Maltchev, V. Benghin, I. Chernykh, V. Shurshakov, V. Petrov, N. Bankov, M. Goranova)
11:10 – 11:30 Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes (A.Ozguc, A. Kilcik, J. P. Rozelot)
Session 5 – Observing Techniques and Data Handling (chairman: R. Brajsa)
11:30 – 11:50 A comparison of sunspot position measurements from different data sets (I. Poljancic, R. Brajsa, D. Ruzdjak, D. Hrzina, R. Jurdana-Sepic, H. Wöhl, W. Otruba)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
15:30 – 18:30 Excursion II (Island Krapanj)
19:30 – 20:30 Conference dinner
Saturday 12 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 18:00 Excursion III (Krka National Park)
20:00 Dinner / Closing Ceremony
Sunday, 13 September
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
List of Invited Speakers
Edward W. Cliver (USAF, Hanscom, USA)
Ashot Chilingarian (Alikhanyan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia)
Vitaly Ishkov (Izmiran, Troitsk Moscow region, Russia)
Tamara Kuznetsova (Izmiran, Troitsk Moscow region, Russia)