Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 16 

Day 1. Identifying Operational and Exploration Requirements for SEP Forecasting

Description: Day 1 will be dedicated to the presentations by space weather forecast customers (operations and exploration agencies, private sector, etc)

Conference Opening Session

Workshop Registration and Breakfast (8:15 am - 9:00 am)

9:00 am - 9:20 am
Presenter: Viacheslav Sadykov, SOC (GSU)
Talk Title: Welcome message

9:20 am - 10:00 am
Presenter: Madhulika Guhathakurta (NASA HQ)
Talk Title: Looking at the Sun with Fresh AIs

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Presenter: Mangala Sharma (NSF)
Talk Title: The NSF Space Weather Research Program

10:20 am - 10:40 am
Presenter: Lisa Winter-Baek (NASA/NSF)
Talk Title: Opportunities for SEP research with NASA R2O2R and NSF SHINE programs

Coffee Break (10:40 am - 11:00 am)

SEP Monitoring and Operational Activities (Session 1)

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Presenter: James Spann (NOAA)
Talk Title: NOAA Space Weather SEP Operations and Requirements

11:20 am - 11:40 am
Presenter: Kimberly Moreland (CU CIRES/NOAA SWPC)
Talk Title: Transitioning from Research to Operations: Addressing Operational Requirements for SEP Event Forecasting Models

11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Michelangelo Romano (NASA/GSFC)
Talk Title: Real-time Analysis and Modeling of Solar and Heliospheric Variability by NASA's Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Presenter: Leila Mays (CCMC)
Talk Title: SEP Scoreboard

Lunch (12:45 pm - 13:40 pm)

SEP Monitoring and Operational Activities (Session 2)

13:40 pm - 14:00 pm
Presenter: Bernd Heber (Christian-Albrechts-Universität)
Talk Title: Application of the Relativistic Electron Alert System (REleASE) to instruments on STEREO-A

14:00 pm - 14:20 pm
Presenter: Joan Burkepile (NCAR)
Talk Title: Near real-time coronal mass ejection alerts as part of an early warning forecasting system for SEP events

14:20 pm - 14:40 pm
Presenter: Tilaye Tadesse (NASA SRAG)
Talk Title: MagPy for SEP Environment Monitoring and Forecasting

14:40 pm - 15:00 pm
Presenter: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber (Kiel University)
Talk Title: The Space Radiation Environment on Mars, Moon, and in the Inner Heliosphere

15:00 pm - 15:20 pm
Presenter: Ian Richardson (University of Maryland/NASA GSFC)
Talk Title: A Widespread View of SEP Events From STEREO

15:20 pm - 15:40 pm
Presenter: Sabrina Savage (NASA HQ)
Talk Title: NASA Heliophysics Division Space Weather Program Activities

Coffee Break (15:40 pm - 16:00 pm)

16:00 pm - 17:30 pm
Open discussion: SEP Monitoring and Operational Activities

Thursday, October 17

Day 2. Revising Observational Data Availability and Preparation Efforts

Description: Day 2 will be focused on the data available and utilized for monitoring and forecasting the SEP environment.

Observations (Session 1): SEP monitoring and analysis

Registration and Breakfast (8:30 am - 9:00 am)

9:00 am - 9:40 am
Presenter: Angelos Vourlidas (JHU APL)
Talk Title: The critical observational gaps for actionable SEP forecasting and the path forward

9:40 am - 10:00 am
Presenter: Franco Criscola (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
Talk Title: Mission Concept for the Study of Solar Particle Radiation and Corona from the Cislunar Environment at Stable Earth-Moon L4 Orbits

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Presenter: Arik Posner (NASA/HQ, NASA/JSC)
Talk Title: The Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Clock

10:20 am - 10:40 am
Presenter: Alexei Struminsky (Space Research Institute - IKI)
Talk Title: Case Study of SEP and non-SEP X-Class Flares in May 2024

10:40 am - 11:00 am
Presenter: Nikola Veselinović (Institute for Physics Belgrade)
Talk Title: Some features in the time series of energetic protons measured at L1 during space weather events

Coffee Break (11:00 am - 11:20 am)

Observations (Session 2): Data preparation efforts

11:20 am - 11:40 am
Presenter: Aatiya Ali (GSU)
Talk Title: Comparative Analysis of Solar Proton Event Characteristics at Lagrange Point-1 and the Geostationary Orbit

11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Weihao Liu (University of Michigan)
Talk Title: Solar Energetic Particle Benchmark Dataset in the CLEAR Space Weather Center of Excellence

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Presenter: Azim Ahmadzadeh (University of Missouri - St. Louis)
Talk Title: Ten Thousand Filaments Manually Annotated for Machine Learning

12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
Presenter: Irina Kitiashvili (NASA Ames Research Center)
Talk Title: Global Solar Activity Data Portal for Long-Term Forecasting

Lunch (12:40 pm - 13:40 pm)

Observations (Session 3): Radiation and Broader Space Weather

13:40 pm - 14:00 pm
Presenter: Tharindu Hettiarachchi, Enosh Herath Mudiyanselage (GSU)
Talk Title: Muon detector network at GSU

14:00 pm - 14:20 pm
Presenter: Manjula Ranasinghe (University of Colombo)
Talk Title: Operational Insights of the MAGDAS Geomagnetic Measuring Station in Sri Lanka and Analysis of Geomagnetic Responses to High-Speed Solar Wind

14:20 pm - 14:40 pm
Presenter: Arfa Mubashir (GSU)
Talk Title: Cosmic ray flux observations during recent high solar activity days at different geomagnetic cutoff rigidities

14:40 pm - 15:00 pm
Presenter: William Kent Tobiska (Space Environment Technologies)
Talk Title: From the Earth to the Moon – Radiation Monitoring with ARMAS

15:00 pm - 15:20 pm
Presenter: Dustin Kempton (GSU)
Talk Title: The Radiation Data Portal V2: Providing Visualizations for ARMAS Aligned Data

15:20 pm - 15:40 pm
Presenter: Kirill Grigorev (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
Talk Title: RadLab: A Comprehensive Database and Graphical and Programming Interfaces for Space Radiation Data

Coffee Break (15:40 pm - 16:00 pm)

16:00 pm - 17:30 pm
Open discussion: SEP and Radiation monitoring and observational capabilities

Friday, October 18

Day 3. Highlighting Modeling Capabilities for SEP Prediction

Description: Day 3 will be dedicated to highlighting the modeling efforts targeted to forecast SEP events and all-clear periods.

SEP Modeling and Prediction (Session 1)

Registration and Breakfast (8:30 am - 9:00 am)

9:00 am - 9:40 am
Presenter: Kathryn Whitman (NASA SRAG)
Talk Title: TBD (Overview of SEP forecasting approaches and SEPVAL challenge outcomes)

9:40 am - 10:00 am
Presenter: Athanasios Papaioannou (IAASARS/National Observatory of Athens)
Talk Title: Preparing for Space Odyssey: Predicting Solar Storms

10:00 am - 10:20 am
Presenter: Nataly Shlyk (IZMIRAN)
Talk Title: An empirical model of SEP events: probability and fluxes

10:20 am - 10:40 am
Presenter: Andrei Sadovski (Space Research Institute - IKI)
Talk Title: Magnetic detonation in solar flares

Coffee Break (10:40 am - 11:00 am)

SEP Modeling and Prediction (Session 2): Machine Learning applications

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Presenter: Lulu Zhao (University of Michigan)
Talk Title: CLEAR Space Weather Center of Excellence: All-Clear SEP Forecast

11:20 am - 11:40 am
Presenter: Vadim Ozheredov (Space Research Institute - IKI)
Talk Title: Forecasting SEP using Bayesian approach based on analysis of radio-events accompanying X-ray flares

11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Sumanth Rotti (GSU)
Talk Title: Novel Short-term Predictions of Solar Energetic Particle Events Using Machine Learning Time Series Classifiers

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Presenter: Chia-Yun Li (University of Michigan)
Talk Title: Predicting Solar Energetic Particle Events Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Flare Features

12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
Presenter: Spiridon Kasapis (NASA Ames Research Center)
Talk Title: Metcalf Lecture: Machine Learning Models to Predict SEP Events During Two Solar Cycles of Observations Using the SHARP and SMARP Datasets

Lunch (12:40 pm - 13:40 pm)

SEP Modeling and Prediction (Session 3)

13:40 pm - 14:00 pm
Presenter: Ming Zhang (Florida Institute of Technology)
Talk Title: A data-driven physics-based model for predictions of solar energetic particles

14:00 pm - 14:20 pm
Presenter: Junxiang Hu (NASA GSFC / UAH)
Talk Title: Recent progress in the real-time SEP forecast/nowcast pipeline with iPATH

14:20 pm - 14:40 pm
Presenter: Weihao Liu (University of Michigan)
Talk Title: TBD (on the physics-based SEP modeling)

14:40 pm - 15:00 pm
Presenter: Viacheslav Sadykov (GSU)
Talk Title: SEP prediction results from NASA ESI project

15:00 pm - 15:20 pm
Presenter: Berkay Aydin (GSU)
Talk Title: TBD (operational SEP forecasting at DMLab)

15:20 pm - 15:40 pm
Presenter: Manolis Georgoulis (JHU APL)
Talk Title: A Consistent Treatment and Discussion on All Clear for Solar Energetic Particle Events

Coffee Break (15:40 pm - 16:00 pm)

16:00 pm - 17:30 pm
Open discussion: Current SEP modeling and prediction capabilities

Saturday, October 19

Day 4. Integration of Workshop Outcomes and Conclusions

Description: The half-day session during the Day 4 will be dedicated to summarizing the outcomes of the workshop.

Working Session

Breakfast (8:30 am to 9:00 am)

9:00 am - 10:40 am
Working session: technical report skeleton

Coffee Break (10:40 am - 11:00 am)

11:00 am - 12:20 pm
Working session: technical report skeleton

12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Presenter:  Viacheslav Sadykov (GSU)
Talk Title: Concluding Remarks