Meeting Information
Space Climate is a rapidly emerging
interdisciplinary science that deals with long-term solar variability and its
impact on the heliospheric space environment and planetary atmospheres such as
that of the Earth, including global climate change. To assess the current state
of our understanding and spur the growth of this field, the series of International
Space Climate Symposia was initiated in 2004 (Oulu, Finland). Following up on
the editions in 2006 (Sinaia, Romania) and 2009 (Saariselka, Finland), the
fourth symposium of this series will be held in Goa, India from 16-21 January,
2011.
The symposium will cover the causes of long-term
solar variability from the dynamo mechanism, irradiance variations, solar
atmospheric processes, and the manifestations of this variability in the
heliosphere and Earth. The pathways through which solar forcing influence the
Earth’s upper atmosphere and climate will be assessed. Allied topics would
include solar-stellar connection, geomagnetic activity, cosmic-ray modulation,
cloud nucleation and a critical assessment of solar variability inputs in
climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Space
missions and data resources relevant for space climate research will also be
discussed. A special focus of this symposium will be on the unusually long
minimum of solar cycle 23, its consequences and whether it can throw light on
the “minimum ground-state” of solar magnetic activity. A mix of keynote,
invited and contributed talks is envisaged, in addition to a panel discussion
on the solar minimum.
Invited speakers include: Jurg
Beer, Amitava Bhattacharjee,
Archana Bhattacharyya, Gufran
Beig, Dibyendu Chakrabarty,
Arnab Rai Choudhuri,
Jonathan Cirtain, Ilaria Ermolli, Emese Forgács-Dajka, Bas van Geel, Katya Georgieva, Sarah Gibson,
T.E. Girish, Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy, Madhulika Guhathakurta, Andew Jones, Jón Egill Kristjánsson
, Franz-Josef Luebken, Arnold Hanslmeier,
Siraj Hasan, Monika Korte, P.K. Manoharan, Piet
Martens, Hiroko Miyahara, Kalevi Mursula,
Dibyendu Nandi, Dean Pesnell, Jean-Pierre Rozelot, R.
Ramesh, Alexander Ruzmaikin,
Nandita Srivastava, Werner Schmutz, Annika Seppala, Sami Solanki, Stan Solomon, Prasad Subramanian, Leif Svalgaard, Brian Tinsley, Bruce Tsurutani,
Jose Vaquero and Jan Veizer.
The meeting will be held in the seaside town of
Goa, situated on the western coast of India and well-connected by flights to
Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi – which are major hubs for international flights.
During winter, direct flights to Goa may also be available from some European
cities. The venue for the symposium is Neelams the Grand Hotel (http://www.neelamsthegrand.com/) –
where reduced contractual rates are available for the meeting participants. The
hotel offers AC rooms, pool, health facilities, on-site restaurant
and recreation as well as conference facilities. Wi-Fi access will also be
available at the venue. All social events associated with the symposium will be
held in this hotel. Note that a specific number of rooms are being held under
this contractual rate. After the rooms at the conference hotel are filled up,
references to alternate accommodation possibilities will be listed here, but
the participants will have to make their own bookings. During the registration
process, you have the option to decline the conference hotel accommodation and
reserve your own hotel. However, please be advised that Goa is an expensive
place in the winter and most hotels sell out well in advance. The choice of the
above conference hotel has been based on a number of organizational factors,
including our philosophy of making this conference affordable to scientists
from diverse economic zones.
Note that the conference will begin on Sunday, 16th
January evening and close on Friday, 21st January late afternoon.
Participants should use the online registration
form for registering, submitting their abstract and booking accommodation at
the contractual rate.
Registration Fees: US$ 350 (Developed Nations)
US$ 125
(Developing Nations; all countries listed in: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/registration/low-income-countries.php)
Accommodation: US$ 70 /person/night (Single basis)
US$ 42
/person/night (Twin-shared basis)
(All breakfast,
lunch and airport-transfers included)
DEADLINES
Registration, Abstract Submission and Accommodation: Closed
(If you cancel your registration before 31st
December, 2010, a processing fee of US$ 25 will be subtracted from your
reimbursement; after this date cancellation may not be possible. If you are not
yet ready to submit an abstract, leave a comment indicating “To be communicated
by email later” in the title field of the abstract, but complete all other
required fields of the registration and accommodation booking process.)
Financial Assistance Request: Closed
(Successful applicants will be informed of the
level of support, following which they will need to register using the online
registration form.)
Meeting website: http://www.iiserkol.ac.in/~spaceclimate4
Mirror Website: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/spaceclimate4
CONTACT
Kalevi Mursula
(University of Oulu, Finland) & Dibyendu Nandi (Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research, Kolkata)
space-climate @ gmail-com
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