Heliophysics Modeling & Simulation Project (HMS)

Living With a Star Heliophysics Science Technical Interchange Meeting 2015

Final Program and Presentations
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
08:00am - 09:00am Registration
09:00am - 09:10am Opening - Charles Smith
09:10am – 09:30am Working group TIM logistics - Nagi Mansour
Session 1: Space Missions and Ground-Based Observatories – Nagi N. Mansour
09:30am – 10:00am Lessons Learned on Space Weather Processes From In Situ Magnetospheric Missions in the Last Few Years - Vassilis Angelopoulos
10:00am – 10:30am ICON: The Ionospheric Connection Explorer - Thomas Immel
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee break
Session 2: Medium Range Thermosphere Ionosphere Storm Forecasts - Anthony Mannucci
11:00am – 11:40am Medium Range Thermosphere-Ionosphere Forecasts - Anthony Mannucci, Xing Meng & Olga Verkhoglyadova
11:40am – 11:50am Alfven Waves and Stream Interaction Regions - Chip Manchester
11:50am – 12:10pm Statistical Characterization of Ionospheric Anomalies Using TEC Maps - Chunming Wang
12:10pm – 12:30pm Predicting Ground Based Magnetometer Measurements Using the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter - Erin Lynch
12:30pm - 02:00pm Lunch break
Session 3: A First-Principles-Based Data Assimilation System for the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Electrodynamics - Robert Schunk
02:00pm - 02:30pm Overview and Status of the Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System (MEPS) Collaboration Program - Robert Schunk
02:30pm - 03:00pm Effect of Different Data Distributions on MEPS Ionospheric Reconstructions - Ludger Scherliess
03:00pm - 03:30pm Effect of Different Data Assimilation Techniques on MEPS Ionospheric Reconstructions - Xiaoqing Pi
03:30pm – 04:00pm Coffee break
Session 4: Breakout Sessions
04:00pm – 05:30pm TBD by Scientific Organizing Committee
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
08:45am - 09:00am LWS Overview and Objectives – Madhulika “Lika” Guhathakurta
Session 5: MHD and Kinetic Effects in Magnetosphere Models - Amitava Bhattacharjee
09:00am – 09:30am Integration of Kinetic Effects into Global Magnetosphere Models: Status - Amitava Bhattacharjee
09:30am – 10:00am Next-Generation OpenGGCM: Multi-Fluid Moment Model, Mesh Refinement and Applications - Kai Germaschewski
10:00am – 10:30am Comparison of Fluid and Kinetic Effects of Magnetic Island Coalescence: A Challenge Problem - Adam Stanier
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee break
Session 6: Magnetic Flux Emergence and Transport - Nagi Mansour
11:00am – 11:30am ADAPT/HMI Effort for the Integrated Global-Sun Model - Carl Henney
11:30am – 11:45am The Role of Scale and Model Bias in ADAPT's Photospheric Estimation - Humberto Godinez
11:45am – 12:00pm Updates on Time-Distance Helioseismology Study of Active Regions - Junwei Zhao
12:00pm - 12:30pm MHD Simulations of Convective Dynamo and Emerging Flux in the Solar Convective Envelope - Yuhong Fan
12:30pm – 02:00pm Lunch break
Session 7: Coronal Global Evolutionary Models - George Fisher
2:00pm - 2:30pm The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model: Accomplishments and Future Prospects - George Fisher
2:30pm - 3:00pm Magnetofrictional Models of Active Region Evolution - Mark Cheung and Marc DeRosa
3:00pm - 3:30pm Using Vector Magnetic Field Data to Understand and Quantify the Dynamics of Solar Eruptions - Xudong Sun
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee break
Session 8: Breakout Sessions
4:00pm – 5:30pm TBD by Scientific Organizing Committee
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Session 9: A Modular Capability for Community Modeling of Flares, CMEs and their Interplanetary Impacts - Spiro Antiochos
08:00am – 08:10am Overview of Capability - Spiro Antiochos
08:10am – 08:30am Modeling Energy Buildup by Flux Emergence - Chip Manchester
08:30am – 08:50am Modeling Reconnection-Driven Energy Release in Flares/CMEs - Bart van der Holst
08:50am – 09:10am Modeling Reconnection-Driven Energy Release in Jets/Nanoflares - Rick DeVore
09:10am – 09:30am Modeling Multiscale Coupling in Magnetic Reconnection - Tamas Gombosi
09:30am – 10:00am Coffee break
Session 10: Corona-Solar Wind Energetic Particle Acceleration - Nathan Schwadron
10:00am – 10:10am Overview of C-SWEPA Accomplishments to Date - Nathan Schwadron
10:10am - 10:30am C-SWEPA: Modeling of Extreme CME Events: The Bastille Day Event - Jon Linker
10:30am - 11:00am C-SWEPA: Dose and Flux Predictions at 1AU for Simulated CMEs Through Couplings with Two Different MHD models - Matthew Gorby
11:00am - 11:30am C-SWEPA: Particle Acceleration at Low Coronal Expansions and Shocks - Nathan Schwadron
Session 11: Integrated Real-Time Modeling System for Heliospheric Space Weather Forecasting - Dusan Odstrcil
11:30am - 11:40am Prediction of the Evolving Solar Wind Based on Observations of the Solar Magnetic Field and Interplanetary Scintillation - Dusan Odstrcil
11:40am - 11:50am Toward Routine Prediction of the Long-Duration Energetic Particles Events - Dusan Odstrcil
11:50am - 12:00pm Supporting the Ongoing and Upcoming Heliospheric Missions- Dusan Odstrcil
12:00pm 2015 LWS TIM - Meeting Adjourned

For further information about the workshop, please contact Nagi N. Mansour.