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Schedule of Events

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration, e-mail, and review the new SEC Web site all week
-Sunshine Room
 

Monday, May 1

8:00-9:00 Registration, Coffee

Joint Session-Grand Ballroom

9:00-10:00 Opening
9:00 Welcome - B. Poppe, SEC
9:05 Space Weather Week Overview - E. Hildner, SEC
9:20 The Progress of Cycle 23 - N. Cohen, SEC
9:40 NSWP Implementation Plan - R. Robinson, NSF

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-11:30 Where Is SEC Now?

10:20 Improvement in Services - J. Hirman, SEC
10:55 SEC Research Highlights - H. Singer, SEC
 

11:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 User Talks

1:00 Why Utilities Respect Geomagnetically Induced Currents - T. R. Whittemore, Electric Research
1:35 Satellite Risks in Space - D. Speich, SEC
2:10 Navigation's Top Five List: Safety Through Diversity - R. Lilley, Illgen Simulation Technologies

2:45-3:05 Break

3:05-5:00 User Talks

3:05 Radiation Hazards to Humans in Space - W. Maxson, NASA
3:40 DoD Space Weather Requirements - P. Engelmann, AFSPC/ DR
4:15 An Unexpected Space Weather Effect on the CHANDRA
X-ray Telescope - B. Dichter, AFRL
 
 

Tuesday, May 2

Joint Session -Grand Ballroom
8:30-9:30 Resources and Limitations in Space Weather Forecasting -
L. Combs and B. Murtagh, SEC

9:30-9:50 Break

Research Community
(all day's sessions held in the Canyon Room)

9:50-10:00 Welcome to the Research-to-Operations Workshop - T. Onsager, T. Detman, G. Ginet, R. Behnke

10:00-11:00 SRAMP Space Weather Month
Chair: G. Lu, NCAR

10:00 Overview of Space Weather Month - A. Ridley

10:20 Solar Interplanetary events  during Space Weather Month - J. Burkepile

10:40 Summary of Forecaster Activities - R. Thompson

11:00-12:00 Results of Prediction Challenges
Chair: O. de la Beaujardiere, AFRL

11:00 Overview - T. Detman, T. Onsager
11:20 Presentations by Participants
 
 

User Community

9:50-11:00 Applying Space Weather Information to User Needs

Break Out Groups

Induced Currents-Suite 331
Satellites-Flagstaff Room
Radio/Navigation
-Millennium Room
Biological-Suite 431

11:00-11:30 SPIDR: a Scientific Data Management and Visualization Tool - E. Kihn, NGDC
-Flagstaff room

11:30-12:00 SEC's Website - V. Raben, SEC
-Flagstaff room

All
12:00-1:30 Lunch

Research Community
(all day's sessions held in the Canyon Room)

1:30-3:00 Results of Prediction Challenges (continued)
1:30 Presentations by Participants
2:30 Discussion of challenge results and evaluation metrics

3:00-3:20 Break

3:20-5:00 Solar Research Advances
Chair: H. Lundstedt, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
3:20 New Directions in Solar/Inter- planetary Space Weather
Research - V. Pizzo
3:40 Solar Magnetic Initiative - M. Knoelker
4:00 SOHO Detection of Halo CMEs and Transient Events - R. Howard
4:20 Modeling Solar EUV - K.
Tobiska
4:40 Measuring Solar EUV and Comparing it to f10.7 - R.
Viereck

User Community

1:30-3:00 Introductions and Users Presentations: Work Sessions
Induced Currents-Suite 331
Satellites-Flagstaff Room
Radio/Navigation -Millennium Room
Biological-Suite 431

3:00-3:20 Break

3:20-5:00 Work Sessions (continued)

Induced Currents-Suite 331
Satellites-Flagstaff Room
Radio/Navigation-Millennium Room
Biological-Suite 431

All
6:00 - 8:00 Reception, Refreshments, and Tours at the David Skaggs Research Center-New NOAA Building on Broadway
 

Wednesday, May 3
 

Research Community

8:30-10:10 Ionospheric Research Advances Chair: G. Crowley, SWRI -Canyon Room
8:30 New Methods of Determining Satellite Drag - F. Marcos

8:50 UV Remote Sensing of the Neutral Atmosphere - R. McCoy
9:10 2D Tomographic Maps of the Polar Ionosphere - A. Vaananen
9:30 Development of a Global Data Assimilation Model for the Ionosphere - C. Wang
9:50 Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) - R. Schunk
10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-12:10 Global MHD Models of the Magnetosphere - Current Capabilities and Future Directions Chair: G. Ginet, AFRL
-Canyon Room
10:30 T. Gombosi
10:50 P. Janhunen
11:10 J. Lyon
11:30 T. Ogino
11:50 J. Raeder

12:10-1:30 Box Lunch on-site, Poster Session open
1:00 Informal Talk by Dr. David L. Evans, Assistant Administrator of NOAA-Century Room

12:10-6:00 Poster Session
-Millennium Room

Conversational space in the Century Room

3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-6:00 Poster Session (continued)-Millennium Room

4:00-5:00 New Challenges splinter groups-Century Room

User Community

8:30-10:10 Space Weather Services
Vendors
-Flagstaff room

FDC - K. Tobiska
Northwest Research Assoc. - J. Secan
IPS Sydney - R. Thompson
MetaTech - J. Kappenman
Others

10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Partners-Flagstaff room

10:30 U.S. Air Force - J. Cornicelli 11:00 ISES - G. Heckman

11:30 Fostering a Space Weather Industry - B. Poppe

12:10-1:30 Box Lunch on-site, Poster Session open
1:00 Informal Talk by Dr. David L. Evans, Assistant Administrator of NOAA-Century Room

1:30-3:30 Requests of SEC: Work Sessions

Induced Currents-Suite 331
Satellites-Flagstaff Room
Radio/Navigation-Canyon Room
Biological-Suite 431

3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-6:00 Poster Session -Millennium Room

4:00-5:00 New Challenges splinter groups-Century Room

Vendors

6:00-9:00 Vendor Meeting and Dinner at the Wilderness Pub
Vendors meet in Lobby at 5:45 before leaving for Restaurant

Thursday, May 4

Joint Session-Grand Ballroom

8:30-10:00 International Space Environment Centers
Chair: A. Hilgers, ESA/NOAA
8:30 European Space Agency - E. Daly, ESA
9:00 The Regional Warning Centers (each invited to speak for a few minutes)

RWC Sydney - R. Thompson, G. Patterson, IPS Radio and Space Services
RWC Tokyo - K. Marubashi, E. Sagawa, M. Akioka,
T. Obara, T. Nagatsuma, Communications Research Laboratory of Japan
RWC China - H. Wang, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
RWC New Delhi - D. R. Lakshmi, B. M. Reddy, National Physical Laboratory
RWC Moscow - V. Burov, Institute of Applied Geophysics
RWC Warsaw - I. Stanislawska, Space Research Centre
RWC Prague - D. Buresova, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
RWC Ottawa - R. Coles, H-L. Lam, Geological Survey of Canada
RWC Boulder, World Warning Agency - J. Hirman, NOAA SEC

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-12:00 Summary

10:20 Summary of User Conference - G. Heckman, SEC
11:10 Research Highlights Relating to User Needs - G. Ginet, R. Behnke, T. Onsager
11:50 Closing Remarks, B. Poppe, SEC

USER CONFERENCE ENDS

Research Community

(all the rest of the day's sessions held in the Grand BallRoom)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Metrics - How Do We Measure Progress?
Chair: R. Coles, Geological Survey of Canada

1:30 National Space Weather Program-First Three Metrics - R. Behnke
1:50 SEC Model and Forecast Verification - T. Detman
2:10 USAF Model and Forecast Verification - S. Quigley

2:30-3:30 New Developments at the USAF and NOAA/SEC Operations Centers
Chair: J. Kappenman, MetaTech Corp.

2:30 DoD Space Weather Restructuring, M. Bonadonna
2:50 SEC Modeling Activities and Future Plans - T. Onsager

3:10 New Operational Products at 55 Space Weather Squadron, AFWA - T. Bullet and K.
Scro

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00 Interagency and Collaborative Activities I
Chair: E. Kihn, NGDC

4:00 Inter-Regional Warning Center Collaborations - T. Obara and T. Nagatsuma

4:20 Community Coordinated Modeling Center - M. Hesse
4:40 Development of an Integrated Teraflop-Class Predictive Space Weather Model - A. Ridley

Friday, May 5

(all day's sessions held in the Century Room)

8:30-9:10 Interagency and Collaborative Activities II
Chair: H. Singer, SEC

8:30 Living With A Star - G. Withbroe
8:50 University Partnering in Operational Support - D. McMorrow

9:10-9:30 Break

9:30-10:50 New Space Weather Data and Analysis Techniques
Chair: G. Patterson, IPS Radio and Space Services

9:30 Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) - C. Pollock
9:50 Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) - S. Hill
10:10 Hard X-ray Spectrometer (HXRS) - H. Garcia
10:30 High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) - R. Canfield
10:50 Japanese L5 Mission - M. Akioka

11:10-11:30 Wrap-up of Research-to-Operations Workshop - T. Onsager, T. Detman, G. Ginet, R. Behnke

RESEARCH-TO-OPERATIONS WORKSHOP ENDS

Special Meetings

Space Weather Week is pleased to host some adjunct meetings of groups which have space weather missions that tie in with this meeting. Their meetings are listed here.

ISES

The International Space Environment Service members will be meeting as follows:

Sunday, 6:00-10:00 p.m.
ISES Meeting and Dinner-Regal Harvest House, Regal Class Boardroom.

Monday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
ISES Meeting-Regal Harvest House, Millennium Room.

Wednesday, 1:30-4:00
ISES Meeting-Regal Harvest House, Suite 431.

Friday, 8:30 a.m.-noon
ISES Working Group break-out sessions-Regal Harvest House, in the Regal Class Boardroom, the Flatirons Room, and the Executive Boardroom.

1:30-5:00 p.m.
ISES Meeting-David Skaggs Research Center, Room GB124.

Saturday, All day
ISES Discussions and Plans-David Skaggs Research Center, Room 2C406.

SUNBURST

The Electric Power Research Institute's SUNBURST group members will meet as follows:

Monday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
SUNBURST Meeting-Regal Harvest House, Grand Ballroom.

Vendors

Vendors and prospective vendors of space weather services are invited to join selected staff from SEC for a meeting and dinner. Please contact Barbara Poppe at the conference to confirm attendance.

Wednesday, 6:00 p.m.
Vendor Dinner at the Wilderness Pub.

Media

Members of the media are invited to a luncheon where they will be joined by scientists and users concerned about effects of space weather. The forum will be open for questions about any aspect of space weather that the media would like to pose to the invited experts.

Thursday, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Media Lunch at the David Skaggs Research Center, Room 2C406.