Name: Space Weather and Heliophysics Modelling Workshop
Start: 2026-04-07T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-09T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Space Weather and Heliophysics Modelling Workshop

from Tuesday, April 7, 2026 (8:45 AM) to Thursday, April 9, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 6, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

8:45 AM Badge Collection
Badge Collection
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: ESOC Main Gate

9:15 AM Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
9:45 AM Workshop
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

9:45 AM Welcome - Juha-Pekka Luntama (ESA)
10:00 AM The Active Heliosphere
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

10:00 AM The ESA Vigil Mission at L5:Heliospheric Modelling Opportunities from a New Perspective - Matthew West (European Space Agency)

10:15 AM Space weather forecasting with sub-L1 solar wind monitors - Christian Möstl (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria)

10:30 AM Operational Machine-Learning-Enhanced CME Arrival-Time Forecasting and In-Situ ICME Detection - Sabrina Guastavino (sabrina.guastavino@unige.it)

10:45 AM Variational Data Assimilation for Improved 3D Global MHD Forecasting of the Ambient Solar Wind - Jose Arnal (University of Toronto)

11:00 AM Architectural and Performance Optimization of the Energetic Particle Radiation Environment Model (EPREM-CPP) - Artem Epifanov (Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
11:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
11:45 AM Solar Corona & Solar Wind
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

11:45 AM Solar and heliospheric modeling with MPI-AMRVAC - Rony Keppens (CmPA, KU Leuven)

12:00 PM Uniturbulence and Alfvén wave solar model (UAWSoM): the new physics-based coronal model - Luka Banovic

12:15 PM Computationally efficient, dynamical solar wind forecasting using in-situ solar wind observations - Nathaniel Edward-Inatimi (University of Reading)

12:30 PM Improving CME Arrival-time assessment with realistic solar wind backgrounds - Ruggero Biondo (INAF - Turin Astrophysical Observatory)

12:45 PM The COCONUT Model for Data-Driven Solar Corona & Heliospheric Simulations - Andrea Lani (KU Leuven)

1:00 PM Towards novel data-driven coronal and heliospheric space weather modelling - Jens Pomoell (University of Helsinki)
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
2:30 PM Tracking Solar Activity
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

2:30 PM Opportunities for utilization of Vigil-like data and deep learning approach - Simon Mackovjak (Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

2:45 PM Prevision of phenomena through coronal hole outline recognition with neural network - Kalpa Harindra Perera Henadhira Arachchige (Dept. d’Astrophysique/AIM, CEA/IRFU, CNRS/INSU, Université Paris et Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France)

3:00 PM Operational Active Region Detection, Classification, and Flare Forecasting Using Deep Learning - Edoardo Legnaro (University of Genova)

3:15 PM The Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre - Stefaan Poedts (KU Leuven)

3:30 PM S2WARM (St Andrews Space Weather Active Region Monitor) - Paolo Pagano (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
3:45 PM Workshop
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

3:45 PM ESA funding opportunities, participation statistics, and team building activities
4:15 PM Business Meetings with ESA

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

9:00 AM Badge Collection
Badge Collection
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: ESOC Main Gate

9:30 AM Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
10:00 AM Geomagnetic Storms and Indices
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

10:00 AM Space Weather forecasting models for onboard operations - Monica Laurenza

10:15 AM Multi-Horizon Operational Forecasting of Geomagnetic Storms Using L1 Solar-Wind Observations - Michele Piana (University of Genova - Department of Mathematics)

10:30 AM Data Driven Advances in SERENADE: Larger Datasets, Stable Forecasts - Guillerme Bernoux (ONERA)

10:45 AM Days ahead forecast of geomagnetic activity - Peter Wintoft (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

11:00 AM Disturbance Storm Time Index Prediction with Interpretable Machine Learning - Jonah Ekelund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
11:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
11:45 AM Magnetosphere-Thermosphere-Plasmasphere
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

11:45 AM THERION Retrieve Thermospheric parameters at mid and equatorial latitudes - Loredana Perrone (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

12:00 PM Physics–Informed Machine Learning Modeling of Plasmaspheric Cold Electron Density - Sadaf Shahsavani (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences)

12:15 PM Mapping the Magnetosphere with Generative AI - Stefano Markidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

12:30 PM Perspective for Magnetospheric Modelling with Multi-Moment Fluid Codes - Simon Lautenbach (Ruhr University Bochum)
12:45 PM Workshop
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

12:45 PM Introducing the ESA Space HPC - Neva Besker (ESA -ESRIN)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
2:00 PM Community Capabilities & Radiation Environment
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

2:00 PM Italian Space Weather Modelling Capabilities: A Comprehensive Overview from the SWICo Community - Mirko Piersanti (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

2:15 PM Space Weather at University of L'Aquila - Giulia D'Angelo (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

2:30 PM Solar Cast: a suite of forecasting tool for the solar activity and the inner heliosphere - Allan Sacha BRUN (Dept of Astrophysics, CEA-Paris Saclay)

2:45 PM Modelling of Cosmic Radiation at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the German Aerospace Center - Daniel Matthiä (Institute of Aerospace Medicine, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Linder Höhe, Köln, Germany)

3:00 PM FLAG: Operational Orchestration of Integrated Sun–Earth Modelling - Kuan-Yu Ke

3:15 PM RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE VERSATILE ELECTRON RADIATION BELT (VERB) CODE AND DATA ASSIMILATION APPLICATIONS - Yuri Yevgenyevich Shprits (GFZ, Potsdam, UCLA)
3:30 PM Workshop
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

3:30 PM Wrap up of 2nd day and team building activities

4:00 PM Visit of the ESOC site
4:45 PM Business Meetings with ESA

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre

7:00 PM Group diner
Group diner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, April 9, 2026

9:00 AM Badge Collection
Badge Collection
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: ESOC Main Gate

9:30 AM Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
10:00 AM The Ionosphere
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

10:00 AM NN modelling of the topside ionosphere based on four solar cycles of measurements - Artem Smirnov (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)

10:15 AM Forecasting of foF2 over Europe - Loredana Perrone (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

10:30 AM Regional Adaptive and Assimilative 3D Ionospheric Modeling over Italy - Carlo Scotto (INGV)

10:45 AM UCTOMO: Multi-Scale Estimation and Parameterization of the Ionospheric Radiofrequency Propagation Environment - Susan Skone

11:00 AM Constraining Ionospheric State from Ground-Based Auroral Observations: The TREx-ATM Framework for Space Weather Applications - Emma Spanswick (University of Calgary)
11:15 AM Workshop
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

11:15 AM Doing Business with ESA (in a nutshell) - Understanding ESA Procurement

12:15 PM Workshop Wrap-up

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