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, 7 April 2026 (08:45) to Thursday, 9 April 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 6 April 2026
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

08:45 Badge Collection
Badge Collection
08:45 - 09:30
Room: ESOC Main Gate

09:15 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
09:15 - 09:45
Room: ESOC Press Centre
09:45 Workshop
09:45 - 10:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

09:45 Welcome - Juha-Pekka Luntama (ESA)
10:00 The Active Heliosphere
10:00 - 11:15
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:00 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 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: ESOC Press Centre
11:45 Solar Corona & Solar Wind
11:45 - 13:15
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

13:00 Towards novel data-driven coronal and heliospheric space weather modelling - Jens Pomoell (University of Helsinki)
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:30
Room: ESOC Press Centre
14:30 Tracking Solar Activity
14:30 - 15:45
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

14:30 Opportunities for utilization of Vigil-like data and deep learning approach - Simon Mackovjak (Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

14:45 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)

15:00 Operational Active Region Detection, Classification, and Flare Forecasting Using Deep Learning - Edoardo Legnaro (University of Genova)

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

15:30 S2WARM (St Andrews Space Weather Active Region Monitor) - Paolo Pagano (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
15:45 Workshop
15:45 - 16:15
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

15:45 ESA funding opportunities, participation statistics, and team building activities
16:15 Business Meetings with ESA

16:15 - 17:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Wednesday, 8 April 2026

09:00 Badge Collection
Badge Collection
09:00 - 09:30
Room: ESOC Main Gate

09:30 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
10:00 Geomagnetic Storms and Indices
10:00 - 11:15
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 Perspective for Magnetospheric Modelling with Multi-Moment Fluid Codes - Simon Lautenbach (Ruhr University Bochum)
12:45 Workshop
12:45 - 13:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

12:45 Introducing the ESA Space HPC - Neva Besker (ESA -ESRIN)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
14:00 Community Capabilities & Radiation Environment
14:00 - 15:30
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

14:00 Italian Space Weather Modelling Capabilities: A Comprehensive Overview from the SWICo Community - Mirko Piersanti (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

14:15 Space Weather at University of L'Aquila - Giulia D'Angelo (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

14:30 Solar Cast: a suite of forecasting tool for the solar activity and the inner heliosphere - Allan Sacha BRUN (Dept of Astrophysics, CEA-Paris Saclay)

14:45 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)

15:00 FLAG: Operational Orchestration of Integrated Sun–Earth Modelling - Kuan-Yu Ke

15:15 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE VERSATILE ELECTRON RADIATION BELT (VERB) CODE AND DATA ASSIMILATION APPLICATIONS - Yuri Yevgenyevich Shprits (GFZ, Potsdam, UCLA)
15:30 Workshop
15:30 - 16:45
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

15:30 Wrap up of 2nd day and team building activities

16:00 Visit of the ESOC site
16:45 Business Meetings with ESA

16:45 - 17:30
Room: ESOC Press Centre

19:00 Group diner
Group diner
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 9 April 2026

09:00 Badge Collection
Badge Collection
09:00 - 09:30
Room: ESOC Main Gate

09:30 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: ESOC Press Centre
10:00 The Ionosphere
10:00 - 11:15
Room: ESOC Press Centre
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 Workshop Wrap-up

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