Program & Topics

During the workshop, both plenary and parallel sessions are foreseen, and additional working group sessions will be held to assess past and develop future activities related to the above topics. The scientific sessions will start with a number of tutorial lectures to introduce the broad scope of UNBSS/IHY.

The workshop will be structured around the following topics:

  1. Participation of nations in project development for international heliospheric space missions and supporting low-cost ground-based instrument array initiatives for world-wide studies in space science.
    The Workshop will continue the work initiated during the first workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science in the United Arab Emirates in 2005 (http://www.ihy.uaeu.ac.ae/), the second workshop in India in 2006 (http://www.iiap.res.in/ihy/), and the third workshop in Japan in 2007 (http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/UNBSS_Tokyo07/) in taking space science instrumentation, observation, and education to the developing nations of the world.
  2. Access to data of the Sun-Earth system from ground-based and space-borne facilities through data archives and virtual observatories.
    An important feature of the workshop is introducing data bases and relevant software tools that can promote space science activities. There have been enormous number of space missions that have been accumulating large data bases of scientific data. Similarly, long-term data bases are available from ground based observations. These data can be utilized in ways different from originally intended for understanding the heliophysical processes. One of the goals of the workshop is to identify such data bases and make them available to the world community with necessary software tools so that scientists from developing countries can benefit from them.
  3. First results from the International Heliophysical Year.
    The scientific sessions of the Workshop will emphasize on the progress in the development of the basic science of heliophysics and in our understanding of the heliophysical processes that govern the Sun, Earth and heliosphere. Papers are welcome in all disciplines included in IHY's scientific activities:
    • Solar Physics
    • Planetary Magnetospheres
    • Heliosphere and Cosmic Rays
    • Planetary Ionospheres, Thermospheres and Mesospheres
    • Climate Studies
    • Heliobiology

Authors should state clearly for which programme topic the paper is intended. Contributions that highlight interdisciplinary issues are particularly encouraged. Poster sessions will be organized for the duration of the workshop. Authors are also requested to include with their submission a short, not longer than half-a-page, biography. These will serve as the presenter's introduction prior to the session in the workshop.

Abstracts of no more than 600 words must be headed by the (i) Title, (ii) Author(s) Name(s), (iii) Institutional Affiliation(s), and (iv) Email Address(s). Abstracts must be submitted BOTH through the online submission form at this site, and in electronic format to Ms. Ayoni Oyeneyin, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, e-mail: Ayoni.Oyeneyin@unvienna.org