INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK	UPPSALA
Swedish Institute of Space Physics	(59°50.272′N, 17°38.786′E)

EISCAT _3D User Meeting 2012

09:00    Welcome and practical arrangements (Stephan Buchert)
09:10    EISCAT_3D Science Case: Space Weather and Modeling (Anita Aikio and Ian McCrea)
09:35    Data exploitation and numerical simulation for space weather at CDPP: current status
                and future developments (Frederik Pitout)
10:00    Ionospheric modeling at high latitudes (Iwona Stanislawska)

10:25    Coffee break

10:55    Space weather challenges of the polar cap (Jøran Moen and Kjellmar Oksavik)  
11:20    The role of EISCAT_3D in coordinated observations of relativistic electron precipitation
                into the atmosphere (Esa Turunen)

11:45    Lunch

13:15    Invited: EISCAT and Space Situational Awareness (Hannu Koskinen)
13:40    Invited: Solar Physics and Space Weather with LOFAR (Christian Vocks)

14:05    Coffee break

14:35    Study of ionospheric irregularities from GPS observations in relation
                to complementary information from EISCAT (Lucilla Alfonsi)
15:00    Auroral electron fluxes and characteristic energy of precipitating electrons inferred
                by ALIS and EISCAT (Herve Lamy)
15:25    Tracking satellites for ESA with EISCAT UHF, a SSA test campaign in autumn 2010
                 (Jussi Markkanen)
15:45    The behavior of ionospheric structures at high latitude during last solar minimum
                 (Hanna Rothkaehl)
16:05    GNSS monitoring of the ionosphere for Space Weather services
                 (Andrzej Krankowski)

16:25    Open discussion of space weather/modelling session, identification of missing topics
17:25    Close

May 24, Thursday, 09.00-17.30: General EISCAT_3D Science and Project Status
Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet Lecture Hall 80121

09:00    Electric field around active auroral forms: EISCAT-ALIS observations (Tima Sergienko)
09:20    The EASI interferometer system (Nicola Manuel Schlatter)
09:40    Artificial Periodic Irregularities, Results (Antti Kero)
10:00    The SWARM satellites as a tool to study space weather effects in the upper ionosphere
                and thermosphere (Stephan Buchert)

10:20    Coffee break

10:50    Modern online analysis results from the EISCAT HF radars (Dynasondes)
                (Mike Rietveld)
11:10    Interplanetary scintillation results with LOFAR (Richard Fallows)
11:35    KAIRA (Juha Vierinen)
12:00    Measurements with twisted beams carrying orbital angular momentum: Preliminary results
                from PFISR (Thomas Leyser)

12:25    Lunch

13:30    Perfect codes - theory and practice (Lassi Roininen)
13:50    ACF's, metadata and other stuff I met on the way to EISCAT_3D (Paul Gallop)
14:10    State of EISCAT_3D_Norway (Cesar La Hoz)
14:23    EISCAT_3D_Sweden (Jörg Gumbel)

14:36    Coffee break

15:05    Progress in WP10: imaging software (Vasyl Belyey)
15:30    Introduction to EISCAT_3D site selection (Esa Turunen)
16:00    Introduction to Performance Specification (Björn Gustavsson)
16:30    Open discussion of EISCAT_3D plans including site selection and performance specification

17:30    Close

May 25, Friday, 08.30-10.00: Summary of EISCAT_3D Status and Discussion
Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lecture Hall 80101

08:30    Status of the EISCAT_3D Preparatory Phase Project at the time of first periodic reporting
                (Ingrid Mann)
09:00    EISCAT_3D future plans, timeline and supporting actions (Ian McCrea)
09:30    Summary discussion
10:00    Close

The workshop will be in lecture halls 80121 (80101 on Friday) of the Ångströmlaboratoriet of the Uppsala University, starting  on Wednesday, May 23, 9 am, and ending on Friday, May 25 at 10 am. Karin Ågren's PhD defense about Titan's ionosphere starts 10:15, location tbd. The opponent is Prof. Nagy from the University of Michigan.

If needed, smaller meeting rooms for splinter sessions of the meeting are available.

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