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Heliophysics GroupProgram Leaders
Prominent scientists from complementing sub-disciplines within heliophysics lead the Heliophysics Summer Schools. They are responsible for selecting the school faculty each year and developing the teaching schedule.
2010 - 2012 School Deans
- Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee (University of New Hampshire)
- Prof. Dana Longcope (University of Montana-Bozeman)
- Prof. Jan Sojka (Utah State University)
The 2012 Heliophysics Summer School will focus on the science underlying current and future heliophysical missions, including but not limited to MMS, Themis, RBSP, IRIS, SDO, and Solar Probe Plus. After providing students with broad overviews of the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, the Earth’s magnetosphere, and ionosphere, the course will cover the basic concepts and unanswered questions pertaining to magnetic reconnection, shocks, plasma instabilities, turbulence, and heating, and the manner in which these concepts and questions affect our understanding of phenomena such as substorms, radiation belt and chromospheric dynamics, solar wind turbulence and particle heating, and heliospheric shocks.
The emphasis of the course will be on the quest for understanding and advancing heliophysical science that has inspired and motivated the missions mentioned above. The course will be based on lectures, laboratories, and recitations from world experts, and will draw material from the three textbooks Heliophysics I-III (http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/science-resources-textbooks.shtml), published by Cambridge University Press.
The 2011 Heliophysics Summer School focused on long-term processes, from the Sun's modulated activity to its influences on the climate systems of the heliosphere, Earth's atmosphere and planetary environments. Material was taken from the third volume of the textbook series, Heliophysics III: "Evolving solar activity and the climates of space and Earth" as well as basic material from the first volume: Heliophysics I: "Plasma physics of the local cosmos".
The 2010 Heliophysics Summer School focused on teaching students using the series of three Heliophysics textbooks, which were published from the 2007-2009 schools. The 2010 school developed problem sets and labs on conjunction with individual lectures. The problem sets and labs will be developed as auxiliary material for the textbooks.
2007-2009 School Deans
Dr. Karel Schrijver (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center) and Dr. George Siscoe (Boston University) edited and produced the series of three textbooks, which are now the primary teaching tools for this emerging new field.
