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Why this School?
Heliophysics, as a coherent intellectual discipline, is being taught for the first time through a three-year summer school series. The school focuses on select fundamental plasma-physical processes that are behind many aspects of space weather, including energetic-particle generation and its effects, and addresses the climate systems formed by the solar dynamo and the Earth atmosphere. With its focus on the underlying physical processes and interdisciplinary commonalities, this summer school complements others that focus on practical aspects of space-weather forecasting and related modeling, or on the problem areas strictly within the component sub-disciplines.
The school has a dual aim: 1) to educate close to 100 students and two dozen teachers in heliophysics as a coherent science areas, and 2) to produce a series of textbooks from which heliophysics can be taught in the future at universities around the world.
The philosophy of the curriculum or the heliophysics summer school reflects 1) that a broad range of traditional science areas is involved that together form a single intellectual discipline, while 2) practical considerations require the identification of focus area with that broad range. Out of the multitude of topics, the school leaders have selected three complementary focus areas that together cover much of heliophysics, to be taught over three years.
First Year ( 2007): Plasma physics of the local cosmos, i.e., the science that is uniquely enabled by our existence within an environment of ionized gases.
Second Year (2008): Explosive energy conversion and energetic particles.
Third Year (2009): 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.
Thus, the three-year program of the summer school encompasses the entire scientific discipline that is now called heliophysics.
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