Third Announcement
What can be learned about the Sun and heliosphere from observations collected far from Earth?
Rationale: The L5 Consortium is an informal group of scientists that
has been promoting space missions to the Sun-Earth Lagrange points and
other viewpoints off the Sun-Earth line. The scientific benefits of
such vantage points are many, as are the opportunities for improving
space-weather forecasting capability.
A series of L5 Consortium Meetings have been organized to address open
questions in heliophysics utilizing such missions, with the last
meeting in 2017 (see programs at
https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/meetings/2017_L5C/). The next meeting
will take place at the beautiful Stanford University, California in a
perfect early-autumn weather, October 1 - 3, 2019.
We welcome contributed papers/oral presentations on missions, instruments,
and science pertinent to the following Session Topics:
- Science and Space Weather from non-Earth Vantage Points
- Mission concepts: L5, Polar, L4, L1, and Elsewhere
- Current/Implemented Missions: Parker Solar Probe/Solar Orbiter/IMAP/STEREO
- Small Deep Space Satellites
- Imaging and In-situ Instrumentation
- Astrophysics Opportunities: Other Instrumentation on Deep-Space Missions
- NASA, NOAA, ESA, and Other National/Agency Perspectives
- Panel Discussions
An exciting meeting program (with
prominent keynote/invited speakers) is currently
being formulated.
Since the development to fruition of such space missions may take
decades, we encourage early-career scientists to participate. We will
be able to provide travel support for a limited number of young
scientists (e.g., with the AAS/SPD Metcalf Travel Award). Please
contact the organizers if you are interested at
(email: L5_SOC@sun.stanford.edu).
The number of participants is capped at the the room capacity of 75,
and thus early registration is encouraged. We look forward to seeing
you at Stanford this fall.
SOC:
Nat Gopalswamy (co-chair, NASA/GSFC), Todd Hoeksema (co-chair,
Stanford), Neal Hurlburt (co-chair, LMSAL), C. Nick Arge (NASA/GSFC),
Benoit Lavraud (IRAP), Paulett Liewer (JPL), Wei Liu (LMSAL),
S. P. Rajaguru (Indian Institute of Astrophysics), Phil Scherrer
(Stanford), Jesper Schou (MPS), Seiji Yashiro (CUA)
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