ISWI – SCOSTEP International School on Space Weather (ISSW)

5 – 9 January 2026

Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India

Scientific Program (tentative)

Note: Participants will be divided into four groups – G1, G2, G3, and G4; and Hands-on Training will be conducted in 3 or 4 parallel sessions

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
10:00–11:10
Inaugaral Session
B.P.Sing Auditorium
11:10–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–12:40
Lecture 1 - Theme: Sun, Solar Dynamo and Active Regions
Speaker: Nandita Srivastava, PRL, Ahmedabad, India
12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:10
Lecture 2- Title: Solar Interior, Dynamo and Drivers of Activity
Speaker: S. P. Rajaguru, IIAP, Bengaluru, India
15:10–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–16:30
Lecture 3- Theme:Solar Transient and Recurrent events, Interplanetary structures
Speaker: Nat Gopalswamy, GSFC, NASA, USA
16:30–16:50
Coffee Break
16:50–18:00
Lecture 4- Title: Solar flares and transient events
Speaker: Reetika Joshi, GSFC, NASA, USA
10:00–11:10
Lecture 5 - Theme: Solar Transient and Recurrent events, Interplanetary structures
Speaker: Shravan Hanasoge, TIFR, Mumbai, India
11:10–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–12:40
Lecture 6 - Title: How is solar wind energy and momentum transferred to the magnetosphere?
Speaker: Ramon Lopez, University of Texas Arlington, USA
12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:10
Hands -on
G1-L1, G2-L2, G3-L3, G4-L4
15:10–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–16:30
Lecture 7- Title: Magnetosphere dynamics in the MHD approximation and its connection to the auroral ionosphere
Speaker: Kazuo Shiokawa, ISEE, Nagoya University, Japan
16:30–16:50
Coffee Break
16:50–18:00
Hands On
G1-L4, G2-L3, G3-L2, G4-L1
10:00–11:10
Lecture 8 - Title: Magnetosphere dynamics in the MHD approximation and its connection to the auroral ionosphere
Speaker:Yusuke Ebihara, RISH, Kyoto University, Japan
11:10–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–12:40
Lecture 9 - Title : Satellite orbital drag during magnetic storms
Speaker: Denny M Oliveira, GSFC, NASA, USA
12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:10
Hands On
G1-L5, G2-L6, G3-L7, G4-L8
15:10–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–16:30
Hands On
G1-L8, G2-L7, G3- L6, G4-L5
16:30–16:50
Coffee Break
16:50–18:00
Hands On
G1-L3, G2-L4, G3-L1, G4-L2
10:00–11:10
Lecture 10 - Title: Ground-based and in-situ studies of ionospheric plasma irregularities and related space weather effects
Speaker: Wojciech J. Miloch, University of Oslo, Norway
11:10–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–12:40
Lecture 11 - Following sources of Penetrating Electric Field and Geomagnetically Induced Current from Earth’s  Magntosheath to the Ground
Speaker: Delores J. Knipp, University of Colorado, USA
12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
15:10–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–16:30
Hands On
G1-L6, G2-L8, G3-L5, G4-L7
16:30–16:50
Coffee Break
16:50–18:00
Hands On
G1-L7, G2-L5, G3- L8, G4-L6
14:00–15:10
Hands On
G1-L11, G2/G4-L9, G3-L10
10:00–11:10
Hands On
G1-L2, G2-L1, G3- L4, G4-L3
11:10–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–12:40
Hands On
G1/G4-L10, G2-L11, G3-L9
12:40–14:00
Lunch Break
14:00–15:10
Hands On
G1-L9, G2- L10, G3/G4-L11
15:10–15:20
Coffee Break
15:20–16:30
Reserve Slot for public lecture or group discussion
16:30–16:50
Coffee Break
16:50–18:00
Concluding session