Dear colleagues,

As part of the Space Weather Research Network (SEREN) funded by STFC Futures, a workshop on “Physical pathways to space weather impacts” is being held.

The objective of the workshop is to explore how UK scientists from across the range of relevant disciplines can best respond to the adverse impacts of space weather on advanced technologies. The aim is to go well beyond generic statements, in particular:

a.       to improve and consolidate our understanding of how these adverse impacts arise from complex chains of physical processes that occur in the Sun, in the solar wind, and in the magnetosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere of the Earth,

b.      to embody that understanding in some concrete form that facilitates its future use across the research community, e.g. in writing and reviewing proposals, and in the development of policy by the Research Councils and other relevant bodies.

The workshop will start with a wide-ranging series of talks to set the scene for the workshop (see web link below for full list of topics), followed by plenary and splinter discussions to discuss meeting outputs.

The workshop will take place in London between lunch-time on 10 February and lunch-time on 12 February and the SEREN project will reimburse all reasonable costs for attending the workshop. A fuller discussion of the workshop aims is on the meeting web page at http://tinyurl.com/p8ugj5v.

Attendance is limited (by room size) to about 50 participants. If you would like to attend, please register your interest by sending an email to Mike Hapgood (mike.hapgood@stfc.ac.uk), with copy to Lucie Green (lucie.green@ucl.ac.uk) and Mario Bisi (mario.bisi@stfc.ac.uk), including the following information: name, email and affiliation, plus a short statement (say 200 words maximum) of your interests in attending the workshop. Please also contact us if you have any queries about the workshop.

Best wishes,
Mike
On behalf of the organisers Mike Hapgood, Lucie Green and Mario Bisi