Wednesday 28th March

This is a very exciting time for the future of the heliophysics community. Solar Orbiter has just been adopted by ESA (and has another, dedicated session, and we have the opportunity to discuss where we want to go beyond this, scientifically and literally. Another ESA M-class mission call is anticipated in the next two years, multilateral opportunities are also emerging, and we’d like our heliospheric community to be ready to capitalise on them and bring ideas that they, themselves, would like to discuss. The session is one of our main channels for informing young and experienced researchers in the community of the upcoming opportunities on the sort of timescales that they need to plan the next phase of their careers.

As in the previous two years’ Mission Forums, we have invited some experienced figures to talk about their perspectives on the the future opportunities that can benefit us all. The submission of abstracts has now closed, but the forum thrives on the involvement of the audience, so we encourage you to come along and bring your ideas and questions so we can discuss how we might exploit these exciting frontiers and answer some of the key scientific questions in our fields!

http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/schedule.html