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Solar variations have significant influence on the Earth's space environment and climate via its magnetic field, irradiation and energetic particles. Long-term and reliable historical datasets of solar and stellar activity indices are crucial for understanding the variations and predicting the future solar cycle. Cosmogenic and radionuclides can extend our knowledge of solar variations back to the Holocene. There are a number of important and hot issues relevant to the evolution of solar activity and variability. These include, how to build up longterm consistent datasets, e.g., sunspot number and solar irradiance, how to realistically reconstruct the physics parameters, e.g., interior convection spectrum and photospheric open flux, based on the records, how to understand the relations among different indices, how to model the solar cycles based on the observed data. Furthermore, the progress in the understanding of the stellar variability and activity cycles helps us to understand the solar cycle over a much wider sample of parameters.

This symposium will bring together scientists from diverse, interdisciplinary areas such as solar, stellar, space and heliospheric physics to review the status of the different long-term datasets available across the globe. It will also provide a platform to exchange ideas on the understanding of solar long-term behavior, its effects and prediction. The Kodaikanal Observatory has observed the sun with a broad band filter in visible light (so called, "white light") and such wavelengths as Ca-II K and H-alpha since 1904. The digitization process has been completed recently and data has been made available to the global community. Thus hosting the meeting in India will provide new impetus to the study of long-term variation studies of the sun from this region.


Topics:

  • Helio/asteroseismology long-term data: solar/stellar interior velocity fields -- status, divergence, and challenges
  • Long term magnetic field measurements in the sun and stars
  • Sunspot number datasets: status, divergences, and unification
  • Solar total irradiance and spectral irradiance long-term data: status, divergences, and challenges
  • Solar cycle database of solar activity: variations in solar eruptions (flares, CMEs, SEPs, etc.)
  • Long-term monitoring of stellar activity: lessons for the solar cycle
  • The variable solar wind and the heliosphere
  • Solar behavior over centuries using radioisotopes
  • Physical causes of the solar/stellar cycle irregularities
  • From past to future: predicting upcoming solar cycle 25

Venue:

The symposium will take place in Jaipur, India from February, 19-24, 2018. The venue is a convention center, called B. M. Birla Auditorium. Birla Institute of Scientific Research is located at Statue Circle. It's about 11 Km from the Sanganer airport and 2.5 Km from the Jaipur railway station and Sindhi Camp bus stand. The location is also popularly known as Birla Auditorium or, Birla Planetarium. It is well located in the heart of the city, so that it is within walking distance from most hotels, restaurants, and shops.



 

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Dates

First Announcement 1st June 2017
Abstract submission Opens 15 June 2017
Second Announcement 1st September 2017
Abstract Submission Deadline (for oral presentation) 15th October 2017 (closed)
Travel Grants Deadline 15th October 2017 (closed)
Communication of (1) selected oral and poster contributions and (2) grants awarded 30th October 2017
Late Poster Abstract Submission Deadline (limited space) 31st December 2017
Early Registration Deadline 30th November 2017
Accommodation Booking Deadline 30th November 2017
Final Registration Deadline 31st December 2017
City Hotel Accommodation Booking Deadline (subject to availability) 15th Janurary 2018
IAU Symposium 19 - 24 Feb 2018
Proceeding Submission Deadline 31st March 2018