# ILWS 2006 Workshop 

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# The Solar Influence on the Heliosphere and Earth's Environment: Recent Progress and Prospects

**Programme**

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| **Time**      | **SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006**                        |
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| **16:00 -     | **Registration**                                     |
| 19:00**       |                                                      |
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| **19:00       | **Reception**                                        |
| onwards**     |                                                      |
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|               | **MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2006**                        |
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| **8:00 --     | **Registration**                                     |
| 9.00**        |                                                      |
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| **9:00        | **Inaugural Session**                                |
| --9:40**      |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : Grande Sala (GS) Presiding Chair: William   |
|               | Liu**                                                |
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| **9:00**      | **Welcome Notes**                                    |
|               |                                                      |
|               | A. Bhattacharyya & N.Gopalswamy                      |
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|               | **Inaugural Address**                                |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy Secretary Department of        |
|               | Science & Technology, Govt. of India                 |
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|               | **Presiding Chair Remarks** Dr. William Liu          |
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|               | **Keynote Address**                                  |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Dr. B.M. Reddy Indian National Science Academy Hon.  |
|               | Scientist                                            |
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| **9:40        | **Programmatic Session (PG)**                        |
| --13:00**     |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Chairperson: R. Wimmer-Schweingruber**             |
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| **9:40 --     | **William Liu**                                      |
| 10:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Overview of the ILWS program and upcoming activities |
|               | (PG1)                                                |
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| **10:00 --    | **M. Guhathakurta**                                  |
| 10:20**       |                                                      |
|               | NASA (PG2)                                           |
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| **10:20 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 10:40**       |                                                      |
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| **10:40 --    | **Chuan-Yi Tu** , Rainer Schwenn, Eric Donovan,      |
| 11:00**       | Jing-Song Wang, Li-Dong Xia, Yong-Wei Zhang, and on  |
|               | behalf of the KuaFu study team                       |
|               |                                                      |
|               | KuaFu Sun-Earth system explorer project (PG3)        |
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| **11:00 --    | **J. Datta**                                         |
| 11:20**       |                                                      |
|               | ISRO(PG4)                                            |
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| **11:20       | **H. Opgenoorth**                                    |
| -11:40**      |                                                      |
|               | ESA (PG5)                                            |
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| **11:40 --    | **Joseph M. Davila**, Barbara J. Thompson, Nat       |
| 12:00**       | Gopalswamy The International Heliophysical Year      |
|               | (PG6)                                                |
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| **12:00 --    | **P.B. Rao**                                         |
| 12:20**       |                                                      |
|               | CAWSES-India (PG7)                                   |
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| **12:20       | **P.K. Manoharan**                                   |
| --12:40**     |                                                      |
|               | International Heliophysical Year (IHY) program in    |
|               | India(PG8)                                           |
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| **12:40       | **C. Alex Young** and the VSO Collaboration          |
| --13:00**     |                                                      |
|               | The Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) (PG9)            |
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| **13:00       | **Lunch**                                            |
| -1400**       |                                                      |
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| **14:00       | **Plenary Session I (PL)**                           |
| --16:00**     |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : GS**                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Chairperson : Mei Zhang**                          |
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| **14:00       | **Judith L. Lean**                                   |
| --14:35**     |                                                      |
|               | The Sun's role in global climate change (PL1)        |
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| **14:35       | **R. A. Howard** and N. Gopalswamy                   |
| --15:10**     |                                                      |
|               | Solar mass emissions (PL2)                           |
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| **15:10 --    | **Eckart Marsch**                                    |
| 15:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Coronal origins of the solar wind - sources of       |
|               | steady streams and transient flows caused by solar   |
|               | magnetic eruptions (PL3)                             |
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| **15:40       | **Ian R. Mann**                                      |
| --16:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Radiation belt science during the ILWS Era: ORBITALS |
|               | and CARISMA (PL4)                                    |
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| **16:00 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 16:20**       |                                                      |
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| **16:20 --    | **Plenary Session II**                               |
| 18:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : GS**                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Chairperson : S. Hasan**                           |
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| **16:20 --    | **Bela G. Fejer**                                    |
| 16:50**       |                                                      |
|               | Middle and low latitude upper atmospheric            |
|               | geomagnetic storm effects (PL5)                      |
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| **16:50 --    | G. Tóth, A. J. Ridley, T. I. Gombosi, I.V. Sokolov,  |
| 17:20**       | W.B. Manchester, D.L. De Zeeuw and C. R. Clauer      |
|               | Integrated simulations of the Sun-Earth system: The  |
|               | Halloween storms (PL6)                               |
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| **17:20 --    | **L. Ofman**                                         |
| 17:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Active region variability and solar activity (PL7)   |
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| **17:40 --    | **M. Davis**, Tai D. Phan, Jack T. Gosling, Ruth M.  |
| 18:00**       | Skoug, Marit Øieroset, Robert P. Lin, Ron Lepping,   |
|               | David J. McComas, Charles W. Smith, Henri Reme and   |
|               | Andre Balogh                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Wind, ACE and Cluster detections of a magnetic       |
|               | reconnection X-line extending more than 390 Earth    |
|               | radii in the solar wind (PL8)                        |
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|               |                                                      |
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|               | **TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2006**                       |
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| **8:30 --     | **Plenary Session III**                              |
| 10:15**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : GS**                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Chairperson : S.M. Chitre**                        |
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| **8:30 -      | **F. Hill**                                          |
| 9:05**        |                                                      |
|               | Recent advances in helioseismic predictors of space  |
|               | weather (PL9)                                        |
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| **9:05 -      | **Luc Dame**                                         |
| 9:25**        |                                                      |
|               | SOLARNET and LAIME: Two valuable complements to the  |
|               | ILWS programme (PL10)                                |
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| **9:25 --     | **Anil Bhardwaj**                                    |
| 9:45**        |                                                      |
|               | Planetary X-rays: Relationship with solar X-rays and |
|               | solar wind (PL11)                                    |
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| **9:45 --     | R. Sridharan, C.V. Devasia, Smitha Thampi, G. Manju, |
| 10:15**       | Sudha Ravindran and Tarun K. Pant                    |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Solar influences on equatorial ionospheric           |
|               | irregularities (PL12)                                |
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| **10:15 --    | Tea / Coffee Break                                   |
| 10:40**       |                                                      |
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| **10:40 --    | **Working Group Sessions**                           |
| 13:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 : Solar & Heliosphere (S-I)**                  |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : GS**                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 Leaders : J. Hoeksema, S. Hasan**              |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **10:40 --    | **Neil Murphy,** Stuart Jefferies, Edward Smith and  |
| 11:00**       | Wayne Rodgers                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Sounding of the chromosphere **\[Invited\]** (S1)    |
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| **11:00 --    | **K. S. Balasubramaniam**, A. A. Pevtsov and D. F.   |
| 11:20**       | Neidig                                               |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Large scale solar chromospheric eruptive activity    |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S2)                                 |
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| **11:20 --    | **R. Ramesh**                                        |
| 11:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Radio observations of the CME lift-off in the low    |
|               | corona **\[Invited\]** (S3)                          |
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| **11:40 --    | **Don Hassler**                                      |
| 12:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Imaging spectroscopy: A new domain for space weather |
|               | prediction **\[Invited\]** (S4)                      |
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| **12:00 --    | **B.N. Dwivedi**                                     |
| 12:20**       |                                                      |
|               | The Ultraviolet Sun **\[Invited\]** (S5)             |
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| **12:20 --    | **V. K. Verma**                                      |
| 12:40**       |                                                      |
|               | On coronal mass ejections observed by LASCO/SOHO     |
|               | relationship with solar flares and coronal holes     |
|               | (S6)                                                 |
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| **12.40 --    | **G.M. Simnett**                                     |
| 13:00**       |                                                      |
|               | The search for a causal link between CMEs and large  |
|               | flares (S7)                                          |
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| **13:00 --    | **Lunch**                                            |
| 14:00**       |                                                      |
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| **10:40 --    | **WG2: Magnetosphere (MS-I)**                        |
| 13:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall : Sala de Banquete (SB)**                     |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG2 Leaders: S. Sharma, J. Kozyra**                |
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| **10:40 --    | **J. Kozyra**                                        |
| 11:00**       |                                                      |
|               | New questions about geospace system behaviour from   |
|               | Sun-Earth data sets **\[Invited\]** (M1)             |
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| **11:00 --    | **B. T. Tsurutani**, W. D. Gonzalez, A. L. C.        |
| 11:20**       | Gonzalez, F. L. Guarnieri, N. Gopalswamy, M. Grande, |
|               | Y. Kamide, Y. Kasahara, G. Lu, I. Mann, R.L.         |
|               | McPherron, F. Soraas and V.M. Vasyliunas             |
|               |                                                      |
|               | The interplanetary causes of ICME and CIR magnetic   |
|               | storms: Similarities and differences **\[Invited\]** |
|               | (M2)                                                 |
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| **11:20 --    | **Xinlin Li** and Mike Temerin                       |
| 11:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Solar wind and geomagnetic storms (M3)               |
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| **11:40 --    | **C. Uberoi**                                        |
| 12:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Surface -wave induced magnetic reconnection model    |
|               | and quantization of space weather phenomena          |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (M4)                                 |
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| **12:00 --    | **F. Pereira** and T.E. Girish                       |
| 12:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Non-radial solar wind flows and geomagnetic activity |
|               | changes during 1973-2003 (M5)                        |
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| **12:20 --    | **Alexander Zaitzev** and Vladimir Odintsov          |
| 12:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Main features of the IMF sector structure during 23  |
|               | circle of solar activity as its inferred from        |
|               | ground-based geomagnetic data (M6)                   |
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| **12:40 --    | **Wu Ji**, Wang Chi, Wang Shui, Wu Jingsheng, Sun    |
| 13:00**       | Weiying, Cai Jinrong and Yan Yihua                   |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Solar polar orbit radio telescope for space weather  |
|               | forecast **\[Invited\]** (M7)                        |
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| **13:00 --    | **Lunch**                                            |
| 14:00**       |                                                      |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **14:00 --    | **WG1 : Solar & Heliosphere (S-II)**                 |
| 15:40**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 Leaders : J. Hoeksema, S. Hasan**              |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **14:00 --    | **Rajmal Jain**                                      |
| 14:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Solar X-Ray Spectrometer (SOXS) mission:             |
|               | Observations and new results **\[Invited\]** (S8)    |
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| **14:20 --    | **Badruddin** and Y.P. Singh                         |
| 14:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Study of short term modulation of galactic cosmic    |
|               | ray: A new approach **\[Invited\]** (S9)             |
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| **14:40 --    | **P.K. Manoharan**                                   |
| 15:00**       |                                                      |
|               | IP scintillation imaging of quiet and transient      |
|               | solar wind in the Sun-Earth distance **\[Invited\]** |
|               | (S10)                                                |
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| **15:00 --    | **D. Banerjee**, E. O\'Shea and J.G. Doyle           |
| 15:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Coronal holes and the fast solar wind (S11)          |
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| **15:20 --    | **David Berghmans,** Eva Robbrecht and O.            |
| 15:40**       | Podladchikova                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Automated CME cataloguing **\[Invited\]** (S12)      |
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| **15:40 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 16:00**       |                                                      |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **16:00 --    | **WG1 : Solar & Heliosphere (S-III)**                |
| 18:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 Leaders : J. Hoeksema, S. Hasan**              |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **16:00 --    | **S.P. Rajaguru**, R. Wachter and S.S. Hasan         |
| 16:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Influence of magnetic field on the Doppler           |
|               | measurements of velocity field in the solar          |
|               | photosphere and implications for helioseismology     |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S13)                                |
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| **16:20 --    | **Shravan Hanasoge**                                 |
| 16:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Generating artificial data for helioseismology:      |
|               | Computational acoustics in spherical geometry (S14)  |
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| **16:40 --    | **Phillip C. Chamberlin**, Thomas N. Woods and       |
| 17:00**       | Francis G. Eparvier                                  |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Flare Irradaince Spectral Model (FISM) use for space |
|               | weather applications (S15)                           |
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| **17:00 --    | Tom Woods, Frank Eparvier, Phil Chamberlin, Andrew   |
| 17:20**       | Jones, Darrell Judge, **Judith Lean**, John Mariska, |
|               | Don McMullin, Harry Warren, Greg Berthiaume^,^ Scott |
|               | Bailey, Tim Fuller-Rowell, Rodney Viereck, Jan Sojka |
|               | and Kent Tobiska                                     |
|               |                                                      |
|               | The EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) aboard the      |
|               | Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) **\[Invited\]**     |
|               | (S16)                                                |
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| **17:20 --    | **Keiji Hayashi**                                    |
| 17:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Three-dimensional time-dependent MHD simulation      |
|               | model of the solar corona and solar wind             |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S17)                                |
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| **17:40 --    | **S.S. Gupta**                                       |
| 18:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Longterm data bases in Kodaikanal (S18)              |
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| **14:00 --    | **WG3 : Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Mesosphere      |
| 15:40**       | (ITM-I)**                                            |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: SB**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG3 Leaders : M. A. Abdu, James F. Spann**         |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **14:00 --    | **C. Robert Clauer**                                 |
| 14:20**       |                                                      |
|               | The geomagnetic storm-time response to different     |
|               | solar wind driving conditions **\[Invited\]** (I1)   |
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| **14:20 --    | **Mangalathayil Ali Abdu**, Inez Staciarini Batista, |
| 14:40**       | Christiano Garnett M. Brum, Jose Humberto Andrade    |
|               | Sobral                                               |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Impact of some recent major magnetic storms on the   |
|               | equatorial/low latitude ionosphere-thermosphere      |
|               | system **\[Invited\]** (I2)                          |
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| **14:40 --    | **D.R. Lakshmi**                                     |
| 15:00**       |                                                      |
|               | A review of low latitude topside ionospheric         |
|               | response to magnetic storms from satellite           |
|               | measurements **\[Invited\]** (I3)                    |
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| **15:00 --    | **Hermann Lühr** and Huixin Liu                      |
| 15:20**       |                                                      |
|               | The thermospheric response to geomagnetic storms     |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (I4)                                 |
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| **15:20 --    | **Robert R. Meier**                                  |
| 15:40**       |                                                      |
|               | Remote sensing of space weather in the upper         |
|               | atmosphere and ionosphere **\[Invited\]** (I5)       |
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| **15:40 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 1600**        |                                                      |
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| **16:00 --    | **WG3 : Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Mesosphere      |
| 17:20**       | (ITM-II)**                                           |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: SB**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG3 Leaders : M. A. Abdu, James F. Spann**         |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **16:00 --    | **B.T. Tsurutani**, A.J. Mannucci, O.P.              |
| 16:20**       | Verkhoglyadova, G.S. Lakhina, M. Abdu, T. Araki, T.  |
|               | Fuller-Rowell, W.D. Gonzalez, H. McCreadie, X. Pi,   |
|               | A. Saito, J. H. Sobral, T. Tsuda, K. Yumoto and V.M. |
|               | Vasyliunas                                           |
|               |                                                      |
|               | The daytime superfountain and its potential impact   |
|               | on the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system  |
|               | (I6)                                                 |
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| **16:20 --    | **David Anderson**, Adela Anghel, Jorge Chau,        |
| 16:40**       | Kiyohumi Yumoto and Archana Bhattacharyya            |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Daytime, low latitude, vertical ExB drift            |
|               | velocities, inferred from ground-based magnetometer  |
|               | observations in the Peruvian, Philippine and Indian  |
|               | longitude sectors under quiet and disturbed          |
|               | conditions **\[Invited\]** (I7)                      |
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| **16:40 --    | **Athanasios Boudouridis** and Eftyhia Zesta         |
| 17:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Results from the South American Meridional B-field   |
|               | Array (SAMBA) (I8)                                   |
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| **17:00 --    | **Gufran Beig**                                      |
| 17:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Solar influence on the composition and climatology   |
|               | of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere             |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (I9)                                 |
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| **18:30 --    | **Boat Cruise on River Mandovi**                     |
| 20:30**       |                                                      |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **Time**      | **WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2006**                     |
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|               |                                                      |
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| *             | **Plenary Session IV Hall: GS Chairperson: G.S.      |
| *8:30-10:00** | Lakhina**                                            |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **8:30 --     | **Rudolf von Steiger**                               |
| 9:00**        |                                                      |
|               | Elemental abundances in the heliosphere: From        |
|               | photosphere to the interstellar medium (PL13)        |
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| **9:00 --     | **David Sibeck**                                     |
| 9:30**        |                                                      |
|               | Foreshock cavities and transient events in the       |
|               | magnetosphere (PL14)                                 |
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| **9:30 -      | **Tim Fuller-Rowell**, Naomi Maruyama, David         |
| 10:00**       | Anderson, Mihail Codrescu, Mariangel Fedrizzi and    |
|               | Eduardo Araujo-Pradere                               |
|               |                                                      |
|               | On addressing the longitude dependence in the        |
|               | ionosphere-thermosphere response to geomagnetic      |
|               | storms at low and mid-latitudes (PL15)               |
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| **10:00 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 10:20**       |                                                      |
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| **10:20 --    | **WG Summaries and Cross Disciplinary Issues Hall:   |
| 11:00**       | GS Chairperson: E. Marsch**                          |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **11:00 --    | **WG1 Session: S -- IV Hall: GS WG1 Leaders: J.      |
| 13:00**       | Hoeksema, S. Hasan**                                 |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **11:00       | **Piyali Chatterjee**                                |
| --11:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Theoretical model for calculation of helicity in     |
|               | solar active regions (S19)                           |
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| **11:20       | **Mei Zhang**                                        |
| --11:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Helicity observation of weak and strong fields       |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S20)                                |
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| **11:40       | **K. Sundara Raman**                                 |
| --12:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Effects of sunspot umbral rotation in the onset of   |
|               | flares \[Invited\] (S21)                             |
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| **12:00       | **Lokesh Bharti**, Thomas Rimmele, Rajmal Jain and   |
| --12:20**     | Chandan Joshi                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Evidence for opposite polarities in the light-bridge |
|               | of sunspot: possibility for low altitude             |
|               | reconnection (S22)                                   |
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| **12:20       | **Sam Krucker**                                      |
| --12:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Solar flare imaging **\[Invited\]** (S23)            |
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| **12:40       | **S. K. Mathew**, V. Martinez Pillet, S. K. Solanki, |
| --13:00**     | and N.A. Krivova                                     |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Umbral core brightness variation with solar cycle    |
|               | (S24)                                                |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **13:00 --    | **Lunch**                                            |
| 14:00**       |                                                      |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **11:00 --    | **WG 2 Session: MS -- II Hall: SB WG2 Leaders: A. S. |
| 13:00**       | Sharma, J. Kozyra**                                  |
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|               |                                                      |
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| **11:00       | **S.G. Kanekal**                                     |
| --11:20**     |                                                      |
|               | A review of recent observations of relativistic      |
|               | electron energization in the Earth\'s outer Van      |
|               | Allen radiation belt **\[Invited\]** (M8)            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:20       | **R. Rajaram** Use of pitch angle dependence of flux |
| --11:40**     | oscillations as a diagnostic tool for determining    |
|               | the spatial structure of Oscillations(M9)            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:40-      | **K.J. Trattner,** S.M. Petrinec and S.A. Fuselier   |
| 12:00**       | The Cusp in magnetospheric-ionospheric interaction   |
|               | studies **\[Invited\]** (M10)                        |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:00       | **A. K. Sinha** and R. Rajaram                       |
| --12:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Effect of pressure pulse on geomagnetic field        |
|               | oscillations (M11)                                   |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:20       | **A. Surjalal Sharma**                               |
| --12:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Solar wind - magnetosphere coupling: Global and      |
|               | multiscale behavior in data-derived and global MHD   |
|               | models **\[Invited\]** (M12)                         |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:40       | **Sudha Ravindran**, G. Manju, Tarun Kumar Pant, C.  |
| --13:00**     | V. Devasia, Smitha V. Thampi, R. Sridharan, and M.   |
|               | R. Sivaraman                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Storm time variations of plasmaspheric electron      |
|               | content using GPS and CRABEX observations (M13)      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **13:00 --    | **Lunch**                                            |
| 14:00**       |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:30 --    | **Sight Seeing**                                     |
| 19:00**       |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               | **THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2006**                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| *             | **Plenary Session V Hall: GS Chairperson: N.         |
| *8:30-10:00** | Gopalswamy**                                         |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **8:30 --     | **Mihir I. Desai**, Glenn M. Mason, Joseph E. Mazur  |
| 9:00**        | and Joseph R. Dwyer                                  |
|               |                                                      |
|               | A tutorial on solar energetic particle events (PL16) |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **9:00 --     | **Yusuke Ebihara** and Mei-Ching Fok                 |
| 9:30**        |                                                      |
|               | Geomagnetic storms: Magnetospheric perspective       |
|               | (PL17)                                               |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **9:30 -      | **J. H. Sastri**                                     |
| 10:00**       |                                                      |
|               | Effect of magnetic storms and substorms on the low-  |
|               | latitude ionosphere (PL18)                           |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **10:00 --    | **Tea / Coffee Break**                               |
| 10:20**       |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **10:20 --    | **WG Summaries and Cross Disciplinary Issues**       |
| 11:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **Chairperson: J. Davila**                           |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:00 --    | **WG1 Session: S -- V**                              |
| 13:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 Leaders: J. Hoeksema, S. Hasan**               |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:00       | **V. Bothmer** Frontside halo CMEs - solar           |
| --11:20**     | properties and space weather effects **\[Invited\]** |
|               | (S25)                                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:20       | **N. Srivastava**                                    |
| --11:40**     |                                                      |
|               | How good is the prediction of the space weather      |
|               | based on solar and interplanetary parameters?        |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S26)                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:40       | **Ashok Ambastha**                                   |
| --12:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Superflares of NOAA AR 10486 during October-November |
|               | 2003 and their impact on the interplanetary medium   |
|               | and the Earth\'s environment **\[Invited\]** (S27)   |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:00       | **Prasad Subramanian** and Angelos Vourlidas         |
| --12:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Energetics of solar coronal mass ejections (S28)     |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:20       | **Nat Gopalswamy** and Seiji Yashiro                 |
| --12:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Coronal mass ejections and space weather             |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S29)                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:40       | **David F. Webb**                                    |
| --13:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Space weather and coronal mass ejections             |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (S30)                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:00 --    | **WG 2 Session: MS --III**                           |
| 13:00**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: SB**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG2 Leaders: A. S. Sharma, J. Kozyra**             |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:00       | **G. S. Lakhina**                                    |
| --11:20**     |                                                      |
|               | On magnetospheric storms and substorms               |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (M14**)**                            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:20       | **Nagendra Singh**, Chakri Deverapalli and George    |
| --11:40**     | Khazanov                                             |
|               |                                                      |
|               | # Electrodynamics in a very thin                     |
|               | current sheet leading to magnetic reconnection (M15) |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **11:40       | **R.P. Sharma,** H. Dinesh Singh, M. Malik and       |
| --12:00**     | Ramesh Sharma                                        |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Nonlinear evolution of Alfven waves and particle     |
|               | acceleration in space (M16)                          |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:00 --    | **Yusuke Ebihara** and Mei-Ching Fok                 |
| 12:20**       |                                                      |
|               | Structure and dynamics of the ring current during    |
|               | severe magnetic storms **\[Invited\]** (M17)         |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:20       | **Rashmi Rawat**, Sobhana Alex and G. S. Lakhina     |
| --12:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Low latitude geomagnetic signatures following two    |
|               | major Solar energetic particle events at different   |
|               | phases of solar cycle-23 (M18)                       |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **12:40       | **B.M. Pathan**, A. Dhar, A. Hanchinal and C.        |
| --13:00**     | Selvaraj                                             |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Extended period of low density solar wind - ground   |
|               | geomagnetic signatures (M19)                         |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **13:00 --    | **Lunch**                                            |
| 14:00**       |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:00 --    | **WG1 Session: S -- VI**                             |
| 16:20**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: GS**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG1 Leaders: J. Hoeksema, S. Hasan**               |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:00       | **D. Maia**                                          |
| --14:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Propagation issues related to impulsive electron     |
|               | events at 1AU (S31)                                  |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:20       | **Vojtech Rusin**, Milan Minarovjech, Metod Saniga,  |
| --14:40**     | Lubomir Klocok                                       |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Long-term variations of the green corona (530.3 nm)  |
|               | irradiance (S32)                                     |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:40       | **S. R. Prabhakaran Nayar**                          |
| --15:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Periodicities in solar activity and their signature  |
|               | in the terrestrial environment **\[Invited\]** (S33) |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:00       | **Dibyendu Nandy**                                   |
| --15:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Unraveling long-term solar variability: The Stars as |
|               | Suns project **\[Invited\]** (S34)                   |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:20       | **M. N. Vahia**                                      |
| --15:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Sun in LISM: Study of changes in the solar           |
|               | environment **\[Invited\]** (S35)                    |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:40       | **P. Janardhan**, K. Fujiki, M. Kojima, M. Tokumaru  |
| --16:00**     |                                                      |
|               | Locating the solar source of the extremely           |
|               | low-density, low-velocity solar wind flows of 11 May |
|               | 1999 **\[Invited\]** (S36)                           |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **16:00       | S. Ananthakrishnan and **Prasad Subramanian**        |
| --16:20**     |                                                      |
|               | GMRT and observations of the Sun **\[Invited\]**     |
|               | (S37)                                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **16:20       | **Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Session**            |
| --18:00**     |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:00 --    | **WG3 Session: ITM -- III**                          |
| 16:20**       |                                                      |
|               | **Hall: SB**                                         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | **WG3 Leaders: M. A. Abdu, James F. Spann**          |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
|               |                                                      |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:00       | **K.M. Groves**, C. S. Carrano, and S. Basu          |
| --14:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Nowcasting equatorial scintillations and impacts on  |
|               | GPS **\[Invited\]** (I10)                            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:20       | **Ashish DasGupta**                                  |
| --14:40**     |                                                      |
|               | Long-term control of solar activity on equatorial    |
|               | scintillations **\[Invited\]** (I11)                 |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **14:40       | **P.V.S. Rama Rao**, S. Tulasi Ram, K. Niranjan and  |
| --15:00**     | D.S.V.V.D. Prasad                                    |
|               |                                                      |
|               | The role of post sunset vertical drift at the        |
|               | equator in predicting the onset of VHF               |
|               | scintillations during high and low sunspot activity  |
|               | periods **\[Invited\]** (I12)                        |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:00       | **Supriya Chakrabarti**, D. Pallamraju, Timothy      |
| --15:20**     | Cook, Jeffrey Baumgardner, R. Sridharan, T. K. Pant  |
|               | and C. V. Devasia                                    |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Investigation of ESF triggers using balloon- and     |
|               | ground-based diagnostics **\[Invited\]** (I13)       |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:20       | Smitha V. Thampi, **Sudha Ravindran**, C.V. Devasia, |
| --15:40**     | Tarun K. Pant, P. Sreelatha and R. Sridharan         |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Prediction of post-sunset ESF based on the strength  |
|               | and asymmetry of EIA from ground based TEC           |
|               | measurements (I14)                                   |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **15:40       | **A. Bhattacharyya,** B. Engavale, D. Tiwari and S.  |
| --16:00**     | Bose                                                 |
|               |                                                      |
|               | Effect of solar variability on transionospheric      |
|               | radio wave propagation in the equatorial region      |
|               | **\[Invited\]** (I15)                                |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| **16:00       | R. Sekar and D. Chakrabarty                          |
| --16:20**     |                                                      |
|               | Effect of geomagnetic storms on the development of   |
|               | equatorial spread F: Synthesis of a few case studies |
|               | \[Invited\] (I16)                                    |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------+

+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **16:20 --18:00** | **Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Session**        |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **WG1 Posters**   | **PS1-PS15**                                     |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **WG2 Posters**   | **PMS1-PMS10**                                   |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **WG3 Posters**   | **PI1-PI6**                                      |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **19:00-20:30**   | **Cultural Program (Bharatanatyam: Indian        |
|                   | classical dance program by Natyacharya Ullal     |
|                   | Mohan Kumar of Natya Niketana, Koyla, Someshwar, |
|                   | Mangalore)**                                     |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **20:30 onwards** | **Workshop Banquet**                             |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   | **FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2006**                    |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **8:30 -- 10:10** | **Operational Space Weather (OS)**               |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | **Hall: GS**                                     |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | **Chairperson: R. von Steiger**                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **8:30 -- 8:50**  | **P.K. Manoharan**                               |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Space weather program in India **\[Invited\]**   |
|                   | (OS1)                                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **8:50 -- 9:10**  | **Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber**, Christian T. |
|                   | Steigies, and Bernd Heber                        |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Space weather activities in Europe               |
|                   | **\[Invited\]** (OS2)                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **9:10 -- 9:30**  | **R. Zwickl**                                    |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Space weather program in the US **\[Invited\]**  |
|                   | (OS3)                                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **9:30 -- 9:50**  | **Kiyohumi Yumoto** and the MAGDAS group         |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | MAGDAS project and its application for space     |
|                   | weather **\[Invited\]** (OS4)                    |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **9:50 -- 10:10** | **Chi Wang**                                     |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Introduction to SMESE mission **\[Invited\]**    |
|                   | (OS5)                                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **10:10 --        | **Tea / Coffee Break**                           |
| 10:25**           |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **10:25 --        | **Future missions and potential collaborations   |
| 12:45**           | (FM)**                                           |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | **Hall: GS**                                     |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | **Chairperson: B. T. Tsurutani**                 |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **10:25 --        | Gérard Thuillier and **Jean-Yves Prado**         |
| 10:45**           |                                                  |
|                   | The PICARD mission **\[Invited\]** (FM1)         |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **10:45 --        | **Richard G. Marsden,** Nicola Rando, Alan Owens |
| 11:05**           | and Alex Jeanes                                  |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Solar orbiter: A mission update **\[Invited\]**  |
|                   | (FM2)                                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **11:05 --        | **E. C. Sittler Jr.**, D. J. McComas, R. L.      |
| 11:25**           | McNutt Jr. and Solar Probe STDT Team             |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | Solar probe: Close encounter with the Sun        |
|                   | **\[Invited\]** (FM3)                            |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **11:25 --        | **J.N. Goswami**                                 |
| 11:45**           |                                                  |
|                   | Chandrayan update **\[Invited\]** (FM4)          |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **11:45 --        | **Torsten Neubert** The Atmosphere-Space         |
| 12:05**           | Interactions Monitor (ASIM) (FM5)                |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **12:05 --        | **Panel Discussion on Future Collaborations:     |
| 12:45**           | J.N. Goswami (Moderator), P.B. Rao (ISRO), M.    |
|                   | Guhathakurta (NASA), R. Marsden (ESA), T. Kosugi |
|                   | (JAXA), C. Wang (China), W. Liu (Canada). J.     |
|                   | Spann (MSFC).**                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|                   |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **12:45 --        | **Closing Session**                              |
| 13:00**           |                                                  |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

**Poster Session:**

**WG 1 Posters**

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS1: **Luc Dame** and David Cugnet                                    |
|                                                                       |
| MDI full Sun imaging confirms solar diameter constancy along the      |
| solar cycle                                                           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS2: **K. M. Hiremath**                                               |
|                                                                       |
| Influence of solar activity on Indian monsoon rainfall                |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS3: **Nipa Jishnu Bhatt** and Rajmal Jain                            |
|                                                                       |
| X-ray and radio emission characteristics of geoeffective solar flares |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS4: **A.P. Mishra** and Roopali Tripathi                             |
|                                                                       |
| Characteristic features of coronal mass ejections and their effect on |
| the                                                                   |
|                                                                       |
| Geomagnetosphere                                                      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS5: **V. K. Verma**                                                  |
|                                                                       |
| On solar coronal mass ejection\'s classification based on LASCO       |
| observations                                                          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS6: **Raman Selvamurugan** and D. Narayana Rao                       |
|                                                                       |
| On the relationship between interplanetary magnetic field and cosmic  |
| ray flux                                                              |
|                                                                       |
| over Antarctica                                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS7: **E. Ebenezer**                                                  |
|                                                                       |
| The Gauribidanur high resolution solar radio spectrometer             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS8: **Bhuwan Joshi**, P. K. Manoharan and P. Pant                    |
|                                                                       |
| Radio, H-alpha and RHESSI investigations of an X-class flare and      |
| associated                                                            |
|                                                                       |
| CME near the Sun and in the interplanetary medium                     |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS9: **Ravindra Jadav** and Krishna Narayana Iyer                     |
|                                                                       |
| Geoeffective storms and space weather events                          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS10: **Ajaysinh K Jadeja**, K N Iyer and P K Manoharan               |
|                                                                       |
| Coronal mass ejections and space weather effects                      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS11: **E. C. Sittler Jr.** and L. Ofman                              |
|                                                                       |
| 2D MHD model of the solar corona and solar wind: Recent results       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS12: **J.T. Hoeksema**                                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS13: Sun Weiying and **Wu Ji**                                       |
|                                                                       |
| Calculation of RF emission brightness temperature of high density     |
| plasmas                                                               |
|                                                                       |
| cloud in Sun-Earth interplanetary space                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS14: **Roopali Tripathi** and A.P. Mishra                            |
|                                                                       |
| Occurrence of severe geomagnetic storms and their association with    |
| solar-                                                                |
|                                                                       |
| interplanetary features                                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PS15: **Girija Rajaram**, A. Chandrasekhar Reddy, Radharani Alyana,   |
| Jatin Rathod,                                                         |
|                                                                       |
| D.S. Misra, C.G. Patil, M.Y.S. Prasad and A.G. Ananth                 |
|                                                                       |
| Magnetic cloud events during 2005 and their geoeffectiveness          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| **WG 2 Posters**                                                      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS1: **S. Alex**, S. Mukherjee and B. M. Pathan                      |
|                                                                       |
| Multiple flare occurrences and the geomagnetic storm characteristics  |
| during                                                                |
|                                                                       |
| solar cycle 23                                                        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS2: **S. S. Ghosh**, A. Sen and G. S. Lakhina                       |
|                                                                       |
| Comparisons between electron acoustic and lower hybrid dromions in    |
| auroral                                                               |
|                                                                       |
| Plasma                                                                |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS3: **A. P. Kakad**, S. V. Singh, R. V. Reddy and G. S. Lakhina     |
|                                                                       |
| The role of anisotropic ring current ions in the excitation of        |
| low-frequency                                                         |
|                                                                       |
| waves during magnetic storms                                          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS4: S.R. Prabhakaran Nayar, V.N. Radhika and **P.T. Seena**         |
|                                                                       |
| Investigation of substorms during geomagnetic storms using wavelet    |
|                                                                       |
| techniques                                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS5: **S.V. Singh**, R.V. Reddy and G.S. Lakhina                     |
|                                                                       |
| Modulational instability of electron-acoustic waves in auroral region |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS6: **Geeta Vichare** and S. Alex                                   |
|                                                                       |
| Storm time magnetic field variations at low latitude and its          |
| association with                                                      |
|                                                                       |
| solar wind parameters                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS7: **C.V. Sreehari** and S.R. Prabhakaran Nayar                    |
|                                                                       |
| Penetration of interplanetary electric field to the equatorial        |
| F-region during the                                                   |
|                                                                       |
| magnetic storm on November 20, 2003                                   |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS8: **Nagendra Singh**                                              |
|                                                                       |
| Mapping of poynting flux and widths of inertial Alfvén wave           |
| structures in the                                                     |
|                                                                       |
| auroral plasma                                                        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS9: **N. Chakrabarti** and G.S. Lakhina                             |
|                                                                       |
| Secondary instability of kinetic Alfven waves                         |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PMS10: **Iqbal Ahmad Ansari**                                         |
|                                                                       |
| Solar wind velocity and its control on low latitude Pc3 geomagnetic   |
|                                                                       |
| pulsations                                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

**WG 3 Posters**

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI1: **Tarun Kumar Pant,** G. Manju, Smitha V. Thampi, C. Vineeth,    |
| Sudha                                                                 |
|                                                                       |
| Ravindran, C. V. Devasia and R. Sridharan                             |
|                                                                       |
| Response of the equatorial thermosphere-ionosphere system to the      |
| Halloween                                                             |
|                                                                       |
| storm of October-November 2003                                        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI2: Badruddin, **Y.P. Singh** and M. Singh                           |
|                                                                       |
| Does solar variability affect Indian (Tropical) weather and climate?  |
| : An                                                                  |
|                                                                       |
| assessment                                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI3: Deepa V., **Geetha Ramkumar**, Maria Antonita, K. Kishore Kumar  |
| and M. N.                                                             |
|                                                                       |
| Sasi                                                                  |
|                                                                       |
| Tidal oscillations in the MLT region over Trivandrum (8°N, 77°E)      |
| results from                                                          |
|                                                                       |
| SKiYMET METEOR radar observations                                     |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI4: **B. Engavale**, K. Jeeva, K.U. Nair, and A. Bhattacharyya       |
|                                                                       |
| Effect of magnetic activity on equatorial F region plasma drifts      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI5: **Karanam Kishore Kumar,** V. Deepa, T. Maria Antonita and       |
| Geetha Ramkumar                                                       |
|                                                                       |
| Meteor radar observations of solar tides and planetary waves          |
| interaction in the                                                    |
|                                                                       |
| MLT region                                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| PI6: **B. Veenadhari** and S. Alex                                    |
|                                                                       |
| Space weather effects on low latitude geomagnetic field and           |
| ionospheric plasma                                                    |
|                                                                       |
| Response                                                              |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+