ILWS Steering Committee & Working Group Meeting
June 11-13, 2007
Uppsala, Sweden
Hosted by the Swedish National Space Board

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Meeting Agenda (Semi-Finalized)


11 June 2007

    1300 - 1700 Steering Committee Meeting (for members of the Steering Committee only)

    1730 Happy Hour Gathering to welcome arriving delegates, followed by Dinner


12 June 2007, 0900 - 1730 ILWS Working Group Meeting: Day 1

    0900 - 0915 1) Welcome and greetings: M. Guhathakurta, L. Nordh, H. Opgenoorth

    0915 - 0930 2) Introductions & New Delegates: M. Guhathakurta

    0930 - 0950 3) ILWS status: M. Guhathakurta, D. Sibeck

    0950 - 1230 4) Task Group Reports:

    20 minutes per report (15-minute presentation + 5-minute discussion). The discussion following the reports will run 30-45 minutes.
    Names in parentheses indicate reports will be delivered for the delegate by the Steering Committee.

    Ionosphere/Thermosphere: T. Neubert
    Ground-Based: E. Donovan
    Magnetosphere: H. Koskinen
    Theory and Modeling: (M. Hesse)
    End Users: Alexi Glover
    Solar Task Group: W. Schmutz

    Discussion: Recent progress, and which goals would be appropriate for these working groups over the next couple of years.
    Discussion of how to stimulate these activities.
    Review of the ILWS member nations and their potential role in each of these working groups.
    Discussion of whether there is a perceived need for new groups, specifically a Data Task Group or Heliospheric Group

    1200 - 1230 Guest speaker: Lisa Rosenqvist, IRFU

    1235 - 200 LUNCH

    0200 - 0530

    5) Agency Delegate Reports:

    15 minutes per report (10-minute presentation + 5-minute discussion). The discussion following the reports will run 30-45 minutes.

    ILWS Delegates who were unable to attend or send a proxy will have their updates presented by the Steering Committee.

    Names in parentheses indicate reports will be delivered for the delegate by the Steering Committee.

    Canadian Space Agency: W. Liu
    ESTEC-ESA: H. Opgenoorth
    JAXA: (M. Fujimoto)
    NASA: M. Guhathakurta, D. Sibeck
    Chinese National Space Administration: J. Wu
    Center for Space and Applied Research, China: (J. B. Cao)
    CNES: J.-Y. Prado
    DLR German Aerospace: R. Schwenn
    DSRI: T. Neubert
    Finnish Meteorological Institute: H. Koskinen
    IAC Astrophysical Institute, Spain: (V. Martinez Pillet)
    IKI Space Research Institute, Russia: (A. Petrukovich)
    INPE National Space Research Institute: (W. Gonzalez)
    IPS Radio and Space Services, Australia: (D. Cole)
    ISRO: (S. C. Chakrabarthy)
    IWF/OEAW Austrian Academy of Sciences: (H. Rucker and R. Nakamura)
    KFKI Research Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungary: (K. Kecskemety)
    INAF-ASI Turin Astronomical Observatory: E. Antonucci
    Ministry of Development, Greece: (I. Daglis)

    Morocco: (N. Nour-Eddine)
    National Space Organization, Taiwan: (F. Cheng)
    National Ukranian Space Agency: (V. Korepanov)
    Norwegian Space Centre: P. Brekke
    PMOD/WRC Davos: W. Schmutz
    Royal Observatory of Belgium: D. Berghmans
    Slovak Academy of Sciences: (K. Kudela)
    SNSB: L. Nordh
    STFC (PPARC): C. Castelli
    Discussion: Roles ILWS can play in stimulating international coordination and activities within these nations, and which potential agencies we may want to consider inviting to join ILWS

    1730 Ice Breaker Reception
    1900 Dinner
    2130 Shuttle boat tour (weather permitting)


13 June 2007, 0900 - 1730 ILWS Working Group Meeting: Day 2

    5) National Delegate Reports continued - Proxy Reports and discussions (if necessary)

    6) Mission Updates

    Names in parentheses indicate reports will be delivered for the delegate by the Steering Committee.

    10 minutes per report

    In flight:

      COSMIC:
      Hinode: (M. Fujimoto)
      STEREO: B. J. Thompson
      THEMIS: D. Sibeck
      Others
      Cluster, DoubleStar, SOHO and Ulysses will be covered in delegate reports.

    In development:

      Chandrayan: (J. Datta)
      Cross-Scale: M. Andre or D. Sibeck
      EQUARS: (W. Gonzalez)
      KuaFu: J. Wu or R. Schwenn
      RBSP: D. Sibeck
      SDO: B. Thompson
      Sentinels: H. Opgenoorth
      Solar Orbiter: H. Opgenoorth
      Solar Probe: M. Guhathakurta
      SWAP/PROBA2 (PROBA3): D. Berghmans
      Others

    7) Science Activities:

    International Theory, Modeling & Data initiatives: challenges and opportunities IHY Update: B. Thompson
    CAWSES Update:

    8) Upcoming meetings: possible community workshop in 2008? Identify SOC for upcoming meetings & workshops.

    Dinner