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						     Volume 15, Number 13
						     April 12, 2005

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Call for Applications - NCAR Space Weather Colloquium
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From: Maura Hagan <hagan@ucar.edu>

The National Center for Atmospheric Research invites applications for participation in a Space Weather Colloquium on 31 May - 10 June 2005 in 
Boulder Colorado.  The application deadline is April 15, 2005. Sponsored
participants will receive support for travel costs, housing, ground
transportation, and a modest per diem.

This 8-day colloquium is designed for upper level graduate students. The
program includes lectures by experts from universities and research 
institutions, a student poster session, a tour of the NOAA Space 
Environment Center, and interactive sessions designed for student teams
to gain hands-on experience with space measurements. Participants will 
have ample opportunity to interact with the experts throughout the 
colloquium.

The colloquium lectures will include two sets of tutorials and a series
of topical presentations that detail specific space weather events and 
their effects. One tutorial series will provide quantitative perspectives
on select physical processes that govern the Sun-Earth system. These 
include:

- Single-Particle Motion in a Collisionless Plasma (Terry Onsager, 
  NOAA/SEC)
- Magnetized Fluid Descriptions of Space Plasmas (Tom Holzer, NCAR/HAO)
- Current Systems in the Terrestrial Space Environment (Rod Heelis, 
  UT-Dallas)
- Particle Acceleration from the Sun to the Earth and Beyond (Marty Lee,
  UNH) 

The second set of lectures will characterize the Sun-Earth system domains.
The opening lecture, entitled "Space Weather, A Biography of the Field" 
will be given by George Siscoe (Boston University). Later in the week 
George will discuss "Bimodal Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere 
Coupling".

For additional details, including the application procedure, visit http://www.asp.ucar.edu/colloquium/2005/
or contact Paula Fisher (paulad@ucar.edu; 303-497-1328)

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