Recent and upcoming conferences, symposia, and seminars

The ISR regularly sponsors and runs domestic and international scientific symposia, such as workshops on space weather effects on navigation, the Ionospheric Effects Symposium series, and the Beacon Satellite Symposium series.

Recent & Upcoming events

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IES 2023:  

The latest Ionospheric Effects Symposium was held May 9-11, 2023 in Alexandria, Virginia. These symposia focus on the transition from Research to Operations: Bridging the gap between applications and investigations involving ionospheric and space weather disciplines.  More informationis available on the conference website.

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2023 African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GN

2023 ICTP-SCOSTEP-ISWI School and Workshop on the Predictability of the Solar-Terrestrial Coupling - PRESTO

The ICTP-SCOSTEP-ISWI School and Workshop on the Predictability of the Solar-Terrestrial Coupling - PRESTO took place 29 May - 2 June 2023 at ICTP in Trieste, Italy. The workshop followed a one-day school which will provide students and early-career scientists with an introductory review on the topics that will be discussed during the PRESTO workshop. The space science schools are a capacity building activity of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) and SCOSTEP.

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BSS 2022:

The 2022 Beacon Satellite Symposium was held at Boston College on August 1 through 5, 2022  in honor of the late Patricia Doherty.  More details on the conference website:

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2022 African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS

The 2022 African Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather Effects on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), co-sponsored by BC/ISR, took place 3-14 October 2022 at ICTP in Trieste, Italy. Over 125 participants both in-person and on-line from 28 different countries attended the lectures & tutorials, and took part in projects to learn analysis techniques for using GNSS data for their own ionospheric investigations.

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African Workshop on GNSS and Space Weather 2020

The 2020 virtual African Workshop on GNSS and Space Weather took place electronically October 5-6, 2020, with 185 participants from 45 different countries.

Program details can be found on the conference website here.

Beacon Satellite Symposium, August 19-23, 2019

The 2019 Beacon Satellite Symposium (BSS) was held at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland on 19-23 August 2019. Over 130 ionospheric scientists and engineers from 34 countries took part in the conference.  

Program details can be found on the conference website.

Ionospheric Forecasting for GNSS Operations Workshop, May 27-31, 2019

The 2019 Workshop on Ionospheric Forecasting for GNSS Operations in Developing Countries: Findings and Challenges, May 27-31, 2019, Trieste, Italy. The workshop webpage can be found here.

ISWI Workshop, May 20-24, 2019

The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) workshop took place 20-24 May 2019 in Trieste, Italy.