Introduction
In August, the SHARP consortium organised a summer school on collisionless shocks in space in Levi, Finland. In total 23 students from more than 10 different countries attended the school. The lectures covered all research areas of the SHARP project, including basic theory on collisionless shocks, heliospheric shocks and astrophysical shocks. The students also attended exercise sessions where they learned about data analysis of shocks and the computation of basic shock parameters.
The lecture and lab session material can be found here.
Program (PDF-version)
Monday 21.08.
Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:00 – 10:30 | What are shocks? Michael Gedalin |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 12:30 | What are collisionless shocks? Michael Gedalin |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Individual study time and informal discussions |
15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments |
16:00 – 17:00 | Formation of shock waves in the heliosphere Andrew Dimmock |
17:00 – 17:15 | Break |
17:15 – 18:15 | Heliospheric shock measurements 1 (fields) Daniel Graham |
Tuesday 22.08.
Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:00 – 10:30 | Heliospheric shock measurements 2 (particles) Ahmad Lalti |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Lab 1: Introduction to data analysis Andrew Dimmock, Daniel Graham, Ahmad Lalti |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Individual study time and informal discussions |
15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments |
16:00 – 17:30 | Mode-Decomposition in MHD Solar Wind Plasma Revisited Gary Zank |
Wednesday 23.08.
Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:00 – 10:30 | The transmission of turbulence across shock waves Gary Zank |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Global solar wind interactions with the magnetosphere Natalia Ganushkina |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Individual study time and informal discussions |
15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments |
16:00 – 17:00 | Lab 2: Calculating fundamental shock parameters Ahmad Lalti |
17:00 – 17:15 | Break |
17:15 – 18:15 | Discussions |
Thursday 24.08.
Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:00 – 10:30 | Introduction to astrophysical shocks Jacco Vink |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Acceleration tutorial Jacco Vink |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Individual study time and informal discussions |
15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments |
16:00 – 17:30 | Solar energetic particle acceleration in shocks Alexandr Afanasiev |
17:30 – 17:45 | Break |
17:45 – 18:15 | Databases Max van de Kamp |
Friday 25.08.
Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:00 – 10:30 | Academic skills: formulating ideas and proposal writing Natalia Ganushkina |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Round table: summarizing the school and feedback |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |