Upcoming Events
Aare Swimming
Lunchtime when the weather is good
A summer paradise just a five minutes walk from the FHNW campus.
Work-life balance at its best!
Journal Club
Tuesdays, 14.30
Bi-weekly discussion group on topics in heliophysics.
The paper to be discussed will be announced here a few days in advance.
Interested in joining us? Welcome!
Room 5.2C07 in the heliophysics section of the institute
Knowledge Exchange Platform
Thursdays, 11.00
Bi-weekly seminar for sharing our fields of expertise among the three computer science institutes of FHNW.
Everybody is welcome!
Room 5.3H12
Happy Quarter
Fridays 17.00
at the Institute for Data Science.
Yes, many of us are still here at this time 👍🏽
A tradition we inherited from the Berkeley Space Sciences Lab.
Everybody is welcome!
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Past Events
Conferences and Meetings
2019 March 6-7, 3rd Swiss SCOSTEP Workshop, World Radiation Center Davos
Current developments in Switzerland: fundamental solar physics, solar variability, Sun-Earth relations in proxies, observations, and model simulations, future (space) missions/observations.
2018 November 15-16, 23rd Solar Orbiter Science Working Team Meeting, FHNW Windisch
More than 50 scientists and engineers from allover Europe met in Windisch with representatives of the European Space Agency ESA to discuss updates on Solar Orbiter mission preparations.
More than 80 participants from the SKA organization, government agencies, universities and the Swiss industry participated at the 3rd Swiss SKA Days organized by EPFL and I4DS at the FHNW Brugg-Windisch Campus.
Knowledge Exchange Platform KEP
KEP is a bi-weekly seminar for sharing our fields of expertise at the Institute for Data Science. Find below a list of the talks related to astroinformatics and heliophysics.
2019 June 13, Jonas Schwammberger about about Distributed Image Reconstruction for Radio Interferometers
2019 May 23, Brandon Panos about Clustering Flares in the NFP75 project IRIS Big Data
Special Seminars with External Speakers
2019 July 5, Surajit Mondal, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, India: Investigating the two extremes of solar activity using data from the Murchison Widefield Array
Abstract
The solar activity is of two types: one when the sun is very active and gives rise to many flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other when the sun is very quiet and there is no X-ray flare for several days. Using data from the MWA, we have investigated a CME event and a quiet sun. We have been able to detect gyro-synchrotron emission from the CME and have successfully modelled the emission. Using the model, we have estimated different plasma parameters in a spatially resolved manner at different times. In this talk, I will discuss the details of the fitting procedure and how we succeeded in detecting the emission even after 2 hours after the initial eruption and at a height of ~4.7 solar radius. In the second part of my talk, I will focus on the coronal heating problem. I will give the first direct and robust observational evidence, to the best of our knowledge, that Hudson’s criterion is satisfied even in the case of quiet sun. Several other predictions of the nanoflare hypothesis are also found to be valid in this case. All these works have been possible with the automated high dynamic range imaging routine we have developed. I will also talk about this briefly. If time permits I will also briefly discuss the various other works which are happening in our group.
Journal Club 2019
August 13, Triggering the Birth of New Cycle’s sunspots by solar tsunami
July 30, The development of lower-atmosphere turbulence early in a solar flare
July 16, Constraints on energy release in solar flares from RHESSI and GOES X-ray observations
July 2, Gamma ray emission from a behind-the-limb-flare
June 18, Predicting solar flares using machine learning
June 4, On the Relative Brightness of Coronal Holes at Low Frequencies
May 21, Propagation of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: The Drag-Based Model
May 4, Determination of the Total Accelerated Electron Rate and Power Using Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra
April 7, Determination of the Total Accelerated Electron Rate and Power Using Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra
April 2, Three-dimensional reconstruction of CME-driven shock-streamer interaction from radio and EUV observations
March 26, Micro Flares and their HXR and Microwave Emissions
February 12, Mapping the magnetic field of flare coronal loops
February 26, The Formation of IRIS Diagnostics
February 12, Frequency rising sub-THz emission from solar flare ribbons
January 29, Statistical Study of Chromospheric Evaporation in Impulsive Phase of Solar Flares
January 15, Solar Physics with the Square Kilometer Array
See papers discussed before 2019
Talks & Public Engagement
2019 July 18, Vortrag und Virtual Reality-Erlebnis im Raumschiff: André Csillaghy stellte einer Männervereinigung die Sonnenforschung an der FHNW und das Röntgenteleskop STIX vor. Danach probierten alle die von FHNW-Studierenden entwickelte VR-App ‚Floating in Space‘ aus.
2019 April 9, FHNW Technik Transfer Transparent: SMILE – Eine chinesisch-europäische Raumfahrtmission mit FHNW Beteiligung. Vortrag von Samuel Krucker (I4DS) und Matthias Fankhauser (IPPE) über das neue Projekt. Die Folien sind auf der SMILE-SXI-Projektseite zugänglich.
2019 March 2-3, Swiss Solar Activities at the Science Museum London: Explosiv oder ruhig? Die Schweizer Sonnenphysik a, ‚The Sun Family Festival‘ mit einem interaktiven Stand um das am I4DS entwickelte App heliotime.org für helioviewer.org. Für die Schweizer Botschaft anlässlich der Sonderausstellung The Sun – Living with our Star
2019 February 14, Neubad Lecture Luzern: Schwarze Löcher: über untote Sterne, die ihre lebendigen Artgenossen essen, die Raumzeit krümmen und über die Rolle, die sie in unserer Galaxie und im Universum spielen, mit Cédric Huwyler
2018 November 28, Swiss Solar Activities at Science Museum London Lates: Explosiv oder ruhig? Die Schweizer Sonnenphysik an der Late Night mit einem interaktiven Stand um das am I4DS entwickelte App heliotime.org für helioviewer.org. Für die Schweizer Botschaft anlässlich der Sonderausstellung The Sun – Living with our Star
2018 November 22, Space Talks @EG-Bar: Die Geheimnisse des dunklen Universums und die ESA Mission Euclid, mit André Csillaghy
2018 November 15, SATW TecNight Frauenfeld, Vortrag: Wie wird das Weltraumwetter morgen? Exponat: Science on a Table
2018 November 1, Space Talks @EG-Bar: Weltraumwetter und die ESA Mission Solar Orbiter, mit Marina Battaglia
2018 October 30, Invited Talk @I4DS: Power Coders – the Coding Academy for Refugees
STEAM Activities and Workshops
2019 Summer, Workshops: Build your own telescope like the FHNW-pros of the X-ray telescope STIX
2019 March-April, Astronomiekurs für Kinder: Der geheime Schlüssel zum Universum
2018 October 9-12, Tüftelcamp
2018 April, July Ferienplausch
Parties
2019 April 22, Easter BBQ: The Institute for Interactive Technologies and the Institute for Data Science celebrated together!
2018 December 20, Holiday Party: The Institute for Interactive Technologies and the Institute for Data Science celebrated together!
2018 September 21, Celebration of the decommissionning of the RHESSI satellite