Upcoming Events
Journal Club
Tuesday June 18, 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
Thursday June 27, 11.00
Bi-weekly seminar for sharing our fields of expertise.
This time, the new faculty member Fabian Märki will talk about Data Acquisition at PSI – A Sneak Peak Under the Hood
Everybody is welcome!
Room 5.3H12
Happy Quarter
Every Friday 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
Journal Club
2019 June 18, Predicting solar flares using machine learning
2019 June 4, On the Relative Brightness of Coronal Holes at Low Frequencies
2019 May 21, Propagation of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: The Drag-Based Model
2019 May 4, Determination of the Total Accelerated Electron Rate and Power Using Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra
2019 April 7, Determination of the Total Accelerated Electron Rate and Power Using Solar Flare Hard X-Ray Spectra
2019 April 2, Three-dimensional reconstruction of CME-driven shock-streamer interaction from radio and EUV observations
2019 March 26, Micro Flares and their HXR and Microwave Emissions
2019 February 12, Mapping the magnetic field of flare coronal loops
2019 February 26, The Formation of IRIS Diagnostics
2019 February 12, Frequency rising sub-THz emission from solar flare ribbons
2019 January 29, Statistical Study of Chromospheric Evaporation in Impulsive Phase of Solar Flares
2019 January 15, Solar Physics with the Square Kilometer Array
2018 December 18, Life Versus Dark Energy: How An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
2018 December 4, Finding Flares in Kepler Data Using Machine-Learning Tools
2018 November 20, Topological model of the anemone microflares in the solar chromosphere
2018 November 6, How Nanoflares Produce Kinetic Waves, Nano-Type III Radio Bursts, and Non-Thermal Electrons in the Solar Wind
2018 October 23, Electron Time-of-Flight Distances and Flare Loop Geometries Compared from CGRO and YOHKOH Observations
See all papers discussed since March 2018
2018 September 25, Presentation by Rohit Sharma about his PHD work
2018 September 11, Noise-Storm Continua: Power Estimates for Electron Acceleration
2018 August 14, Presentation by Matej Kuhar about his PHD work
2018 August 7, Presentation by Säm Krucker about his recent work in Japan
2018 July 31, Continuum Enhancements in the Ultraviolet, the Visible and the Infrared during the X1 Flare on 2014 March 29
2018 July 17, Radiative backwarming in white-light flares
2018 June 6, Global conditions in the solar corona from 2010 to 2017
2018 May 22, Solar Flare Prediction Using SDO/HMI Vector Magnetic Field Data with a Machine-learning Algorithm
2018 May 8, Slipping Magnetic Reconnection during an X-class Solar Flare Observed by SDO/AIA
2018 April 24, About the first observations of solar flares: Carrington, Hodgeson
2018 March 27, Alfvénic waves with sufficient energy to power the quiet solar corona and fast solar wind
2018 March 13, PHOTOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS OF SURFACE AND BODY MODES IN SOLAR MAGNETIC PORES
Talks & Public Engagement
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 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