Events around the ESA Mission Solar Orbiter and the X-ray Telescope STIX

Weitere Anlässe rund um die Sonne, das Weltraumteleskop STIX und die Raumsonde Solar Orbiter

Recurring Events at the Institute

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.

2018 June 11-12, 2018, 3rd Swiss SKA Days

Artist’s impression of the SKA radio telescope at night.

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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

Journal Club 2019

November 19, Characterizing Upward Lightning With and Without a Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flash
November 5, Search window of solar flare neutrinos
October 22, A basal contribution from p-modes to the Alfvénic wave flux in the Sun’s corona
October 8, Localized Microwave and EUV Bright Structures in an Eruptive Prominence
September 10, Visualizing Data using t-SNE 
August 27, What Determines the X-Ray Intensity and Duration of a Solar Flare?
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

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