Prof. Mykola Ivchenko (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) will talk about space instrument development and application to ionospheric and auroral physics.

A special event for the Graz YRP students for showcasing their research and networking

In his habilitation colloquium at TU Graz, Dr. Evgeny Panov will talk about "Magnetic Buoyancy – Learning from Satellite Observations of Magnetosphere".

Dr. Philippe Bourdin (Uni Graz, IWF Graz) will give an overview of the importance of detailed magnetic reconnection models to explain and connect observations from the Sun and the heliosphere.

Dr. Ravindra Desai (University of Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics) will discuss the ROARS mission

Dr. Tom Haworth (Queen Mary University of London) will discuss how planet formation happens in different types of environments

Nihan Chen (Beihang University, Beijing, PR China) will give a presentation on the interaction between the solar wind and the upper atmosphere of Venus, as simulated using a Hall Multi-Fluid Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model. The talk will highlight…

Prof. Ferdinand Plaschke from the Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik (TU Braunschweig, Germany) will talk about Magnetospheric Physics as probed by the Cluster, THEMIS, and MMS space missions.

Prof. Rory Barnes (University of Washington) will present an approach to tackle the diversity of complex computations needed to fully explore the potential evolution of rocky exoplanets in preparation for next generation space telescopes.

Dr. Natalia Buzulukova (University of Maryland, NASA Goddard) will give an overview of "geospace" and global models as a tool to understand it.

Small bodies in the solar system

József Varga from Konkoly Observatory (Budapest, Hungary) will show us mid-infrared interferometric observations (VLTI/MATISSE) to study the inner regions of planet forming disks

Joe Zender (ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL) will talk about the first ever fine-formation flying mission, PROBA-3, to observe the Sun's corona.

Gabriella Gilli (IAA, Granada, Spain) will talk about new upcoming space missions to Venus and 3D-models for the Venus atmosphere in and above the cloud layers

The sixth meeting will be held on the 23rd of May 2025 at IWF in Graz.

Dr. Paula Wulff (UCLA Space Institute, LA, USA) will show us the six planetary magnetic fields known in our solar system, and discuss how to understand them based on 3D MHD models of the planetary interiors.

How to identify small exoplanets? Dr. Melissa Hobson (Geneva Observatory) gives an overview of 43 planets (from super-Mercuries to Mini-Neptunes) confirmed with the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope in Chile as the premier instrument…

This meeting aims to discuss projects for the atmosphere characterization of gas planets with PLATO.

Prof. Tomas Karlsson (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) Prof. Tomas Karlsson (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) will talk about magnetic holes in the heliosphere

Dr. Maria Bergemann (research group leader, MPIA Heidelberg, Germany) will show us how 3D radiation hydrodynamical modeling of stellar atmospheres, including non-LTE effects, has advanced our ability to precisely determine element abundances and…

Dr. Gaspard Duchêne, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, will talk about the conclusions about the structure of protoplanetary disks from observations with ALMA and JWST.

Sandipan Borthakur (Tartu Observatory, IWF Graz) will showcase how and why some stars can get polluted by their surrounding dust disks.

Dr. Jean-Michel Léger from CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France will present the helium optically pumped magnetometers developed for the SWARM and NanoMagSat Earth Observation missions.

Dr. Christian Mazelle, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (CNRS, University of Toulouse, CNES, France) will discuss the Martian exosphere as probed by the MAVEN mission.

Dr. Aljona Blöcker (IWF Graz) will give an overview about the interaction between the plasma environment of the Galilean Moons and Jupiter's magnetotail.

Prof. Daniel Verscharen, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London, leads the Space Plasma Group and will talk about solar-terrestrial relations, the multi-scale nature of the solar wind, and how the large scales are coupled…

Dr. Gabriel Giono will illustrate the steps to realize a space science instrument on the example of the Auroral Polarization Explorer (APEX)

Prof. David Hobbs (Division of Astrophysics, Lund Observatory, Sweden) will give us an overview over the planning of GaiaNIR, the new all-sky Near InfraRed (NIR) astrometric mission.

Doz. Dr. Luca Fossati will talk about a new UV instrument for next generation space telescopes to redefine the boundaries of exoplanet science.

Prof. Jürgen Blum (Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, TU Braunschweig, Germany) will talk about the formation of the first massive bodies in the early Solar System, and what we can learn from in-situ comet observations.

Kevin Blasl (IWF Graz) will talk about the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Earth's magnetopause and its relation to various plasma processes at different scales.

Sierk van Terwisga (IWF Graz) will talk about how protoplanetary disks can be destroyed by external irradiation from massive young stars.

Nadine Trummer (IWF Graz) will talk about how machine learning helps to identify space debris from lightcurves taken with Satellite Laser Ranging.

Prof. Charlotte Goetz (Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK) will show us her research on the magnetospheres of unmagnetized bodies, such as cometary plasma environments.