NSSC Hosted the 3rd ICSSSW Conference
The 3rd International Conference on Storm, Substorm and Space Weather, ICSSSW for short, was held in Shenzhen, China, Sept 4-7, 2013. The conference was hosted by the National Space Science Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the China National Space Administration.
Prof. WANG Chi, Deputy Director of NSSC, and Prof. Anthony Lui, served as the conveners of the conference in which over 60 space physicists from the US, Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Korea, Finland, Romania and China participated.
The conference participants presented the recent progress in Storms, Substorms and Space Weather. Akasofu from University of Alaska, who initiated the term “substorm”, delivered a report on Magnetic Reconnection; Andrew Yau from University of Calgary delivered a report titled Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Coupling: Old Versus New Perspective.
The participating institutes include University of Alaska Fairbanks, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Calgary, Ehime University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kyoto University, Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics RAS, Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, National Centre for Scientific Research, Chungbuk National University, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and Institute for Space Science.
The biannual conference is a serial meeting on the topic of Storm, Substorm and Space Weather. The first and the second conference were held in 2009 and 2011 respectively. The goal of the series is to promote creativity and original ideas of young researchers to foster new directions, new understandings of critical problems in space science.
