AMS Space Weather Conference & AMS 100th Meeting, 12-16 January, 2020, Boston MA

  AMS Space Weather Conference & AMS 100th Meeting, 12-16 January, 2020, Boston MA -- CALL FOR PAPERS DUE AUGUST 1 2019

 
  The 17th Conference on Space Weather, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and organized by the AMS Committee on Space Weather, will be held 12-16 January 2020, as part of the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.  Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS website as they become available.  https://annual.ametsoc.org/2020/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__annual.ametsoc.org_...
  This is the 100th anniversary of AMS, so it promises to be an exciting meeting!

 
  Please submit your abstract electronically by 1 August 2019:
 
   https://ams.confex.com/ams/2020Annual/webprogrampreliminary/17SPACEWX.html <https://ams.confex.com/ams/2020Annual/webprogrampreliminary/17SPACEWX.html>
 
  The Conference on Space Weather solicits papers on the following topics:
 
  I. Ensemble Modeling and Data Assimilation Improving Forecast Accuracy
 
  II. Handling Vulnerabilities and Risks: Power Grids, Aviation, and Communication Networks
 
  III. Heliophysics and Space Weather in History
 
  IV. International and Interdisciplinary Space Weather Initiatives: ICAO and Beyond
 
  V. New Instruments, Platforms and Initiatives for Space Weather
 
  VI. R2O2R : User Needs and Priorities
 
  VII. Rise of the Machines!! Machine Learning and AI for Space Weather
 
  VIII. Space Weather at Other Planets and Solar Systems
 
  IX. Space Weather at Solar Minimum and What's to Come: Solar Cycle 25 Predictions
 
  X. The History of Space Weather Science and Operations
 
  XI. When Forecasts Fail: How We Make Progress
 
  XII. Advances in Research and Modeling of Space Weather Drivers
 
  XIII. Agency Efforts in Space Weather: Priorities and Opportunities
 
  The committee will be providing several small travel grants (~$400) to help defray the cost of attending the AMS meeting for a student who submitted an abstract to present at the Space Weather Conference.  Students who wish to apply should contact the program chairs (Richard Behnke or Barbara Thompson) for application instructions. Deadline for student support is October 15, 2019.
 
  For additional information please contact the program chairpersons, Richard Behnke,  behnke.richard (at) yahoo.com <mailto:behnke.richard%20(at)%20yahoo.com  or Barbara J. Thompson, barbara.j.thompson (at) nasa.gov <mailto:barbara.j.thompson@nasa.gov>