Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections — An international conference commemorating 125 years of KSO

Conference Dates: January  20 – 24, 2025

Second Announcement

We invite abstracts and registration for the the international conference “Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections”,  January 20 – 24, 2025, organised by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics at Bangalore to commemorate 125 years of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory.

The abstract submission and registration pages are open via the main conference page:

https://events.iiap.res.in/e/kso125

The conference will focus on topics under the following major themes:

  • Solar Magnetism over Long Timescales
  • Solar-Stellar Connections
  • Solar Magnetism in High-Resolution (includes a session on new & upcoming facilities)
  • Energetic Phenomena
  • Connecting Solar Corona to Heliosphere

Each theme will have several topical sessions, each of which with an invited review, an invited talk by an early career researcher on a new result, contributed talks and posters. Please see the scientific programme page of the conference website for details.

Invited Speakers (as of 14 Aug.):

Invited Reviews by: H.M. Antia (India), Bart De Pontieu (USA), Paul Charbonneau (Canada), Xin Cheng (China), Laurent Gizon (Germany), Nat Gopalswamy (USA), Shahin Jafarzadeh (Germany/Norway), Elena Khomenko (Spain), Divya Oberoi (India), Tiago Pereira (Norway), Nour Raouafi (USA), Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez (Sweden), K. Sankarasubramanian (India), Sami Solanki (Germany)

Invited Talks by: Catherine Blume (USA), Theodosios Chatzistergos (Germany), Reetika Joshi (Norway), Maria Kazachenko (USA), Jiajia Liu (China), Savita Mathur (Spain), Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio (Spain), Yudong Ye (China)

SOC: Mats Carlsson (Norway, Co-chair), S.P. Rajaguru (India, Co-chair), Piyali Chatterjee (India, Co-chair), Dipankar Banerjee (India), Sarbani Basu (USA), Luis Bellot Rubio (Spain), Peng Fei Chen (China), Mark Cheung (Australia), Robertus Erdelyi (UK), Sarah Gibson (USA), Todd Hoeksema (USA), David Jess (UK), Yukio Katsukawa (Japan), Emilia Kilpua (Finland), Sasha Shapiro (Germany), Nandita Srivatsava (India), Sivarani Thirupathi (India), Hui Tian (China), Nicole Vilmer (France), Jie Zhang (USA).

Important dates:

  • Registration and abstract submission open  – 15 August 2024
  • Deadline for abstract submission  – 07 October 2024
  • Notification of abstract selection – 21 October 2024
  • Deadline for registration – 01 November 2024
  • Announcement of the program – 15 December 2024
  • Conference Dates: 20 – 24 January 2025

For any queries on the conference please send an email to: kso125@iiap.res.in
S.P. Rajaguru, On behalf of the SOC and LOC.