Programme

10:30 The Carrington event - once in a lifetime? (Invited)

          Sarah Matthews (UCL, Mullard Space Science Laboratory)

10:50 Predicting the unpredictable: current practice and performance of the

          flare forecasting community

          Shaun Bloomfield (Trinity College Dublin)

11:05 Exploiting the UK’s STEREO Heliospheric Imagers for space weather

          applications

          Richard Harrison and Jackie Davies (RAL Space)

11:20 Sun and showers: Forecasting Solar Energetic Particle Storms

          Mike Marsh, Silvia Dalla, Timo Laitinen (University of Central Lancashire)

11:35 The steady-state expansion of active regions into the slow solar

          wind (Invited)

          Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth University)

11:55 Space weather forecasting at the Met Office (Invited)

          Mark Gibbs (Met Office)

12:30 Forecasting the high-energy electron flux throughout the radiation

          belts using the BAS Radiation Belt model

          S. A. Glauert, R. B. Horne, N. P. Meredith, T. Kersten (British Antarctic Survey)

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13:50 Space weather effects on airline communications in the high

          latitude regions

          Farideh Honary, E.M. Warrington , N. Rogers,  A.J. Stocker and D.R Siddle 

          (University of Lancaster)

14:05 Radiation effects on aviation: historical measurements, calculations

          and future needs

          Clive Dyer (University of Surrey Space Centre)

14:20 Space weather and the national grid (Invited)

          Andrew Richards (National Grid)

14:40 Geophysical monitoring and modelling of geomagnetically induced

          currents in power transmission systems

          Alan Thomson (British Geological Survey)

14:55 Visualising space weather for end-users

          Bryn Jones (Solarmetrics) and Liam Hayter (Independent State)

15:10 Modelling the magnetic configuration of CMEs: can we determine

          the CME onset time? (Invited)

          Duncan Mackay and Gordon Gibb (University of St. Andrews)

15:30 End and concluding remarks

          Lucie Green (UCL, Mullard Space Science Laboratory)