The Second Asia-Pacific IHY School will be held at Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR),Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, Oct. 20-Oct. 31, 2008. This IHY school is opened to students and to researchers from Asia-Pacific and abroad, and we expect about 60~70 attendees, from which about 40 students. The purpose of the school is to bring a greater understanding of the underlying universal processes and to promote the international collaboration and exchange ideas and views in heliophysical studies.  

This  two-week autumn school, focuses on a broad range of extended heliophysics, such as solar physics, heliospheric physics, geospace physics and space weather, related to the IHY science topic areas. The structure of school consists of about 50 lectures, as well as a series of lab exercises and observatory visits.

The International Heliophysical Year (IHY) is an international program of scientific collaboration planned for 2007 to celebrate the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The objectives of IHY are to provide benchmark measurements of the response of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, lower atmosphere and Earth surface to identify global processes and drivers, globally study the Sun-heliosphere system outward to the heliopause, foster international scientific cooperation and education in the study of heliophysical phenomena, and communicate the results to the scientific community and the general public. The IHY's focus on developing new and exciting Education and Public Outreach (EPO) programs provides unique opportunities for the global community to increase the visibility and accessibility of heliophysics outreach programs. To address these goals, the IHY has formed the IHY Schools Program to develop a series of schools in 2007 and 2008 with the purpose of educating students about Universal Processes and providing them with an opportunity to view their own research interests in a new context.

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State Key Laboratory of Space Weather .

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