NMDB Meeting 2025: Cosmic Ray studies with Neutron Detectors
from
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 (9:00 AM)
to
Friday, March 21, 2025 (7:10 PM)
Monday, March 17, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
9:30 AM
Registration
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Seminar Room
10:00 AM
Welcome & Introductory Talks: Welcome & Introductory Talks
Welcome & Introductory Talks
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
10:00 AM
Welcome to the University of Athens
-
Ε. Nistazakis
(
Chairman of Physics Department, University of Athens
)
10:10 AM
Welcome to NMDB meeting 2025
-
Helen Mavromichalaki
(
University of Athens
)
10:15 AM
The Significance of Neutron Monitor Measurements over Time
-
Erwin Flückiger
(
University of Bern, Switzerland
)
11:00 AM
The history and the current status of the Neutron Monitor DataBase
-
Christian Steigies
(
CAU Kiel
)
11:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Seminar Room
11:45 AM
Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere: Session 1
Session 1
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
11:45 AM
Observational evidence on the mechanism of relativistic particle acceleration in solar eruptions
-
Karl-Ludwig Klein
(
Observatoire de Paris
)
12:35 PM
Shape and extend of the solar wind transition surfaces: Solar Alfven and Sonic surfaces, the heliosphere and CR modulation
-
Xenophon Moussas
(
Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
)
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Intense Events of 2024: Session 2
Session 2
2:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
2:30 PM
Neutron Monitors and Cosmic Ray Science
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Monica Laurenza
(
INAF- Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy
)
3:00 PM
GOES Solar Energetic Particle Observations During the Ground Level Enhancements 74-76 of 2024
-
Juan Rodriguez
(
University of Colorado CIRES
)
3:40 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Seminar Room
4:00 PM
Intense Events of 2024: Session 2
Session 2
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
4:30 PM
Solar events of the 25th activity cycle
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Ashot Chilingarian
(
Yerevan Physics Institute
)
Thursday, March 20, 2025
10:00 AM
Intense Events of 2024: Session 2
Session 2
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
10:00 AM
High energy proton recordings during GLE74 on 11 May 2024
-
Athanasios Papaioannou
(
National Observatory of Athens
)
10:30 AM
GLE #75 caused by a solar energetic particle event on 8 June 2024
-
Stepan Poluianov
(
University of Oulu, Finland
)
10:50 AM
Modeling the solar event responsible for GLE74 in May 2024
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Manon Jarry
(
IAASARS - NOA
)
11:10 AM
High latitude muon and neutron observation of the Forbush decrease during the May 2024 solar storms
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Martin Schrön
(
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
)
11:30 AM
Research of cosmic rays at the Lomnicky stit observatory
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Ján Kubančák
(
Institute of Experimental Physics SAS
)
11:45 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Seminar Room
12:00 PM
Cosmic Rays and Space Weather effects: Session 3
Session 3
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
12:00 PM
Neutron Monitor Data as input to European projects: SWESNET and PECASUS
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Norma Bock Crosby
(
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
)
12:30 PM
The response of ANeMoS GLE Alert system to the recent Ground Level Enhancements of 2024
-
Maria Gerontidou
(
National an Kapodistrian University of Athens
)
12:50 PM
GLE alert and afterwards
-
Rolf Bütikofer
(
University of Bern, Switzerland
)
1:10 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Cosmic Rays and Space Weather effects: Session 3
Session 3
2:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
2:30 PM
Energy Sensitivity of a Neutron Monitor: A Monte Carlo Study
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Danislav Sapundjiev
(
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
)
3:00 PM
Selection of the Solar-Diurnal Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays by Local and Global Methods
-
Nataly Shlyk
(
IZMIRAN
)
3:20 PM
Ground-based observations of temporal variation of cosmic ray spectrum during Forbush decreases
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Alejandro Sáiz
(
Mahidol University
)
3:40 PM
Measurement of Cosmic-ray Neutrons with a High Efficiency Spectrometer
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Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia
(
Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (CSIC-UV)
)
4:00 PM
Solar Energetic Particle transport during the GLE73 event on 28 October 2021
-
Eleni Lavasa
(
NKUA, NOA and ATHENA RC
)
5:00 PM
Social Event: Visit to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday, March 21, 2025
10:00 AM
Cosmic Ray Detection Instrumentation: Session 4
Session 4
10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
10:00 AM
CaLMa’s way, from the space to ground
-
Juan José Blanco Ávalos
(
University of Alcalá
)
10:30 AM
Neutron Monitors at Jungfraujoch
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Lukas Baeni
(
University of Bern
)
10:50 AM
FORBUSH EFFECTS AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH SOLAR, INTERPLANETARY AND GEOMAGNETIC PHENOMENA
-
Maria Abunina
(
IZMIRAN
)
11:20 AM
miniTRASGO: A Compact RPC Tracker for Global Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Monitoring
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Alberto Blanco
(
Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (LIP)
)
11:30 AM
ARTEMIS–JEAN LOUIS STEINBERG (ARTEMIS-IV/JLS) MULTICHANNEL SOLAR RADIO SPECTROGRAPH UPGRADING THE INSTRUMENT & A STUDY OF TYPE III BURSTS
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FANIS SMANIS
(
HERON LAB/UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
)
11:50 AM
Poster Session - Coffee Break
Poster Session - Coffee Break
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room
12:30 PM
Cosmic Ray Detection Instrumentation: Session 4
Session 4
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
12:30 PM
On the usability of small-scale scintillation muon telescopes
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Semyon Belov
(
IZMIRAN
)
12:50 PM
HLEA and THIMON: Enhancing Neutron Monitor Data from the Summit of Haleakalā
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Nikolay Nikonov
(
University of Hawaii at Manoa
)
Veronica Bindi
(
Physics & Astronomy Department, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
)
1:10 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Databases and Catalogues: Session 5
Session 5
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions
2:30 PM
The ARTEMIS-IV\JLS free access database (ARTDB): Off to a Good Start-With Room for Improvement
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Spiridon Armatas
(
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics
)
2:50 PM
Neutron background monitoring for the IAXO-D0 detector prototype
-
Víctor Martínez Nouvilas
(
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
)
3:30 PM
The current Status of NEST
-
Nicolas Fuller
(
LIRA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, France
)
3:50 PM
Open Discussion & Closing
Open Discussion & Closing
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Seminar Room