Finnish Graduate School in
Astronomy and Space Physics
Matter in Space
The first common course, "Matter in Space", of the graduate school was held in
30.8 - 3.9. 1999 in Kiljavanranta. The program was as
follows (not including the student seminars):
- Welcome
- Plasma Universe (Hannu Koskinen)
- Ion chemistry in mesosphere and thermosphere (Esa Turunen)
- Ionospheric dynamics and electric currents (Tuomo Nygren)
- Sources and losses of magnetospheric plasma (Tuija Pulkkinen)
- Magnetohydrodynamics (Pekka Janhunen)
- The Sun: A marvellous marriage of matter to magnetism, I (Sami Solanki)
- Achievements of ESA Science Programme (Risto Pellinen)
- The Sun: A marvellous marriage of matter to magnetism, II (Jarmo Torsti)
- Solar and solar wind matter (Jarmo Torsti)
- Asteroids, comets, and interplanetary dust I (Kari Lumme)
- Asteroids, comets, and interplanetary dust, II (Jukka Piironen)
- Physics of the interstellar matter, I (Malcolm Walmsley)
- Physics of the interstellar matter, II (Malcolm Walmsley)
- Matter in extreme circumstances: active galactic nuclei, microquasars and gamma-ray
bursts, I (E. Valtaoja)
- Matter in extreme circumstances: active galactic nuclei, microquasars and gamma-ray
bursts, II (E. Valtaoja)
- Discussion: Experiences from the seminars; Future programme of the Graduate School
The student seminars were each about 30 min + 15 min discussion, and were accompanied
by a 8-10 page report that was distributed to the participants.
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