Convening a session at academic conferences is no doubt time-consuming, but they are also the primary catalysts for establishing a research network and significantly boosting your academic profile. Particularly for Early Career Scientists (ECS), the idea of convening a session can be fearful and many worry that they don’t know how to do it or whether they can wrap up the session smoothly. The ECS team of the Solar-Terrestrial (ST) division of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) is organizing a campfire, where MSc Hannah T. Rüdisser and Dr Manu Varghese, both ECSs with experience convening scientific sessions, will share their experience-based knowledge on how to convene a scientific session, giving, at the same time, some recommendations and feedback to not feel overwhelmed in the convening process, especially as first timers. Afterwards, there will be a networking session, where participants have the opportunity to meet and interact with fellow ECS members of our division.
The event will take place online (via Zoom) on Friday 15 November 2024 at 14:00 CET and will last for 1.5 hours. The event program is as follows:
❖ Welcome and introduction.
❖ Our speakers will talk about what they have learnt when convening scientific sessions.
❖ Q&A with Interactive discussions.
❖ Networking time in breakout rooms.
❖ Concluding words.
You can join the event by registering here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of-yppj4jHdKAVcCIaA0aBtdy1d4e2BXg
Please note that you do not need to be a member of EGU to attend this event: anyone from the community is welcome to join!
MSc Hannah T. Rüdisser’s bio
Hannah is a second-year PhD student at the Austrian Space Weather Office, specialising in the intersection of AI and physical models for space weather forecasting. Her research focuses on understanding the global magnetic structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using a fast, semi-empirical model, with her first PhD paper recently published. Hannah is also involved in several international collaborations, currently on a research stay at ONERA in Toulouse to build on her previous work for improving early detection of ICMEs. She has chaired multiple sessions at the EGU conference on Machine Learning in Planetary Sciences and Heliophysics, and continues to explore the role of AI in advancing space weather forecasting.
Dr. Manu Varghese’s bio
Manu has completed his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the School of Space Sciences and Physics, Shandong University, Weihai, China. His research interest lies on different aspects of space weather studies using ground- and space-based observations, theory and modelling. His studies are closely related to the Earth’s plasma environment and solar wind and the energy coupling mechanisms through magnetic reconnection. In addition to his scientific contribution, Manu is active in community engagement in our field. For example, he was the main convener of a scientific session titled – Space Weather in the Sun-Earth System at AOGS 2024 meeting in South Korea and part of IAGA Social Media outreach team.
