SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM  Monday, 1 October 09:00-10:00 - Participant Registration  10:00-10:30 – Opening Session  10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing Session 8 – Education, Dissemination, Outreach  11:00-12:00 – Ilia Roussev: Heliophysics: Anatomy of Solar Anger (invited lecture) 12:00-13:00 – Petra Vanlommel: Where communication and space weather meet (invited lecture) 13:00–14:30 - Lunch  14:30 – 15:30 – Remus Hanea: Data Assimilation and its applications (invited lecture) 15:30 – 15:45 – Elena Moise: Hawai'i Center for Advancing $istemic Heliophysics Education (HI CA$HEd)  16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing  16:30 – 17:30 – Ingolf Dammasch: Space weather data and services at ROB/SIDC (invited lecture)  17:30 – 18:30 – Elena Moise: Interstellar Neutral Atoms and Their Journey through the Heliosphere (invited lecture) 20:00 - Welcome Cocktail at „Petõfi Sándor“ Hungarian Cultural Centre  Tuesday, 2 October Session 1: Solar magnetism as driver of the short- and long-term solar variability  9:30 – 10:00 – Marina Gigolashvili: Comparative Analysis of Variations of the Solar Spectral Irradiance in Connection to Solar Activity  Cycles and Solar Magnetism (invited talk)  10:00 – 10:15 – Darejan Japaridze: Study of variations of rotation rates of Há filaments and compact magnetic features at the moment  of polarity reversal of solar magnetic field 10:15 – 10:45 – Katya Georgieva: Solar dynamo theory – recent progress, questions and answers (invited talk) 10:45 – 11:00 – Mircea Rusu: The asymmetry of the solar cycle: Analysis of the cycle #24 forecast 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing Session 3: High-energetic solar events (Flares, CMEs, SEPs) 11:30 – 12:00 – Ingolf Dammasch: Observation of flares with LYRA on PROBA2 (invited talk) 12:00 – 12:12:15 – Diana Besliu Sunquakes and Moreton waves 12:15 – 12:30 – Atila Özgüç: Effects of Hysteresis between Maximum CME Speed Index and Geomagnetic  12:30–14:00 – Lunch  14:00 – 14:30 – Alessandro Bemporad: Observations of solar storms in the outer corona (invited talk) 14:30– 15:00 – Ilia Roussev: Recent Advances in Understanding the Nature of  CMEs by Combining Solar Observations with  Numerical Simulations (invited talk)  15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing  15:30 – 16:30 – Diana Besliu-Ionescu: Seismic Emission from Solar Flares (invited lecture)  16:30– 16:45 – Olga Malandraki: COMESEP Project: Space Weather Impact forecasting  Wednesday, 3 October One day round trip – Bucharest surroundings Thursday, 4 October Session 2: Solar wind: sources and structures  9:30 – 10:15 – Marilena Mierla: Slow solar wind (invited lecture)  10:15 – 10:30 – Georgeta Maris Muntean: Specific features of the high-speed streams in the solar wind and geomagnetic storms  during the last prolonged solar minimum 10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing Session 4: Heliosphere: its magnetic structure, ICMEs, Cosmic Rays  11:00-11:30 – Olga Malandraki: Heliophysical research in Greece: the space weather perspective (invited talk); 11:30-11:45 – Natela Kapanadze: Solar Spectral Irradiance Variability and its Possible Connection with the Cosmic Rays during the  Decreasing Phases of the Solar Activity Cycle 23 11:45- 12:00 – Marilena Mierla: Empirical model for predicting the occurrence of major geomagnetic storms during SC23 12:00–14:30 - Lunch  Session 5: Magnetosphere variability under the solar & heliospheric forcing 14:30-15:00 – Crisan Demetrescu: On the climate of the solar-terrestrial space (invited talk) 15:00-15:15 – Oana Stere: The study of coronal mass ejections travel time to the Earth 15:15 15:15 15:15 – 15:45 15:45 15:45 – Constantin Oprea: Study of solar parameters causing major geomagnetic storms during SC  23 15:45-16:15 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing FREE AFTERNOON  19:00 – Closing Dinner at Bistro Jaristea (Address: 5 Henri Coanda St., corner with Dacia Bvd.).  Friday, 5 October Session 6 & Session 7  Ionosphere and its induced disturbances Middle and lower atmosphere long-term variability / Climate change 9:30-10:30 – Mirela Voiculescu: Ionospheric perturbations induced by interplanetary and solar forcing (invited lecture) 10:30-11:00 – Katya Georgieva: Solar influences on climate (invited talk) 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing 11:30–12:00 – Venera Dobrica: Long term solar and geomagnetic activity. Consequences on the terrestrial climate at regional scale  (invited talk) 12:00- 12:30 – Marilena Mierla: Conference Summary 12:30–14:00 – Lunch  POSTER LIST:  Yana Asenovska, Simeon Asenovski: Solar Wind Parameters in Positive and Negative Polarity Solar Cycles – Session 2.  Simona Bota-Condurache: Assessing the relationship between clouds and the interplanetary magnetic field – Session 7 (PDF)  Boian Kirov: Solar magnetic field and geomagnetic activity –Session 1  Razvan Greculeasa: Sources of the geomagnetic activity at local scale. Case study - European geomagnetic observatories –  Session 5 (PDF) Daniela Adriana Lãcãtus: Studies of CMEs causing geomagnetic storms in the period 2007-2011 – Session 3  Alin Razvan Paraschiv: Internal characteristics of magnetic clouds at 1 AU – Session 3  Mihai Pomeran: Cyberdyn: a State-of-the-Art Supercomputing Facility at the Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy –  Sesion 8 Lucian Sfâcã: Internal and external climate factors influencing temperatures anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere – Session 7  Mykola Shevchuk: Properties of decameter type IIIb bursts – Session 3  Cristiana Stefan: The evolution of the Earth's magnetic moment in the last 400 years. Consequences on the magnetopause standoff  distance – Session 5 (PDF)