SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 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 Sistemic Heliophysics Education (HI CASHEd) 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing 16:30 - 17:30 - IngolfDammasch: 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) 19:00 - Welcome Cocktail at "Pet-fiSándor" 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 H- 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 - MirceaRusu: 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 - IngolfDammasch: Observation of flares with LYRA on PROBA2 (invited talk) 12:00 - 12:15 - Diana Besliu-Ionescu: Sunquakes and Moreton waves 12:15 - 12:30 - AtilaÖzgüç: 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: Global MHD Modeling of CMEs and Related Shock Waves Originating from Complex Active Regions (invited talk) 15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break and Poster viewing 15:30 - 16:30 - Diana Be-liu-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 - MarilenaMierla: 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 - NatelaKapanadze:  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 - MarilenaMierla: 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 - CrisanDemetrescu: On the climate of the solar-terrestrial space (invited talk) 15:00-15:15 - OanaStere: The study of coronal mass ejections travel time to the Earth 15:15 - 15:30 - ConstantinOprea: Study of solar parameters causing major ceomagnetic storms during SC 23 15:30-16:00- 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 - VeneraDobrica: Long term solar and geomagnetic activity. Consequences on the terrestrial climate at regional scale (invited talk) 12:00- 12:30 - MarilenaMierla: Conference Summary 12:30-14:00 - Lunch POSTER LIST: Yana Asenovska, Simeon Asenovski: High speed solar wind stream influence on the magnetosphere of the Earth - Session 2. Simona Bota-Condurache: Assessing the relationship between clouds and the interplanetary magnetic field - Session 7 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 Daniela Adriana Lacatus: 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 Sfâca: 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