SRS Conference 2025, Kiruna



Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp (SRS) holds a national conference every year.ยญ The SRS Conference 2025 will be hosted by The Swedish Institute of Space Physics at the Space Campus in Kiruna. The meeting will begin Wednesday March 26 at 12:00 and finish on Thursday March 27 at 12:10.

After the meeting, Thursday afternoon, there will be an opportunity to
visit Esrange Space Center, https://sscspace.com/esrange/.  If you are
interested in that, plan your travel accordingly (there is an evening flight to
Stockholm). Note that all interested in visiting Esrange must send an email to Ann-Christin Grenevall +46 (0) 72 203 22 07. Please also ask Ann-Christin all questions about the Esrange visit. 

The SRS Conference 2025 covers a large range of space science related areas carried out by scientists and technicians working at various Swedish universities and institutes. The format includes invited talks, an open poster session, the formal SRS annual meeting as well as information from The Swedish National Space Agency, SNSA.

The conference is open to everybody, and there is no registration fee. All who register before the deadline are invited to the free conference dinner on the evening of the first day, sponsored by SNSA.

You can register below until February 16. Note however that March is tourist season in Kiruna, so you are advised to book transportation and hotel as soon as possible.

SNSA will support travel and accommodation expenses for up to six PhD students who would like to participate in the conference. A condition for support is that the students must present their research results or research plans on a poster. It is important to note that no one can apply until January 2025, when next year’s call opens, due to budget reasons. Students who are interested can apply for support by replying to the following call:
Stรถd till resor och evenemang โ€“ Rymdstyrelsen, with a deadline on March 10. In case of questions or problems applying in the Prisma system, please contact Vilgot Claesson.

For general questions regarding the conference, please contact Mats Holmstrรถm. For practical questions on travel and accomodation, please contact Maria Wรคstle.

For questions regarding SRS, please contact the present chair, Maria Hamrin.

08:45 Introduction

ย  ย  ย  ย Mats Holmstrรถm,ย  Swedish Institute of Space Physics


08:50 Space Plasma.ย  Chair: Emiliya Yordanova

Plasma heating by magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas
Cecilia Norgren, Swedish Institute of Space Physics

Small-scale structures upstream of Earth’s bow shock and their
possible effect on the magnetosphere – Cluster results
Tomas Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology


09:30 Announcements
09:40 Coffee

10:10 Astronomy.ย  Chair: Judith Korth

ย  ย  ย  ย  ย Galactic archaeology by stellar populations
Diane Feuillet, Uppsala University

Atomic astrophysics
Madeleine Burheim, Malmรถ University


10:50 SNSA Information, Q&A, Discussions
11:50 Closing words
12:00 End of meeting

The conference will be held at The Swedish Institute of Space Physics at
the Space Campus in Kiruna.

Visitor Map Kiruna

There are flights to Kiruna from Stockholm by SAS and Norwegian.ย  On
March 26 there is a SAS flight that arrive in Kiruna 09:50.ย  On March 27
there are SAS flights that leave Kiruna 14:10 and 20:30.

It is possible to take the train to Kiruna,ย sj.se.

There will be a bus from/to the airport and town right when the meeting
starts/ends. There will be a bus to town for the dinner and back the
morning after.

For public buses to and from Space Campus, see
https://www.irf.se/en/contact/information-for-visitors-to-the-space-campus-and-irf-in-kiruna/

Can be found by searching for “Kiruna” on, e.g.,ย hotels.com,ย booking.com

Some of the options are listed below

Scandic Kiruna,
https://www.scandichotels.se/hotell/sverige/kiruna/scandic-kiruna

Camp Ripan,ย https://ripan.se/

Hotel E-10,ย https://www.e-10.se/en/

Best Western Hotel Arctic Eden,ย https://www.hotelarcticeden.se/en/

Kiruna City Room,ย https://www.q-living.se/rentals/kiruna-city-rooms

STF Malmfรคltens Folkhรถgskola,
https://malmfaltensfolkhogskola.se/stf-hotell-och-vandrarhem/

Icehotel in Jukkasjรคrvi is also possible, but that would require a
rental car,ย https://www.icehotel.com/

The local organizing committee (LOC) are Mats Holmstrรถm and Maria Wรคstle

The scientific organizing committee (SOC) are Maria Hamrin, Erik Zackrisson, Judith Korth, Jรถrg Gumbel, Johan Fransson, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo, Mats Holmstrรถm, and Emiliya Yordanova

This page was last updated on October 11, 2024.


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