Mini-workshops list
Mini-workshops are an integral part of an SDO Workshop. They are sessions that focus on topics important to SDO science that would require parallel sessions in the main workshop. SDO 2025 will have six mini-workshops Friday morning, 21 February 2025. Workshops will last from 1 to 6 hours. We encourage you to attend one or more mini-workshops at SDO 2025!
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| DKIST data retrieval and analysis: some hands-on examples | DKIST has been performing science observations for over 2 years, and a large volume of data is now publicly available via the DKIST Data Center Archive. In this mini-workshop we will give a general overview on how to browse and retrieve DKIST data from the archive. We will then use python notebooks to illustrate ways to work with data, with emphasis on some spectral and polarimetric Fe XIII coronal data acquired with Cryo-NIRSP around the time of the 2024 total solar eclipse. The Daniel K. Inoyue Solar Telescope (DKIST) is the NSF’s flagship solar telescope, with its 4-m diameter and multi-instrument, multi-wavelength capabilities. While still in its Commissioning Phase, DKIST has been performing science observations for 3 seasons, and a large volume of data is now publicly available via the DKIST Data Center Archive. The goal of this mini-workshop is to provide an overview of the data acquired, how to browse and retrieve it, and offer some hands-on examples for first analysis, in particular using Fe XIII coronal data acquired with Cryo-NIRSP around the time of the 2024 total solar eclipse. The workshop is meant to be interactive; tutorials will be provided as Python Jupyter notebooks, and some familiarity with the language and Sunpy tools will be useful. https://nso.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PDOI/pages/3270639651/Mini-workshop+on+DKIST+data+retrieval+and+analysis+-+February+21+2025 |
| Combining Data over Satellites | This mini-workshop will focus on the analysis of Solar Orbiter’s EUI data together with SDO/AIA images. We will show how to browse and obtain EUI data sets that have simultaneous AIA observations. Using IDL and Python routines, we will describe different ways to read the EUI data, and to well co-align with AIA datasets. At last, participants may be asked to utilize the tutorial information and analyze sample datasets. https://github.com/aylaweitz/SDO-EUI-mini-workshop |
| Solar Data from NOAA Space Weather Operational Instruments on GOES | The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) develop algorithms, calibrate, process, and steward solar and space weather data and derived products collected from satellites including the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/satellite/goes-r). Two GOES-R instruments in particular, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) and Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) suite provide solar data comparable to those of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Both operational and science-quality data are available. In this mini-workshop the NCEI space weather team will describe these data sets and their limitations, provide interactive tutorials on how to use the data, and discuss the algorithms used to create these data sets for forecasting operations at the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and scientific applications. Program and Information (request access): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O_dRz1wgHCOveftGZG3mzIWU48N5zDf7G6N-rfMMW8E/edit?usp=sharing |
| SunPy: Solar Data Processing with Python | Curious about what new scientific discoveries await once you have Conda and SunPy installed? Often, the biggest barrier to adopting a new programming language is simply getting started. This tutorial is designed to help you overcome that hurdle and integrate Python into your next project with confidence. We’ll guide you through accessing and downloading data from the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), creating advanced plots, and leveraging powerful data analysis tools included in Conda’s packages. By the end, you’ll be equipped to analyze datasets with ease, and discover how similar interfaces within SunPy enable seamless comparisons and overlays across various data sets. |
| A Meeting of the Vector Magnetic Field Working Group | In this working group meeting, we will discuss the multiple upgrade options that are available for the HMI vector magnetic field data. These include data that have 1) scattered-light corrections, 2) two-component fits in which a fill fraction is determined, and 3) machine-learning based improvements available via SuperSynthIA, etc.. In addition, we will summarize and discuss known issues including artifacts in the data as well as any changes in the data handling, processing and accessibility, and other concerns as brought up by the community. We can compare with vector data from other instruments, too. |
| HelioFM: Building an SDO AI Foundation for the Heliophysics Community | Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool for establishing connections between data and acting as a tool that empowers humans to solve a wide variety of problems for which there were no easy solutions. In heliophysics, AI has been applied to a wide variety of problems including space weather forecast, data calibration and homogenization, computer vision (i.e. segmentation), coronal field extrapolation, etc. However, compared to other communities, the scientific community is nearly a decade behind in terms of taking advantage of AI. There are many factors behind this lag, including (but not limited to) access to computational resources, lack of expertise, lack of explainability, difficulty validating results, etc. The aim of this mini-workshop is to get feedback for the construction of HelioFM: a multi-purpose large AI foundation model, built with an extensive subset of SDO data and a complementary infrastructure to make it usable and useful to the heliophysics community. Program and Information is online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dzaTh4Ye60MvLd1yMO7xr_Uu_qKdjaezBL3E0olHq1E/preview?tab=t.0 |
| EUV Calibration Workshop | This Mini-Workshop is aimed at understanding the absolute solar spectral EUV irradiance and the comparisons of different techniques of measuring it, including broadband, spectrally resolved, and imaging instruments. The workshop is open to everybody interested in this problem, and is a forum to discuss methods and results of the calibration of EUV instruments, how to correct for instrument degradation, and the inter-comparison of EUV irradiance data from instruments with different temporal and spectral resolution, including, but not limited to, comparisons within SDO (EVE MEGS, EVE ESP, and AIA), and of SDO with other missions (for example: TIMED SEE, MAVEN EUVM, SOHO SEM, PROBA2 LYRA, SOLACES, & PUNCH). As part of this workshop, we would like to begin included scattering in our work. |