Name: GSST/CBERS-5 International Symposium on Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather
Start: 2026-08-17T09:00:00-03:00
End: 2026-08-21T17:30:00-03:00
Location: National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

GSST/CBERS-5 International Symposium on Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather

from Monday, August 17, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, August 21, 2026 (5:30 PM)

Monday, August 17, 2026
9:00 AM Opening Session: Opening Talks
Opening Talks
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:00 AM OPENING KEYNOTES
9:40 AM Invited Talks
9:40 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM Technology Executive Committee of the UNFCCC - Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva (UNFCCC)

10:00 AM Selected advances achieved by space- and balloon-borne missions - Tino Riethmüller (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS))

10:40 AM Frontiers Research Topic - Joe Borovsky (Frontiers)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Poster Session
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

10:45 AM GNSS-TEC Characterization of the 17 March 2015 Geomagnetic Storm over Morocco as a Benchmark for Data-Driven Space Weather Monitoring - Nouhaïla Bouhadi

10:50 AM Analysis of astrophysical shockwaves using Physics informed neural networks - Akshita Bhardwaj (Indian institute of technology Roorkee)

10:50 AM Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Decentralized Space Weather Sensing - Allen John Darin J (Mahendra Engineering College)

10:50 AM Characterization of Solar Flare Precursors Using Machine Learning - Raul Toscano Faria

10:50 AM Effect of solar wind plasma on Space weather - Balveer Singh Rathore (Government Holkar Science College, Indore)

10:50 AM Development and Implementation of an Electronic Circuit for an Electrical Substitution Radiometer - Júlia Harue Katsurayama

10:50 AM DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOSED-LOOP CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM FOR FLUID JET POLISHING OF OPTICAL SURFACES - JoãoVitor Siqueira

10:50 AM Global Coronal Response to an Extreme Coronal Mass Ejection: Compressive Oscillations in the Outer Solar Corona - Suzana Silva (University of Sheffield)

10:50 AM Application of Machine Learning Techniques for Instability Prediction and Risk Management Support in Mining Tailings Pile - Matheus Alves de Barros (Topotech - Soluções em Topografia e Georreferenciamento)

10:50 AM Detection of Rapid Coronal Hole Boundary Reconfigurations Using Correlation Dimension Mapping - Eduardo Flandez (Universidad de Chile)

10:50 AM Physically Constrained Multi Task Reconstruction of the Martian Nightside Thermosphere and its Sensitivity to Solar and Heliospheric Drivers - Sergey Nikiforov (NYUAD)

10:50 AM Intelligent Atmospheric Density Forecasting for Autonomous Orbital Collision Avoidance - Tumma Anusha (Mahendra Engineering College)

10:50 AM Ionospheric Response to the March 2015 Geomagnetic Storm: GNSS-TEC Analysis over Morocco - Nouhaïla Bouhadi

10:50 AM Automated Detection and Characterization of Meteor Trails in Dual-Wavelength Sodium and Potassium LIDAR Spectrogram Data Using Unsupervised Machine Learning - Femi Olajide-Owoyomi (National Institute for Space Research, INPE, Brasil.)

11:00 AM 3D MHD Simulation of Solar Wind Interaction with the Lunar Environment: A Preliminary Study - vinicius deggeroni (INPE)

11:00 AM A Machine Learning System for Implementing an Interplanetary Kp Model for Space Weather Monitoring - Daniele da Silva Ferreira Medeiros (CBJLSW/INPE)

11:00 AM Anodized Absorptive Coatings for Electromagnetic Radiation Sensors - Alex Cerqueira da Mota (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Franciele Carlesso (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Lucas Manfroi

11:00 AM Application of a wavelet technique to identify planetary magnetosphere boundaries - Ezequiel Echer (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brasil)

11:00 AM Machine learning algorithm to forecast VTEC over the Brazilian low-latitude region - Rodolfo de Jesus (China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Space Weather)

11:00 AM Using Machine Learning to Understand the Impact of Space Weather on Exoplanets - Salma Makhtich (Faculte of Science Semlalia Marrakech Morocco)

11:00 AM Prediction of relativistic electron fluxes (>2 MeV) in geostationary orbit using deep learning techniques. - Camila Peña Cifuentes (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

11:00 AM Characterization of Interplanetary Shocks Across Distinct Interplanetary Medium Environments Using Multi-Spacecraft Observation - ALIU KARIM (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH (INPE))

11:00 AM Electron Flux Variations Associated with Plasmaspheric Plumes and Hiss Waves under Different Solar Wind Conditions - Pedro Henrique Ferreira Fister

11:00 AM Study of the Earth's bow shock position through in situ observations and empirical models - Ana Clara Garcia Ilha (Universidade de São Paulo)

11:00 AM Towards Transparent Deep Learning Solar Image Processing - Marcela Xavier Ribeiro (UFSCar)

11:00 AM The Role of Hiss Waves in Electron Precipitation over the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly - Karen Julia Coldebella Ferreira (National Institute for Space Research (INPE) / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

11:00 AM Estimating the Recovery Time of Forbush Decrease Events through Cosmic Ray Diffusion - João Gabriel Sant' Ana Rodrigues (INPE, UFSM)

11:00 AM The Magnetopause Standoff Position Variation During the Extreme Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024: MHD Simulation - Nathan Mazzon Marquezin (USP)

11:00 AM Particle In Cell Modeling of Whistler-Driven Electron Heating in the Solar Wind Plasmas - Laíne Soares (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

11:00 AM Magnetosphere response to extreme events during solar cycle 25 - Bruna Parisi Hilsdorf (Escola de Engenharia de Lorena - Universidade de São Paulo)

11:00 AM ULF wave coupling during geomagnetic storms in the South American sector: a multimission analysis - Jayne Alencar de Melo (Instituto Nacional de Geofísica Espacial)

11:00 AM Adapting Terrestrial Radial Diffusion Theory to Saturn’s Relativistic Electron Belt - Edu Rockenbach (National Institute for Space Research)

11:00 AM Automated Detection of Solar Flare-induced disturbances on VLF signals using Hidden Markov Models - Aldo Arriola Cordova (Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería)
11:10 AM Invited Talks
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM Overview CBERS-5 - Renato Galante

11:50 AM Overview GSST - Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

12:10 PM Technology Executive Committee of the UNFCCC - Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva (UNFCCC)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
2:00 PM Invited Talks
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:00 PM From Pixels to Physics: Reconstructing the Solar Atmosphere with Physics-Informed AI - Robert Jarolim (High Altitude Observatory, NSF NCAR, USA.)
2:40 PM Oral Contributions
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:40 PM High-Cadence Solar Flare Dynamics via Deep Learning: Soft X-ray Spectral Analysis for for Aditya-L1/SoLEXS - Abhilash Sarwade (U. R. Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO)

3:00 PM F10.7 Solar Radio Flux Prediction using a Multi-Stage Self-Organizing Map-Autoencoder-LSTM Model - Idowu Raji (National Institute for Space Research (INPE))

3:20 PM Studying the Response of the Lower Solar Atmosphere to X-class Flare: 30 THz Thermal Diagnostics and Multi-Instrument Data Integration - soumya shree sadangaya
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
4:10 PM Invited Talks
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:10 PM The new Solar Ultraviolet to Near-infrared Spectrometer (SUNS): searching for white-light flares - Paulo Simões (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie)
4:50 PM Oral Contributions: Heliophysics & Space Weather
Heliophysics & Space Weather
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:50 PM Forecasting Ionospheric Irregularities Using Interpretable Generalized Linear Models - Marco Antonio Ridenti (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica)

5:10 PM Impacts of Space Weather on the Orbital Decay of the Amazonia-1 Satellite During Solar Cycle 25 - Leonardo Molliet
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talks
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:00 AM The impact of machine learning, AI, and novel analysis tools to better understand the plasma dynamics of the Sun - David B. Jess
9:40 AM Oral Contributions
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM 1-m off-axis mid -infrared solar magnetic field telescope (AIMS) - Yuliang Shen (naoc)

10:00 AM JW-ASTClaw: A Generalizable Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Solar Telescope Observation - Liyue Tong (National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:20 AM Stacking Ensemble Learning with Geomagnetic and Meteorological Features for Atmospheric Electric Field Forecasting - Juan Jesús Soria-Quijaite (Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, 150118, Perú) Manuel A. Bravo (Centro de Instrumentación Científica, Universidad Adventista de Chile, Chillán, 3780000, Chile) Orlando Poma Porras (Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, 150118, Perú)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
11:10 AM Invited Talks
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM Computer Vision with small-scale magnetic elements in the photosphere - Peter Keys (Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), U.K.)
11:50 AM Oral Contributions
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:50 AM Explainable AI for Operational Space Weather Forecasting: An Interpretable Prototype for the EMBRACE-INPE Monitoring Network - Reinaldo Rosa (National Institute for Space Research (INPE))

12:10 PM Machine Learning Approaches for Ionospheric Scintillation Analysis Using ScintPi Observations - Isaac Wright (University of Texas at Dallas)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
2:00 PM Invited Talks
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:00 PM The Data-Driven Evolution of Heliophysics: Bridging Physical Mechanisms and Machine Learning in the Inner Magnetosphere - Victor A. Pinto
2:40 PM Oral Contributions
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:40 PM Multidirectional Muon Detector for Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Alisson Dal Lago (INPE - National Institute for Space Research)

3:00 PM Modeling Neurocognitive Damage from Cosmic and Solar Radiation - Alexandre da Silva Santos (Federal University of Maranhão) Roger Pinheiro Presoti (Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA))

3:20 PM Automatic Characterization and Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Coronal Mass Ejections Using Deep Learning Techniques - Mariano Sanchez Toledo (Grupo de Estudios en Heliofísica de Mendoza, Universidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
4:10 PM Invited Talks
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:10 PM Coupling Between Complex Solar Wind Structures and Outer Radiation Belt Dynamics - Ligia Alves da Silva (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE)
4:50 PM Oral Contributions
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:50 PM Estimating the photospheric magnetic field using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) with Hinode/SP data - José Matheus Rocha (INPE)

5:10 PM Interpretable Machine Learning for Solar Active Region Detection via 2D Circular Kernel Time-Series Transformation and Entropy Features - OLUDEHINWA Irewola Aaron (Department of Physics, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.)
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talks
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:00 AM Solar magnetic field observation for HSOS: from SMFT to SPO - Junfeng Hou
9:40 AM Oral Contributions
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM CMEAT: A Multimodal Dataset for Predicting CME Earth Impact and Transit Time - Besma Guesmi (Ubotica Technologies)

10:00 AM Deep Learning-Based Automatic Detection of M and X Class Solar Flares in the Solar Disk - Nicolas Campos (Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH))

10:20 AM Adaptive Detection of Hot Onset Precursor Events in GOES Soft X-Ray Observation - Solomon Perriyil (Centro de Rádio-Astronomia e Astrofísica Mackenzie - CRAAM)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
11:10 AM Invited Talks
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM INPE Scientific Data Center - Ivan Barbosa (INPE)
11:50 AM Oral Contributions
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:50 AM Change Ratios of Magnetic Helicity and Magnetic Free Energy During Major Solar Flares - Quan Wang (National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:10 PM Implementation of IMF Diffusion Processes for GCR Transport in the Inner Heliosphere using Geant4 - Raphael Malagoli Thereza (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - CRAAM)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
2:00 PM Oral Contributions
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:00 PM Physics-based Gaussian Processes for Solar and Stellar Variability - Andre O. Kovacs (Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics Mackenzie (CRAAM))

2:20 PM A PINN-Based NLFFF Framework for Deciphering Coronal Magnetic Topology and Loop Parameters in NOAA AR 3663 - Bruno Fernandes Garcia

2:40 PM Machine Learning-Based Forecasting of Geomagnetic Activity: A Benchmark of Models Applied to the Kp and Dst Indices - Marjori Klinczak (Unifatec)

3:00 PM Solarfall: A Multi-Stage Machine Learning Architecture for Solar Flare Forecasting - Eduardo Ferraz de Campos (Federal Institute of São Paulo)

3:20 PM Automatic Extraction of Filaments in H-alpha and Radio Solar Images using Python - Jean Carlo Santos (instituto nacional de pesquisas espaciais)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
4:10 PM Oral Contributions
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:10 PM Modeling the Variability of Relativistic Electron Flux in the Outer Radiation Belt Using Deep Learning - Thiago Sant Anna (National Observatory - ON)

4:30 PM EoFTCNets: Efficient Solar Flare Nowcasting using 3D Temporal Convolutional Networks (3DTCN) - Besma Guesmi (Ubotica Technologies)

4:50 PM Identifying Satellite Crossings of the Earth's Magnetosheath Using Unsupervised Learning Algorithms - javier silva (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

5:10 PM A CNN Classifier for Hidden Solar Flares in Historical UV Spectroscopic Plates From Skylab SO82B - Tiago Mendes Ferrer (@Mackenzie) Paulo Simões (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie)
Thursday, August 20, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talks
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:00 AM Machine learning techniques for remote sensing of the Sun and inner heliosphere - Francisco Iglesias (Grupo de Estudios en Heliofísica de Mendoza (GEHMe), Universidad de Mendoza, Argentina)
9:40 AM Oral Contributions
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM A study on the use of optical neural networks for adaptive optics applications - Hugo Bernardes (INPE - Instito Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

10:00 AM Integrating Machine Learning for Space Weather Risk Mitigation in PSM-Validated Electronic Subsystems - Felipe Portela Aguilar de Oliveira (Christianne Andrea Portela Aguilar)

10:20 AM Self-Organizing Map for Identifying Plasma Regions at the Dayside Magnetopause - Daniele da Silva Ferreira Medeiros (CBJLSW/INPE)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
11:10 AM Invited Talks
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM Microfabrication for Space Sensors: MIMEC Capabilities and Opportunities for GSST and Future Space Missions - Ricardo Cotrin Teixeira (INPE)

11:50 AM In Situ Characterization and Data-Driven Analysis of Stability and Degradation in Perovskite Photovoltaics - Paulo Ernesto Marchezi (Unicamp)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
2:00 PM Oral Contributions
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:00 PM Predicting CME speed at 20 using machine learning approaches - Manjunath Hegde (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

2:20 PM The Alfvén Critical Surface via Parker Solar Probe: Current Findings and Future Directions - Caroline Botelho (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) PAULO RICARDO JAUER (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais INPE)

2:40 PM Benchmarking a synthetically-trained neural network for CME Segmentation in SolO/EUI and PROBA3/ASPIICS observations - Yasmin Machuca (CONICET - Grupo de Estudios en Heliofísica de Mendoza - Universidad de Mendoza)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

Poster Session

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

3:30 PM Visit: Visit to GSST and Space Weather Division
Visit to GSST and Space Weather Division
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Friday, August 21, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talks
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM PMM - Space Weather Program - Joaquim Costa (INPE - National Institute for Space Research)

10:20 AM PMM - Space Weather Payload - Livia Alves (National Institute for Space Research (INPE)) Alisson Dal Lago (INPE - National Institute for Space Research)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
11:10 AM Invited Talks
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM TBD - Braulio Albuquerque (INPE)

11:50 AM TBD - Jognes Panasiewicz (INPE)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
1:30 PM Mini I-SWAT: GSST Open Discussion
GSST Open Discussion
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

1:30 PM TBD - Alexandre de Macedo Oliveira (AEB)

1:50 PM TDB - Fernando Guarnieri (INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

2:10 PM TBD - Ronan Chagas (INPE)

2:30 PM Roundtable Discussion - Alexandre de Macedo Oliveira (INPE) Fernando Guarnieri (INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Braulio Albuquerque (INPE) Ronan Chagas (INPE) Bruno de Castro Braz (INPE)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
4:10 PM Mini I-SWAT: Topical Discussion Meeting
Topical Discussion Meeting
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:10 PM TDM - Alisson Dal Lago (INPE - National Institute for Space Research) Joaquim Costa (INPE - National Institute for Space Research)