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
9:40 AM Invited Talks
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM Selected advances achieved by space- and balloon-borne missions - Sami Solanki (MPAE)
10:20 AM Oral Contributions

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

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 Oral Contributions
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:10 AM Studying the Response of the Lower Solar Atmosphere to X-class Flare: 30 THz Thermal Diagnostics and Multi-Instrument Data Integration - soumya shree sadangaya
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

3:00 PM CMEAT: A Multimodal Dataset for Predicting CME Earth Impact and Transit Time - Besma Guesmi (Ubotica Technologies)

3:20 PM The new Solar Ultraviolet to Near-infrared Spectrometer (SUNS): searching for white-light flares - Paulo Simões (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie)
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
Contributions

4:00 PM Adaptive Hybrid Distribution Modeling of Radiation Belt Electrons - Jose Marchezi (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
4:10 PM Invited Talks
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:10 PM 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)
4:50 PM Oral Contributions: Heliophysics & Space Weather
Heliophysics & Space Weather
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Tuesday, August 18, 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 1-m off-axis mid -infrared solar magnetic field telescope (AIMS) - Yuliang Shen (naoc)
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 Oral Contributions
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:30 AM 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.)
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 Computer Vision with small-scale magnetic elements in the photosphere - Peter Keys (Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), U.K.)
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 Individual and Collective Dynamics of Vortical Structures in the Solar Atmosphere - Viktor Fedun (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK.)
4:50 PM Oral Contributions

4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talks
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:00 AM Wave theories and modelling in the lower solar atmosphere - Gary Verth (School Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.)
9:40 AM Oral Contributions

9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

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 Oral Contributions

11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

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 impact of machine learning, AI, and novel analysis tools to better understand the plasma dynamics of the Sun - David B. Jess
2:40 PM Oral Contributions
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

3:00 PM Solarfall: A Multi-Stage Machine Learning Architecture for Solar Flare Forecasting - Eduardo Ferraz de Campos (Federal Institute of São Paulo)
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 Data-Driven Evolution of Heliophysics: Bridging Physical Mechanisms and Machine Learning in the Inner Magnetosphere - Victor A. Pinto
4:50 PM Oral Contributions
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

4:50 PM 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)

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 Coupling Between Complex Solar Wind Structures and Outer Radiation Belt Dynamics - Ligia Alves da Silva (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE)
9:40 AM Oral Contributions
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

9:40 AM GNSS-TEC Characterization of the 17 March 2015 Geomagnetic Storm over Morocco as a Benchmark for Data-Driven Space Weather Monitoring - Nouhaïla Bouhadi
10:40 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 Oral Contributions
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

11:50 AM EoFTCNets: Efficient Solar Flare Nowcasting using 3D Temporal Convolutional Networks (3DTCN) - Besma Guesmi (Ubotica Technologies)
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 Hainan Ionogram Dataset: Supporting AI-Enabled Spread-F Monitoring, Prediction, and Space Weather Operations - Zheng Wang (National Space Science Center, CAS)
2:40 PM Oral Contributions
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Contributions

2:40 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)
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

4:50 PM Oral Contributions

4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fernando de Mendonça - LIT
Friday, August 21, 2026