ECRS

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ECRS 2010 in Finland
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What about it?

• Good location and interesting site (most N
  location)
• First time ECRS is in a Nordic country (Lodz-00,
  Moscow-02, Florence-04, Lisbon-06, Kosice-08)
• Easy connection for both E- and W-europeans,
• Experience in medium size conference organizing
• FP-2003, 2006, 2008 Space Climate 2004, 2006
  Chapman-2004.
• Young, enthusiastic and experienced LOC
• Wide range and 50-yr of CR research in Finland

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The city of Turku (Åbo)

• Southwest coast of Finland (60.5o N 22.3o E)
• 150 km from Helsinki
• Famous for its archipelago
• A city of 175000 inhabitants
• The oldest (XIII cent.) town and former capital
  of Finland (UNESCO heritage)
• Famous Dom Cathedral and Castle
• The European capital of culture 2011
• A city of three universities
• University of Turku
• Åbo Akademi
• Turku School of Economics and Business

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Possible venues for ECRS 2010

• University of Turku premises
• can easily host more than 200 people
• Mauno Koivisto Centre
• Auditorium for 260 people
• Spa Hotel Caribia
• Auditorium and accommodation for several hundred
  people
• All venues offer modern conference facilities and
  on-site or nearby restaurants

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Practical matters

• Fee reasonable (including lunches, banquet,
  receprtion, etc.)
• Accomodation from modern hotels to students
  lodgings (25 Euro/day)
• Travel
• Direct flight connections from Stockholm,
  Copenhagen and Helsinki (Star Alliance and
  OneWorld),
• Frequent trains (1-hr) or bus from Helsinki city
  or airport
• A spectacular ferry trip from/to Stockholm
• Train/bus connection from Russia (St.Petersburg
  Moscow)

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Main Organizers

• Eino Valtonen and students of the TU LOC
• Ilya Usoskin UO/CUPP staff
• scientific organisation on-site assitance
• Rami Vainio and students of the UH
• practical support

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CR in Finland ground stations
1960s muon detector and NM started in Turku
1964 a permanent cosmic ray station (NM muon
detector) installed in Oulu.
1980 a hadron spectrometer launched in Turku.
1985 a small shower array started in Turku.
2000 multi-layer Muon UnderGround
detector launched in a mine in Pyhäsalmi/Oulu.
2009 EMMA to be launched in Pyhäsalmi/Oulu.
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Space-borne missions

• Finnish institutions (FMI, HUT, OU, TU, etc.)
  participated in a number of space missions since
  1990s.
• AMS
• Cassini
• Cluster
• Freja
• SOHO

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CR research

• Data analysis and correction methods
• Oulu group, Turku group
• A theory of CR transport in the heliosphere
• Oulu group
• Solar energetic particles acceleration and
  transport
• Turku and Helsinki groups.
• Terrestrial effects of CR
• Oulu group
• Atmospheric showers study
• CUPP Oulu group

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CR research in Finland

• Helsinki University
• Theoretical research
• Solar energetic particles, corona and
  heliospheric transients
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Experiment (space technology)
• Space Borne (AMS)
• Jyväskylä University, Helsinki Univ., Kuopio
  Univ., Tampere Univ.
• Cosmic experiment at CERN (ALICE/ACORDE, CLOUD)
• Oulu University (Sodankylä Geophys. Observatory,
  CUPP, Dept. of Phys. Sciences)
• Experiment
• Ground-based (NM 1964 ? Muon telescope
  1964-1980s and 2000 ? Underground muon machine
  2003 ?)
• Theoretical research
• Heliospheric transport of GCR Solar energetic
  particles Atmospheric showers Terrestrial
  effect of CR.
• Turku University
• Experiment
• Ground based (1960 1990)
• Space Borne (SOHO/ERNE), AMS
• Theoretical research
• Solar energetic particles

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Welcome to ECRS-2010

• In Finland !