Jun 6, 2025
On May 11, 2024, the Sun unleashed a powerful X5.8-class solar flare, sending high-energy protons toward Earth! This triggered Ground Level Enhancement (GLE) 74 — a surge of radiation detected by both space-based satellites and ground-based neutron monitors. Figure...
May 29, 2025
In May 2025, the University of Turku hosted an intensive Master’s-level course, High-energy Particles in the Heliosphere, as part of the Horizon Europe SPEARHEAD project. Over four weeks, students from across Europe joined on-site and online to explore how energetic...
May 29, 2025
Periodic Report Meeting of the SPEARHEAD EU project will take place on 7 July, 2025 as a virtual meeting. 1. Aim & Scope Monitor the progress of the project. 2. PRM’s Agenda The agenda of the Meeting can be viewed here. 3. Participants The participants of...
May 29, 2025
Workshop #2 of the SPEARHEAD EU project was hosted by the National Institute for Astrophysics and it took place in Frascati from 10-12 June, 2025. 1. Aim & Scope This was the second face-to-face meeting of the consortium. Brought together the participants, the...
May 28, 2025
The final day of the MS course was dedicated to radiation effects and probabilistic modeling. Prof. Rami Vainio kicked off the session with an introduction to probabilistic fluence models. Then, Dr. Athanasios Papaioannou provided a comprehensive overview of how...
