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 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...
May 27, 2025
The past two days have taken us deeper into the production of high-energy particles in the heliosphere and their consequences. On Day 7, Dr. Mateja Dumbović delivered a well-structured lecture on the modulation of galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere and Forbush...
May 22, 2025
Today’s course was dedicated to cosmic rays in the magnetosphere and atmosphere of the Earth. Prof. Alexander Mishev introduced us to « Ground-based observations of solar energetic particles (SEPs) » with a lot of details on the magnetosphere itself and...
May 17, 2025
This 5th day of MS course was dedicated to Space-borne observation methods for energetic particles. The lectures was divided in two parts. The first was delivered by Prof. Rami Vainio from the University of Turku and introduced basic principles and detection methods...
