Workshop Schedule (Preliminary)
Day 1 – Monday, 14 September 2026
14:00 – 15:00 | Registration
15:00 – 18:00 | Opening Ceremony
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Day 2 – Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Morning Session (09:00 – 12:30)
🔹 Upcoming Satellite Missions, Ground-Based Experiments, and Innovative Techniques for Monitoring Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
09:00 – 12:00 | Invited Speaker I
10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 | Oral Presentations
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch
Afternoon Session (14:00 – 17:30)
🔹 Wave-Like Perturbations, Including Gravity Waves and Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances, and Their Role in the Seeding and Development of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
14:00 – 15:00 | Invited Speaker II
15:00 – 15:30 | Oral Presentations
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Oral Presentations
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Day 3 – Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Morning Session (09:00 – 12:30)
🔹 Space Weather Effects on the Seeding and Evolution of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
09:00 – 10:00 | Invited Speaker III
10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 | Oral Presentations
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch
Afternoon Session (14:00 – 17:30)
🔹 Coupled Models and Numerical Simulations to Advance the Understanding of EPB Seeding, Growth, and Variability
14:00 – 15:00 | Invited Speaker IV
15:00 – 15:30 | Oral Presentations
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Oral Presentations
19:00 – 21:00 | Workshop Dinner
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Day 4 – Thursday, 17 September 2026
Morning Session (09:00 – 12:30)
🔹 Advancing Forecasting Capabilities through the Integration of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Observations, and Modeling
09:00 – 10:00 | Invited Speaker V
10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 | Oral Presentations
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch
Afternoon Session (14:00 – 16:30)
🔹 Societal and Technological Impacts of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles on GNSS, Satellite Communications, and Space Weather Services
14:00 – 15:00 | Invited Speaker VI
15:00 – 15:30 | Oral Presentations
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Oral Presentations
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Day 5 – Friday, 18 September 2026
Morning Session (09:00 – 12:00)
09:00 – 12:00 | Roundtable: EPB-5, EPB Observation Campaign, New Scientific Insights, and Strategies to Mitigate the Socioeconomic Impacts of EPBs
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch
Afternoon Session (14:00 – 16:00)
14:00 – 15:00 | Visit to the Integration and Testing Laboratory (LIT) – INPE
15:00 – 16:00 | Visit to the Space Weather Division/Embrace Program – INPE
16:00 | Closing Ceremony