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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i><span
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
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lang="EN-US">Course </span></u></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">on <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">“The Polar Upper
Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues”<br>
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</span></span></u></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">The <b>International School of Space
Science</b> of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la
Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on <b>“The Polar
Upper Atmosphere: from Science to Operational Issues”</b>,
to be held in L’Aquila, Italy, <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">17-21 September
2018</b>, directed by G. De Franceschi, M. Mendillo,
C. Mitchell.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">The goal of the school is to foster
excitement and encourage involvement of the next
generation of space researchers in studies of the
geospace environment of Polar Regions.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The importance of
these regions is rapidly growing due to modern society’s
dependence on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
services and products, strongly affected by ionospheric
variability at high latitudes. Topics will focus on the
infrastructures for multi-instrument monitoring, data
management from sub auroral to polar latitudes, the need
for specialized models of the upper atmosphere, and the
development of mitigation algorithms to improve GNSS
services and products. The school is mainly addressed to
graduate and post-graduate students with enthusiastic
interest on this topic. Students-teams will be organized
through an “inside team building” activity scheduled on
the first day of the school.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This initial
activity will formulate, under the supervision of
experts, the “first iteration” of student-led project
proposals. The establishment of the student-teams aims
to both stimulate the interaction among the new
generation of scientists from different countries and
furnish the preliminary tools to build successful
project proposals.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On
the final day the students-teams will present their
project results and participate in their evaluation by
the School Program and Organization Committees.</span></p>
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text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Applications are due before May 6, 2018.</span></b></p>
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For more information visit </span><a
href="http://www.cifs-isss.org/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">http://www.cifs-isss.org/</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"> or send an e-mail to </span><a
href="mailto:ssc@aquila.infn.it" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">ssc@aquila.infn.it</span></a><b
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lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
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text-align:justify"><span
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lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Lucilla Alfonsi (on behalf of the
Organizing Committee)</span><span
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EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><span
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">e-mail:
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:blue">ssc@aquila.infn.it</span></a><span
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</span><a href="http://www.cifs-isss.org/"
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:blue">http://www.cifs-isss.org</span></a><span
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