The Royal Astronomical Society
                         1998 OCTOBER 9
                            in the
         GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON W1
                  The MIST Discussion Meeting
                              on
REMOTE SENSING THE MAGNETOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE FROM PLANET EARTH

Organisers ; Dr D. ORR (York)
             Dr M. LESTER (Leicester)

10.00  Registration and Coffee

Morning Session
Chair : Dr David Orr (York)

10.30 a.m  Dr Mark Lester (Leicester)
             An appreciation of pioneering space physicist Professor Tom
             Kaiser, 1924-1998.

10.35 a.m  Dr Andy Smith (BAS)
              Remote sensing of geospace from Antarctica by VLF waves
              and other techniques: Tom Kaiser's continuing legacy.

11.05 a.m  Dr Ian Mann (York)
              Remote-sensing Magnetospheric Activity and Morphology with
              a network of Ground-Based Magnetometers.

11.35 a.m  Dr Steve Milan (Leicester)
               Coherent radar observations of dayside convection
               processes

12.05 p.m  Dr Betty Lanchester (Southampton)
               Probing the Aurora to the highest resolution in space and
               time: optical, incoherent scatter radar, spacecraft
               observations and modelling.

12.35 p.m   LUNCH


Afternoon Session

Chair Dr Mark Lester (Leicester)

1.35 p.m  Professor Phil Williams (Aberystwyth)
            Multi-instrument studies of Auroral Electrodynamics.

2.05 p.m  Professor Mike Lockwood (RAL)
            The importance and uses of Archive Data in Solar-Terrestrial
            Physics.

2,35 p.m  Professor Stan Cowley (Leicester)
            Optical Signatures of the dayside cusp and its dependence on
            the IMF.

3.10 p.m   Close.

3.30 p.m   Tea at Savile Row



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