Chapman Conference on Solar Energetic Plasmas and Particles; Turku, Finland; August 2-6, 2004

查普曼会议是由美国地球物理联盟(AGU)主办的专题会议，旨在促进通常通过大型会议形式无法获得的机会。在这项提案中，国家科学基金会要求资助一些研究生、青年科学家、特邀演讲者和其他需要支持的人参加2004年8月2日至6日在芬兰图尔库举行的查普曼太阳高能等离子体和粒子会议的旅费。自从近60年前发现太阳高能粒子(SEP)以来，近年来，由于大量的空间和地面仪器观测SEP(以及相关的太阳和星际扰动，如激波、日冕物质抛射和爆发耀斑)，对它们的理解取得了巨大进展。太阳、行星际和日球界已经能够合成成像和时间序列数据，以获得SEP的起源、组成和传播及其地球空间影响的详细图景。由于SEP对全球天基和陆基技术的影响，SEP在积极研究SEP的国际空间天气和与星共存(LWS)社区中具有新的重要性。这次查普曼会议将有助于协同和协调与SEP相关的研究和观测方面的国际努力，从而促进NSF国家空间天气计划和日地研究计划的科学目标。

Chapman Conferences are topical meetings sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and are designed to promote opportunities not normally available through the format of larger meetings. In this proposal, funds are requested from the National Science Foundation for travel expenses of some graduate students, young scientists, invited speakers, and others who need support to participate in the Chapman Conference on Solar Energetic Plasmas and Particles, to be held in Turku, Finland during the period August 2-6, 2004. Since the discovery of solar energetic particles (SEPs) nearly six decades ago, tremendous progress has been made in understanding them in recent years, thanks to the vast array of space and ground based instruments observing SEPs (and related solar and interplanetary disturbances, such as shocks, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and eruptive flares). The solar, interplanetary, and heliospheric communities have been able to synthesize imaging and time-series data to obtain a detailed picture of the origin, composition, and propagation of SEPs, as well as their geospace impact. Because of their impact on global space-based and ground-based technologies, SEPs have assumed new importance among the international Space Weather and Living With A Star (LWS) communities, which are actively studying them.This Chapman conference will help synergize and coordinate international efforts in SEP-related research and observations, and thus further the scientific goals of the NSF's National Space Weather Program and Solar Terrestrial Research Program.