SMILE SWT-MWG meeting held in Rome

The 22nd SMILE Science Working Team (SWT) meeting was held from Nov. 6 to 11, 2023 in Rome, Italy. During the meeting, the SMILE Modeling Working Group (MWG) workshop was held in the first two days. There were almost 100 participants from European countries, China, Canada, and the US, either attending in person or online. During the meeting, the engineering team, the MWG, the Data Format group, the Ground-Based and Additional Science (GBAS) group, and the Outreach group reported their respective development progress and work plans.

For the MWG meeting, there were 23 talks, reporting the recent progress on modeling soft X-ray emissions from the magnetosheath or cusp, boundary tracing techniques based on modeled X-ray images, aurora observations and modeling, etc. 

The next in-person meeting will be held from May 20-24, 2024 in Shenzhen.

SMILE SWT photo