On Wednesday, December 10, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, join the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NSF NCAR for a colloquium entitled: “Neural Enhancement of the Traditional WSA Solar Wind Relation.” The presenter is Dr. Prateek Mayank, a NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow with CPAESS at UCAR and SWx TREC at CU-Boulder.

The colloquium will introduce WSA+, a neural enhancement to the Wang–Sheeley–Arge (WSA) solar wind forecasting model. WSA+ significantly improves WSA's traditional relation, boosting average performance by about 40% in all solar activity periods. It uses a two-stage, differentiable, physics-constrained pipeline to optimize WSA's speed prediction with in-situ observations and machine learning. Dr. Mayank will also release an open-source Python package for the community to utilize and extend the WSA+ framework.

This event is hybrid. In-person participants can join at NSF NCAR’s Center Green Campus (CG1), room 3131, at 3085 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO 80301. For virtual participants, join here.