Abstracts are welcome to the 19th European Space Weather Week community-driven parallel session 100CD-08 dedicated to flare forecasting. 

Flare forecasting research has been invoking big data (in some cases covering multiple solar cycles), multiple wavelength and physical regimes (beyond white-light imaging and photospheric magnetic field maps), and many new machine learning approaches. This session will consist of a single state-of-the-science review talk and an invitation for anyone in the community to present 2-4 slide lightning talks addressing “Breakthroughs” and “Identifying the Gaps” questions, with associated time for discussion. More detailed presentations of new methods and research will be available by way of associated posters. Questions include:

–  Have we achieved serious breakthroughs? 

– Are new methods, including machine learning, improving the forecast performance? 

– How do we know?

– Where are the gaps?

– What is needed to move forward: Tools, Data, Methodologies?  

Please submit oral abstracts online at https://esww2023.org/submit-an-abstract by 29th June 2023 (inclusive).

We also invite people to the Topical Discussion on Community Validation Tools and Curated Event Lists needed to support breakthroughs, especially in the context of future 4\pi forecasting and validation.

We look forward to the discussions in Toulouse!

KD Leka
Sophie Murray
Katie Whitman