Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Forecasting: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations

22 Jun 2020 · Gelu Nita, Manolis Georgoulis, Irina Kitiashvili, Viacheslav Sadykov, Enrico Camporeale, Alexander Kosovichev, Haimin Wang, Vincent Oria, Jason Wang, Rafal Angryk, Berkay Aydin, Azim Ahmadzadeh, Xiaoli Bai, Timothy Bastian, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Bin Chen, Alisdair Davey, Sheldon Fereira, Gregory Fleishman, Dale Gary, Andrew Gerrard, Gregory Hellbourg, Katherine Herbert, Jack Ireland, Egor Illarionov, Natsuha Kuroda, Qin Li, Chang Liu, Yuexin Liu, Hyomin Kim, Dustin Kempton, Ruizhe Ma, Petrus Martens, Ryan McGranaghan, Edward Semones, John Stefan, Andrey Stejko, Yaireska Collado-Vega, Meiqi Wang, Yan Xu, Sijie Yu ·

The authors of this white paper met on 16-17 January 2020 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, for a 2-day workshop that brought together a group of heliophysicists, data providers, expert modelers, and computer/data scientists. Their objective was to discuss critical developments and prospects of the application of machine and/or deep learning techniques for data analysis, modeling and forecasting in Heliophysics, and to shape a strategy for further developments in the field. The workshop combined a set of plenary sessions featuring invited introductory talks interleaved with a set of open discussion sessions. The outcome of the discussion is encapsulated in this white paper that also features a top-level list of recommendations agreed by participants.

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