The NSF has awarded support for the proposal entitled 'Space Weather: Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Study of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs): Initiation and Propagation'. The proposal is led by Prof. S.T. Wu, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Hunstville, AL, USA. The cooperating US colleagues/institutes are Prof. H. Wang (Big Bear Solar Observatory and Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA), Dr. A. Kosovichev and X.P. Zhao (W.W. Hansen Exper. Physics Lab., Stanford university, Stanford, CA, USA), Dr. D.F. Webb (Boston College/AFRL VSBXS, Hanscom AFB, MA, USA) and Dr. J. Pap (Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA).
Partners at the Slovak side are scientists of two professional institutions - Astronomical institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences at Tatranska Lomnica (Drs. J. Rybak, J. Sykora, A. Kucera, M .Minarovjech, V. Rusin) and Astronomical institute of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava (Dr. E. Dzifcakova and Mgr. A. Kulinova).
Students of all institutions involved in the program will actively take part in the project when doing research in the field of space weather will be part of their education.
At present the proposal is being proposed also at the Slovak side applying for financial support to the Ministry of Education.