School on the Equatorial Middle Atmosphere and Ionosphere, 24 September-5 October 2001, Trieste, Italy

Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA (kph@soest.hawaii.edu)

A School on the "Physics of the Equatorial Atmosphere" was held September 24-October 5 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. The ICTP is sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and is devoted to facilitating graduate level education and research opportunities for scientists from developing countries. The Equatorial Physics School was co-sponsored by SPARC and it reviewed the current state of research on a range of aspects of the low-latitude atmosphere including meteorological phenomena as well as phenomena related to stratospheric ozone chemistry and ionospheric physics. The School attracted 42 students from 27 countries, including 12 students from Africa, 8 from South Asia and Indonesia, and 8 from Latin America. Lectures were given by 11 distinguished scientists from the USA, Japan, the UK, Germany, Australia, India and Brazil.