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The NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium is presented in collaboration with NASA's Living With a Star Program, and the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS). This ongoing series of events brings together great minds across the interdisciplinary field of heliophysics. It continues the legacy of the frontier-thinking, cross-disciplinary gathering that the Eddy Symposia have come to define. Each symposium has a unique theme, and within part of its framework, scientific discussions, and creative-thinking sessions, three specialized themes are explored.

This year's banquet will include special guest presentations from:

• Scott Penberthy, Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Google
• John Grunsfeld, former astronaut and Chief Scientist at NASA

Each Eddy Symposium is centered on a distinct overarching theme and explores three complementary subthemes. The 5th Symposium is organized around "Star–Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond." Within this framework, participants will engage in three focused topic areas: Solar Influence on Earth and Planetary Environments, led by Robert Jarolim and Robin Ramstad; Risk and Resilience to Space Weather Disruption, led by Ankush Bhaskar and Tom Berger; and From Heliophysics to the Moon and Mars: The Impact of the Sun on Space Exploration, led by Vladimir Airapetian and Mei-Yun Lin. The theme and subthemes are investigated with both open data and AI in mind.