Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group : Wednesday Talks


The format of the Group's Wednesday Talks is the same as last year. At the present time only whole group meetings are planned. Each talk will take place at 1.30 pm in Room 3B of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. If you have visitors planned for this session and would like them to give a talk, please email me details as soon as possible. For suggested speakers, visiting speakers, amendments, equipment required etc, send me an email (ineke'at'mcs.st-and.ac.uk). Some basic guidelines for giving talks are noted below.


January - March 2008


Date Speaker Title Home Institute
09/01/08 No Seminar RAS Discussion Meeting -
16/01/08 Duncan MacKay Polar Caps of Active Stars : Magnetic Flux Emergence and Transport STG
23/01/08 Neil Symington CANCELLED STG
30/01/08 Vasilis Archontis A flux emergence model for solar eruptions STG
06/02/08 Stephane Regnier Nonlinear force-free nature of the corona: magnetic helicities and coronal nulls STG
13/02/08 Michelle Murray Interchange Reconnection: A mechanism for transient coronal dimming MSSL
20/02/08 Andrew Haynes Magnetic Reconnection of an Elementary Solar Interaction STG
27/02/08 James McLaughlin Nonlinear fast magnetoacoustic wave propagation in the neighbourhood of a 2D magnetic X-point STG
05/03/08 Rhona Maclean Bright points and blinkers in the solar corona: Case studies of magnetic structure and variability STG
12/03/08 David Pascoe MHD Coronal Seismology with Sausage Modes STG
19/03/08 Mike Harrison A Comparison of 2D PIC Simulations of Collisionless Reconnection STG
26/03/08 Anthony Yeates TBA STG

Notes: Below are some guidelines for giving talks:

1. Give a 10-15 minutes introduction setting the scene and discussing the basics (both observational and theoretical) of your work.

2. Consider giving a talk in which you review other people's work. This not only helps you understand the work better, it may also bring a more critical appraisal of the work to light.

3. Aim to keep the talk to 45 (!!) minutes, so there is plenty of time for questions and discussions. Speakers who are in danger of running over time will be asked to round up their talk.

Last Updated 23/01/08
Ineke De Moortel