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| 6-9 September 2004
University of St Andrews, UK |
SOHO 15: Programme
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| Monday 6th September | ||
| 08.30-09.30 | Registration | |
| Session 1: What is the coronal heating problem? | ||
| Chair: Robert Walsh and Jack Ireland | ||
| 09.30-09.45 | To be confirmed | Welcome |
| 09.45-10.30 | J. Klimchuk | What is coronal heating? (keynote lecture) |
| 10.30-11.00 | R.A. Harrison | Future solar missions (invited review) |
| Coffee and poster setup | ||
| Session 2a: Driving Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Hardi Peter | ||
| 11.30-12.05 | K. Schrijver | Driving coronal heating - the magnetic carpet (invited review) |
| 12.05-12.20 | J. Buechner | Coronal heating by transition region reconnection |
| 12.20-12.35 | C. Gerrard | Simple numerical simulations of the flux tube tectonics model for coronal heating |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 2b: Driving Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Alan Hood | ||
| 14.00-14.35 | B. De Pontieu | Magnetic carpet observations (invited review) |
| 14.35-14.50 | S. Solanki | The magnetic vector mapped near the base of the solar corona: insights into coronal heating |
| 14.50-15.25 | L. Ofman | Open vs closed field (invited review) |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 2c: Driving Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Klaus Galsgaard | ||
| 16.15-16.50 | A. Nordlund | Numerical simulations of coronal heating (invited review) |
| 16.50-17.05 | H. Peter | Synthetic EUV spectra from 3D MHD coronal simulations: understanding emission measure and Doppler shifts |
| 17.05-17.20 | S. Gibson | Twist and flare: the role of helical magnetic structures in the solar corona |
| 17.20-17.35 | T. Toeroek | The kink instability in a coronal magnetic loop as a trigger mechanism for solar eruptions |
| Evening event: Welcome reception in golf club | ||
| Tuesday 7th September | ||
| Session 3a: Wave Heating of the Corona | ||
| Chair: | ||
| 09.00-09.35 | S. Poedts and A. De Groof | Wave theory (invited review) |
| 09.35-09.50 | J. McLaughlin | MHD wave propagation in the neighbourhood of coronal null points |
| 09.50-10.05 | S. Moriyasu | Nonlinear Alfven wave model for solar coronal heating and nanoflares |
| 10.05-10.20 | F. Arregui | Numerical solutions for resonantly damped MHD quasi-modes in two-dimenional coronal loops |
| 10.20-10.35 | M. Selwa | Numerical simulations of MHD waves in coronal loops |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 3b: Wave Heating of the Corona | ||
| Chair: Valery Nakariakov | ||
| 11.15-11.50 | M. Aschwanden | Wave observations and the coronal heating problem (invited review) |
| 11.50-12.05 | M. Marsh | Joint CDS and TRACE observations of active region dynamics |
| 12.05-12.20 | D. Tsiklauri | The nature and excitation mechanisms of acoustic oscillations in solar and stellar coronal loops |
| 12.20-12.35 | E. Buchlin | Coupled shell-models for a coronal loop |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 3c: Wave Heating of the Corona | ||
| Chair: Robert Erdelyi | ||
| 14.00-14.15 | E. Verwichte | EUV coronal tadpoles |
| 14.15-14.30 | C. Gontikakis | Oscillations over a supergranular cell observed with SUMER |
| 14.30-14.45 | D. Banerjee | Detection of long period waves in the polar coronal holes |
| 14.45-15.00 | E. O'Shea | Variation of line widths in coronal hole off-limb regions |
| 15.00-15.15 | L. Strachan | UVCS/SOHO measurements of heating in coronal streamers |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 3d: Wave Heating of the Corona | ||
| Chair: | ||
| 16.00-16.35 | S. Cramner | Coronal heating vs solar wind acceleration (invited review) |
| 16.35-16.50 | T. Suzuki | Coronal heating and acceleration of the high- and low-speed solar winds by MHD waves |
| 16.50-17.05 | N-E. Raouafi | Sensitivity of solar off-limb line profiles on electron density stratification and the velocity distribution anisotropy |
| 17.05-17.20 | R. Jones | Measurements of the solar wind acceleration region |
| Evening event: Public Lecture by Prof John Brown Astronomer Royal for Scotland | ||
| Wednesday 8th September | ||
| Session 4: Kinetic Aspects to Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Nour-Eddine Raouafi | ||
| 09.00-09.35 | R. Bingham | Energy release as studied in laboratory plasmas (invited review) |
| 09.35-09.50 | E. Marsch | Kinetic aspects of coronal heating |
| 09.50-10.05 | S. Markovskii | Intermittent coronal heating by heat flux generated ion cyclotron waves |
| 10.05-10.20 | L. Dolla | Signatures of ion cyclotron preferential heating in coronal holes, by studying lines widths observed above the solar limb by SoHO/SUMER |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 5a: The Role of Reconnection in Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Eric Priest | ||
| 11.00-11.35 | D. Longcope | Quantifying the effect of magnetic reconnection on coronal heating (invited review) |
| 11.35-11.50 | P. Browning | Coronal heating by nanoflares: a relaxation model |
| 11.50-12.05 | F. Moreno-Insertis | Reconnection in the corona as a result of flux emergence from the solar interior |
| 12.05-12.20 | S. Dalla | Particle acceleration at a 3D reconnection site |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 5b: The Role of Reconnection in Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: Danielle Bewsher | ||
| 14.00-14.35 | C. Parnell | The role of dynamic brightenings in coronal heating (invited review) |
| 14.35-14.50 | S. McIntosh | EIT and EUV brightenings |
| 14.50-15.05 | T. Weigelmann | Why are coronal holes indistinguishable from the quiet Sun in transition region radiation |
| 15.05-15.20 | A. Pevtsov | On the role of the large-scale magnetic reconnection in coronal heating |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 5c: The Role of Reconnection in Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: | ||
| 16.20-16.55 | S. Krucker | RHESSI observations of particle acceleration in solar flares (invited review) |
| 16.55-17.10 | S. Regnier | Energetics of flares: how is the magnetic energy stored and released |
| Evening event: Conference Dinner at Balbirnie House Hotel | ||
| Thursday 9th September | ||
| Session 5d: The Role of Reconnection in Coronal Heating | ||
| Chair: | ||
| 09.00-09.15 | I. Hannah | RHESSI microflare statistics |
| 09.15-09.30 | L. Teriaca | Overview of an eruptive flare: from chromosperic evaporation to cooling of hot flaring loops |
| Session 6: The Solar-Stellar Connection | ||
| Chair: Gerry Doyle | ||
| 09.30-10.05 | M. Jardine | The heating of stellar coronae (invited review) |
| 10.05-10.30 | T. Ayres | The SOHO-stellar connection: update |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 7a: Plasma Strands and the Determination of the Local Heating Function | ||
| Chair: Boris Gudiksen | ||
| 11.00-11.35 | P. Martens | Determining the local form of the heat input to coronal structures (invited review) |
| 11.35-11.50 | D. Mueller | Dynamics of solar coronal loops: thermal instability as a road to complex evolution |
| 11.50-12.05 | S. Patsourakos | Coronal loop heating by nanoflares: the impact of the field aligned distribution of the heating on loop observations |
| 12.05-12.20 | R. Erdelyi | Coronal loop heating and catastrophic cooling |
| 12.20-12.35 | L. Lundquist | Using synthetic emission images to constrai heating parameters |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 7b: Plasma Strands and the Determination of the Local Heating Function | ||
| Chair: Andrzej Fludra | ||
| 14.00-14.35 | H. Mason | Remote sensing of plasma parameters relating to coronal heating (invited review) |
| 14.35-14.50 | J. Schmelz | Multi-thermal analysis and background subtraction of CDS loops |
| 14.50-15.05 | G. Del Zanna | The coronal emission from active regions |
| Coffee and posters | ||
| Session 8: Where next in the search for a solution to the coronal heating problem? | ||
| Chair: R. Walsh and J. Ireland | ||
| 16.00-16.35 | P. Cargill | What are the major outstanding questions highlighted by this meeting? (invited review) |
| 16.35-17.00 | Final discussion session | |
| Evening event: Whisky Tasting | ||
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