IAUS 247

PROGRAMME


Scientific Programme


Sunday 16 September

14.00 - 18.00 Arrive and register

19.00 Welcome Reception

20.30 Dinner

Monday 17 September

08.50 - 09.00 Welcome Address

Opening Keynote Lecture
09.00 - 09.40 Progress in coronal seismology (B. Roberts)

Session 1 Waves and oscillations in solar and stellar interior
Chair: ...

09.40 - 10.20 Waves and oscillations in solar and stellar interiors - dynamo waves (S. Kosovichev)

10.20 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.25 Dynamo waves in interface solar dynamos (K. Zhang)
11.25 - 11.45 On the solar dynamo and the crucial role played by the tachocline (S. Brun)
11.45 - 12.05 Rossby waves in solar interior and formation of large-scale non-axisymmetric convective structures (Tikhomolov)
12.05 - 12.25 The correlation of latitudinal distributions of sunspot areas and magnetic fields with the background solar magnetic field in the cycle 23 and its effect on the solar dynamo (S. Zharkov)

12.25 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 2 Coupling of global solar and stellar motions into the lower atmosphere
Chair: ...

14.00 - 14.40 The leakage of interior motion and its impact on the lower solar atmosphere (R. Erdelyi)
14.40 - 15.05 Alfven waves and other waves in the solar chromosphere (V. Hansteen)
15.05 - 15.30 MHD Wave propagation into the lower atmosphere (M. Marsh)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 16.20 The nature of running penumbral waves revealed (S. Bloomfield)
16.20 - 16.40 On the origin of helioseismic responses associated with flares (V. Zharkova)
16.40 - 17.00 Connecting the dynamics of the chromosphere and transition region with Hinode/SOT and EIS (B. De Pontieu/V. Hansteen)

17.00 - 17.30 Poster Session

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday 18 September

Session 3 Seismology of the lower solar atmosphere and stellar chromospheres
Chair: ...

09.00 - 09.25 Heating and dynamics of the quiet solar chromosphere (W. Kalkofen)
09.25 - 09.45 Correlative study of flares associated with sunquakes (J.C. Martinez-Oliveros)
09.45 - 10.05 Propagating longitudinal waves over sunspots, observed in microwave and EUV (R. Sych)
10.05 - 10.25 Internal gravity waves and their role in the energetics of the solar atmosphere (R. Straus)

10.25 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.20 Small-scale structure, dynamics, and heating of the lower solar atmosphere (S. Wedemeyer-Boehm)

11.20 - 12.30 Open Discussions

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 4 Seismology of open vs. closed magnetic structures
Chair: ...

14.00 - 14.40 Seismology of open and closed coronal magnetic structures (V. Nakariakov)
14.40 - 15.20 Seismology of open and closed magnetic structures - Simulations (M. Carlsson)

15.20 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 16.25 On the properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves in curved coronal fields (J. Terradas)
16.25 - 16.50 Spatial magneto-seismology of the solar corona (G. Verth)
16.50 - 17.20 Damped transversal oscillations of two interacting coronal loops (I. Arregui)
17.20 - 17.40 Coronal loop seismology using multiple transverse loop oscillation harmonics (T. Van Doorsselaere)

19.00 Dinner

Wednesday 19 September

Session 5 Prominence seismology
Chair: ...

09.00 - 09.40 Observational aspects of prominence oscillation (O. Engvold)
09.40 - 10.20 Theoretical aspects of prominence oscillations (R. Oliver)

10.20 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.25 MHD modes in prominence fibrils (A. Diaz)
11.25 - 11.45 Ultra-fine structure of a solar prominence and discovery of Alfven wave with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (T. Okamoto)
11.45 - 12.05 The effect of the solar corona on the attenuation of non-adiabatic prominence oscillations (R. Soler)

12.05 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 Excursion

19.00 Dinner

Thursday 20 September

Session 6 Dynamical processes and coupling in the magnetic atmosphere of Sun and stars
Chair: ...

09.00 - 09.40 Initial results from HINODE (Tsuneta)
09.40 - 10.20 Integrated approach to the coronal heating problem (Y. Taroyan)

10.20 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.40 Nonlinear Alfven wave model of spicules and coronal heating (T. Kudoh)
11.40 - 12.05 The internal magnetic structure of solar coronal loops (B. Gudiksen)
12.05 - 12.25 Dynamics of high temperature plasma in the solar atmosphere from observations of the CORONAS-F satellite (S. Bogachev)

12.25 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.20 Magnetoseismology of solar flares (S. Kosovichev)
14.20 - 14.40 Review of polare faculae: Effect on sunspot cycle, dynamo and interplanetary field (D. Callebaut)
14.40 - 15.00 Evolution of Alfven wave-driven solar winds to red giants (T. Suzuki)

15.00 - 15.30 Open Discussions

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 17.30 Poster Session

19.00 Dinner

Friday 21 September

Session 7 Solar and stellar global coronal seismology
Chair: ...

09.00 - 09.40 Observational review on the global solar and stellar coronal seismology (D. Banerjee)
09.40 - 10.20 Seismology of kink oscillations in coronal loops: two decades of resonant damping (M. Goossens)

10.20 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.25 Global coronal seismology (I. Ballai)
11.25 - 11.50 Wave leakage as phase mixing of leaky continuum modes: Implications for the initial value problem (J. Andries)
11.50 - 12.10 Dissipation of standing slow magnetoacoustic waves in hot coronal loops (L. Sigalotti)

12.10 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 8 Fundamental physical processes in coronae: waves, turbulence, reconnection
Chair: ...

14.00 - 14.40 Fundamental physical processes in coronae: Waves, turbulence, reconnection, and particle acceleration (M. Aschwanden)
14.40 - 15.20 Turbulent heating of coronal active regions: statistics of dissipation events (D. Gomez)

15.20 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 16.20 On the frequency distribution of heating events in coronal loops, simulating observations with Hinode/XRT (P. Antolin)
16.20 - 16.40 Coronal waves observed with SOHO and STEREO (V. Bothmer)
16.40 - 17.00 Solar feature tracking in both spatial and temporal domains (D. Jess)
17.00 - 17.20 MHD mode conversion in a stratified atmosphere (D. McDougall)

19.00 Conference Banquet

Saturday 22 September

Session 7 Waves and instabilities in atmospheric plasmas
Chair: ...

09.00 - 09.40 The Hinode X-ray Telescope: An introduction and first results (A. Savcheva)
09.40 - 10.20 Magnetic reconnection and coronal heating (G. Vekstein)

10.20 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.25 Non-axisymmetric oscillations of thin twisted magnetic tubes (M. Ruderman)
11.25 - 11.45 Bulk viscosity damping of magnetosonic waves propagating in a photoionized plasma (M. Ibanez)
11.45 - 12.05 Exploring of the short period oscillation in the quiet filaments (D. Kolobov)

12.05 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 8 Wave-particle interactions in magnetized plasmas
Chair: ...

14.00 - 14.40 Electron acceleration in solar flares: X-ray and in-situ electron observations (S. Krucker)
14.40 - 15.20 Wave-particle interactions, plasma heating and particle acceleration (V. Petrosian)

15.20 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 16.20 A minimal model of parallel electric field generation in transversely inhomogeneous solar coronal plasmas (D. Tsiklauri)

Conference Summary
16.20 - 17.00 Closing remarks: Reflecting the past and the future (A. Benz)

19.00 Dinner

Format of Contributions
The exchange of scientific information will be based on

- Invited Reviews and Invited Contribution talks
- Contributed Talks, and
- Poster Session.

The basic format will consist of

- 1-2 Invited Reviews per topic (40 min) including questions
- 1-2 Invited Contribution talks per topic (25 min) includig questions
- Contributed Talks per topic (20 min) inluding 5 min time for questions and ad hoc discussions.

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