"Connecting our Dynamic Sun to the Heliosphere and Geospace"

A Living With a Star Workshop

March 23-26, 2004

Boulder, Colorado

NCAR Center Green

 

 

Monday, March 22:

6:00-8:00 pm             Welcoming Reception at LASP (open to all)

 

Tuesday, March 23: LWS Workshop Day One

7:30-8:30 am              Registration

 

8:30-8:45 am              Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

                                    F. Eparvier / B. Thompson

 

Session 1:  Introducing SDO and its Working Groups to the LWS Community

Chairs:  Frank Eparvier, Barbara Thompson, Dean Pesnell

 

8:45-9:00 am              Barbara Thompson

                                    1_01.  Progress Towards the Solar Dynamics Observatory (invited)

9:00-9:30 am              Tom Woods

                                    1_02.  The EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) aboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) (invited)

9:30-10:00 am            Phil Scherrer

                                    1_03.  Overview of the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager Investigation (invited)

 

10:00-10:30 am          Break

 

10:30-11:00 am          Alan Title

                                    1_04.  The AIA Instrument System (invited)

11:00-11:15 am          Leon Golub

                                    1_05.  Differential Emission Measure Determination with the AIA

11:15-11:30 am          Kristi Keller

                                    1_06.  Solar and Heliospheric Models at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center

 

11:30-12:00 noon      SDO SWG introductions, discussion, call for participation

 

12:00 -1:30 pm          Lunch -- On your own

 

Session 1 Continued:

1:30-2:00 pm             Janet Luhmann

                                    1_07.  STEREO Mission Science Plans (invited)

 

Session 2:  Solar Drivers of the Sun-Earth Connection

Chairs:  Harry Warren, Dave Sibeck

 

2:00-2:30 pm             Rodney Viereck

                                    2_01.  Monitoring of EUV, UV, and Total Solar Irradiance from NOAA Satellites (invited)

2:30-3:00 pm             Gerard. Thuillier

                                    2_02.  The Picard Mission (invited)

3:00-3:15 pm             Frank Eparvier

                                    2_03.  Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Variability as Observed during the TIMED Mission

3:15-3:30 pm             Peter Fox

                                    2_04.  Characterizing Solar Spectral Irradiance Variability with Synthetic Models and their Applicability to LWS Science Goals

 

3:30-4:00 pm             Break

 

4:30-4:45 pm             Karel Schrijver

                                    2_05.  Coronal Heating and the Radiative Losses from the Solar Corona

4:45-5:00 pm             Jon Linker

                                    2_06.  Modeling Active Region CMEs

5:00-5:15 pm             Ilia Roussev

                                    2_07.  A Numerical Model of the CME Event on 1998 May 2

5:15-5:30 pm             Joan Burkepile

                                    2_08.  The Acceleration and Masses of Coronal Mass Ejections

5:30-5:45 pm             Louise Harra

                                    2_09.  Sampling a Coronal Mass Ejection at the Sun and Earth

5:45-6:00 pm             Murray Dryer

                                    2_10.  Solar Drivers of the Sun-Earth Connection and Real-Time Space Weather Predictions

 

Evening                      On your own

 

Wednesday, March 24: LWS Workshop Day Two

 

Session 3:  Geospace Response to Variable Solar Outputs

Chairs:  Nicola Fox, Jan Sojka

 

8:00-8:25 am              Chris Smithtro

                                    3_01.  Ionospheric Sensitivity to Solar Variability on Timescales of Minutes to Years (invited)

8:25-8:50 am              Stan Solomon

                                    3_02.  Thermosphere/Ionosphere Response to Large Solar Flares (invited)

8:50-9:05 am              Scott Bailey

                                    3_03.  The Observed Response of the Lower Thermosphere to Solar Energetic Inputs

9:05-9:20 am              John Sigwarth

                                    3_04.  Global Observations of O/N2 in EarthÕs Thermosphere During the April 2002 Sun-Earth Storms

9:20-9:35 am              Jeff Forbes

                                    3_05.  Geomagnetic Storm Response of Global Thermospheric Density from CHAMP Accelerometer Measurements

9:35-9:50 am              E. Palle

                                    3_06.  Changes in the EarthÕs Albeedo Over the Past 20 Years

 

9:50-10:15 am            Break

 

10:15-10:40 am          Gang Lu

                                    3_07.  Global Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Response to the October-November 2003 Geomagnetic Storm (invited)

10:40-11:05 am          Terry Onsager

                                    3_08.  Radiation Belt Sources and Losses Driven by Solar Wind Variability (invited)

11:05-11:20 am          Joe Borovsky

                                    3_09.  Unusual Solar Wind Associated with Global Sawtooth Oscillations: CCMC Simulations of the Magnetosphere

11:20-11:35 am          S. Mende

                                    3_10.  Monitoring Geospace Responses to Solar Variability by Global Imaging

 

11:35-1:00 pm           Lunch -- On your own

 

Poster Session A  (covering topics from Sessions 1, 2, and 3)

1:00-3:00 pm             Poster Session A viewing

 

Session 4: Magnetic Field Topology and Solar Atmospheric Dynamics

Chairs: Ed Deluca, Karel Schrijver

 

3:00-3:30 pm             Alan Title

                                    4_01.  Toward Understanding the SunÕs Magnetic Field Topologies (invited)

3:30-4:00 pm             A. van Ballegooijen

                                    4_02.  Structure and Evolution of Coronal Magnetic Fields (invited)

 

4:00-4:30 pm             Break

 

4:30-5:00 pm             Spiro Antiochos

                                    4_03.  The Role of Magnetic Topology in Determining the Corona-Heliosphere Connection (invited)

5:00-5:15 pm             Craig DeForest

                                    4_04.  Recent Progress with Fluxons

5:15-5:30 pm             Manolis Georgoulis

                                    4_05.  Magneto-Kinematic Evolution in the Active Region Solar Photosphere and Helicity Diagnostics in Solar Eruptions

 

Evening: Group Dinner

7:00-10:00 pm           Hotel Boulderado with dinner speaker Tom Bogdan

 

Thursday, March 25: LWS Workshop Day Three

Session 4 continued:

 

8:30-8:45 am              Steven Hill

                                    4_06.  Arcade and Supra-Arcade Structures During the Record X28 Solar Flare of 2003 November 04

8:45-9:00 am              Kiyoshi Ichimoto

                                    4_07.  Science Objective and Instrument Overview of the Solar-B Mission

9:00-9:15 am              Graham Barnes

                                    4_08.  Magnetic Topology, Flux Emergence and Reconnection from Magnetic Charge Topology Model for NOAA AR 8210

9:15-9:30 am              Brigitte Schmieder

                                    4_09.  Multi-Wavelength Flare Study and Magnetic Configuration

 

 

Session 5:  Sub-Photospheric Phenomena Associated with Solar Activity

Chairs:  Sasha Kosovichev, Juri Toomre

 

9:30-10:00 am            Michael Thompson

                                    5_01.  Global Helioseismology and SDO (invited)

10:00-10:30 am          Brad Hindman

                                    5_02.  Interactions between Magnetic Activity and Large-Scale Subsurface Flows Revealed by Ring Analysis  (invited)

 

10:30-11:00 am          Break

 

11:00-11:30 am          Doug Braun

                                    5_03.  Probing the Interior and Farside of the Sun (invited)

11:30-12:00 noon      Junwei Zhao

                                    5_04.  Recent Results from Time-Distance Helioseismology (invited)

 

12:00-1:30 pm           Lunch -- On your own

 

Session 5 continued:

 

1:30-2:00 pm             Bill Abbett

                                    5_05.  Linking Coronal Activity to Active Region Magnetic Fields Below the Photosphere (invited)

2:00-2:15 pm             Alexander Ruzmaikin

                                    5_06.  Non-Axisymmetric Solar Magnetic Fields

2:15-2:30 pm             Y.-N. Young

                                    5_07.  Large Eddy Simulations of the Solar Convection Zone

 

 

Poster Session B  (covering topics from Sessions 4, 5, and 6)

2:30-4:30 pm             Poster Session B viewing

 

 

Session 6:  Coupling the Solar Wind and Transient Phenomena through the Heliosphere to Geospace

Chairs:  Tom Metcalf, Adam Szabo, Yang Liu

 

4:30-5:00 pm             George Fisher

                                    6_01.  The Origin and Energization of Transients: An Overview of the Solar MURI Project (invited)

5:00-5:30 pm             Richard Canfield

                                    6_02.  Solar and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Topology (invited)

5:30-6:00 pm             Christina Cohen

                                    6_03.  The Roles of Flares and CMEs in Solar Energetic Particle Acceleration (invited)

 

Evening                      On your own

 

 

Friday, March 26:  LWS Workshop Day Four

Session 6 continued:

 

8:30-9:00 am              Nat Gopalswamy

                                    6_04.  Colliding CMEs and Their Consequences in the Innter Heliosphere (invited)

9:00-9:30 am              David Webb

                                    6_05.  CMEs Observed in the Heliosphere by the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) (invited)

9:30-10:00 am            Dusan Odstracil

                                    6_06.  Heliospheric MHD Models (invited)

 

10:00-10:30 am          Break

 

LWS Status Report:

10:30-11:00 pm         Report on status of GMDT, TR&T, LWS funding opportunities, etc.

 

Closing:

11:00-12:00 noon      Closing Remarks / Discussion / Adjournment