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Agenda (Tentative)

  Wednesday, March 22

     09:00-12:00 Introductory/plenary talks

• Comets in general (A'Hearn)
• Sungrazers (Knight)
• Near-Sun & corona environment (Schrijver)
• Dust from comets (Lisse)
       12:00-13:00 Lunch

     13:00-14:30 Observation summaries: SDO, SOHO, STEREO, GBO, ...
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Biesecker

     14:30-15:00 Orbital considerations: expected vs. observed
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: St. Hillaire

     15:00-16:00 Mass loss, sublimation, ...
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Brown + Lisse

     16:00-17:00 Interpretation of spectral observations
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Raymond

  Thursday, March 23

     09:00-10:00 Emission mechanisms
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Bryans

     10:00-11:00 (MHD of the) Corona-tail interactions
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Schrijver + ... \[TBC\]

     11:00-12:00 Expectations for future sungrazers: statistics on sizes/orbits
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: Knight

     12:00-13:00 Lunch

     13:00-15:00 Summary of discussions and presentations, and
                 discussion of the new avenues opened by comets in corona
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: panel of coordinators
            St. Hillaire\+ Brown/Lisse + Raymond + Bryans
            + Schrijver/ ...\[TBC\] + Knight

     15:00-16:30 Discussion and plans for the scientific analysis of the observed events +
                 Plans for future observing of sungrazers approaching the Sun
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer: \[TBD\]

     16:30-17:00 Meeting summary and plans for the future
          Session coordinator/speaker/summarizer:
                  Schrijver <coronal physics>, Lisse <cometary physics>,
                  Raymond <emission mechanisms>

Science Organizing Committee

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