Spring 2009 Schedule:

Date
Discussion leader
Article
1/20
Place: EPS 347 (CS conference room). Introduction
1/30
Silvina
A. Ciaravella, and J. C. Raymond, The Current Sheet Associated with the 2003 November 4 Coronal Mass Ejection: Density, Temperature, Thickness, and Line Width
2/6
Lucas
T. Zic, B. Vrsnak, M. Temmer, C. Jacobs, Cylindrical and Spherical Pistons as Drivers of MHD Shocks
2/13
Andres
D. Tripathi, H.E.Mason, B. N. Dwivedi, G. Del Zanna, P.R. Young, On active region loops: Hinode/EIS observations
2/20
Masha
L. Fletcher, Ultra-violet footpoints as tracers of coronal magnetic connectivity and restructuring during a solar flare
2/27
Anny
A. van Ballegooijen, Observations and Modeling of a Filament on the Sun
3/6
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MSU Graduate Recruitment Poster Session
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. in Strand Union Ballrooms B, C, & D.
3/13
Will
C. E. Alissandrakis, C. Gontikakis, and H. C. Dara, Determination of the True Shape of Coronal Loops
3/20
SPRING BREAK
3/27
Wenjuan
G. Aulanier, L. Golub, E. DeLuca, J. Cirtain, R. Kano, L. Lundquist, N. Narukage, T. Sakao, M. Weber, Slipping Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Loops
4/3
Kathryn
K. Raju and B. J. Bromage, EUV line intensity distribution in the solar atmosphere: differences between a polar coronal hole and its equatorial extension
4/10
UNIVERSITY DAY
4/17
Hans
R. Gupta, E. O'Shea, D. Banerjee, M. Popescu, J. Doyle, On the statistical detection of propagating waves in polar coronal holes
4/24
Adam
S. Regnier, Relationship between photospheric currents and coronal magnetic helicity for force-free bipolar fields
5/1
Jason
Jason's research review: observing coronal loops.
References: 1) D. Tripathi, H. E. Mason, B. N. Dwivedi, G. Del Zanna, P. R. Young, On active region loops: Hinode/EIS observations
2) J. A. Klimchuk, Coronal Loop Models and Those Annoying Observations!

Fall 2008 Schedule:

Date
Discussion leader
Article
9/2
Introduction
9/9
Silvina
A.D. Crouch and G. Barnes, Resolving the Azimuthal Ambiguity in Vector Magnetogram Data with the Divergence-Free Condition: Theoretical Examination
9/16
Sabrina
W. D. Pesnell, Predictions of Solar Cycle 24
9/23
Ravindra
C. Karoff and H. Kjeldsen, Evidence That Solar Flares Drive Global Oscillations in the Sun
9/30
Andres
R. Cameron and M. Schussler, Solar Cycle Prediction Using Precursors and Flux Transport Models
10/7
Anny
J. Jing, J. Chae, and H. Wang, Spatial Distribution of Magnetic Reconnection in the 2006 December 13 Solar Flare as Observed by Hinode
10/14
Adam
A. Lopez Ariste, G. Aulanier, B. Schmieder, and A. Sainz Dalda, First observation of bald patches in a filament channel and at a barb endpoint
10/21
Masha
E. P. Kontar, I. G. Hannah, and A. L. MacKinnon, Chromospheric magnetic field and density structure measurements using hard X-rays in a flaring coronal loop
10/28
Lucas
L. Fletcher and H. S. Hudson, Impulsive phase flare energy transport by large-scale alfven waves and the electron acceleration problem
11/4
Election Day
11/11
Veteran's Day
11/18
Dibyendu
Farewell Address
C.J. Schrijver and Y. Liu, The Global Solar Magnetic Field Through a Full Sunspot Cycle: Observations and Model Results
11/25
Wenjuan
J. Chae, Y. E. Litvinenko, T. Sakurai, Determination of Magnetic Diffusivity from High-Resolution Solar Magnetograms
12/2
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No SJC
12/9
Lewis
M. J. Aschwanden, An Observational Test That Disproves Coronal Nanoflare Heating Models

Spring 2008 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/22 Organizational Meeting Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
1/29 Masha Kazachenko Paper: Theoretical Predictions of X-Ray and Extreme-UV Flare Emissions Using a Loss-of-Equilibrium Model of Solar Eruptions, by Reeves, Warren, & Forbes
2/5 Silvina Guidoni Paper: Magnetic Field Properties of Flux Cancellation Sites, by M. Kubo and T. Shimizu
2/12 Andrés Muñoz Paper: The Outer Solar Atmosphere During the Maunder Minimum: a Stellar Perspective, by P. G. Judge and S. H. Saar
2/19 Tom Rust Paper: Are Constant Loop Widths an Artifact of the Background and the Spatial Resolution? by M. C. Lopez Fuentes, P. Demoulin, and J. A. Klimchuk
2/26 Jason Scott Paper: On the Size of Structures in the Solar Corona by C. E. DeForest
3/4 Sabrina Savage Paper: The relative timing of supra-arcade downflows in solar flares by Khan et al.
3/11 No SJC SPRING BREAK
3/18 Trae Winter cancelled
3/25 Ravindra Belur Paper: Chromospheric Alfvenic Waves Strong Enough to Power the Solar Wind by B. De Pontieu et al.
4/1 Trae Winter Paper: Motion OF 3~V6 keV Non-thermal Sources Along the Legs of a Flare Loop by Sui et al., 2006
4/8 Dibyendu Nandi Paper: Overview of the Workshop on "Solar variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment"
4/15 Lewis Fox Paper: Stereoscopic Spectroscopy for Efficient Spectral Imaging and Magnetography by DeForest et al.
4/22 Lucas Tarr Paper: Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows by Bart De Pontieu et.al.
4/29 Ivy Merriot Paper: TBD

Fall 2007 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
8/28 Organizational Meeting Time: 2:10pm - 3:00pm
9/4 Silvina Guidoni Kliem and Török, Torus Instability
9/11 Ravindra Litvinenko, Chae, and Park, Flux Pile-Up Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Photosphere
9/18 Dana Longcope Arber, Haynes, and Leake, Emergence of a Flux Tube through a Partially Ionized Solar Atmosphere
9/25 David McKenzie Introduction to MSU Resident Hinode Archive
10/2 Andrés Muñoz Yeates, Nandy, and Mackay, Exploring the Physical Basis of Solar Cycle Predictions: Flux Transport Dynamics and Persistence of Memory in Advection versus Diffusion Dominated Solar Convection Zones
10/9 Colin Beveridge Barnes, On The Relationship Between Coronal Magnetic Null Points and Solar Eruptive Events
10/16 Jason Scott Parfrey and Menou, The Origin of Solar Activity in the Tachocline
10/23 Tom Rust Mariska et al., Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer Observations of Solar Active Region Dynamics
10/30 Anna Malanushenko Zhang, Flyer, and Low, Magnetic Field Confinement in the Corona: The Role of Magnetic Helicity Accumulation
11/6 Charles Kankelborg Coronal Tomography with STEREO (+TRACE )
11/13 Ryan Collins Regnier and Priest, Free Magnetic Energy in Solar Active Regions above the Minimum-Energy Relaxed State
11/20 Lucas Tarr Crouch, Charbonneau, and Thibault, Supergranulation as an Emergent Length Scale
11/27 Masha Kazachenko Liu, Norton, and Scherrer, A Note on Saturation Seen in the MDI/SOHO Magnetograms
12/4 Greg Gabrielson Harvey, Branston, Henney, and Keller, Seething Horizontal Magnetic Fields in the Quiet Solar Photosphere
12/11 No SJC Finals Week

Spring 2007 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/22 Organizational Meeting Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm
1/29 Dibyendu Nandi Usoskin, et al., Solar activity, cosmic rays and the Earth's temperature: A millennium-scale comparison
2/5 Colin Beveridge Su, Golub, and Van Ballegooijen, A Statistical Study of Shear Motion of the Footpoints in Two-Ribbon Flares
2/12 Sabrina Savage Wu, Huang, and Tang, The Influence of Ion-Acoustic Turbulence on the Electron Acceleration in the Reconnecting Current Sheet
2/19 No SJC President's Day
2/26 Silvina Guidoni Low, Spontaneous Current Sheets in an Ideal Hydromagnetic Fluid
3/5 Jonathan Cirtain First-light results on Hinode/XRT observations of jets
3/12 No SJC Spring Break
3/19 Trae Winter Jiang, Liu, Liu, and Petrosian, Evolution of the Loop-Top Source of Solar Flares: Heating and Cooling Processes
3/26 Andrew Holt Demoulin, Extending the Concept of Separatrices to QSLs for Magnetic Reconnection
4/2 Maria Kazachenko Fletcher, Hannah, Hudson, Metcalf, A TRACE White Light and RHESSI Hard X-ray Study of Flare Energetics
4/9 Tom Rust De Pontieu, et al., Rapid Temporal Variability of Faculae: High-Resolution Observations and Modeling
4/16 Anna Malanushenko Sheeley, Warren, and Wang, The Origin of Postflare Loops
4/23 Andrés Muñoz Ternullo, The Butterfly Diagram Fine Structure
4/30 Angela Des Jardins Temmer, Veronig, Vrsnak, Miklenic, Energy Release Rates Along Halpha Flare Ribbons and the Location of Hard X-ray Sources
5/7 No SJC Finals Week

Fall 2006 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
8/29 Organizational Meeting
9/5 Andrew Holt Wiegelmann and Inhester, Magnetic Stereoscopy
9/12 Colin Beveridge Barnes and Leka, Photospheric Magnetic Field Properties of Flaring Versus Flare-Quiet Active Regions III. Magnetic Charge Topology Models
9/19 Angela DesJardins Hurfurd, et al., Gamma-Ray Imaging of the 2003 October/November Solar Flares
9/26 Anya Malanushenko Keller, et al., On the Origin of Solar Faculae
10/3 Andres Munoz Holzwarth, Mackay, and Jardine, The impact of meridional circulation on stellar butterfly diagrams and polar caps
10/10 Masha Kazachenko Bogachev and Somov, Comparison of the Fermi and Betatron Acceleration Efficiencies in Collapsing Magnetic Traps
10/17 Jason Scott Doyle, et al., Study of a transient siphon flow in a cold loop
10/24 Silvina Guidoni Dasso, et al., A new model-independent method to compute magnetic helicity in magnetic clouds
10/31 Sabrina Savage Nitta, Magnetic reynolds number dependence of reconnection rate and flow structure of the self-similar evolution model of fast magnetic reconnection
11/7 No SJC Election Day -- Campus closed
11/14 Ravindra Hagenaar and Shine, Moving Magnetic Features Around Sunspots
11/21 Dibyendu Nandi Dikpati, de Toma, and Gilman, Predicting the strength of solar cycle 24 using a flux-transport dynamo-based tool
11/28 Tim Howard TBD
12/5 Trae Winter Li and Habbal, Coronal loops heated by turbulence-driven Alfven waves
12/12 No SJC Finals Week

Spring 2006 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/17 Organizational Meeting
1/24 Tongjiang Wang Research Seminar: Waves and Oscillations in Coronal Loops
1/31 Silvina Guidoni Schussler and Rempel, The Dynamical Disconnection of Sunspots from their Magnetic Roots
2/7 Andrew Holt Amari, Luciani, and Aly, Non-Current-Free Coronal Closure of Subphotospheric MHD Models
2/14 Andres Munoz Tokman and Bellan, Three-dimensional Model of the Structure and Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections
2/21 Dana Longcope Research Seminar: A Dynamical Model of Separator Current Sheet Formation
2/28 Masha Kazachenko Komm, et al., Kinetic Helicity Density in Solar Subsurface Layers and Flare Activity of Active Regions
3/7 Angela DesJardins Kontar, et al., Compton Backscattered and Primary X-rays from Solar Flares: Angle Dependent Green's Function Correction for Photospheric Albedo
3/14 No SJC Spring Break
3/21 Jason Scott Welsch, Magnetic Flux Cancellation and Coronal Magnetic Energy
3/28 Sabrina Savage Huang and Lin, Quasi-periodic Reversals of Radio Polarization at 17 GHz Observed in the 2002 April 21 Solar Event
4/4 Dibyendu Nandi Leka, Fan, and Barnes, On the Availability of Sufficient Twist in Solar Active Regions to Trigger the Kink Instability
4/11 Trae Winter Bradshaw and Mason, A Self Consistent Treatment of Radiation in Coronal Loop Modeling
4/18 Anya Malanushenko Chou and Ladenkov, Evolution of Solar Subsurface Meridional Flows in the Declining Phase of Cycle 23
4/25 Piet Martens Magnetic Reorientation and Spontaneous Formation of Tangential Discontinuities in Deformed Magnetic Fields
5/2 No SJC Finals Week

Fall 2005 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
8/30 Organizational Meeting
9/6 Dibyendu Nandi Fan, Coronal Mass Ejections as Loss of Confinement of Kinked Magnetic Flux Ropes
9/13 Dana Longcope Pariat, Demoulin, and Berger, Photospheric Flux Density of Magnetic Helicity
9/20 Andrew Holt Schrijver and van Ballejooijen, Is the Quiet-Sun Corona a Quasi-Steady, Force-Free Environment
9/27 Andres Munoz Solanki and Krivova, Can solar variability explain global warming since 1970?
10/4 Jason Scott Mackay and van Ballegooijen, New Results in Modeling the Hemispheric Pattern of Solar Filaments
10/11 Silvina Guidoni Reeves and Forbes, Predicted Light Curves for a Model of Solar Eruptions
10/18 Trae Winter Noglik, Walsh, and Ireland, Indirect Calculation of the Magnetic Reconnection Rate from Flare Loops
10/25 Angela DesJardins Veronig, et al., X-Ray Sources and Magnetic Reconnection in the X3.9 Flare of 2003 November 3 [In Press]
11/1 Anya Malanushenko Donea and Lindsey, Seismic Emission from the Solar Flares of 2003 October 28 and 29
11/8 Tim Howard Research Talk: Observations of CME'S and ICME'S from 0-1 AU
11/15 Sabrina Savage Takasaki, et al., A Quantitative Study of the Homologous Flares on 2000 November 24
11/22 Masha Kazachenko Williams, et al., Eruption of a Kink-Unstable Filament in NOAA Active Region 10696
11/29 B. Ravindra DeRosa and Toomre, Evolution of Solar Supergranulation
12/6 Richard Canfield Lynch, et al., Solar Cycle-Dependent Helicity Transport by Magnetic Clouds
12/13 No SJC Finals Week

Spring 2005 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/18 Organizational meeting
1/25 Alisdair Davey Virtual Solar Observatory
2/1 Trae Winter Bloomfield, et al., Wavelet Phase Coherence Analysis: Application to a Quiet-Sun Magnetic Element
2/8 Piet Martens McIntosh, Patterns and Dynamics of Solar Magnetic Fields and HeI Coronal Holes in Cycle 23
2/15 Andrew Holt Lites and Socas-Navarro, Characterization of Magnetic Flux in the Quiet Sun II: The Internetwork Fields at High Angular Resolution
2/22 Dana Longcope Fletcher, Pollock, and Potts, Tracking of TRACE Ultraviolet Flare Footpoints
3/1 Dibyendu Nandi Brandenburg, The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear
3/8 Angela DesJardins Fletcher, et al., Evidence for the Flare Trigger Site and Three-Dimensional Reconnection in Multiwavelength Observations of a Solar Flare
3/15 No SJC Spring Break
3/22 Colin Beveridge Priest, Heyvaerts, and Title, A Flux-Tube Model for Solar Coronal Heating Driven by the Magnetic Carpet
3/29 T.J. Madjarska, Doyle, and van Driel-Gesztelyi, Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection Along Coronal Hole Boundaries
4/5 Silvina Guidoni Louarn, et al., Cluster Observations of Complex 3D Magnetic Structures at the Magnetopause
4/12 Andres Munoz Solanki, et al., Unusual Activity of the Sun During Recent Decades Compared to the Previous 11,000 Years
4/19 Sabrina Savage TBD
4/26 Loren Acton TBD
5/3 No SJC Finals Week

Fall 2004 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/1 Organizational meeting
9/7 Charles Kankelborg DePontieu, Tarbell, and Erdelyi, Correlations on Arcsecond Scales Between Chromospheric and Transition Region Emission in Active Regions
9/14 Andrew Holt Schrijver and Title, The Magnetic Connection Between the Solar Photosphere and the Corona
9/21 Dana Longcope Gilman and Miesch, Limits to Penetration of Meridional Circulation Below the Solar Convection Zone
9/28 Richard Canfield Fan and Gibson, Numerical Simulations of Three-dimensional Coronal Magnetic Fields Resulting from the Emergence of Twisted Magnetic Flux Tubes
10/5 Patricia Jibben Bao, Sakurai, and Suematsu, The Sources of Magnetic Field Twist in Solar Active Regions
10/12 Dibyendu Nandi Helioseismology
10/19 Dave McKenzie Temmer, et al., On the 24-Day Period Observed in Solar Flare Occurrence
10/26 Lewis Fox Moran and Davila, Three-Dimensional Polarimetric Imaging of Coronal Mass Ejections
11/2 No SJC Election Day
11/9 Silvina Guidoni Wheatland and Farvis, Testing Circuit Models for the Energies of Coronal Magnetic Field Configurations
11/16 Angela DesJardins Sui, Holman, and Dennis, Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Three Homologous Solar Flares Observed by RHESSI
11/23 Colin Beveridge Schrijver, et al., The Coronal Heating Mechanism as Identified by Full-Sun Visualizations
11/30 Trae Winter Landi and Landini, Models for Solar Magnetic Loops III: Dynamic Models and Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer Observations
12/7 Charles Kankelborg Klimchuk, Tanner, and Moortel, Coronal Seismology and the Propagation of Acoustic Waves Along Coronal Loops
12/14 No SJC Finals Week

SJC Spring 2004 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/20 Organizational meeting
1/27 Ivy Merriot Filament/Sigmoid Project
2/3 Piet Martens Kopp and Pneuman, Magnetic Reconnection in the Corona and the Loop Prominance Phenomena
See also H.Hudson's Grand Archive of Flare and CME Cartoons
2/10 Angela DesJardins Hurford, et.al, The RHESSI Imaging Concept
2/17 Louise Harra Harra and Sterling, Imaging and Spectroscopic Investigations of a Solar Coronal Wave: Properties of the Wave Front and Associated Erupting Material
2/24 Keiji Yoshimura "Observation with microlens array" Background information on the web
3/2 Andrew Holt Holman, Acceleration of Runaway Electrons and Joule Heating in Solar Flares
3/9 Dibyendu Nandy Holder, Canfield, McMullen, and Nandy, Of Tilt and Twist
3/16 No SJC Spring Break
3/23 Trae Winter Lin, et al., RHESSI Observations of Particle Acceleration and Energy Release in an Intense Solar Gamma-Ray Line Flare
3/30 Jonathan Cirtain Emslie, Miller, and Brown, An Explanation for the Different Locations of Electron and Ion Acceleration in Solar Flares
4/6 Trish Jibben Litvinenko, Particle Acceleration by a Time-Varying Electric Field in Merging Magnetic Fields
4/13 Adria Updike Asai, et al., Downflow Motions Associated with Impulsive Nonthermal Emissions Observed in the 2002 July 23 Solar Flare
4/20 Dave McKenzie Shibata, et al., Hot-Plasma Ejections Associated with Compact-Loop Solar Flares
4/27 Richard Canfield Fisher, Canfield, and McClymont, Flare Loop Radiative Hydrodynamics. VII, Dynamics of the Thick-Target Heated Chromosphere
5/4 No SJC Finals Week

SJC Fall 2003 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/4 Organizational meeting
9/9 Trae Winter Del Zanna, Solar Active Regions:the Footpoints of 1 MK Loops
9/16 Angela DesJardins Antiochos, Karpen, and DeVore, Coronal Magnetic Field Relaxation by Null-Point Reconnection
9/23 Jonathan Cirtain Aschwanden, The Differential Emission Measure in the Multiloop Corona
9/30 K.D. Leka Leka, The Vector Magnetic Fields and Thermodynamics of Sunspot Light Bridges: The Case for Field-Free Disruptions in Sunspots
10/7 Andrew Holt Leka and Metcalf, Active-Region Magnetic Structure Observed in the Photosphere and Chromosphere
10/8 Duncan Mackay Special Meeting at 3:10pm
Suggested Readings:
Mackay, Priest, and Lockwood, Evolution of the Sun's Open Magnetic Flux - I. A Single Bipole-AND-
Evolution of the Sun's Open Magnetic Flux - II. Full Solar Cycle Simulations
10/14 Steve Saar "Stellar Magnetic Cycles: What We Know from Observations"
Suggested Reading: Saar and Brandenburg, Time Evolution of the Magnetic Activity Cycle Period. II. Results for an Expanded Stellar Sample
10/21 Dibyendu Nandi "Coronal Heating: Theory and Observations"
Suggested Reading: Fisher, et.al, Coronal Heating in Active Regions as a Function of Global Magnetic Variables
10/28 Patricia Jibben Labonte, Mickey, and Leka, The Imaging Vector Magnetograph at Haleakala: II Reconstruction of the Stokes Spectra
11/4 Adria Updike Nandy, Hahn, Canfield, and Longcope, Detection of a Taylor-like Plasma Relaxation Process in the Sun
11/11 No SJC Veteran's Day
11/18 Stephane Regnier Bleybel, Amari, van Driel-Gesztelyi, and Leka, Global Budget for an Eruptive Active Region: I. Equilibrium Reconstruction Approach
11/25 Silvina Guidoni Chandrasekhar and Kendall, On Force-Free Magnetic Fields
12/2 Jason Scott Testa, Peres, Reale, and Orlando, Temperature and Density Structure of Hot and Cool Loops Derived From the Analysis of TRACE Data
12/9 Lewis Fox Tsurutani, Gonzalez, Lakhina, and Alex, The Extreme Magnetic Storm of 1-2 September 1859
12/16 No SJC Finals Week

SJC Spring 2003 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/21 Organizational meeting
1/28 Dana Longcope Demoulin & Berger, Magnetic Energy and Helicity Fluxes at the Photospheric Level
2/4 Tetsuya Magara Abbett & Fisher, A Coupled Model for the Emergence of Active Region Magnetic Flux into the Solar Corona
2/11 Jonathan Cirtain Linton & Antiochos, Theoretical Energy Analysis of Reconnecting Twisted Magnetic Flux Tubes
2/18 Trae Winter Yamamoto, et al., Analysis of the Temperature and Emission Measure of Solar Coronal Arcades and Test of a Scaling Law of Flare/Arcade Loop Length
2/25 Alisdair Davey Zanna & Mason, Solar and Stellar High-resolution X-ray Spectra: Plasma Diagnostics with the CHIANTI Atomic Database
3/4 Andrew Holt Hagenaar, Shrijver, and Title, The Properties of Small Magnetic Regions on the Solar Surface and the Implications for the Solar Dynamo(s)
3/11 No SJC Spring Break
3/18 Loren Acton Harrison, et al., Coronal Dimming and the Coronal Mass Ejection Onset
3/25 Adria Updike Calculation of Magnetic Helicity in a Force-Free Field
4/1 Jun Sato Yokoyama et al., Microwave Observations of the Rapid Propagation of Nonthermal Sources in a Solar Flare by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph
4/8 Dibyendu Nandi Blackman & Brandenburg, Doubly Helical Coronal Ejections from Dynamos and Their Role in Sustaining the Solar Cycle
4/15 David McKenzie Wang, et al., Rapid Changes of Magnetic Fields Associated with Six X-Class Flares
4/22 Charles Kankelborg Aschwanden & Schrijver, Analytic Approximations to Hydrostatic Solutions and Scaling Laws of Coronal Loops
4/29 Richard Canfield Canfield, On the Origin of Activity in Solar-Type Stars
5/6 No SJC Final Exams

SJC Fall 2002 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/3 Organizational meeting
9/10 Jonathan Cirtain Karpen, et al., Are Magnetic Dips Necessary for Prominence Formation?
9/17 Rebecca McMullen Moon, et al., Statistical Evidence for Sympathetic Flares
9/24 Melissa Cirtain Warren & Warshall, Temperature and Density Measurements in a Quiet Coronal Streamer
10/1 Andrew Holt Schrijver & Title, The Topology of a Mixed-Polarity Potential Field, and Inferences for the Heating of the Quiet Solar Corona
10/8 Amy Winebarger Solar EUV Active Region Loops: Observations and Models
10/15 Dibyendu Nandi Review of recent progress in dynamo theory
10/22 Bob Leamon Larson, et al., Tracing the Topology of the October 18-20, 1995, Magnetic Cloud with ~0.1 - 100 keV Electrons
10/29 David McKenzie Bastian, The Coronal Mass Ejection of 1998 April 20: Direct Imaging at Radio Wavelengths
11/5 Election Day, no classes
11/12 Stephane Regnier Kusano, et al., Measurement of Magnetic Helicity Injection and Free Energy Loading into the Solar Corona
11/19 J. Lewis Fox Li, et al., Persistent Coronal Streamers and the Identification of Sunspot Clusters
11/26 Dibyendu Nandi The Solar Clock
12/3 Angela DesJardins Veronig, et al, Relative Timing of Solar Flares Observed at Different Wavelengths
12/10 Sarah Jones REU project: currents in flux ropes
12/17 No SJC Final Exams

SJC Spring 2002 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/30 Organizational meeting
2/7 Charles Kankelborg Andretta et al., formation of He II 304 line
2/12 (11 AM ROBH102) Katharine Reeves Modeling the Cooling of Post-Flare Loops
2/21 Rebecca McMullen Plasma beta above a solar active region (G. Allen Gary, 2001 Sol Phys 203:71)
2/28 Trae Winter TBD
3/7 Peter Hoyng Stochastic Differential Equations (of interest for the Solar Dynamo)
3/14 No SJC Spring Break
3/21 J. Lewis Fox Athay, "An Ionization Instability at the Base of the Corona"
3/28 Alisdair Davey TBD
4/4 Meredith Wills-Davey TBD
4/11 Jonathan Cirtain CDS data analysis: background subtraction
4/18 Jun Sato New results from HESSI
4/25 Trae Winter TBD
5/2 Rebecca McMullen TBD
5/9 No SJC Final Exams

SJC Fall 2001 schedule:

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SJC Spring 2001 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/31 R. Leamon Webb et al., Relationship of halo CMEs, magnetic clouds and magnetic storms
2/7 B. Welsch van Driel-Gresztelyi et al., Emergence of a U-loop - ... 
2/14 C. DeForest Fluxels, Fluxids, Fluxinis...
2/21 E. Noonan Athay, Are spicules related to coronal heating?
2/28 B. Larsen Rovira et al., Bright points and subflares in Ultraviolet lines and X-rays
3/7 J.L. Fox Letfus, Sunspot and auroral activity during maunder minimum
3/14 Spring Break
3/21 R. McMullen Petrovay, What makes the Sun tick? The origin of the solar cycle
3/28 E. Noonan Litivenko and Wheatland, Modeling the rate of occurence of solar flares
4/4 A. Davey Sturrock et al., Histogram analysis of GALLEX, GNO, and SAGE neutrino data:...
4/11 D. Alexander Observations of chromospheric evaporation
4/18 R. McMullen McDonald et al., The energy supply to x-ray bright points
4/25 Dr. Jun Sato
5/2 A. Coleman

SJC Fall 2000 schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/13 B. Welsch DeVore, Magnetic Helicity Generation by Solar Differential Rotation
9/20 M. Wills-Davey Aschwanden & Nitta, The effect of hydrostatic weighting ...
9/27 D. Longcope Lou, Rossby-type wave-induced periodicities in flare activities... (ApJ 540 1102)
10/4 P. Martens Antiochos, et al., The thermal nonequilibrium of prominences  
10/11 R. McMullen Schrijver & Title, On the formation of polar spots on Sun-like stars
10/18 E. Noonan Litwin & Rosner, Coronal scale-height enhancement by MHD waves
10/25 T. Magara Abbett et al., The 3d evolution of rising, twisted magnetic flux tubes...
11/1 Students Forbes, A review on the genisis of Coronal Mass Ejections
11/8 Students II Forbes, A review on the genisis of Coronal Mass Ejections (cont)
11/15 C. Kankelborg Klimchuk, Antiochos & Norton, Twisted coronal magnetic loops
11/22 - Thanksgiving
11/29 B. Welsch R. Kulsrud, Magnetic reconnection: Sweet-Parker vs. Petschek
12/6 D. Longcope Van ballegooijen et al., Mean Field model for the formation of filament channels on the Sun
12/13 D. McKenzie Tomczak, The analysis of hard X-ray radiation of flares with occulted footpoints

SJC, Spring 2000 Schedule:

 
Date  Discussant Paper
1/19 M. Wills-Davey Berger et al., Measurements of solar magnetic element dispersal...
1/26 E. Noonan Metcalf & Alexander, Coronal trapping of energetic flare particles...
2/2 B. Welsch Aschwanden et al., Time variability of the "quiet" Sun observed with TRACE...
2/9 R. McMullen Wood & Raymond, Resonant scattering of emission lines in coronal loops...
2/16 D. Longcope Shibata & Yohoyama, Origin of the universal correlation between [T & EM]
2/23 P. Martens loop scaling laws, RTV loops & cool loops
3/1 L. Acton Priest et al., A method to determine the heating method of the solar corona
3/8 T. Hideaki H-alpha & X-ray observations of prominence eruptions
3/15 - Spring break
3/22 B. Twiggs Student Satellite Projects
3/29 M. Wills-Davey Mandrini et al., Magnetic field and plasma scaling laws...
4/5 B. Welsch Gonzalez et al., Meridional flows from ring diagram analysis
4/12 R. McMullen Choudhuri & Dikpati, On the large-scale diffuse magnetic field of the Sun
4/19 E. Noonan Amari et al., A twisted flux rope model for CMEs and 2-ribbon flares
4/26 A. Davey A primer on spectral diagnositics

SJC Fall 1999, schedule:

 
Date  Discussant Paper
9/8 D. Longcope Aschwanden et al., Quadrupolar magnetic reconnection...
9/15 All students Miller et al., Critical Issues for understanding particle acceleration...
9/22 A. Davey Primer on Atomic Spectroscopy
9/29 B. Welsch Ishii et al., Emergence of a twisted magnetic flux bundle...
10/6 A. Pevtsov Sclichenmaier et al., Magnetic flux tubes evolving in sunspots
10/13 A. Burnette Wang, Network activity and the evaporative formation of polar plumes
10/20 E. Noonan D.Acton & R.Smithson, Solar imaging with a segmented adaptive mirror
10/27 P. Martens Nitta & Akiyama, Relation between flare-associated X-ray ejections & CMEs
11/3 B. Handy CCD technology
11/10 B. Welsch Chae, Non-coplanar magnetic reconnection as a magnetic twist origin
11/17 A. Burnette Falconer et al., Network coronal bright points...
11/24 Thanksgiving
12/1 M. Wills Thompson, et al., Observations of the Sept. 24, 1997 coronal flare waves
12/8 D. McKenzie

SJC Spring 1999, schedule:

Date Discussant Paper
1/20 L. Acton Bastian, Benz & Gary, Radio Emission from Solar Flares
1/27 A. Burnette Steinitz & Kunoff, Abundance modifications by the diamagnetic effect
2/3 P. Martens van Aalst et al., Can Streamer Blobs Prevent the Buildup of IMF,
2/10 M. Linton Twist & Writhe
2/17 A. Davey Whither the solar computers?
2/24 B. Welsch -
3/3 - -
3/10 D. McKenzie -
3/17 No meeting - Spring Break
3/24 D. Longcope Decadal Survey of Astronomy & Astrophysics
3/31 - -
4/7 - -
4/14 - -
4/21 - -
4/28 - -

Journal Club Fall 1998

Date Discussant Paper
9/9 M. Weber Judge et al., Evidence in support of the "nanoflare" picture...
9/16 B. Welsch Zirker et al., Global patterns or magnetic chirality
9/23 D. Longcope Fisher et al., Coronal heating in active regions...
9/30 A. Burnette Lindsey & Braun, The accoustic moat ...
10/7 M. Wills Donati, Magnetic cycles of HR 1099 and LQ Hydrae
10/14 M. Weber Antiochos, The magnetic topology of solar eruptions
10/21 B. Welsch Lee et al., Coronal currents, magnetic fields and heating...
10/28 A. Burnette Lites et al., Velocity and magnetic field fluctuations...
11/4 A. Davey Feldman, et al., High T lines in SUMER sprectra...
11/11 Veterans Day
11/18 All students DeLuca & Gilman, The Solar Dynamo
11/25 Thanksgiving
12/2 D. Longcope Van Ballegooijen et al., Magnetic flux transport ...
12/7 A.G. Emslie The role of protons v. electrons in the flare energy budget

Journal Club Spring 1998

Date Discussant Paper
1/21 D. Longcope Report from the Physics of Magnetic Reconnection Workshop
1/28 M. Weber Erofeev, The relationship between kinematics and spatial structure,,,
2/4 G.H. Fisher Griffiths, Fisher & Siegmund, An observational test of... a pressure guage
2/11 M. Wills Gudel et al. The X-ray sun in time... coronae of solar-type stars
2/18 B. Welsch Judith Lean and David Rind, The Sun and Climate
2/25 S. Sandborg Hassler, et al. Observations of polar plumes with SUMER
3/4 M. Weber Goode, et al. On the origin of solar oscillations
3/11 S. Sandborg Wang, Comparison of H-alpha and HeII 304 macrospicules
3/18 No meeting - Spring Break
3/25 M. Wills Schrijver et al., Sustaining the quiet photospheric flux...
4/1 L. Acton Murphy et al., Accelerated particle composition ...
4/8 I.J.D. Craig Personal views on reconnection
4/15 No Meeting (Masters d-fense: B. Welsch, 3:15 PM)
4/22 A. Pevtsov A magnetography primer II
4/29 B. Welsch Parameters & bag numbers

Journal Club Fall 1997

Date Discussant Paper
9/10 All Students Haisch & Schmidt, Advances in Solar-Stellar Atrophysics
9/17 B. Welsch Wolfson & Saran, Energetics of CMEs (preprint)
9/24 M. Weber Mackay et al. Force-Free and Potential Models of a Filament Channel...
10/1 R. Canfield Canfield & Reardon, Erruptive flare of 11/15/91
10/8 S. Sandborg Walsh, Bell & Hood Discrete random heating in coronal loops
10/15 M. Weber Cargill & Klimchuck, A nanoflare explanation for heating of coronal loops
10/22 B. Welsch Melrose, A Solar flare model based on ... current-carrying loops
10/29 M. Wills Topka et al. Properties of the smallest magnetic elements...
11/5 S. Sandborg Sheeley et al., Measurements of flow speeds in the solar corona...
11/12 TBA Howard, Solar active regions as diagnostics of subsurface conditions
11/19 D. Longcope Sterling & Hudson, YOHKOH observations of X-ray dimming... halo CMEs
11/26 Tom Turkey How to cook a succulent bird.
12/3 C. Kankelborg Falconer et al., Neutral-Line Magnetic Shear and Enhanced Coronal Heating...
12/10 A. Pevtsov A Magnetography primer