Scientific Program:

All sessions will be held in the Strand Union Building on the Bozeman campus. The usual audio-visual equipment will be available, including a video projector in the meeting room. If you have special requirements for your presentation or poster paper, please so indicate when you submit your abstract.

Contributions on all topics relating to solar physics are welcome. The first two days of the meeting will feature sessions on the principal scientific results from SOHO experiments. Friday through Saturday afternoon the SOHO focus will be the coronal observations and on Saturday afternoon, the helioseismology observations. Contributions based on related theoretical work and ground-based observations, especially GONG, are encouraged.

On Monday there will be a session devoted to image processing in solar physics. The topics will include data compression, image reconstruction, resolution enhancement, pattern recognition, stereoscopy, and any other topic related to the generation, transmission, and analysis of solar image data. The goal is to make the general solar community more aware of some of the techniques and algorithms required to deal with the large volumes of data inherent in contemporary solar image data sets. Papers dealing with topics such as maximum entropy method, unsharp masking, dynamic imaging, pixon reconstruction, Fourier-transform imaging, wavelets, and fractal image compression are encouraged. Abstracts for this session should be submitted under paper category 8, "Image Processing." This will be a good opportunity to discuss successes and problems with image data processing and analysis.

The NASA Space Science Advisory Committee, in May at its Breckinridge meeting, will deal with the NASA/OSS Road Map. On Saturday evening, we plan a session devoted to the Solar Connections theme of the Road Map. George Withbroe will give an overview of the solar connections program as a whole (i.e., context for solar missions). Others will discuss the prime candidates for new starts, Solar-B, Stereo, and Solar Probe. This will be an important session for understanding the future of solar physics at NASA.

An informal lunchtime session on proposal writing is being organzied by Judy Karpen for Saturday.

An informal lunchtime session on the NAS/NRC Solar Physics Study is being organized by Gene Parker for Monday.

The SPD business session will be held on Monday evening. Items for the agenda should be given to Jack Thomas before the meeting.

The logistics of the meeting look very promising. We will have no parallel oral sessions. Posters will have a 1.8x1.8 meter display area (pins provided) and will be up during the entire meeting. Coffee breaks and lunches will be conveniently close to the poster rooms.