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Program

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SUNDAY, June 1

Evening [ Strand Union Building (SUB) Ballroom A ]
           05:30 PM - 08:30 PM, Opening Reception and Registration
                                Sponsored by MSU and UMBC
		

MONDAY, June 2

Morning Session [ Engineering and Physics Sciences (EPS) Building Room 103 ]
     Opening Plenary Session (Chair: Dibyendu Nandi)
           09:00 AM - 09:15 AM, MSU Welcome, 
                                University President Geoff Gamble
           09:15 AM - 09:30 AM, Opening Remarks and Information, 
                                Dibyendu Nandi (LOC) and W. Dean Pesnell (SOC)
           09:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Solar Dynamics Observatory, 
                                W. Dean Pesnell (Invited)

           10:00 AM - 10:25 AM  <<< COFFEE BREAK >>>
     Scientific Session 1.1: The Sun as a Star (Chair: Edward Guinan)
           10:30 AM - 11:00 AM, The Various Variations of Solar-like Stars, 
                                Steven Saar (Invited)
           11:00 AM - 11:30 PM, What does Helioseismology tell us about the Sun,
                                Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (Invited)
           11:30 PM - 12:00 PM, What Helioseismology can tell us about Changes
                                in the Solar Interior, Rachel Howe (Invited)
           12:00 PM - 12:30 PM, Solar Dynamo Models, 
                                Matthias Rempel (Invited)
           12:30 PM - 12:45 PM, Update to the Babcock-Leighton Solar Dynamo and
                                Use for Activity Predictions, Kenneth H. Schatten  

           12:45 PM - 02:00 PM  <<< LUNCH BREAK >>>
Afternoon Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
     Scientific Session 1.2: Solar Atmosphere and Magnetic Fields (Chair: Loren Acton)
           02:00 PM - 02:30 PM, Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere Revealed
                                by Hinode, Saku Tsuneta (Invited)
           02:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Magnetic Field Measurements, 
                                Yang Liu (Invited)
           03:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Observations of the Sun's Corona, 
                                Kathy Reeves (Invited)
           03:30 PM - 04:00 PM, The Sun's Magnetic Atmosphere, 
                                Dana Longcope (Invited)

           04:00 PM - 06:00 PM  <<< POSTER SESSION BEGINS and COFFEE BREAK >>>

Tuesday, June 3

Morning Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
     Scientific Session 1.3: Solar Radiative Output Variations and Modeling (Chair: Gary Chapman)
           09:00 AM - 09:30 AM, Solar Irradiance Variability Observed During
                                Solar Cycle 23, Tom Woods (Invited)
           09:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Solar Surface Magnetic Field-based Irradiance
                                Models, Sami Solanki (Invited)
           10:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Long-Term Variations in UV and EUV Solar Spectral
                                Irradiance, Linton Floyd (Invited)

           10:30 AM - 10:55 AM  <<< COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION >>>

           11:00 AM - 11:15 AM, The Flare Irradiance Spectral Model and its 
                                Contributions to the Studies of the Ionosphere 
                                and Thermosphere, Phillip Chamberlin 
           11:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Reconstruction of TSI from Broad Band Facular 
                                Contrast Measurements by the Solar Bolometric 
                                Imager, Pietro Bernasconi 
     Scientific Session 2.0: The Earth's Atmosphere and Space Environment (Chair: Doug Rabin)
           11:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Major Solar Energetic Particle Events of Solar 
                                Cycle 22 and 23: Intensities Above the Streaming 
                                Limit, David Lario (Invited)

           12:00 PM - 02:00 PM  <<< LUNCH BREAK >>>
Afternoon Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
           02:00 PM - 02:15 PM, Particle Precipitation Effects on the Southern 
                                Hemisphere Tropical/Subtropical Lower 
                                Stratosphere, Luis Eduardo Vieira
           02:15 PM - 02:30 PM, Solar Wind Control of Field-Aligned Current 
                                Dynamics, Yongli Wang

     Working Group I Meeting: Irradiance Variability, Modeling and 
                              Internal Processes, 
                              Convenor: Werner Schmutz  

           02:30 PM - 02:35 PM, Overview of WG-I and Topics of Discussion, 
                                Werner Schmutz
           02:35 PM - 03:05 PM, Physical Interpretation of Irradiance Variations,
                                Sabatino Sofia (Invited)
           03:05 PM - 03:20 PM, Can the Total Solar Irradiance be Reconstructed
                                from Solar Proxies, Thierry Dudok de Wit  
           03:20 PM - 03:35 PM, Can Flares Contribute to Total Solar Irradiance
                                Variations, Matthieu Kretzschmar
           03:35 PM - 03:50 PM, Invisible Sunspots and Implications for Space
                                Weather Monitoring of Solar Active Regions,
                                Silvia Dalla 
           03:50 PM - 04:05 PM, TSI Correlated with Sunspot Area, Sunspot Number,
                                and Group Sunspot Number at Different Temporal
                                Scales using Wavelet Analysis, Peter Wintoft 
           04:05 PM - 04:30 PM, Open Discussion (Including Poster Highlights)

           04:30 PM - 06:00 PM  <<< POSTER SESSION and COFFEE BREAK >>>
Evening [ SUB Ballroom A ]
           06:30 PM - 07:30 PM, Public Lecture
                                Global Climate Change: Is the Sun to blame? (Video)
                                Sami K. Solanki
           07:30 PM - 08:30 PM, Public Reception
                                Public events sponsored by the
                                MSU Office of the Provost

Wednesday, June 4

Morning Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
     Scientific Session 2.0: The Earth's Atmosphere and Space Environment (Continued...)
           09:00 AM - 09:30 AM, An Overview of the Impact of Energetic Particle 
                                Precipitation on the Mesosphere and Stratosphere, 
                                W. Dean Pesnell (for C. Jackman, Invited)
           09:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Influences of the 11-year Solar Cycle on the
                                Stratosphere and the Importance of the QBO,
                                Karin Labitzke (Invited)
           10:00 AM - 10:15 AM, The Effect of Galactic Cosmic Rays on the Middle
                                Atmosphere: A Study using the CMAM, Stella Melo

           10:15 AM - 10:55 AM  <<< COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION >>>
     Scientific Session 3.0: The Earth's Climate (Chair: W. Dean Pesnell)
           11:00 PM - 12:00 PM, Solar Variability and Climate Change,
                                Ulrich Cubasch (Invited)
           12:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Solar Influence on Climate in Observation and
                                IPCC Models, Ka-Kit Tung (Invited)
           12:30 PM - 12:45 PM, Variability of Solar Irradiance from UV to NIR
                                from GOME and SCHIAMACHY for use in GCMs,
                                Joseph Ambrose Pagaran

           12:45 PM - 02:00 PM  <<< LUNCH BREAK >>>

Afternoon Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]

     Working Group IV Meeting: Solar Influence on Climate,
                               Convenor: Ulrich Cubasch

           02:00 PM - 02:05 PM, Overview of WG-IV,
                                Ulrich Cubasch
           02:05 PM - 02:20 PM, On the Puzzle of Solar Cycle-QBO Interaction
                                in the Stratosphere, Ka-Kit Tung
           02:20 PM - 02:35 PM, Is Western U.S. Precipitation Regulated
                                by the Solar Dynamo, James Johnstone
           02:35 PM - 02:50 PM, Solar Weather and Terrestrial Climate:
                                Works in Progress, Richard Wolfson
           02:50 PM - 03:05 PM, SC and QBO Effects on Planetary Wave Amplitude
                                from Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations and
                                ERA-40, Stergios Misios
           03:05 PM - 03:20 PM, Reconstruction of Solar Magnetic Activity during
                                the Holocene based on Cosmogenic Radionuclides,
                                Friedhelm Steinhilber
           03:20 PM - 04:00 PM  Open Discussions
                                Ulrich Cubasch (Moderator)

           04:00 PM - 06:00 PM  <<< POSTER SESSION and COFFEE BREAK >>>

Thursday, June 5

Morning Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]

     Working Group II Meeting: Progress in Space Weather Modeling and 
                               Forecasting,
                               Convenors: Dana Longcope and David Webb

           09:00 AM - 09:05 AM, Overview of WG-II and Topics of Discussion, 
                                Dana Longcope
           09:05 AM - 09:30 AM, Toward Data Assimilation Models of Active 
                                Regions, David J. Bercik (Invited)
           09:30 AM - 09:55 AM, Modeling and Forecasting the Solar Wind,     
                                Dusan Odstrcil (Invited)
           09:55 AM - 10:20 AM, Data Assimilation Models for Space Weather,
                                R.W. Schunk (Invited)
           10:20 AM - 10:50 AM, Open Discussions, 
                                D.W. Longcope (Moderator) 

           10:50 AM - 11:05 AM  <<< COFFEE BREAK >>>

     Working Group III Meeting: Long-Term Solar Variability, Solar-Stellar 
                                Connection and Space Climate, Convenor: 
                                Dibyendu Nandi


           11:10 AM - 11:15 AM, Overview of WG-III and Topics of Discussion,
                                Dibyendu Nandi
           11:15 AM - 11:35 AM, The Faint Young Sun Paradox,
                                Piet Martens (Invited)
           11:35 AM - 11:55 AM, Effects of the Young Sun's Strong XUV Radiation 
                                and Plasma Fluxes on the Young Earth, 
                                Edward Guinan (Invited)
           11:55 AM - 12:15 PM, Long-Term Solar Activity Reconstruction: 
                                Grand Minima and Maxima,
                                Sami Solanki (Invited)
           12:15 PM - 12:35 PM, Solar Activity During Grand Minima: Open Flux 
                                Variation and State of the Heliosphere, 
                                Duncan H. Mackay (Invited)
           12:35 PM - 12:50 PM, Transition of the Schwabe/Hale Solar Cycles 
                                Associated with Long-Term Variation of Solar 
                                Activity, Hiroko Miyahara
           12:50 PM - 01:00 PM, Open Discussions,
                                Dibyendu Nandi (Moderator)

           01:00 PM - 01:45 PM  <<< LUNCH BREAK >>>
Free Afternoon
           01:45 PM - 05:00 PM, Recreational Events
                                Transport for events start and end at 
                                SUB Ballrooms
Evening [ Deer Park Chalet, Bridger Mountains ]
           07:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Workshop Banquet
                                Sponsored by the MSU Offices of the President
                                and the Vice-President for Research

                                Transport will be arranged from SUB Ballrooms, 
                                hotels and dormitories to the banquet venue 
                                and back (pick-ups start at 05:30 PM)
                                Note that attendees who have made their own hotel
                                reservations will be picked up from the SUB.

Friday, June 6

Morning Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
     Ending Plenary Session (Chair: Loren Acton)
           09:00 AM - 09:30 AM, NASA Earth Science Plans, 
                                Jack Kaye (Invited)
           09:30 AM - 10:00 AM, The SOLAR-C Mission,
                                Saku Tsuneta (Invited)
           10:00 AM - 10:30 AM, The PICARD Mission, 
                                Gerard Thuillier (Invited)

           10:30 AM - 10:55 AM  <<< COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION >>>

           11:00 AM - 11:30 AM, PREMOS/PICARD,
                                Werner Schmutz (Invited)
           11:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Solar Orbiter,
                                Daniel Mueller (Invited)
           12:00 PM - 12:30 PM, Workshop Summary, 
                                Douglas Rabin (Invited)

           12:30 PM - 02:00 PM  <<< LUNCH BREAK >>>

Afternoon Session [ SUB Ballrooms A and B ]
            02:00 PM - 03:00 PM  <<< POSTER SESSION >>>
            03:00 PM - 04:00 PM  <<< COFFEE BREAK, POSTER REMOVAL, 
                                     LWS MEETING REPORT and EDITORIAL DISCUSSIONS>>>
            04:00 PM: End of Workshop


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