Time: Wed 12:00
Place: Dayton Conference Room (EPS 258)
When appropriate, these discussions will be replaced by an informal presentation of personal research results by MSU students, faculty, or scientific visitors.
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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 |