Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

Coordinator: Charles Kankelborg kankel@mithra.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 10:00-10:50 AM

Place: Dayton Conference Room (EPS 258) 


In this seminar, graduate student and faculty participants will review recent journal articles and preprints in order to familiarize themselves with the "state of the art" of the major observational and theoretical research topics of the discipline and the MSU research program. From time to time, "classic" papers of enduring value may be discussed. The typical weekly meeting will consist of a one-hour critical discussion of a journal article, copies of which will have been distributed to, and read by, all participants during the previous week. Each discussion will be informally led by a student or faculty member. Participants will be expected to contribute actively to all discussions, and to lead an occasional one on a rotating basis.

When appropriate, these discussions will be replaced by an informal presentation of personal research results by MSU students, faculty, or scientific visitors. 


Here is a list of suggested titles from the current literature. 
Here is a list of oft-cited papers on flares and their related phenomena.

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

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Canfield
  3. Cirtain
  4. DesJardins
  5. Fox
  6. Guidoni
  7. Holt
  8. Jibben
  9. Kankelborg
  10. Klapper (Campus Mail to Math Department)
  11. Klumpar
  12. Larsen, Brian
  13. Larson, Michelle
  14. Longcope
  15. Martens
  16. McKenzie (Electronic copy only)
  17. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  18. Nandi
  19. Scott, Jason (Place copy in SJC envelope in IPL)
  20. Updike
  21. Winter
  22. Yoshimura

Past Schedules:

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