RHESSI XI - registration open

Eduard Kontar Eduard.Kontar at glasgow.ac.uk
Tue Jan 18 06:39:07 MST 2011


Dear Colleagues,

This is a brief announcement that the workshop registration is now open,

http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/

so please register and please pass this on to others who may be interested.

Location/dates/ timetable
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The meeting will be held in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Kelvin
Building, University of Glasgow  [founded 1451 -  past Professors include
Alexander Wilson (Wilson Effect), James Watt,  Lord Kelvin, and Peter
Sweet.

The welcome reception with drinks/snacks will be organised near the 
workshop venue on April 3, 2011 at 6pm. The workshop will start on 
Monday (April 4) at 9am and will be finished on Thursday (April 7) at 5 pm.

The general timetable is available here: 
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/prog.php

Registration/abstract submission
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The workshop registration/abstract submission is open now.

http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/reg.php

The registration fee (covering reception, workshop dinner and coffee 
breaks/refreshments)
Standard fee 195 GBP
Student  fee  120 GBP

Glasgow Travel and Accommodation
--------------------------------
The city airport is served by several transatlantic carriers and several 
direct  European connections while nearby Prestwick supports various 
transatlantic charter companies. There are fast and frequent direct air, 
rail, and coach
services to London, Manchester and other UK destinations. Early April
precedes the main holiday and conference season, so accommodation should 
be fairly readily available in all price ranges.  A list of hotels and 
B&Bs within walking distance and booking information, plus local travel 
and tourism information is available at the webpage.
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/travel.php
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/acc.php

Meeting Arrangements
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RHESSI XI will continue the series of RHESSI workshops but it also marks 
40 years since the publication of Prof. John Brown's thick-target model 
paper which has since been the standard approach to interpret solar 
flare hard X-ray spectra.

The workshop will focus on topics/problems related to the understanding 
of energetic particles in solar flares. The workshop will have five 
groups covering a wide range of topics broadly related to thick-target 
model interpretation of solar flares. Up to three working group sessions 
will be run in parallel. The group topics have been designed with 
distinct agendas but also with some overlap to facilitate joint 
sessions. Considerable cross team flux, short of chaos, will be encouraged.

All groups encourage contributions on theory, simulations, observations 
and RHESSI instrumental/software issue. We discourage contributions 
unrelated to the working group agendas.

For details, see the webpage:
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/rhessi11/wg.php

Best regards,
Eduard Kontar
On behalf of the organisers
Marina Battaglia, Nicolas Bian, John Brown, Gordon Emslie, Lyndsay 
Fletcher, Iain Hannah, Eduard Kontar, Alec MacKinnon, David Pontin 
(Dundee), Thomas Neukirch (St. Andrews)



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