Scientific Program


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Monday 17 September

Session 1: Quiet Sun and Solar Wind (Chair: Piet Martens, MSU)
  • INVITED Steven Cranmer (CfA) Coronal Holes and Solar Wind
  • Tadashi Hirayama (Meisei University) Solar Wind Acceleration, Mass Flux, and Boundary Conditions
  • Dipankar Banerjee (Centre for Plasma Astrophysics) Long Period Oscillations in Polar coronal holes as observed by CDS on SoHO
  • Craig DeForest (Southwest Research Institute) Observing Small-Scale Coronal Heating: What's Next?
  • Session 2.1: Active Region and Bright Point Studies (Chair: Sarah Matthews, MSSL)
  • INVITED Toshifumi Shimizu (NAOJ) Connection Between Photospheric Magnetic Fields and Coronal Structure/dynamics
  • Thomas Metcalf (LMSAL) The Magnetic Free Energy in Active Region 8299
  • Seiji Yashiro (CSPSW, CUA) Relation between Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Active Regions as a Probe of Coronal Heating Mechanism
  • Andrzej Fludra (RAL) EUV Emission and the Magnetic Field in Active Regions
  • Session 2.2: Active Region and Bright Point Studies
  • INVITED Clare Parnell (University of St. Andrews) Multispacecraft Observations of Quiet Sun Transient Events and X-ray Bright Points
  • Markus Aschwanden (LMSAL) Reconciliation of the Coronal Heating Function between Yohkoh, SoHO, and TRACE
  • Yukio Katsukawa (NAOJ) Small Fluctuation of Coronal X-Ray Intensity and a Signature of Nanoflares
  • James Klimchuk (NRL) Observation and Theory of Coronal Loop Structure
  • Session 2.3: Active Region and Bright Point Studies
  • Maria Madjarska (Armagh Observatory) Dynamics and diagnostics of explosive events and blinkers
  • Osmi Vilhu (University of Helsinki) SoHO/SUMER Observations of Bright Points
  • Session 3: Education and Public Outreach (Chair: Loren Acton, MSU)
  • INVITED Tom Metcalf/David Alexander (LMSAL) Yohkoh: A Decade of Discovery
  • Isabel Hawkins (UC Berkeley) UC Berkeley/GSFC Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum; Sharing the Sun-Earth Connection
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    Tuesday 18 September

    Session 4: Sigmoidality and Helicity (Chair: Len Culhane, MSSL)
  • INVITED Alexei Pevtsov (National Solar Observatory) Sinuous Coronal Loops at the Sun.
  • Petrus Martens (Montana State University) The Origin of Prominences and Their Hemispheric Preferences for Chirality, Sigmoidality, and the Skew of Overlying X-ray Loops
  • Kuniko Hori (Mullard Space Science Lab.) Tether Cutting Action in Two Sigmoidal Filaments
  • Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (MSSL, University College London) Helicity loading and dissipation: the helicity budget of AR 7978 from the cradle to the grave
  • Session 5: Reconnection in Flares (Chair: Yutaka Uchida, SUT)
  • INVITED David McKenzie (Montana State University) Signatures of Reconnection in Eruptive Flares
  • Mukul Kundu (University of Maryland) Possible Radio Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares
  • Theodore Tarbell (LMSAL) La Palma and TRACE Observations of Chromospheric Responses to Reconnection
  • Alphonse Sterling (NASA/MSFC/NRC) SXT and EIT Observations of Quite Region Large-Scale Eruptions: Implications for Eruption Theories
  • Session 6: MHD Simulations of Emergence and Eruptions (Chair: Peter Sturrock, Stanford)
  • INVITED Shigenobu Hirose (Science University of Tokyo) Models of Arcade Flares in View of Observations by Yohkoh, SoHO/EIT, and TRACE
  • Takaaki Yokoyama (NAOJ) Numerical simulation of a Flare
  • Tetsuya Magara (Montana State University) Numerical Modeling of a Sigmoidal Emerging Flux Tube
  • Yutaka Uchida (Science University of Tokyo) Observations and Models for Bubble-type CMEs and Loop-type CMEs
  • Session 7: Fine Structure in Flares (Chair: Leon Golub, CfA)
  • INVITED Barbara Sylwester (Space Research Centre) High Resolution Observations of Solar Flares
  • Sarah Matthews (Mullard Space Science Lab.) Multi-wavelength observations of Yohkoh white-light flares
  • Satoshi Morita (Science University of Tokyo) 3-D Structure of Arcade Type Flares Deduced from Soft X-ray Observations of a Homologous Flare Series
  • Len Culhane (MSSL) Flare Characteristics and the Association with Ejective or Non-ejective Behaviour
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    Wednesday 19 September

    Session 8: Preflare Phenomena (Chair: Dick Canfield, MSU)
  • INVITED Harry Warren (CfA) Analysis of Preflare Observations by TRACE and Yohkoh
  • Hiroki Kurokawa (Kwasan and Hida Observatories, Kyotto University) Pre-flare Heating Around the Temperature Minimum Region Found Right Prior to an X-class Flare
  • De-Yu Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory) YOHKOH/SXT, SoHO/EIT and radio signature in the initial phase of a flare-CME event
  • Carl Foley (MSSL / UCL) Anatomy of a Flare and Coronal Mass Injection
  • Session 9: Flare Plasma Dynamics (Chair: Tetsuya Watanabe, NAOJ)
  • INVITED Louise Harra (MSSL) Nonthermal Velocities in Flares
  • Bernhard Kliem (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam) Correlated hot and cool plasma dynamics in the main phase of a solar flare
  • Kazunari Shibata (Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University) Observations of Moreton Waves and EIT Waves
  • Henry Aurass (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) Radio Signature of the Termination Shock during a Dynamic Flare
  • Afternoon for Observatory Tours or free time

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    Thursday 20 September

    Session 10: Solar Cycle Studies (Chair: Kazunari Shibata, Kyoto)
  • INVITED Hirohisa Hara (NAOJ) Changes of Coronal Structure over the 11-year Solar Cycle
  • Peter Sturrock (Stanford University) Comparative Analysis of GALLEX-GNO Neutrino Data and SXT X-Ray Data
  • Elena Benevolenskaya (Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory) Coronal Patterns of Activity from YOHKOH and SoHO/EIT Data
  • Dick Altrock (AFRL at NSO/Sacramento Peak) Long-Term Variation of the Rotation of the Solar Corona
  • Session 11.1: High Energy Emission in Flares (Chair: Markus Aschwanden, LMSAL)
  • INVITED Satoshi Masuda (Nagoya University) Hard X-ray Solar Flares Revealed with Yohkoh HXT -- a Review
  • Vahe Petrosian (Stanford University) Looptop Hard X-ray Emission and Acceleration of Electrons in Flares
  • Sachiko Akiyama (Hida and Kwasan Observatories, Kyoto University) Soft X-ray High-Temperature Regions above Solar Flare Loops
  • Andrew Conway (The Open University) The relation between coronal soft and hard X-rays in flares
  • Session 11.2: High Energy Emission in Flares
  • INVITED Gordon Emslie (UAH) Scientific Results from HESSI - a Preview
  • Masamitsu Ohyama (Shiga University) Timing and Occurrence Rate of X-Ray Plasma Ejections
  • W. Q. Gan (Purple Mountain Observatory) On lower energy cutoff of nonthermal electrons in solar flares
  • Yuri Litvinenko (University of New Hampshire) A simple estimate for energies of electrons accelerated in flare current sheets on the Sun
  • Session 11.3: High Energy Emission in Flares
  • Masato Yoshimori (Rikkyo University) Intense Gamma-Ray Flare on 6 November, 1997
  • Gerald Share (Naval Research Laboratory) Recent Yohkoh Observations of Gamma-Ray Flares
  • James Ryan (University of New Hampshire) Gamma-Ray Measurements of the 15 November 1991 Solar Flare
  • Session 12: Conference Summary (Chair: Takeo Kosugi, ISAS)
  • INVITED Saku Tsuneta (NAOJ) Overview of 10 Years of Yohkoh Results and Science Challenges for the Current Decade
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