Dear All,
Although Ed's plea to talk to larger communities has some merit, it is really the smaller focused workshops that allow for in-depth discussions that hardly take place in huge meetings (like SPD, AGU, COSPAR, etc). There is just too much on the table at big meetings, so that we get lost in superficial discussions and parallel sessions. I think we need both.
Cheers, Markus
On Jul 9, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Ed Deluca wrote:
Hi,
Allow me to present a contrarian point of view.
As initially conceived the loops workshops were committed to solving a while defined, but complex science problem: "What are the physical processes that define the structure and evolution of coronal loops"
Three years of observations with STEREO and Hinode (in addition to continued supporting observations from SOHO, TRACE and RHESSI) have provided critical observations, models have evolved and great progress is being made.
Given this, why are we not planning on closing down the Loops Workshops, declaring victory and going home?
There is a real danger in continuing to isolate the "loops community" from the solar/heliospheric community. We have seen this in the past with the heliosiesmology, they spent decades talking to themselves rather then engaging with the rest of the community. So I would suggest the the Mallorca meeting be the final loops workshop and that scientists reintegrate themselves into the solar community.
With respect,
Ed
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