Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the fifth Loops Workshop to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 29-July 2, 2011, hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears. The loops workshops are a series of highly focused meetings dealing with the observation and modeling of magnetically confined plasma in the solar upper atmosphere.
For this meeting we have planned a number of sessions dedicated to specific topics. These sessions include:
* The Coronal Heating Problem: Review talks that will address the current state of the coronal heating problem, including recent progress and interesting theoretical paradigms.
* The Properties of the Solar Corona: Review talks that will explore the boundaries of our understanding of the solar corona and its relationship to the transition region and chromosphere.
* Integrating Models and Observations: A systematic look at coronal heating models and what they predict for solar observables.
* Open Questions in Coronal Loops: A Series of Debates. - Flows vs Waves - Spicules vs. Evaporation, how does mass enter the corona? - The DEM spectrum from isothermal to multi-thermal - Steady vs. Impulsive Heating
To allow for extended discussion sessions the number of speakers will be limited to about 40.
We anticipate having a poster session to accommodate other topics of interest.
For further information check our web site at: http://loops.nrl.navy.mil/loops5/
The Scientific Organizing Committee Steve Bradshaw Jim Klimchuk Helen Mason Joan Schmelz Jaume Terradas Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, chair Harry Warren
Local Organizing Committee: José Luis Ballester, Chair Ramón Oliver Iñigo Arregui Jaume Terradas Antonio Díaz Marc Carbonell Samuel Rial