Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

HELIO Virtual Observatory CDAW

First Announcement: HELIO Coordianated Data Analysis Workshop IV
Tuesday 4 – Friday 7 September, 2012
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The HELiophysics Integrate Observatory (HELIO; http://helio-vo.eu) is a project funded under the European Commission FP7 programme. HELIO started in 2009 and over these three years the HELIO team has built a set of services to help the interoperability between the different disciplines in the heliospheric community (solar physics, planetary physics, space weather, …). In these three years the system has evolved considerably using input from various specialist in the different areas. Finally, it is moment to open HELIO to the whole community.

This workshop consists in three challenges to test the HELIO system:

– Heliospheric variability over the solar cycle
– The 100 CME challenge
– HELIO as a tool for space weather

The participants will choose which challenge they want to join during the registration process. The first day of the workshop they will meet the other members of each team and collaborate with them (with help of HELIO members) to achieve the challenges by using the HELIO tools.
The meeting will be held over two full and two half days on 4-7 September 2012, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Deadline for registration is July 30st, 2012 (some travel support is available).

More detailed information at http://helio-vo.eu/helio-cdaw/HELIO_CDAW-4.html.

SOC: Bob Bentley (UCL-MSSL), Peter Gallagher (TCD), Mauro Messerotti (INAF), Shaun Bloomfield (TCD), David Pérez-Suárez (TCD)
LOC: Shaun Bloomfield, David O’Callaghan, Peter Gallagher, Gabriele Pierantoni, David Pérez-Suárez

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Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events

Please find below the announcement:

“Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events”

November 27 – December 2, 2012
Sheraton Sonoma County Hotel
Petaluma, CA USA

On behalf of the Science and Local Organizing Committees, I am pleased to
invite the solar physics/heliophysics community to a conference/workshop
entitled “Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events” to be held at
the Sheraton Sonoma County Hotel, Petaluma, CA, from November 27 – December
2, 2012.

The conference will be devoted to sharing analysis, interpretations, and
results based on recent observations from various solar spacecraft, such as
ACE, Fermi, Hinode, RHESSI, SDO, SOHO, and STEREO. This is the third in a
series of “California Wine Country” conferences, and the format will be a
mixture of plenary sessions and cross-connected working groups, following
the highly successful model established by earlier conferences in the series
(Sonoma 2004 and Napa 2008). The meeting website can be found at

http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/index.shtml .

The overarching objective of the conference is to examine the connections
amongst the phenomena that lead to solar eruptive events. The current slate
of themes includes:

– Measuring the Coronal Magnetic Field;
– Connections to, and Reactions of, the Large-Scale Corona;
– Large-scale Magnetic Connectivity of Active Regions;
– Transfer of Energy to, and Storage of Energy in, the Corona; and
– The High-Energy Particle – Flare – CME connection.

We have assembled a cast of outstanding invited speakers for these sessions.
Working groups will address topics such as:

– Energy Transfer throughout a Solar Eruptive Event;
– Global Energetics of an Ensemble of Events;
– Coronal Influences to the Lower Atmosphere;
– CME Initiation and Type II Bursts;
– The Release of Energetic Particles in the Low Corona;
– Flows vs. Waves; and
– Microflares/Nanoflares;

The “manifestos” for the working groups can be found at

http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/workinggroups.shtml

Additional working group topics may be created, depending on the content of
the abstracts that are submitted. We also intend to have a
“presidential-candidate” style debate on the topic of “How much closer are
we to flare prediction?”

The registration site:

http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/registration.shtml

and abstract submission site

http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/abstracts.shtml

are now open. I invite you to register, submit your abstract, and make your
hotel reservations. Rooms booked through the link supplied on the conference
page will receive the conference rate.

https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1112156251&key=6482F

A limited amount of funds has been identified for the purpose of providing
travel support for students and new postdocs. The closing date for such
applications is July 20, 2012. We invite interested individuals to visit
the site at

http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/travel_support.shtml

for more details.

I look forward to seeing you in Northern California wine country later in
the year!

Gordon Emslie
Chair, SOC

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