The first joint Solar Probe Plus – Solar Orbiter Workshop will take place in Italy in the outskirts of Florence at the Villa “La Ferdinanda”, Artimino, Italy, from September 2nd to 4th, 2015. The aim of the joint workshop is to gather the Heliophysics community to discuss the exciting new science opportunities that the Solar Orbiter (SO) and Solar Probe Plus (SPP) missions will provide and examine the important synergies between the two missions, leading to a strong collaboration for major advances in our understanding of the origins of the Heliosphere.
The Workshop will address how the joint exploration of the corona and inner heliosphere will lead to advances in our understanding of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, the magnetic and plasma structure of the heliosphere, and the acceleration of energetic particles at shocks and flares. The workshop will inspire research that will make use of SO and SPP observations within the context of the NASA Heliophysics Observatory System and identify key areas for preparatory research. Synergistic observations from other ground based and space based assets will also be addressed.
The workshop, over 3 days, will cover the following topics:
1. Heating and acceleration of the solar corona and solar wind.
2. Structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind.
3. Particle acceleration and transport from the corona into the inner heliosphere.
The workshop will follow a joint SO-SPP working group, held from Monday August 31st through Tuesday September 1st lunchtime, which is also open to members of the community who would like to attend.
There is ample room for posters, that will be up throughout the meeting, and there are numerous rooms for collaborative work and discussions. Maximum poster size will be announced at a later date.
Registration, registration fee etc. will be available here soon, please check back frequently. NOTE however that accomodation will be held only until the end of March so please reserve EARLY.
We hope to see you in Artimino, Florence!
Hotel reservation deadline 03/30/2015
www.solarprobeplus.org/2015/travel-info/accommodations.html
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Marco Velli, UCLA, USA (Chair)
Ester Antonucci, INAF, Italy
Stuart Bale, UC Berkeley, USA
Mats Carlsson, University of Oslo, Norway
Mihir Desai, SWRI, USA
Nicola Fox, APL, USA
Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA, USA
Tim Horbury, Imperial College, UK
Justin Kasper, University of Michigan, USA
Säm Krucker, FHNW, Switzerland
Milan Maksimovic, LESIA, France
Daniel Müller, ESA
Chris Owen, MSSL, UK
Angelos Vourlidas, APL, USA
Robert Wimmer-Schwengruber, CAU Kiel, Germany
Joachim Woch, MPS, Germany
Andrei Zhukov, ROB, Belgium
Local Organizing Committee:
Marco Velli, UCLA, USA (Chair)
Ester Antonucci, INAF, Italy
Alessandro Bemporad, INAF, Italy
Roberto Bruno, IFSI, INAF, Italy
Raffaella D’Amicis, IFSI, INAF, Italy
Luca Del Zanna, University of Florence, Italy
Mauro Focardi, University of Florence, Italy
Luca Franci, University of Florence, Italy
Simone Landi, University of Florence, Italy
Emmanuel Masongsong, UCLA, USA
Lorenzo Matteini, Imperial College, UK
Fulvia Pucci, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Franco Rappazzo, Advanced Heliophysics, USA
Marco Romoli, University of Florence, Italy
Daniele Telloni, INAF, Italy
Anna Tenerani, UCLA, USA
Andrea Verdini, University of Florence, Italy