Second Announcement -“Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events” November 27 – December 2, 2012, Sheraton Sonoma County Hotel Petaluma, CA USA (Please note: these dates are three days earlier than originally announced, due to a change in the dates of the Fall AGU Meeting, which now starts on December 3)
http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/index.shtml
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 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.
and 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 and abstract submission will both open on or around May 21.