UK Solar Community Meeting

Date: 14-16 April 2025
Venue: Working room 3, 1st Floor, University of Sheffield, 38 Mappin St, S1 4DT
Useful Links: https://www.uksolphys.org/sheffield-guide/

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Monday, 14th April 2025
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12:30 -18:30 UKSP Workshop – Discussion Meeting  and UKSP Early Career Researcher Workshop
Invited talk:  20 mins presentation + 5 mins Q/A
Contributed talk: 10 mins presentation + 2 mins Q/A

12:30 – 12:55 Richard Morton – about MHD waves related research in UK (invited)
12:55 – 13:07 Sargam Mulay – Investigation of Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares
13:07 – 13:19 Aisling O’Hare – Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in TEC Measurements Synchronized with Solar Flare EUV Emission
13:19 – 13:31 Anmol Kumar – Alfvén Wave Propagation and Trapping in the Solar Wind
13:31 – 13:43 Velizar Kirkow – Large-scale shear-driven instabilities in stratified MHD with application to the solar tachocline
13:43 – 13:55 Alexander James – How Does the Critical Torus Instability Height Vary with the Solar Cycle?

13:55 – 14:25 Coffee Break

14:25 – 14:50 A. M. Broomhall – Solar Interior and Helioseismology related research in the UK (invited)
14:50 – 15:02 Rachel Howe – Far-side helioseismology with global mode frequencies from Sun-as-a-star and resolved observations
15:02 – 15:14 Evangelia Deliporanidou – Correlations of solar irradiances with proxies of activity along a cycle
15:14 – 15:26 Federica Rescigno – New calibration method for BiSON: extending to long-term stability
15:26 – 15:38 Ben Lakeland – Using the Sun to find new Earths

15:38 – 16:08 Coffee Break

16:08 – 16:33 Ryan Milligan – Regarding Solar Flare related research in the UK (invited)
16:33 – 16:45 Samantha Cook – Observational Analysis of Line Formation Heights in the Flaring Chromosphere
16:45 – 16:57 Natalia Bajnokova – Observations of a faint pre-flare and flare emission during a GOES C-class flare with NuSTAR and STIX
16:57 – 17:22 Anthony Yeates – Magnetic reconnection related research in the UK (invited)
17:22 – 17:34 Georgios Chouliaras – Method on detecting solar flare ribbon fine structures
17:34 – 17:46 William Bate – Magnetic Field Extrapolations and Solar Flare Particle Acceleration
17:46 – 17:58 Charlotte Proverbs – An automatic method to identify and track sunspots using the Solar Dynamics Observatory
17:58 – 18:10 Oliver Rice – Investigating the Effects of Atmospheric Stratification on Active Region Modelling
18:10 – 18:22 Miguel Rojas-Quesada – Stability and evolution studies of filaments require accurate diagnostics of the thermodynamic and dynamic conditions of the confined material.

19:00 –  Icebreak

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Tuesday, 15th April 2025
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09:00 – 11:05 UKSP Workshop – Discussion Meeting  and UKSP Early Career Researcher Workshop
Invited talk:  20 mins presentation + 5 mins Q/A
Contributed talk: 10 mins presentation + 2 mins Q/A

09:00 – 09:25 David Jess – Observations and Modelling of Small-Scale Transient Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere related research in the UK (invited)
09:25 – 09:37 Thomas Rees-Crockford – First Statistical Analysis of Photospheric Intensity Vortices with DKIST
09:37 – 09:49 Kristina Brocklebank – Observing features of Sunspot Light Bridges: Fan-shaped Jets and Fast Downflows
09:49 – 10:01 Foad Hanassi-Savari – Solar Flux Atlases: The new HARPS-N Quiet Sun Benchmark and Ca II H & K Line Continuum Normalisation
10:01 – 10:13 Ross Pallister – Investigating the effect of thermal collisional plasma and turbulent acceleration on heliospheric electron spectra
10:13 – 10:25 Christopher Osborne – DexRT: A Next Generation Non-LTE Radiative Transfer Code
10:25 – 10:37 Ruth Hyndman – Multi-spacecraft observations of the decay phase of solar energetic particle events
10:37 – 10:49 Natalia Zambrana Prado – Connecting the solar corona to the heliosphere in the era of Solar Orbiter
10:49 – 11:01 Aaron Monson- Using radiative-hydrodynamic simulations to investigate how Fe I spectral line

11:05 – 11:25 Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:05 Funding – Panels Update

11:25 – 11:45 Ashley King – SSAP
11:45 – 12:05 Anne-Marie Broomhall and Andrew Hillier – STFC AGP

12:05 -12:40 Grab the lunch and bring it to the USKP business lunch 

12:40 – 13:20 UKSP business lunch

13:30 – 17:00 UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum
Talk 10 mins presentation + 5 mins Q/A

13:30 – 14:00 Warm-up discussion
14:00 – 14:15 William Chaplin – BiSON
14:15 – 14:30 Daniel Verscharen – Vigil
14:30 – 15:00 Sarah Matthews – Hinode/DKIST/Solar-C
15:00 – 15:15 Christopher J Owen – SolO

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:00 Eduard Kontar – LOFAR (with SKA)
16:00 – 16:15 Robertus Erdelyi – SAMNet
16:15 – 16:30 Eamon Scullion – ALIGN
16:30 – 16:45 Malcolm Druett – SunbYte
16:45 – 17:00 David Jess – FRANCIS

18:30 –  Conference dinner

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Wednesday, 16th April 2025
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09:00 – 12:30 UK Solar Instrumentation and Facilities Forum

09:00 – 09:15 Hamish Reid – SPARK
09:15 – 09:30 Lucie Green – MESOM
09:30 – 09:45 Jackie Davies – STEREO
09:45 – 10:00 Jackie Davies – PUNCH

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:45 Andrew Hillier – Introducing the Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite
10:45 – 11:00 Robertus Erdelyi – EST
11:00 – 11:15 Lyndsay Fletcher – MUSE
11:15 – 11:30 Annelies Mortier – ABORAS
11:30 – 11:45 Giulio Del Zanna – ECCCO-SMEX
11:45 – 12:30 Discussion – Summary