The first Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere (WISA) meeting will be held 20-23 June 2023 at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

The Sun’s atmosphere provides a unique laboratory to examine magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) phenomena that occur in magnetised plasmas. The WISA series meetings are the follow-up to the BUKS meetings and are dedicated to progressing our understanding of MHD wave phenomena; examining how they drive and contribute to the observed dynamics from the photosphere to the corona, and how they can be exploited to probe plasma conditions.

This meeting will focus on four key topics, namely:

– Wave generation, energy transport, dissipation and heating
– Instabilities
– Seismology of solar and stellar atmospheres
– Novel diagnostic techniques and forward modelling

Local Organising Committee:

• Patrick Antolin (Chair)
• Shaun Bloomfield
• Natasha Jeffrey
• James McLaughlin
• Hemanthi Miriyala
• Richard Morton
• Seray Sahin
• Eamon Scullion
• Rahul Sharma
• Ramada Sukarmadji
• Edris Tajfirouze

Scientific Organising Committee:

• Tom Van Doorsselaere (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Inigo Arregui (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain)
• Dipanker Banerjee (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India)
• Anne-Marie Broomhall (Warwick University, UK)
• Bo Li (Shandong University, China)
• Mihalis Mathioudakis (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

For questions please contact Patrick Antolin (patrick.antolin@northumbria.ac.uk)