CESRA Workshop 2013
New eyes looking at solar activity: Challenges for theory and simulations
June 24 – 29, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
1st Announcement
Up-to-date and more detailed info to be found at http://wave.asu.cas.cz/cesra2013/
General Information
CESRA, the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers, organizes workshops on investigations of the solar atmosphere using radio and other observations. Although special emphasis is given to radio diagnostics, the workshop topics are of interest to a large community of solar physicists.
The 2013 CESRA workshop, New Eyes Looking at Solar Activity:
Challenges for Theory and Simulations, will highlight new observational capabilities of instruments that can probe solar processes from sub-millimeter to kilometer wavelengths. ALMA and LOFAR are entering full-operation state and observations of the Sun will be made in the near future. At the same moment, the extensive use is being made of radio spectrometers in space, STEREO/WAVES and Wind-WAVES, and existing and upgraded ground-based instruments like Nobeyama Radioheliograph, Nancay Radioheliograph, Ratan, SSRT, and many others. These instruments provide data that enable studies of both energetic particles and thermal plasma, enhancing our knowledge of solar eruptions and acceleration and propagation of particles, all through the solar chromosphere and corona and into interplanetary space.
The CESRA 2013 Workshop will summarize new capabilities of the observational facilities and discuss the theoretical issues related to solar radio emission and interplanetary radio physics. There are good enough reasons for solar physicists (not only solar radio astronomers) involved in observations, theory, simulations, and instrumentation to meet and discuss recent results.
Format of the meeting
The format of the workshop will combine plenary sessions and working group (WG) sessions. The plenary sessions will consist of invited tutorial/review talks and oral contributions that will be selected by the SOC from the submitted abstracts (contributions not selected for oral presentation can be given as posters and/or within the working groups). The working group sessions will run in parallel and will be devoted to informal presentations and unconstrained discussions. The following working groups and their leaders are:
WG1: Large-scale disturbances and shocks
(Alexander Warmuth and Manuela Temmer)
WG2: Long-term activity, oscillations, and coronal heating
(Costas Alissandrakis and Kiyoto Shibasaki)
WG3: Transients and particles in the IP space
(Christophe Marque and Karl-Ludwig Klein)
WG4: Flare process and particle acceleration
(Victor Melnikov and Alec MacKinnon)
Invited speakers
Henry Aurass, Roman Brajša, Bartosz Dabrowski, Richard Fallows, Andreas Klassen, Gottfried Mann, P.K. Manoharan, Anita Richards, Alexander Stepanov, Štěpán Urban, Nicole Vilmer
Venue
The workshop will take place in the modern and fashionable premises of Faculty of Architecture, TU Prague located in Prague downtown, close to the Castle.
Registration and abstract submission
On-line registration and abstract submission is open since February 1st, 2013 at the conference website http://wave.asu.cas.cz/cesra2013.
Abstract submission closes on April 30, 2013. On-line registration is open till May 31, 2013. The regular registration fee paid by the end of May is EUR 200. On-site registration is also possible for an enhanced fee EUR 250.