From: Ignacio Ugarte-Urra – iugarte@ssd5.nrl.navy.mil
SOLAR CORONAL LOOPS WORKSHOP V – Second announcement
This is the second announcement for the fifth Loops Workshop to be held in Palma de
Mallorca, Spain, June 29-July 2, 2011, hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears.
The loops workshops are a series of highly focused meetings dealing with the observation and
modeling of magnetically confined plasma in the solar upper atmosphere.
Registration is now open at the website: www.loops2011.org
We are also pleased to announce that we have limited funds from ESA and the US NSF to
support the travel expenses of students and early post-docs.
The deadlines for abstract submission are:
– March 15 2011, if requesting travel support
– April 15, 2011, everyone else.
For this meeting the SOC has defined a series of topics and questions and speakers have been
invited to lead each session. We encourage the submission of abstracts that contribute to
the topics described below. To allow for extended discussion sessions the number of speakers
will be limited to about 40. We anticipate having a poster session to accommodate other
topics of interest.
These are the planned sessions and confirmed invited speakers:
* The Coronal Heating Problem: Talks that will address the current state of the coronal
heating problem, including recent progress and interesting theoretical paradigms.
Invited speakers: Iñigo Arregui (Illes Balears), Peter Cargill (St. Andrews)
* The Properties of the Solar Corona: Talks that will explore the boundaries of our
understanding of the solar corona and its relationshipto the transition region and
chromosphere.
Invited speakers: Giulio Del Zanna (Cambridge), Susanna Parenti(Royal Observatory Belgium)
* Integrating Models and Observations: A systematic look at coronal heating models and what
they predict for solar observables.
Invited speaker: Amy Winebarger (NASA)
* Open Questions in Coronal Loops: A Series of Debates.
– Flows vs Waves.
Are they exclusive? Can we distinguish between them? What role does each play in loop
dynamics?
Invited speakers: Scott McIntosh (UCAR), Erwin Verwichte (Warwick)
– Spicules and Evaporation.
How does mass enter the corona? What is the relative contribution of spicules and
evaporation? Are they compatible? Do all loops have spicular counterparts? What can we infer
about the source of the heating from the observations?
Invited speakers: Bart De Pontieu (Lockheed Martin), Spiros Patsourakos (Ioannina)
– The DEM spectrum from isothermal to multi-thermal.
What is the cross-field thermal structure of coronal loops? How does it vary in space and
time?
Invited speakers: Markus Aschwanden (Lockheed Martin), Paola Testa (CfA)
– Steady vs. Impulsive Heating.
What is the timescale between heating events in active regions?
Invited speakers: Piet Martens (Montana), Fabio Reale (Palermo)
Please, notice that the MHD waves and Seismology of the Solar Atmosphere Workshop
(www.buks2011.org) will be held at the same venue from June 27 to 29, 2011.
A joint session will take place on 29 June afternoon.
The Scientific Organizing Committee
Steve Bradshaw
Jim Klimchuk
Helen Mason
Joan Schmelz
Jaume Terradas
Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, Chair
Harry Warren
Local Organizing Committee:
José Luis Ballester, Chair
Ramón Oliver
Iñigo Arregui
Jaume Terradas
Antonio Díaz
Marc Carbonell
Samuel Rial