Dear colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder of the approaching deadline for abstract submission to the RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting devoted to solar prominences on Friday 21st February 2014 in London.
Please submit your abstracts by Friday 20 December 2013 on the meeting’s web pages: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?page_id=2437
This specialist discussion meeting aims to review our current understanding of the life-cycle of solar prominences. How do they form? How do they interact with their environment, from the photosphere to the corona? How do they disappear? What is their contribution to Space Weather? Addressing these questions relies on interactions between experts in plasma physics, MHD, magnetic field modelling and observation, spectroscopy, radiation transfer, … This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss open issues in this area of interest to solar and stellar physicists, keeping in mind recent and future developments in observations and in modelling.
Keynote speakers:
– Brigitte Schmieder (Observatoire de Paris) on Prominence formation and plasma properties
– Spiro Antiochos (NASA/GSFC) on Prominence magnetic field and heliospheric connection
The organisers,
Nicolas Labrosse (University of Glasgow)
Duncan Mackay (University of St Andrews)