SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum
Most of the oral presentations are now available online, please see Oral Presentations link on the Main Menu.
UPDATE: October 5, 2009
The SOHO 23 Meeting was held as scheduled, and included a broad range
of interesting presentations regarding the characteristics of the
current solar minimum and how they relate to recent and ancient history.
To help produce a permanent record of the scientific results that
were presented at SOHO-23, the people who presented talks and posters
are requested to refer to the Conference
Proceedings information for
details about how to submit papers. The deadline for contributions is
Friday, December 4, 2009.
The SOHO Science Working Team has scheduled the twenty third in the series of successful SOHO workshops to focus on the topic of the unusual minimum of solar activity that has persisted in 2007, 2008 and 2009. SOHO-23 is scheduled for 21-25 September 2009, at the Asticou Inn in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
The SOHO-23 meeting will cover all aspects of solar and heliospheric
science that deal with solar cycle variability and the evolution of
solar activity on time scales from seconds to decades. The
"new millennium solar minimum" of 2007-2009 has contained some
distinct surprises, including a delayed onset of Solar Cycle 24,
the absence of a classical quiescent equatorial streamer belt,
and anomalously low heliospheric magnetic fields, densities, and
temperatures.
The scientific sessions for SOHO-23 will cover topics that include
the solar dynamo, magnetic flux emergence and the "magnetic carpet,"
coronal and heliospheric magnetic fields, irradiance, coronal heating
and solar wind acceleration, in-situ heliospheric plasma properties
linked to the Sun, and the testing of solar cycle predictions.
In response to requests to submit more than one contributed abstract, the policy has been changed as follows. No more than two abstracts may be submitted as first author by each registered participant. In the case of more than one submission, the participant should clearly designate the priority (1st or 2nd) for each contributed abstract. Ultimately, the SOC will decide on the number of 2nd priority abstracts accepted, based in part on the available number of poster boards.
The SOHO-23 poster is now available on line.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
| 29 June 2009 | Early registration |
| 31 July 2009 | Regular registration |
| 31 July 2009 | Abstract submission |
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Paul Charbonneau (University of Montreal)
Steven Cranmer (Co-Chair, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Bernhard Fleck (ESA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)
Robert Forsyth (Imperial College London)
Claus Fröhlich (Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos)
Joe Gurman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Todd Hoeksema (Co-Chair, Stanford University)
John Kohl (Chair, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Janet Luhmann (Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley)
Giancarlo Noci (University of Florence, Arcetri Observatory)
Merav Opher (George Mason University)
W. Dean Pesnell (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Eric Priest (University of St. Andrews)
Nathan Schwadron (Boston University)
Aad van Ballegooijen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Brenda Bernard
Larry Gardner
Joyce Janjigian
John Kohl (Chair)
Mari Paz Miralles
Alexander Panasyuk
John Raymond
Leonard Strachan
Raid Suleiman
Michael Uzzo
The local contact person is:
John L. Kohl
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, Mail Stop 50
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Email: jkohl @ cfa.harvard.edu (remove spaces to use)
Fax: 1-617-495-7455