SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Participants are encouraged to arrive on or before Monday 21 September 2009.
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Monday 21 September 2009 |
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On-Site Registration |
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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ESA Reception |
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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Tuesday 22 September 2009 |
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Session/Activity |
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On-Site Registration |
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
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Welcome |
8:30 AM |
John Kohl |
Welcome and Announcements |
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Keynote |
8:40 AM |
Neil Sheeley (Invited) |
What’s so peculiar about the cycle 23/24 minimum? |
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Break & Session 1 Posters |
9:20 AM |
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Session 1 |
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Role of the Solar Interior in Determining Solar Minimum Characteristics |
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Alan Gabriel (Chair) |
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Session 1 |
10:20 AM |
Mike Thompson (Invited) |
Helioseismology over the solar cycle |
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Session 1 |
10:45 AM |
Mark Miesch (Invited) |
The dynamo dialectic: An inside look at the current Solar Minimum |
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Session 1 |
11:10 AM |
Sarbani Basu |
Differences between the current solar minima and those of cycle 23 and cycle 22 |
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Session 1 |
11:30 AM |
Stephen Fletcher |
The new solar minimum: how deep does the problem go
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Session 1 |
11:50 AM |
David Salabert |
Frequency shifts of low-degree p-modes during Solar Cycle 23 and its extended minimum |
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Lunch |
12:10 PM |
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Session 2 |
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Manifestations of the Unusual Solar Minimum in the Photosphere and Chromosphere |
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Joseph Gurman (Chair) |
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Session 2 |
1:40 PM |
Thomas Woods (Invited) |
Review of recent solar irradiance variations |
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Session 2 |
2:05 PM |
Leonid Didkovsky |
Solar Cycle 23 minimum as seen in SOHO/CELIAS/SEM absolute solar EUV irradiance |
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Session 2 |
2:25 PM |
Werner Curdt |
Hydrogen Lyman emission through the solar cycle |
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Session 2 |
2:45 PM |
Mark Rast |
Is there such a thing as quiet-Sun? |
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Break & Session 2 Posters |
3:05 PM |
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Session 2 |
4:00 PM |
Clare Parnell (Invited) |
The role of the magnetic carpet: Contrasting the prior minimum and the present minimum |
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Session 2 |
4:25 PM |
Elena Benevolenskaya (Invited) |
Did recent large-scale evolution of the magnetic field presage the unusual current minimum? |
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Session 2 |
4:50 PM |
Seriji Yashiro |
Comparison between the polar coronal holes during the Cycle 22/23 and Cycle 23/24 minima using magnetic, microwave, and EUV butterfly diagrams |
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Session 2 |
5:10 PM |
Julia Saba |
Comparing the evolution of solar cycles 21, 22, and 23 with a sensitive magnetic ratio |
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Session 2 |
5:30 PM |
Lynsey Thornton |
Comparison of solar minimum 22/23 and 23/24 magnetic features using full-disk MDI data |
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Session 2 |
5:50 PM |
Lucia Kleint |
Turbulent magnetic fields – cyclic variations |
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Adjourn |
6:10 PM |
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Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
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Session 3 |
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The Time-Variable Corona and the Current Solar Minimum |
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Giancarlo Noci (Chair) |
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Title |
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On-Site Registration |
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
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Session 3 |
8:15 AM |
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Announcements |
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Session 3 |
8:25 AM |
Ed DeLuca (Invited) |
Coronal loops and active regions over the solar cycle |
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Session 3 |
8:50 AM |
Giovanni Peres (Invited) |
Large-scale properties of coronal heating over the solar cycle |
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Session 3 |
9:15 AM |
Joan Burkepile (Invited) |
Evolution of the global coronal morphology |
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Session 3 |
9:40 AM |
Richard Altrock |
The progress of Solar Cycle 24 at high latitudes |
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Break & Session 3 Posters |
10:00 AM |
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Session 3 |
11:00 AM |
Hugh Hudson (Invited) |
Flare and CME properties and rates from the last minimum to the present minimum |
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Session 3 |
11:25 AM |
Manuela Temmer (Invited) |
Statistical properties of flares/sunspots over the solar cycle |
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Session 3 |
11:50 AM |
Terry Forbes (Invited) |
How do the physical processes in CMEs depend on the solar cycle? |
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Session 3 |
12:15 PM |
Russell Howard |
The evolution of the brightness of the white light corona over a solar cycle |
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Session 3 |
12:35 PM |
Alan Gabriel |
Comparison of polar coronal hole properties between minima of 1997 and 2008 |
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Session 3 |
12:55 PM |
Philip Judge |
Historic eclipses and the current solar minimum corona |
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Session 3 |
1:15 PM |
Shadia Habbal |
New Insight into the Current Extended Solar Minimum from Eclipse Observations of the Fe XI 789.2 nm line |
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Adjourn Free Afternoon |
1:35 PM |
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Thursday 24 September 2009 |
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Session 4 |
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How does the Solar Wind transmit the Unique Properties of Solar Minimum out to the Heliosphere? |
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Nathan Schwadron (Chair) |
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Session/Activity |
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Title |
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On-Site Registration |
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
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Session 4 |
8:00 AM |
Ed Smith (Invited) |
Review of unusual in-situ conditions during the present solar minimum |
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Session 4 |
8:25 AM |
Nathan Schwadron |
Two Cycles of Declining Solar Wind Power from Solar Magnetic Flux |
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Session 4 |
8:45 AM |
Steven Cranmer (Invited) |
Extended coronal heating and solar wind acceleration over the solar cycle |
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Session 4 |
9:10 AM |
Len Fisk |
The heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind during the current unusual solar minimum |
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Session 4 |
9:30 AM |
Christina Lee |
Investigation of the effects of the weak polar fields of Solar Cycle 23 |
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Session 4 |
9:50 AM |
Giuliana De Toma |
The minimum between Cycle 23 and 24: Is sunspot number the whole story |
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Break & Session 4 Posters |
10:10 AM |
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Session 4 |
11:10 AM |
David Webb |
Overview of the Whole Heliosphere Interval campaign |
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Session 4 |
11:30 AM |
Lan Jian |
Large-scale solar wind structures: comparison of solar minima 22/23 and 23/24
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Session 4 |
11:50 AM |
Liang Zhao |
The conservation of the total magnetic open flux in coronal holes during the two successive solar minima |
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Session 4 |
12:10 AM |
Mari Paz Miralles |
The tale of two minima and a solar cycle in between: an ongoing fast solar wind investigation |
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Lunch |
12:30 PM |
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Session 4 |
2:00 PM |
John Richardson (Invited) |
How are the present solar-minimum conditions transmitted to the outer heliosphere and heliosheath? |
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Session 4 |
2:25 PM |
Rosine Lallement & Eric Quemerais (Invited) |
The solar wind/interstellar medium interaction as seen by SWAN during the present solar minimum |
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Session 4 |
2:50 PM |
Marco Velli |
From the sun to the heliosphere at solar minimum |
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Session 4 |
3:10 PM |
Frank McDonald |
The unusual time history of galactic an anomalous cosmic rays at 1 AU over the Deep Solar Minimum of Cycle 23/24 |
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Session 4 |
3:30 PM |
Steve Kahler (Invited) |
How have the properties of solar energetic particles varied over the past solar cycle? |
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Break & Sessions 4&5 Posters |
3:55 PM |
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Adjourn |
5:30 PM |
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Banquet |
7:30 PM |
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Friday 25 September 2009 |
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Session 5 |
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Solar Cycle History and Prediction |
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Barbara Bromage (Chair) |
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Session/Activity |
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Session 5 |
8:30 AM |
Jose Abreu (Invited) |
Past and future solar activity from cosmogenic radionuclides |
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Session 5 |
8:55 AM |
Leif Svalgaard (Invited) |
Updating the Historical Sunspot Record |
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Session 5 |
9:20 AM |
David Hathaway (Invited) |
Does the current minimum help validate (or invalidate) cycle prediction methods? |
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Session 5 |
9:45 AM |
Jeff Morrill |
Comparing estimates of the Mg II index at Solar Minimum from 1961 through 1981 with the observed Mg II index from 1978 to present |
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Session 5 |
10:05 AM |
Kalevi Mursula |
Weakening solar activity: End of an exceptionally active period |
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Session 5 |
10:25 AM |
Chris Russell |
The interplanetary magnetic field during the current solar minimum |
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Break |
10:45 AM |
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Session 6 |
11:10 AM |
Panel Discussion |
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Todd Hoeksema (Chair) |
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Adjourn |
1:00 PM |
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