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SPS EPS-EAS
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Chairman: G.M. Simnett (Birmingham)
Secretary &
Treasurer: P. Heinzel (Ondrejov)
Newsletter
Editor: J. Staude (Potsdam)
SPS-Board members:
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G. Simnett (U.K.) - President
P. Heinzel (Czech Rep.) - Secretary
C. Alissandrakis (Greece)
G. Belvedere (Italy)
M. Goossens (Belgium)
I. Kim (Russia)
J. Kuijpers (The Netherlands)
E. Landi (Italy)
P. Martens (ESTEC)
P. Palle (Spain)
J.C. Vial (France)
N. Vilmer (France)
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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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THIRD A S P - E U R O C O N F E R E N C E
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"M A G N E T I C F I E L D S and O S C I L L A T I O N S"
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Potsdam, Germany
September 22nd - 26th, 1998
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A series of three meetings under the general title of "Advances
in Solar Physics Euroconferences" (ASPE) has been approved by the
European Union for the years 1996, 1997, and 1998. The series is
designed to center on selected topics of interest in Solar
Physics. The series aims to gather senior and junior
researchers, from both the theoretical and the observational
fields, and instrumental technology experts, in order to
encourage the development of new ideas and instrumentation. The
European Union is co-sponsoring the series by providing the
funding for half of the budget.
European staff members of ASPE are:
- B. Schmieder, Observatoire de Meudon, France
- P. N. Brandt, Kiepenheuer Institut fuer Sonnenphysik, Germany
- O. Kjeldseth-Moe, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Norway
- M. Vazquez, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
After the 1st and 2nd successful ASPE conferences, held at Puerto
de la Cruz (Tenerife, Spain) in 1996, and at Preveza (Greece) in
1997, it is our pleasure to announce that the third meeting of
the series, entitled "Magnetic Fields and Oscillations", will
take place in Potsdam/Caputh, Germany on September 22-26, 1998.
During the past few years the observational basis in solar
physics has been tremendously improved by new space-borne and
ground-based facilities (e.g. SOHO, YOHKOH, GONG) as well as by
new observational methods using existing telescopes. This
conference provides a timely opportunity to present these new
observations and discuss them within the frame of the latest
theoretical ideas. As the promotion of young scientists is one
of the basic aims of this series of euroconferences, young
graduate students and post-docs are strongly encouraged to attend
this meeting and present and discuss their results there.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Peter N. Brandt(Germany) Horst Balthasar
Gianna Cauzzi(Italy) Iliya Czycykowski
Bernhard Fleck(ESA) Axel Hofmann(chair)
Axel Hofmann(Germany) Thomas Horn
Ales Kucera(Slovakia) Andreas Klassen
Brigitte Schmieder(France, co-chair) Juergen Rendtel
Juergen Staude(Germany, co-chair) Brunhilde Schewe(secretary)
Thierry Roudier(France) Axel Settele
Manolo Vazquez(Spain) Juergen Staude
PROGRAMME and LOCATION (Overview)
The conference will be held in Caputh near Potsdam from Tuesday
September 22 until midday Saturday September 26, 1998. There
will be an excursion in the middle of the week. Caputh is a nice
village located at the Schwielowsee (part of the river Havel)
about 10 km southwest of Potsdam. It can easily be reached by
bus (one per hour), taxi or train. Caputh became well-known as
summer-residence of Albert Einstein from 1929 till 1932.
The two first days of the conference will be focused on the subjects
of magnetic structures and motions covering both observations and
theory. New results from coordinated observations between SOHO and
ground based observatories will be presented on the third day. The
fourth and fifth days will deal with more technical topics such as
observational technique, data bases and data exchange, and the
preparation for the eclipse of 1999.
Topics to be discussed:
- High resolution spectropolarimetry and magnetography
- New techniques for the measurement of solar magnetic field
- 3D-Magnetic field topology in chromosphere and corona(extrapolation,
separatrices, relations to observations in other wavelengths as IR,
radio, UV, X-ray)
- Magnetic fields and dynamics in AR
- Flux tubes dynamics
- Evershed flows
- Oscillations and motions in network bright points
- Sunspot oscillations
- Oscillations in active regions - diagnostics and seismology
- MHD waves in magnetic structures
The annual board meeting of JOSO will take place after the conference
on Saturday September 26, 1998.
PRE-REGISTRATION and CALL FOR PAPERS
This first announcement is also a call for contributions. Those
interested in attending the meeting and contributing a paper (oral or
poster), should send the attached pre-registration form to the address
below (e-mail is preferable) till Feb.15, 1998:
aspe98@aip.de
mail: Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
Sonnenobservatorium Einsteinturm
- ASPE 98 -
Telegrafenberg A27
D-14473 Potsdam
F.R.G.
Fax : (49)-331-2882310
Further information and announcements will be sent to all persons who
expressed interest by responding to this first announcement. The
second announcement will include more information about the pre-
liminary programme, the proceedings, and the procedures for abstract
submission and housing registration form.
Please note the above mentioned date so that you may be eligible for
the reduced lodging rate (cf. information on accommodation).
This meeting is partly funded by the European Union. Some funds are
available to cover the travel and accommodation expenses of young re-
searchers (under 35 for men, under 41 for women) and for the support
of keynote speakers and specialists up to the level of half of their ex-
penses. This funding is available for citizen of EU member countries
only. We are also trying to find additional funds for people
from other countries. We strongly encourage young graduate students
and post-docs to attend the meeting. Those interested in receiving
financial support should fill the appropriate lines on the
pre-registration form. The attached travel and accommodation (T&A)
application form is to send to the LOC at the same address by April
1st.
Further (and updated) information and a prepared pre-registration form
can be obtained by e-mail request to the address above or on the home-
page http://aipsoe.aip.de .
Registration fee: approximately 110 US dollars (exact amount will be
fixed closer to date of the conference). The fee will be waived for
granted young researchers.
(1 US dollar approx. 1,75 DM)
ACCOMMODATION
By a special agreement we obtained the following reduced rates for
Bed&Breakfast (half board, full board):
100 (120,135) DM per person and day in a single room
60 ( 80, 95) DM " " " " in a double room
[Additionally there are a limited number of beds offered in 3- and 4-bed
bungalows of simple standard for 35 (55, 70) DM per person and day.]
Please note: September is holiday season in our area. Therefore by
the middle of February the LOC has to fix the number
of rooms we need.
Additional rooms can be reserved, but only for the normal
rate which amounts to 125 DM for Bed & Breakfast per
Person and day in a single room. The other prices can
be estimated by simple extrapolation.
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3rd A S P E Meeting
M A G N E T I C F I E L D and O S C I L L A T I O N S
Potsdam - Germany
September 22 - 26, 1998
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: Feb. 15th, 1998
Name:
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Address:
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Phone: ____________________________
Fax: ____________________________
E-mail Address: ___________________________________
Please, check the applicable statements.
I plan to attend the meeting using my own funds:
I am under 35 (41) and need travel and accommodation (T&A) funds:
I will also need travel and accommodation funds:
I intend to contribute with an oral ______ and/or poster _______ paper(s).
Tentative title(s):
PLEASE, RETURN THIS FORM TO THE LOC BY FEB. 15th, 1998
e-mail: ASPE98@aip.de
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3rd A S P E Meeting
M A G N E T I C F I E L D and O S C I L L A T I O N S
Potsdam - Germany
September 22 - 26, 1998
TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION GRANT FORM
Deadline: April. 1st, 1998
Name:
________________________________________________________________________
Address:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Phone: ____________________________
Fax: ____________________________
E-mail Address: ___________________
Financing requested: Travel fare (in US dollars): _________________________
Accommodation (please, just
check):____________________
Name of thesis advisor or senior of reference:
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(for students only)
E-mail of thesis advisor or senior of reference:
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(for students only)
PLEASE, RETURN THIS FORM TO THE LOC BY APRIL 1st, 1998
e-mail: ASPE98@aip.de
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Sincerely,
The LOC
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SOHO/Yohkoh Data Analysis Workshop #3
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Sagamihara, Japan, April 6-10, 1998
A SOHO/Yohkoh Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) will be
held at ISAS in Sagamihara, Japan, April 6-10, 1998. The overall theme
will be "Changes in Magnetic Connectivity in Small- and Large-scale
Structures in the Solar Atmosphere". This will be the third in the
series of SOHO-Yohkoh workshops. As before, there will be a minimum of
formal structure, a maximum of hands-on data manipulation, no printed
proceedings, and heavy use of the World-Wide Web as a medium of
reporting. This recipe has worked quite well so far.
In the previous workshops we have worked with CME signatures (GSFC,
early 1997) and active regions (MEDOC, late 1997). These subject
areas required the coalignment of different imaging data sets, and we
expect that the present subject will make even greater demands in this
area. We hope to use this workshop to improve general knowledge of
image coalignment and the development of practical tools in this area.
For organizational details, please access the following URL:
http://www.solar.isas.ac.jp/CDAW3/cdaw3.html
which also contains links to pages describing the previous workshops.
Please note that we intend to restrict participation in this workshop,
so in your e-mail expressing interest please include some brief
comments about your specific areas of scientific focus, or phenomena
of interest; we will probably wish to limit the workshop to specific
data intervals, so please also be specific in this area.
Please note that April 6-10 is the cherry blossom season in Japan!
Hugh Hudson (hudson@isass1.solar.isas.ac.jp)
Tetsuya Watanabe (watanabe@uvlab.mtk.nao.ac.jp)
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
for the
7th SOHO WORKSHOP: Coronal Holes and Solar Wind Acceleration
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28 September - 1 October 1998
Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, Maine
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Soho Science Working Team would like to review the impact of Soho
observations on our understanding of the nature and evolution of coronal
holes and the acceleration and composition of the solar wind.
Together the coronal and particle instruments on SOHO offer a comprehensive
observational capability to investigate those physical processes in the
photosphere, chromosphere, transition region and corona that provide the
energy input that leads to coronal heating and acceleration of solar wind
from coronal holes. In that regard, it is important to examine the roles
of both the large scale magnetic structure and small scale structure such as
bright points, polar plumes, spicules, and macrospicules and their relationships
to large scale wind streams and to the microstreams originally observed by
Ulyssess in the flow from polar coronal holes.
The Soho observational capability can be greatly extended by frequent collaborations
with ground based observatories, Yohkoh, TRACE, Ulysses, and other spacecraft.
Reviewing the results obtained so far will allow us to assess the progress
toward understanding coronal holes and the solar wind, and will present the
user community with input to shape the future program of SOHO science.
Proposed themes include:
- Solar wind models from the sun to 1 AU: Constraints by "in situ" and remote
sensing measurements
- Energy input, heating and solar wind acceleration in coronal holes
- Coronal hole boundaries and interactions with adjacent regions.
- Composition and elemental abundance variations in the solar atmosphere
and solar wind.
The themes may be adjusted based on the submittals of the participants,
and further deliberations by the Science Organizing Committee.
Presentations covering investigations with the relevant SOHO instruments,
coordinated observations from other ground based and space based instruments,
and theoretical studies of related phenomena, are welcome.
The workshop will have invited oral talks in plenum, and poster presentations.
Most of the time will be allocated to parallel workshop sessions, to discuss
the scientific subjects and on-going and future investigations. Participants
are encouraged to make short presentations at the working groups. Reports from
the working groups will be presented in a closing plenary session.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
John Kohl (Harvard-Smithsonian)
Peter Bochsler (Universitat Bern)
Guenter Brueckner (NRL)
Craig DeForest (NASA/GSFC)
Ruth Esser (SAO)
Antoinette Galvin (UNH)
Martin C. E. Huber (ESA)
Piet Martens (ESA/GSFC)
Helen Mason (Cambridge University)
Art Poland (NASA/GSFC)
Giannina Poletto (Arcetri Observatory)
Klaus Wilhelm (MPAE)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Brenda Bernard, Steven Cranmer, Danuta Dobrzycka, Larry Gardner, John Kohl,
John Raymond, Raid Suleiman, Peter Smith, Leonard Strachan
Local contact person is:
John L. Kohl, Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
E-mail: jkohl@cfa.harvard.edu
Telefax: (617) 495-7455
PUBLICATION
It is our intention to publish the proceedings in the refereed literature.
REGISTRATION FEES
There will be a conference fee of about USD $120. The fee may be reduced
for students and young investigators.
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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM - 7th SOHO WORKSHOP
(Please respond by January 15, 1998 by returning this form
by post, Fax or email to the local contact address)
Please send me the Second Announcement and Call for Papers:
Name:
Affiliation:
Address:
E-mail Address:
Telephone/Fax:
Level of interest: Will attend, May attend, Will not attend
Will you present a poster? Yes, No, Maybe
Topic of poster
presentation:
I am primarily interested in participating in workshop sessions
on the following theme (see above):
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AN INVITATION TO TURKEY TO OBSERVE THE LAST TOTAL
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SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE MILLENNIUM
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We are proud to invite you to the right place at the right moment
to witness nature's most spectacular event. The last total solar
eclipse of the millennium will be best observed from Turkey which
bridges two continents and has been the cradle of so many past
civilizations and which offers its guests magnificent historical
examples of the paganism, Christianity and Islam.
"The best prospects in Europe are found along the shore of the
Black Sea. But cautious observers may prefer the skies of Central
Turkey (Anatolia)".
Reprinted from "Total Eclipse of 1999 August 11", Espenak and
Anderson, 1997.
We have prepared three different programs for our colleagues:
(1) for those wishing to observe only the solar eclipse;
(2) for those wishing to observe the solar eclipse and to
participate in the
symposium which will follow the event;
(3) for those to participate only in the symposium in Istanbul.
Detailed scientific and social programs and information about
accommodation, etc. will be announced later.
We are looking forward to welcome you to Turkey in 1999.
Cordially yours.
Kandilli Observatory Eclipse Committee
For more Information please visit our eclipse WEB site:
http://www.boun.edu.tr/~koeri/eclipse_99
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* SPS Newsletter *
* Editor: J"urgen Staude *
* Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam *
* Sonnenobservatorium Einsteinturm *
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* tel.: 49-331-288-2300 (49-331-288-2331 - secretary) *
* fax: 49-331-288-2310 *
* e-mail: JSTAUDE@AIP.DE *
* JStaude@solar.Stanford.EDU *
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