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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)
E. Marsch(Germany)
P. Martens (ESTEC)
P. Palle (Spain)
N. Vilmer (France)
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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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SUN -EARTH CONNECTION WORKSHOP 28
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March 2-4, 1999
Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, Maryland
A two and a half day Sun-Earth Connection (SEC) workshop will be hosted
by the NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) and Goddard Space Flight
Center Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Program Office. The purpose of
the workshop is to inform the space science community on the nature and
status of the presently planned SEC missions and to gather input for
the next SEC strategic plan. Presentations will be made on the state of
development of the first six STP Missions (i.e., TIMED, Solar-B, Solar
Stereo, Magnetospheric Multi-Scale, Global Electrodynamics and
Magnetospheric Constellation) and the Solar Probe Mission. The
instrument and spacecraft technology development programs which are
necessary for the successful implementation of these missions will also
be described. Concurrent splinter meetings will be held to identify
broad science objectives and mission concepts by discipline for
submission to the SEC Roadmap Team. The individual splinter meetings
will address science relating to Solar Physics, Heliospheric Physics,
Magnetospheric Physics and the Physics of the
Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere System. These splinter sessions will
be chaired by members of the SEC Roadmap Team who will use the
information gathered in the process for the purpose of developing
candidates for STP missions 7-9, Frontier Probe missions and other SEC
mission opportunities. In addition to the plenary presentations by
invited speakers and the chairs of the splinter groups, a poster
session of contributed papers on new mission concepts and recent
developments in instrumentation and emerging technologies will be held.
The workshop will end at noon on March 4th and be immediately followed
by a meeting of the SEC Roadmap Team.
Scientists and technologists are invited to participate in the
workshop. It will be held at the Marriott Hotel (6400 Ivy Lane,
Greenbelt, MD 20770; 301-441-3700). There is no registration fee, but
all participants are requested to register at their earliest
convenience. If you wish to contribute a poster presentation, then a
title and a 1 to 2 sentence description should be included in the space
provided on the registration form. The registration form is available
at the STP Pro gram Office website: http://stprobes.gsfc.nasa.gov/ .
The local workshop organizer is Dr. James A. Slavin. He can be reached
at 301-286-5839 or jim.slavin@gsfc.nasa.gov . The conference
coordinator is Ms. Mary A. Floyd. She can be reached at 301-345-3211 or
mary.a.floyd@gsfc.nasa.gov .
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GONG '99
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A Workshop on Helioseismology
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at Moderate and High Spherical Harmonic Degree
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March 22-24, 1999
InnSuites Hotel
475 North Granada
Tucson, Arizona 85701, USA
(520) 622-3000 fax: (520) 623-8922
Meeting URL: http://www.gong.noao.edu/gong99
The 1999 GONG annual meeting/workshop will be held at the InnSuites
Hotel, located in downtown Tucson. The workshop will begin on Monday,
March 22nd and end at noon on Wednesday, March 24th, 1999.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of
work in progress to understand the physics of these modes, the data
analysis methods needed to extract the appropriate description of their
properties, and the physics of the solar interior that can be derived
from them. While this will be an open forum for the discussion of all
aspects of global imaging helioseismology, we wish to stimulate the
work of the GONG Science Teams in anticipation of the high-resolution
(1024x1024) helioseismic data that GONG+ should start providing in
mid-2000.
Calendar of Events:
First Announcement November 30, 1998
Registration Deadline February 1, 1999
Abstract Submission Deadline February 1, 1999
Agenda Distribution February 15, 1999
Hotel Registration Deadline February 19, 1999
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Peter Gilman, Jack Harvey, Frank Hill, John Leibacher, Robert Noyes,
Phil Scherrer, Alan Title, Juri Toomre, Roger Ulrich
Local Organizing Committee:
Ann Barringer, Pat Eliason, Frank Hill, Rachel Howe, Stuart Jefferies,
Rudi Komm, John Leibacher
Program Outline:
The workshop will consist of plenary sessions with invited review and
contributed talks, posters available for viewing throughout the
meeting, and parallel working group sessions. Abstracts are required
for all oral and poster presentations.
The proposed topics for the working groups are: Observing and Analysis
Strategies; Resonant Mode Frequency Identification; Rotation;
Thermodynamic Structure; Mode Physics and Excitation; and Solar Cycle
Changes.
We hope to have ample space for posters; however, we reserve the right
to restrict the number of posters per participant if necessary.
Abstracts are required for all oral and poster presentations. Please see
the Abstracts Submission Page linked to the URL above for more details.
The SOC will select a few oral presentations from the poster
contribution abstracts, for individuals who indicate that they wish to
be considered. The selected authors will be contacted by February 15,
1998.
Travel Assistance:
Very limited funds may be available for assistance with travel expenses.
To apply, please contact gong99@noao.edu
Social Events:
We will arrange a visit to Kitt Peak on the afternoon of Sunday March
21, a group dinner on Tuesday March 23, and a visit to the Tucson GONG
site on the afternoon of Wednesday March 24. Please indicate on the
Registration Form whether you are interested in these events.
Registration:
There will be a workshop registration fee of $100 US ($125.00 for late
registration). The fee includes lunches during the meeting and a copy
of the abstracts. There will be no proceedings published for this
workshop.
Please complete a registration form by February 1, 1999. An electronic
version is available linked to the URL above, or contact GONG at
gong99@noao.edu .
The principal meeting room can accommodate up to 125 participants, so
please register early as we may have to limit attendance.
Hotel Registration:
A block of 75 rooms has been reserved for the meeting. You must register
directly with the hotel, by February 19th, 1999. Please print out the
Registration Card linked to the meeting URL and mail or fax it to the
hotel (NOT to GONG).
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EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
24TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NETHERLANDS CONGRESS CENTRE
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS
19-23 APRIL 1999
http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/EGS.html
HOTEL BOOKING
Participants are advised to book their accommodation well in
advance by using the Hotel Reservation Form on WWW. The final
deadline for pre-reservation will be 15 February 1999. Naturally,
any reservation received later will also be accepted and on-site
hotel booking will also be possible during the official congress
hours:
Sunday, 18 April 1999: 15:00-20:00
Monday-Thursday, 19-22 April 1999: 08:00-18:00
Friday, 23 April 1999: 08:00-12:00
The hotel booking agent is:
Netherlands Reservation Centre Tel: +31-70-419-5505
P.O. Box 404 Fax: +31-70-419-5519
2260 AK Leidschendam congressen@hotelres.nl
The Netherlands
The EGS cannot accept any liability for booking of accommodation
through the above agency. Participants are advised to contact
also their local travel agent, since one often finds inexpensive
travel AND accommodation arrangements for visiting the major
European cities (city tours etc.).
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**** Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: 15 December 1998 ****
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Further information regarding the SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME and the
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS will be circulated as part
of the EGS Meeting News on a routine basis.
Please inform your colleagues about this event and make him/her
join the distribution list of EGS Meeting News.
Arne K. Richter
Editor
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Max-Planck-Str. 13 Fax.: +49-5556-4709
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Solar and Heliospheric Physics at EGS 99
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On behalf of the Programme Committee of the European Geophysical Society
we cordially invite you to participate in the forthcoming XXIV General
Assembly of EGS to be held in Den Haag, The Netherlands, 19-23 April
1999. We draw your attention to the following Solar and Heliospheric
sessions:
ST1 Review Session on Solar Terrestrial Sciences [Conveners - P.
Fabian, M.A. Hapgood]
ST5 Open Session on Solar and Heliospheric Physics [Conveners - R.
Marsden, E. Marsch]
NP1.05 Nonlinear dynamics in the heliosphere [Conveners - W.M. Macek, V.
Carbone]
ST10 From solar minimum to maximum: change in the ST system
(magnetosphere, Sun and solar wind) [Conveners - M. Grande, M.
Pick]
ST11 Theory and simulations of solar system plasmas [Conveners - G.
Belmont, J. B|chner]
ST12 The solar atmosphere
01 Plasma diagnostics of the solar atmosphere by photon
spectroscopy and remote particle measurements [Conveners - M.
Hilchenbach, V. Hansteen]
02 Multi-instrument campaigns to study solar coronal mass ejection
onsets and developments [Conveners - R.A. Harrison, V. Bothmer]
ST13 Corotating interaction regions in the heliosphere--development and
effects [Conveners - H. Kunow, A. Balogh]
PS6 Solar system radiophysics and related topics [Conveners - C.H.
Barrow, M.G. Aubier]
ST14 Solar imprints in terrestrial archives [Conveners - J.F.W.
Negendank, G. Cini-Castagnoli]
OA19 Solar ultraviolet radiation [Conveners - A.F. Bais, P. Koepke]
Note: Sessions ST5, PS6 and PS5 (Planetary magnetospheres and
ionospheres 01 Magnetised planets) will be held in sequence, in the
same room, with no intervening sessions.
Details of the meeting, including information on abstract submission
(due date 15 December, 1998), are available via the EGS Web site
http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/EGS/egsga/denhaag99/denhaag99.htm
We look forward meeting you at EGS 99, in Den Haag.
Richard G. MARSDEN
EGS Secretary "Heliospheric Physics"
Tel:+31-71 565 3583/3574
RMARSDEN@ESTEC.ESA.NL
Bernard H. FOING
EGS Secretary "Solar Physics"
Tel:+31-71 565 5647/3574
BFOING@ESTEC.ESA.NL
Solar System Division,
Space Science Dept. of ESA
ESTEC/SCI-SO,
Keplerlaan 1,
Postbus 299
2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Fax:+31-71 565 4697
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8th SOHO Workshop:
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Plasma Dynamics and Diagnostics
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in the Solar Transition Region and Corona.
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http://soho8www.medoc-ias.u-psud.fr
22 - 25 June, 1999
PARIS, FRANCE
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Purpose
The goal of this workshop is to contribute to the understanding of the
dynamics and the energetics of the transition region between the solar
chromosphere and corona, along with the understanding of the cool and
hot regions themselves. A special emphasis will be placed on the issue
of the diagnostics of the plasma where the conditions vary over a large
range: from low to very high temperature, from high to low plasma beta,
neutral to fully ionized, collisional to non-collisional regimes. After
more than three years of successful operations, this is an appropriate
time to celebrate SOHO's resurrection, to discuss the latest SOHO
discoveries and to reassess the results already obtained. The workshop
will offer time to present the models and the theories which explain
the new findings. The scientific topics include macro- and micro- scale
heating, reconnection, processes which lead to the acceleration of the
winds (with emphasis on the role of waves), cool plasma confinement in
prominences, turbulence on all scales, transition from collisional to
non- collisional regimes, etc..., all physical processes which are
relevant to various solar structures. The topics are not limited to
SOHO data but also include results from collaborations with TRACE,
ground-based observatories, YOHKOH, ULYSSES, ACE... The workshop is
open to all solar physicists, whether they are directly involved in
SOHO or work in theory, modeling or with other observations.
General Information and Preliminary Scientific Program
The SOHO 8 meeting will be held on 22-25 June 1999, at CAP-15 (1-13,
Quai de Grenelle, 75015 PARIS) close to the Eiffel Tower. The
scientific program will begin on 22 June 1999 at 14:00 with a Keynote
Lecture (speaker to be announced) on a topic related to the scientific
theme of the meeting.
The different topics will be introduced on the afternoon of 22 June and
on the morning of 23 June. They will concern issues such as
photospheric and chromospheric structuring and the role of the magnetic
field, the structure and role of the transition region, coronal heating
and structuring, wind acceleration processes, prominences and CMEs,
solar activity on all scales
The participants will then break into parallel sessions related to the
above topics, in the afternoons of 23 and 24 June, led by a discussion
leader. There will be sessions for poster papers and a joint session on
all topics on 25 June where each group will present a summary of their
respective session. Time will be provided for discussion.
Calendar of events
Pre-registration deadline: 15 January 1999
Second announcement: 15 February 1999
Grant application deadline: 15 March 1999
Registration deadline: 15 March 1999
Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 1999
Workshop: 22-25 June 1999
Proceedings
The Proceedings will be published by ESA/ESTEC.
Conference Fee
There will be a conference fee of 1200 FF, including the admission to
all scientific sessions, coffee breaks, conference material, and the
two lunches on June 23 and 24.
The workshop banquet (possibly on a boat on the Seine river, June 24)
requires a separate fee and tickets should be ordered at the time of
registration; the fee for accompanying persons to attend the banquet
should be submitted with the application.
Hotel
You can consult a list of hotels on http://soho8www.medoc-ias.u-psud.fr
For reservations, we invite you to contact:
HAVAS VOYAGE c/o ESA
8 Rue Mario Nikis
75015 PARIS
Telephone : 33 1 45 67 09 55
Fax : 33 1 53 69 75 60
Make your reservations as soon as possible. June is the high tourism
season in Paris.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Spiro Antiochos (Naval Research Laboratory, U.S.A.), Ester Antonucci
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy), Karine Bocchialini
(Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France), Peter Bochsler
(Physikalishes Institut, Bern, Switzerland), Frederic Clette
(Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Bruxelles), Bernhard Fleck (ESA/GSFC,
U.S.A.), Alan Gabriel (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay,
France), Joe Gurman (NASA/GSFC, U.S.A.), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford
University, U.S.A.), Russ Howard (Naval Research Laboratory, U.S.A.),
Olav Kjeldseth-Moe (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo,
Norway), Rosine Lallement (Service d'Aeronomie, Verrieres-le-Buisson,
France), Eckart Marsch (M.P.A.E., Lindau, Germany), Helen Mason
(Cambridge University, U.K.), Jean-Claude Vial (chair, Institut
d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France)
Local Organizing Committee
Frederic Baudin, Karine Bocchialini (chair), Patrick Boumier, Catherine
Cougrand (secretary), Marie-Therese Dorin-Gerald, Alan Gabriel,
Isabelle Scholl, Jean-Claude Vial
Grants
A limited number of grants will be available for students and young
scientists. Details will be provided in the second announcement.
Support
The SOHO8 workshop is supported by: European Space Agency, Centre
National d'Etudes Spatiales, Matra Marconi Space, NASA,
C.N.R.S.-I.N.S.U., Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, Universite Paris XI
, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, SCOSTEP.
[In the interest of space, the workshop schedule and the registration
form which were in the original submission have not been included in
SolarNews. Please refer to the Web address above for these items.-ed.]
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Ninth SOHO Workshop--Preliminary Announcement
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The Ninth SOHO Workshop will take place on July, 12-15, 1999, at
Stanford, California, USA, hosted by the Solar Oscillation
Investigation group at Stanford University.
The Workshop will focus on methods and results of helioseismic
diagnostics of the internal structure and dynamics of solar convection
and active regions. The methods of local helioseismology (time-distance
tomography, ring-diagram analysis, acoustic imaging and holography),
intensively developed in the past few years, have provided promising
results on the deep structure of large-scale convection and flows,
emerging active regions and sunspots, which are important for
understanding the dynamics of the convection zone and the origin of
solar activity. Our understanding will progress rapidly only by
bringing theoretical ideas and numerical models face to face with the
new observations of the Sun's interior.
An important goal of the Workshop is to promote collaborations among
experimenters, analysts, and theorists. We will discuss the status and
latest results of local helioseismology and implications of these
results for theories of solar convection and activity, and will be
challenged to think about new directions. The Workshop will consist of
invited and contributed talks, posters, and working group sessions
focused on specific topics of analysis and modeling.
This is the preliminary announcement of the meeting. If you wish to
receive further announcements, please fill in the pre-registration form
in the SOHO-9 Workshop WWW page http://quake.stanford.edu/~SOHO-9 by
January, 15, 1999.
The first announcement will be sent in February 1999. It will contain a
preliminary scientific program, more detailed information about the
workshop, information about publication of the proceedings, and so on.
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Solar Variability and Climate Symposium
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This one-day symposium, sponsored by IAGA, IAMAS, and SCOSTEP, will be
held during the IUGG 99 Assembly, Birmingham, U.K., July 18-30, 1999.
The symposium will discuss the most recent results obtained on solar
variability and its effects on the Earth's atmosphere and climate
system. Measurements of the solar energy flux (electromagnetic
radiation and the emission of charged particles) and understanding its
variability are extremely important issues for both solar and
atmospheric physics. Measurements of the solar energy flux over the
last decades have demonstrated that it varies with the 11-year solar
activity cycle, and it has been established that the Earth's climate,
radiative environment and upper atmospheric chemistry are influenced by
the varying solar energy flux. In addition to the terrestrial
implications of solar variability, the observations and interpretation
of the variations in the solar energy flux also led to new ways of
understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Sun on a global
scale. The ultimate goal is to understand why, how, and what mechanisms
govern solar variability which controls many of the terrestrial
processes. This symposium provides an excellent opportunity to bring
together the international research community to summarize and discuss
the results gained on solar variability and its terrestrial effects.
Convenor: Judit M. Pap
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Los Angeles
BOX 951562, 405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1562
Phone: 310-825-1289
Fax: 310-206-2096
E-Mail: pap@astro.ucla.edu or
jpap@solar.stanford.edu
Co-Convenor: Claus Frohlich
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos
World Radiation Center
PMOD/WRC, Dorfstrasse 33
CH-7260 Davos-Dorf, Switzerland
Phone: 41 81 417 51 36
Fax: 41 81 417 51 00
E-Mail: cfrohlich@obsun.pmodwrc.ch or
cfrohlich@solar.stanford.edu
The topic of the symposium will cover the following areas: Measurements,
results and interpretation of solar total, spectral (near-UV to IR),
and UV irradiances, variations of solar-type of stars, climate effect
of irradiance and particle flux variations, long-term solar and climate
records. The symposium is also related to the "International Solar
Cycle Studies (ISCS): Working Group 1, Solar Energy Flux Variations:
from the Interior to the Outer Layers". ISCS is an international
research program operated under the auspices of SCOSTEP.
The deadline for receiving abstracts is January 15, 1999. Please note
that abstracts must be sent directly to IUGG (please send also a copy
to the convenors). If you wish to receive travel support, requests also
should be sent directly to IUGG by January 15, 1999. Further details
can be found in the IUGG 99 Birmingham Second Circular - Call for
Abstracts. To receive Circulars for the IUGG99 meeting please contact:
IUGG99 Secretariat School of Earth Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 121 414 6165
Fax: +44 121 414 4942
E-mail: IUGG99@bham.ac.uk
or visit its WEB-site http://www.bham.ac.uk/IUGG99/
If you have further questions on the Solar Variability and Climate
Symposium, please contact Judit Pap or Claus Frohlich. We are looking
forward to meeting you in Birmingham.
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THE LAST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE MILLENNIUM IN TURKEY
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Istanbul, Turkey
August 13th - 15th, 1999
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
On 11 August 1999 a total eclipse will cross Europe and the Middle
East. The chances of clear skies increase as we progress eastward
through Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. Taking into account political unrest,
Turkey appears the best compromise site and we expect large numbers of
scientists and other eclipse goers will converge there. With this in
mind, we, the astronomers at the Kandilli Observatory, Turkey, are
preparing to hold a symposium, "The last total solar eclipse of the
millennium." This symposium would be held a few days after the eclipse
in Istanbul so that travel expenses for participants would be minimal.
A Scientific Organising Committee has been constituted and they have
come up with program topics believed to be timely and important. This
announcement is to bring you up-to-date on the meeting planning at this
time and to help you to firm up your plans to participate. Please feel
free to pass this announcement along to your colleagues.
Complete meeting information is continuously updated at our home page
(http://www.boun.edu.tr/~koeri/eclipse_99/).
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First Announcement
NINTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON SOLAR PHYSICS
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Magnetic Fields and Solar Processes
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Florence -- Italy -- September 12-18, 1999
Conference Secretary: P. Spadolini.
E-mail contact address: spm99@arcetri.astro.it; Fax: +39--055--220039
The Ninth Meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the Joint
European Physical Society (EPS) and European Astronomical Society
(EAS), will take place in Florence, Italy, jointly with CESRA and JOSO,
from September 12 to 18, 1999. It will be hosted by the Arcetri
Astrophysical Observatory and by the Department of Astronomy and Space
Science of the University of Florence.
This First Announcement is meant to provide general information about
the meeting and to solicit a declaration of interest from prospective
participants. Additional details, the final registration form,
the hotel registration form and the call for poster papers will
be given in the second Announcement, to be distributed in January.
The key topics are listed below together with the respective convenors:
a) Flux Emergence / Coronal heating: F. Drago
b) Coronal Mass Ejections / Space Weather: B. Schmieder
c) Solar Flares: J. Kuijpers
d) Particle Acceleration in the Solar System: A. Benz
e) Solar Wind / Heliosphere: E. Marsch
f) Helioseismology / Interior / Dynamo: P. Palle
g) Waves / Atmospheric Dynamics: B. Fleck
h) Solar Prominences: P. Heinzel
The Meeting will consist of (a) invited reviews (typically 2-3
talks per session) (b) invited contributions (typically 4-6 per
session) (c) poster papers. Poster papers on all topics relevant to the
study of the Sun can be submitted: final acceptance of the poster
papers is the responsibility of the SOC, which will decide on the basis
of the submitted abstract and of their bearing to the topics of the
Meeting.
Joint Discussions on `Young Astronomers' and `Databases' are also
planned, under the guidance, respectively, of M. Goossens and M.
Messerotti.
The meeting will be held in downtown Florence, in the building of
the Faculty of Architecture of the University (via dell'Agnolo, 2r). A
conference room seating up to 200 people, two smaller rooms and
adjacent areas for poster presentation will be available. Coffee breaks
and registration will be held in the same place. Most hotels, museums
and other tourist attractions are within walking distance of the
Meeting site.
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First Announcement
Progress in Cosmic Gas Dynamics
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Conference to honor Prof. Vladimir B. Baranov on the
occasion of his 65th birthday
Moscow, Russia
13-17 September, 1999
http://194.190.131.172/~conf99/
The Conference will be hosted by the Institute of Problems in Mechanics,
Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University. This
Conference will be held on September 13-17, 1999 in Moscow.
Scientific Program Committee :V.B. Baranov (chairman),
A.M.Cherepashchuk, H. J. Fahr, A.A.Galeev, J.Geiss, M. Gruntman,
S.Grzedzielski, B.Gustafsson, R.Lallement, T.Matsuda, R.McCray,
R.A.Syunyaev.
Local Organizing Committee: D.B.Alexashov, E.V.Barsky, N.A.Belov,
S.V.Chalov, V.V.Izmodenov, A.P.Kalinin, A.V.Myasnikov, N.V. Pogorelov,
L.K.Pronina, N.A.Zaitsev.
The conference is a continuation of a series of highly successful
international workshops/conferences on space plasma dynamics and plasma
neutral component held in the 1980s in Germany, Poland, and USSR. These
conferences were characterized by informal atmosphere allowing in-depth
discussions. Ten years elapsed since the last Conference on Cosmic Gas
Dynamics in Moscow, and the participants could compare and witness the
changes occured in the Cosmic Gas Dynamics. You will find also many
changes in the host-city, Moscow, that occured during this turbulent
time.
The Conference will cover the subjects related to the problems of
helio-, astro- and cosmic gas dynamics. We will focus on the
interactions of gasdynamical flows in different astrophysical objects,
MHD and kinetic processes in Space Physics, different aspects of flow
stability, fundamentals of the plasma flows description in space, etc.
There are 6 scientific sessions planned:
1. The Outer Heliosphere: theories and observations
2. Solar Wind Interaction with Comets and Planets
3. Colliding Stellar Winds in different astrophysical objects
4. Accretion discs in close binary stars
5. Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic instabilities in cosmic gasdynamics
6. Fundamentals of Cosmic Gas Dynamics (kinetic and fluid equations,
MHD in plasma physics, multifluid approaches etc.)
Call for Papers
In each session we expect to have a combination of the review talks,
oral talks and poster presentations. All posters will be on display
throughout the meeting. The goal of the review talks is to ensure that
the newest and most interesting results and theoretical developments
are presented. A number of invited talks will be selected by the
Scientific Program Committee based on the abstracts submitted.
Submission of Abstracts
The title, author(s) list and abstract must be submitted electronically
by e-mail or by filling of www-form. Authors who do not have electronic
access should contact Vladislav Izmodenov directly (see below), well in
advance of the submission deadline to make special arrangements.
Deadline for Abstract Submission is MAY 15, 1999
The Scientific Program Committee will select the invited oral
presentations from the abstracts submitted. If you do not wish to be
considered for an oral presentation please check the appropriate box in
the abstract submission form.
Publication of Proceedings
It is planned to publish the Proceedings of the Conference. The
Proceedings will be published on the Web-site of the Laboratory of
Physical Gas Dynamics (Institute Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy
of Sciences). We are considering a possibility to publish the
proceedings as a special issue of some journal or as a separate book.
Local Contact:
Dr. Vladislav Izmodenov or Dr. Artyom Myasnikov
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics
117526, Prospekt Vernadskogo 101, Moscow, Russia
Tel.: +7 095 4344151
FAX: +7 095 9382048
Email: izmod@ipmnet.ru or myas@ipmnet.ru
Important Notice
If you are planning to attend this workshop, please FAX (+7 095
9382048), pre-register on our Web-site (http://194.190.131.172/~conf99/)
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October 4 -- 8, 1999
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
***** First Announcement *****
This is the first announcement for the 11th Cool Stars Workshop to be
held in the town of Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife, Spain) on October
1999. The meeting is organized by the Instituto de Astrofisica de
Canarias (IAC), which hosts the two international observatories located
in the Canary Islands (Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma and Teide at
Tenerife).
I. Rationale
The Cool Stars Workshops are designed to provide a regular forum where
members of the solar and stellar communities can gather to discuss new
observations and theoretical models and, in particular, to attempt to
correlate the very detailed observations we have for the Sun with the
vast, but less detailed database of observations of more distant stars.
Cool Stars 11 will continue that tradition. We expect this to be a very
lively meeting, with about 300 participants. The emphasis will be on
identifying the challenges and unsolved problems in the physics of
late-type stars for the future. Note that this will be the last Cool
Stars Workshop of the millennium and it will be a good opportunity to
review some of the fields frequently considered in these workshops.
II. Scientific Programming
The topics are:
* Advances in Solar Physics
* The Formation of Stars and Planets
* Chemical Abundances as Diagnostics of Stellar Structure
* Unsolved Problems in Stellar Activity
* Impact of Space Missions and Very Large telescopes on Cool
Stars
Invited reviews, invited and contributed talks, and posters will be
presented. The organising committee will select contributions for oral
or poster presentation from the applications.
III. Venue
The meeting will take place in the conference center adjacent to the
Casino Taoro in Puerto de la Cruz. We expect most participants to stay
in the hotels close to the conference center. Puerto de la Cruz is a
seaside resort within a 30 minutes drive of La Laguna (University town
hosting the IAC's headquarters) and Santa Cruz (largest city in
Tenerife, population ~250,000), and only 20 minutes from the North
airport.
IV Further Information
Further information may be obtained through our WWW site.
You are welcome to contact any member of the LOC by e-mail,
fax, or phone, for any enquiry.
e-mail: cs11@iac.es
Phone: 34-922-605200
Fax: 34-922-605373
WWW: http://www.iac.es/cs11/cs11.html
Postal: Cool Stars 11 Workshop
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife
Spain
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IAU COLLOQUIUM NO. 179
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`CYCLICAL EVOLUTION OF SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS:
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ADVANCES IN THEORY AND OBSERVATIONS'
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December 13-16 1999, Kodaikanal, India.
http://www.iiap.ernet.in/~iauc179
This conference will be hosted by Indian Institute of Astrophysics to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory.
Keeping in view its long tradition of uninterrupted solar observations,
an international meeting on the CYCLICAL EVOLUTION OF SOLAR MAGNETIC
FIELDS will be held at the Kodaikanal Observatory from December 13-16,
1999.
Kodaikanal is a picturesque mountain site, yet fully developed as a
tourist resort with modern amenities. This meeting would be the first
to bring together, to a significant degree, the persons studying
subsurface motions through surface magnetism and those who study
subsurface motions through helioseismology - and within a framework
that includes those who are interested in both the radiative and
particle/fields efflux from the sun. It will also enable the forging of
new collaborations that would exploit the longitude advantage for
better progress in monitoring the sun.
SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE
Hale's persistent observations of sunspot magnetic fields led to the
realization that these were the surface manifestations of a deep
underlying global field which varied periodically in form, strength and
polarity. The acquisition of daily sunspot pictures at Kodaikanal,
Mount Wilson, Greenwich, Meudon as well at other sites, led to the
accumulation of a wealth of data that have been used in recent times to
learn a great deal more about the global field. The recent advances in
helioseismology have added to the information on solar interior
dynamics which is responsible for generating and modulating the
internal field. Modern computers and computing techniques have started
to provide startling information on magneto-convection. New thoughts on
magnetic helicity and its evolution in the sun have also emerged. A lot
of information on coronal phenomena at different epochs of the solar
cycle is now available from eclipses and space based telescopes.
Likewise the global picture of the heliosphere is emerging as a result
of data from several space missions. Thus, the meeting on the cyclical
aspects of solar magnetic fields will provide a `holistic' view of
solar magnetism and its regular variability which could guide future
endeavors for long term solar studies.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairpersons: O. Engvold (Norway) co-chair, P. Venkatakrishnan (India)
co-chair, G.Ai (China), R. Canfield (USA), S.M. Chitre (India), Murray
Dryer (USA), C.Froehlich (Switzerland), J.Leibacher (USA), V.Makarov
(Russia), T.Sakurai (Japan), J.Toomre (USA), A.Wolfendale (UK)
OUTLINE OF PROGRAM
Topics in the scientific programme:
o Sunspot groups and filaments as tracers of Sub-surface Processes
o Vector Magnetic Fields, Sub-surface Stresses and evolution of
magnetic helicity
o Properties of flux tubes and relation with solar irradiance
variability
o Helioseismology, interior dynamics and cyclical evolution of
seismic parameters
o Magnetoconvection
o Dynamo Mechanisms
o Cyclical variation in quiet corona and coronal holes
o Cyclical variability of prominences, CMEs and flares
o Solar wind, interplanetary magnetic fields, cosmic rays and the
solar cycle
o New initiatives for synoptic observations
The meeting will consist of several invited reviews, selected oral
contributions, poster summaries, and poster papers. There will be ample
time for poster viewing and discussions.
Prospective participants are invited to direct their queries concerning
this IAU Colloquium to:
P.Venkatakrishnan,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Bangalore - 560 034,
India
e-mail: iauc179@iiap.ernet.in
phone: 91-80-5530672
fax: 91-80-5534043
REGISTRATION FEE: 120 US Dollars. The mode of payment and other details
will be announced in the next circular.
A pre-registration form is available at the Web site.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
o Deadline for pre-registration - 15 January 1999
o Deadline for abstracts - 1 March 1999
o Deadline for travel grant applications - 1 March 1999
o Deadline for registration - 1 August 1999
THE WEB SITE WILL BE UPDATED FREQUENTLY; CHECK FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE DATES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS.
* Deadline for pre-registration - 1 March 1999
* Deadline for abstracts - 1 May 1999
* Deadline for travel grant applications - 1 May 1999
* Deadline for registration - 15 August 1999
Meeting information and the pre-registration form for the conference can be
found at http://www.iiap.ernet.in/~iauc179 . For convenience, the form is
also reproduced here:
Full Name:
Institution:
Postal Address:
E-mail Addresses:
FAX:
Telephone:
Tentative title of the Paper:
Area(s) of the Paper (from the list of topics mentioned above):
Preferred mode of scientific presentation: (Oral with desired speaking time,
or poster)
Participation in the colloquium (please answer one of the questions with a
`yes')
1. Certain ?
2. Quite probable ?
3. Unlikely, but would like to receive further announcements ?
4. Unlikely ?
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