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SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE DYNAMIC SUN
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| 10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee | |
| Morning Session | Chair: Philippa Browning | |
| 10.30 - 10.35 | Alan Hood | Welcome |
| 10.35 - 11.05 | Terry Forbes (New Hampshire) | Solar Flare Models |
| 11.05 - 11.20 | Rhona Maclean (St Andrews) | Magnetic topology and magnetic reconnection in a 3D MHD model of solar flux emergence |
| 11.20 - 11.35 | Louise Harra (UCL/MSSL) | Response of the solar atmosphere to the emergence of 'serpentine' magnetic field |
| 11.35 - 12.05 | Dana Longcope (Montana) | Coronal Heating by Magnetic Reconnection |
| 12.05 - 12.20 | Mitchell Berger (Exeter) | The Heyvaerts-Priest model and the helicity of force-free fields |
| 12.20 - 12.35 | Anthony Yeates (Dundee) | Can large-scale transport of magnetic helicity explain solar eruptions? |
| 12.35 - 12.50 | Robertus Erdélyi (Sheffield) | Coronal Heating by Alfven Waves |
| 12.50 - 14.00 | Lunch* & Poster Session | |
| Afternoon Session | Chair: Peter Cargill | |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | José Luis Ballester (Balearic Islands) | Prominence seismology using transverse oscillations in uniform and non-uniform filament threads |
| 14.15 - 14.45 | Clare Parnell (St Andrews ) | Aspects of 3D Reconnection |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Klaus Galsgaard (Niels Bohr Inst) | Can we have steady state reconnection in a 3D null point? |
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Helen Mason (Cambridge) | Active Region Studies |
| 15.15 - 15.30 | Eric Priest (St Andrews) | Closing Remarks |
| 15.35 - 16.00 | Tea at the Geological Society | |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | RAS Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting |
*A light lunch will be available for purchase
POSTERS | ||
| Michael Bareford (Manchester) | -- The Energy Distribution of the Nanoflares that Result from Continually Subjecting a Coronal Loop Model to Kink Instabilities | |
| Claire Foullon (Warwick) | -- Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares | |
| Jennifer Harris (Warwick) | -- The Hilbert-Huang transform in the analysis of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares | |
| Andrew Haynes (St Andrews) | -- Magnetic skeletons: How to find them and why are they important | |
| Gunnar Hornig (Dundee) | -- Reconnection in braided magnetic fields. | |
| James McAteer (Trinity College Dublin) | -- Flares, Fractals and Forecasts: Progress in Prediction. | |
| David MacTaggart (St Andrews) | -- Multiple eruptions from magnetic flux emergence | |
| David Pontin (Dundee) | -- Magnetic reconnection at 3D null points | |
| Stephane Regnier (St Andrews) | -- Coronal Alfven speed profiles and frequencies along field lines | |
| Mag Selwa (St Andrews) | -- 3D MHD numerical simulations of interaction of twisted dipolar loops | |
| James Threlfall (St Andrews) | -- Phase-mixing of waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies | |
| Rim Turkmani (Imperial College) | -- Particle acceleration at the footpoints of Solar Flares. | |
| Tom Van Doorsselaere (Warwick) | -- Slow coronal loop oscillation in multiple spectral lines observed by Hinode/EIS | |
| Alison Wallace (MSSL) | -- The influence of counter-helicity on active region evolution | |
| Valentina Zharkova (Bradford) | -- What accelerated particles can tell us about magnetic field configuration in solar flares? | |
| Valentina Zharkova (Bradford) | -- Sunquakes and seismic emission as probes of high energy particle effects in the lower atmosphere | |