Meeting Program
Since many of the participants may reach Suzhou on July 21, 2009 for the eclipse, some of our LOC members will be waiting in the hotel in order to provide any necessary help for the participants. Therefore, the registration will start from 15:00 on July 21, 2009 until 19:00 on July 23..
     
Wendesday, Jul. 22, 2009 07:00-12:00 A tour to see total solar eclipse
Wendesday, Jul. 22, 2009 18:30-? A free tour to see local performance
Thursday, Jul. 23, 2009 08:30-12:00 A tour to Suzhou Gardens
Thursday, Jul. 23, 2009 19:00-20:00 Welcome Reception
Saturday, Jul. 25, 2009 19:00-20:30 Banquet with local folk opera


Scientific Program:

July 24th

          Chair: Chen, P. F.

8:30 – 9:00  Free exhibition of the eclipse pictures taken this year or before
         Chair: Ding, Mingde

9:00 – 9:30  Opening Address: Fang, Cheng

Welcome address: some important persons

 

Session 1: Solar Eclipse Observations and Public Outreach (part 1)

 

Chair: Forbes, Terry

 

09:30-10:00  Sun, Xiaochun : The Observation of Solar Eclipses in Ancient China  (invited)

10:00 – 10:15  Kotrc, P.: Measurement of Scattered Light in Optical Spectra Observed by the Ondvrejov

 Spectrograph During the Partial Solar Eclipse on 1 August 2008

10:15 – 10:30  Park, Young-Deuk: 2009 Total Solar Eclipse of KASI

10:30 – 10:45  Qu, Zhongquan: Results from Linear Polarization Observation of Flash Spectrum in a

 Total Solar Eclipse in 2008

 

10:45 – 11:15  Coffee and tea break

        

Chair: Nakariakov, V.

 

11:15 – 11:45  Pasachoff , Jay M.: Scientific Observations at Total Solar Eclipses (invited)
11:45 – 12:00  
Druckmullerova, Hana: High-resolution Colorimetry of the Solar Corona
12:00 – 12:15  
Prado, Jean-yves: Comparison of Solar Diameter Measurements from PICARD and Eclipses

 

12:30 – 14:00  Lunch break

 

Session 1: Solar Eclipse Observations and Public Outreach (part 2)

       

          Chair: Culhane, L.

 

14:00-14:15  Ichimoto, K.: Measurement of the Coronal Electron Temperature at the Total Solar Eclipse

                         using the Continuum Spectra

14:15 – 14:30 Bao, Xingming: Near Infrared Spectral and Polarization Imaging Observation of Coronal Emission Lines During Total Solar Eclipse

14:30 –14:45  Markova, Eva: Total Solar Eclipses Through Nineteen Years

 

Session 2: Magnetic field observations and theory

 

          Chair: Wang, Haimin

 

14:45 – 15:15  Wang, Jingxiu: Small Scale Magnetic Field Observations (invited)

15:15 – 15:30  Ramelli, R.: Observational programs of the solar magnetic field at the IRSOL observatory

15:30 – 15:45  Li, Hui: Evidence for Magnetic Flux Rope Emergence

15:45 – 16:00  Norton, A. A.: Full-disk Solar Vector Magnetic Field Data in 2009

 

   16:00 – 16:30  Coffee and tea break

 

Chair: Yan, Yihua

 

16:30 – 17:00  Zhang, Hongqi : Solar Magnetic Fields and Helicity  (invited)

17:00 – 17:30  Wiegelmann, Thomas : Extrapolation of Magnetic Fields (invited)

17:30 – 17:45  He, Han: Nonlinear Force-free Field Modeling of Coronal Magnetic Field Using the Data

 Obtained by Hinode Satellite

17:45 – 18:00  Bommier, V.: Solution of the Azimuth Ambiguity by Using Two Maps Simultaneously Observed at Different Depths: Example of THEMIS Multiline Data

18:00 – 18:15  Berger, Thomas: Supersonic Turbulent Upflow Plumes in Solar Quiescent Prominences

18:15 – 18:30  Ambastha, Ashok: Magnetic and Doppler Transients Associated with the White-light Flares in NOAA 10486

 

 

July 25th

 

Session 3: Coronal & chromospheric structures and dynamics (part 1: waves)

 

         Chair: Bougeret, Jean –Louis

 

08:30 – 09:00  Erdelyi, R.: MHD Waves and Oscillation in the Solar Atmosphere: What

Magneto-seismology Tells Us (invited)

09:00 – 09:15  Nakariakov, V. M. : Short-period MHD Waves in Coronal Structures

09:15 – 09:30  Foullon, C.: Ultra-long-period Oscillations in EUV Filaments near to Eruption: Two-wavelength Correlation and Seismology

09:30 – 09:45  Kim, Yeon-Han: Evidence of Propagating Alfven Waves in the Spicule Observed by the Hinode SOT

09:45 – 10:00  Banerjee, Dipankar: Propagating Waves in the Polar Regions of the Sun as seen by SOHO and HINODE

10:00 – 10:15  Scullion, Eamon: Mini Solarquakes at the Transition Region

 

10:15 – 10:45  Coffee and tea break

 

     Chair: Ambastha, Ashok

 

10:45 – 11:15  Nordlund, Aake: Emerging Flux and Coronal Heating (invited)

11:15 – 11:30  Browning, Philippa: Heating of the Solar Corona by Fast Reconnection Triggered by Kink Instability

11:30 – 11:45  Antolin, Patrick: The Role of Torsional Alfven Waves in Coronal Heating

11:45 – 12:00  Bilenko, I.A.: Coronal Hole Formation and Evolution

12:00 – 12:15  Van Doorsselaere, Tom: Detection of Three Periodicities in a Single Oscillating Coronal

Loop

12:15 – 12:30  Bazin, Cyril: About the He I and the He II Shells Observed at the 2008 Total Eclipse

 

12:30 – 14:00  Lunch break

 

Session 3: Coronal & chromospheric structures and dynamics (part 2)

         

         Chair: Gan, Weiqun

 

14:00 – 14:30  Schmieder, Brigitte: Filament Formation and Dynamics (invited)
14:30 – 14:45  
Arregui, I. : Prominence Seismology Using Transverse Oscillations in Non-uniform Filament Threads
14:45 – 15:00  Dame, Luc: Eclipses & Space Missions to Address the Dynamical Chromosphere-Corona Interface
15:00 – 15:15  
Wang, Haimin: Magnetic Reconnection and Acceleration of Flare Electrons
15:15 – 15:30  Feng, Li: Stereoscopic Reconstructions from STEREO/EUVI Images

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee and tea break

 

 Session 4: Flares and CMEs: observations and modeling
     

         Chair:  Gerry, Doyle

 

16:00 – 16:30  Gopalswamy, Nat: Recent Progress in the Study of CMEs (invited)

16:30 – 17:00  Lamy, P. L.: Synoptic Analysis of CMEs Over Solar Cycle 23 (invited)

17:00 – 17:15  Keppens, Rony: Simulating Homologous CMEs

17:15 – 17:30  Nitta, N. V.: The CME-Flare Relation Revisited With STEREO Observations

17:30-17:45  Cheng, X.: A Statistical Study of the Residual Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejections

17:45 – 18:00  Culhane, J. L.: Interaction and Merger of Active Region and Quiescent

                           Filaments followed by their Eruption on 19 May 2007

18:00 – 18:15  Chen, P. F.: The Relationship between CMEs and EIT Waves

 

    18:30 – 20:00 Banquet

 

July 26th

          

          Chair: Koutchmy, Serge

 

08:30 – 09:00  Moon, Yong-Jae:  Empirical Forecasts of Geomagnetic Storms and Proton Events

                            Based on Solar Information (invited)

09:00 – 09:30  Oreshina, Inna V. : Magnetic Reconnection and Topological Trigger of Solar Flares

                             and CMEs (invited)

09:30 – 09:45  Gan, Weiqun: Reconnection Region and Accelerated Electron Numbers in Solar Flares

09:45 – 10:00  Lin, Jun: Properties of the Reconnecting Current Sheets in CME/Flare Events

10:00 – 10:15  Yang, Y. H.Estimation of Reconnection Electric Field in Two-Ribbon Flares

 

10:15 – 10:45  Coffee and tea break

 

     Chair:  Lin, J.  

 

10:45 – 11:15  Forbes, Terry: Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares (invited)

11:15 – 11:30  Qiu, Jiong: Analysis of Magnetic Reconnection Sequence: from 2D to 3D

11:30 – 11:45  Ji, Haisheng: The Contraction of Flaring Loops

11:45 – 12:00  Soenen, Alexander: The Role of Lateral Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Eruptive Events

12:00 – 12:15  Bogachev, Sergey: Interpretation of Hard X-ray Emission of Solar Flares in Collapsing Trap Model

12:15 – 12:30  Zhang, Yin: Relationship between the Transport Rate of Magnetic Helicity and Solar Flares

 

    12:30 – 14:00  Lunch break

 

Afternoon

 

         Chair:  Nitta, N. V.

 

14:00 – 14:15  Krucker, Sam: Direct Observations of the Coronal Acceleration Region of a Solar Flare

14:15 – 14:30  Yokoyama, T.: MHD Simulations of Reconnection in a Current Sheet with Initial Finite Perturbations

14:30 – 14:45  Tan, Baolin: Hierarchy of Timescales of Quasi-periodic Pulsations in a Solar Flares

14:45 – 15:00  Jin, Meng: Analysis of CME-induced Outflows

15:00 – 15:15  Dzifcakova, Elena: The Ionization Equilibrium for the Electron Distributions with the Power-law High Energy Tail

15:15 – 15:30  Ajabshiri Zadeh, Ali: The Reversal Behavior of Some Hydrogen Lyman Lines in Solar  Spicules

 

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee and tea break

 

        Chair: Priest, Eric R.

 

16:00 – 16:30  Zhang, Jie: Relationship between Flares and CMEs (invited)

16:30 – 16:45  Zhang, Mei: Coronal Mass Ejection as a Result of Magnetic Helicity Accumulation

16:45 – 17:00  Yan, Yihua: The Solar Radio Observations in Decimetric-Centimetric Wavebands – On the Chinese Spectral Radioheliogragh

17:00 – 17:15  Kontar, Eduard: RHESSI Hard X-ray Density and Magnetic Field Structure Measurements in a Flaring Coronal Loop

17:10 – 17:30  Wang, Huaning: Challenges in Modeling for Short-term Solar Eruption Prediction

 

17:30 – 18:00  Summary and Conclusion (by Eric and Jean-Louis)