All meetings were held in the ISSI, Bern, Switzerland.

Meeting 1

Program

February 20

• Morning session: 09:30-12:00
  • Administration and Introductory remarks.
  • Rossby waves (theory and observations) – Teimuraz Zaqarashvili.
• Lunch: 12:00 – 14:00
• Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Rieger periodicity in solar activity – José Luis Ballester.
  • Rossby waves and solar activity variations – Teimuraz Zaqarashvili.
  • Rieger periodicity and seismology of solar interior- Eka Gurgenashvili.
  • General discussion.

February 21

• Morning session: 09:00-12:00
  • Setting the scene: Stellar activity and its impact on the discovery and
    characterization of exoplanets – Chris Watson.
  • Rieger periodicity on Kepler and CoRoT stars – Antonino Francesco Lanza.
• Lunch: 12:00 – 14:00
• Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Observation of Rossby waves on the Sun – Scott McIntosh.
  • Mitigating the impact of stellar activity and the push towards Earthanalogs– Chris Watson.
  • Discussion: solar/stellar activity and connection to Rossby waves.

February 22

• Morning session: 09:00-12:00
  • Rossby wave instability– Eyal Heifetz.
  • RWI in accretion discs – Orkan Umurhan.
  • Vorticity waves at protoplanetary disc – Ron Yellin-Bergovoy.
• Lunch: 12:00 – 14:00
• Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00
  • MHD instabilities in the solar tachocline – Mausumi Dikpati.
  • Rossby wave instability in the solar tachocline –Teimuraz Zaqarashvili.
  • Discussion: RWI in accretion discs and solar tachocline (similarities,
    differences).

February 23

• Morning session: 09:00-12:00
  • Tides and inertial waves in late-type stellar and exoplanet binary systems – Antonino Francesco Lanza.
  • Rossby waves and solar long-term activity variations – Teimuraz
    Zaqarashvili.
  • Rieger periodicity and north-south asymmetry on the Sun – Eka
    Gurgenashvili.
• Lunch: 12:00 – 14:00
• Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Discussions: Future collaboration – joint activities.

February 24

• Morning session: 09:00-12:00
  • Final remarks and planning of the next workshop

Additional presentations

• Centrifugal-gravity wave resonant instability in swirling free surface rotating Polygons– Ron Yellin-Bergovoy
  

• -Orkan M. Umurhan