Waves in the Solar Corona: First Workshop, 26-31/03/2007

 

25/03/2007 Sunday

 

We are gathering together at Hotel La Pergola, near the reception at 7 pm.

 

26/03/2007  Monday

 

Morning discussion:

Analytical theory of coronal MHD waves. What and how? (Chairman: Misha Ruderman)

 

Afternoon discussion:

The leakage of p-modes to the corona (Chairman: Robert Erdelyi)

 

27/03/2007  Tuesday

 

Morning discussion:

Perspectives, challenges and tasks of the 3D full-MHD numerical modelling of coronal MHD modes. (Chairman: Leon Ofman)

 

Afternoon discussion:

Automated detection of coronal wave and oscillatory phenomena. Chairman: (Ramon Oliver)

 

28/03/2007  Wednesday

 

Morning discussion:

Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares as MHD oscillations (Chairman: Markus Aschwanden)

 

Afternoon discussion:

The nature of propagating and standing longitudinal modes (Chairman: Valery Nakariakov).

Extended workshop on "Coronal Waves and Oscillations"

29/03/2007  Thursday

 

Session 1. Chairman: Valery Nakariakov

 

9:10 – 9:40        Misha Ruderman (Sheffield). Transverse oscillations of coronal loops. (Invited).

9:40 – 10:00      Jesse Andries (Leuven). Wave leakage as phase mixing of leaky continuum modes: Implications for the initial value problem.

10:00-10:20       Iρigo Arregui (Palma). The influence of the internal structuring of coronal loops on the properties of their damped transverse oscillations.

10:20 – 10:40     Gary Verth (Sheffield). Magneto-seismology of the solar corona.

 

10:40 – 11:10 COFFEE

 

11:10 – 11:30     Toni Diaz (Palma). Curvature in coronal structures: effect on the fast modes.

11:30 – 11:50     Iρigo Arregui (Palma). The excitation and damping of surface and body MHD eigenmodes in a solar coronal slab with oblique propagation.

11:50 – 12:20     Ramσn Oliver (Palma). 'Detection of propagating and standing wave features in coronal data sets. (Invited).

 

12:20 – 14:20 LUNCH

 

Session 2. Chairman: Bernie Roberts

 

14:20 -14:50      Maxim Khodachenko (Graz). Collisional and viscous damping of MHD waves in the solar partially ionized plasmas. (Invited).

14:50 – 15:10     Jose Luis Ballester (Palma). Damping mechanisms of small-amplitude Prominence Oscillations.

15:10 – 15:30     Tom van Doorsselaere (Warwick). Observational evidence favors a resistive wave heating mechanism for coronal loops over a viscous phenomenon.

 

15:30 – 15:50 TEA

 

15:50 – 16:20     Robert Erdelyi (Sheffield). Magnetic wave leakage from solar sub-surface to corona: implementation of spatial magneto-seismology. . (Invited).

16:20 – 16:40     Ineke de Moortel (St Andrews). An estimate of p-mode damping by wave leakage.

16:40 – 17:00     Roland Grappin (Meudon). Time-dependent simulations of the solar wind including the transition region.

 

19.00 Dinner at the Altes Tramdepot  (http://www.altestramdepot.ch/)

 

 

30/03/2007 Friday

 

Session 3. Chairman: Robert Erdelyi

 

9:00 – 9:30        Markus Aschwanden (Lockheed-Martin). The 3D geometry of loop oscillations observed with TRACE. (Invited).

9:30 – 9:50        Ineke de Moortel (St Andrews). Observation of higher harmonic coronal loop oscillations.

9:50 – 10:10      Tom van Doorsselaere (Warwick).  A measurement of P_1/P_2=1.795 \pm 0.051 allows us to estimate the density scale height in the oscillating coronal loop.

10:10 – 10:30  Fenwick Cooper (Warwick). Transverse perturbations of supra-arcade dark structures.

 

10:30 – 11:00     COFFEE

 

11:00 – 11:30     Leon Ofman (NASA/GSFC). Wave activity in coronal active regions: Observations and Models. (Invited)

11:30 – 11:50     James McLaughlin (St Andrews). 3D MHD wave behaviour in active regions: Individual loop density structure.

11:50 – 12:10     Mag Selwa (NASA/GSFC). Numerical simulations of vertical kink loop oscillations.

12:10 – 12:30     Martin Haynes (Warwick). Loop oscillations generated by MHD instabilities.

 

12:30 – 14:30 LUNCH

 

Session 4. Chairman: Markus Aschwanden

 

14:30 – 15:00     Temury Zaqarashvili (Tbilisi). Spectral line nonthermal broadening and Alfvιn waves in the solar corona. (Invited)

15:00 – 15:20     Youra Taroyan (Sheffield). Forward modelling of hot loop oscillations observed by SUMER and SXT.

15:20 – 15:40     Meredith Wills-Davey (Boulder). Determining drivers of coronal loop oscillations from trend signatures.

15:40 – 16:00     Bidzina Shergelashvili (Leuven). On the amplification of compressional MHD waves in systems with forced entropy oscillations.

16:20 – 16:40     Istvan Ballai (Sheffield). Sampling the quiet Sun with coronal global waves.

16:40 – 17:00     Concluding remarks.

 

31/03/2007  Saturday

 

Collaboration in small groups.