Workshop 1: Schedule

Our first meeting will take place between 27th Feb and 3rd March. The schedule is given below.

Monday
9:00 – Welcome, introductions, and aims
9:30 – Christoffer Karoff: Evaluating the risk of a solar super flare
10:00 – James Davenport: Flares from Kepler: an Empirical Flare Template from GJ 1243
10:30 – Coffee
11:00 – Discussion: Linking solar & stellar flares (led by Broomhall)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Valery Nakariakov: Physical mechanisms for QPP in flares and their observational signatures
14:30 – Dmitrii Kolotkov: Nonlinear oscillations of coalescing magnetic ropes
15:00 – James McLaughlin: Oscillatory Reconnection: wave-generating, periodic reconnection
15:30 – coffee
16:00 – Discussion: Linking QPP theory and observations (led by Kolotkov)
17:30 – Finish

Tuesday
9:00 – Laura Hayes: Soft X-ray pulsations in solar flares
9:30 – Anne-Marie Broomhall: QPPs in XMM flares from 2XMM-Tycho source catalogue
10:00 – Coffee
10:30 – Elena Kupriyanova: QPPs in the solar-like flares on the solar-like flare stars
11:00 – Discussion: Observations of stellar flares and QPP simultaneously in different bands (led by Nakariakov)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Chloe Pugh: Significance testing for quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares
14:30 – Dmitrii Kolotkov: Hilbert-Huang Transform analysis of solar quasi-periodicities
15:00 – Coffee
15:30 – Andrew Inglis: A model comparison approach to understanding quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares
16:00 – Discussion: Detection of QPPs (led by Pugh)
17:30 Finish

Wednesday
9:00 – Discussion: Setting up a team database: Objectives and pitfalls (led by Broomhall)
10:00 – Discussion: Future missions (Led by Karoff)
11:00 – coffee
11:30 – Tom van Dorsselaere: Automated detection of stellar flares in Kepler data (talk on group pages)
12:00 – Discussion
12:30 – lunch
14:00 – Discussion
14:30 – coffee
15:00 – Rachel Osten & Scott Fleming: GALEX data and gphoton
17:00 – Finish
19:00 – Team meal at Altes Tramdepot (map)

Thursday
9:00 – Gerry Doyle: GALEX flares and observed oscillations
9:30 – Discussion: Set-up hare & hounds exercises (led by Broomhall)
10:30 – Coffee
11:00 – Working on team flares and hard & hounds
12:00 – Ivan Zimovets: Spatio-temporal dynamics of sources of hard X-ray pulsations in solar flares
13:00 – lunch
14:00 – Free afternoon/excursion to Gurten-park

Friday
9:00 – Set objectives to be achieved by next meeting
12:00 – Close