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.
- Setting the scene: Stellar activity and its impact on the discovery and
- 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