8th RHESSI Workshop
Potsdam, Germany, 2-6 September 2008
Program
Overview
| time \ day | Tue 2 Sept |
Wed 3 Sept |
Thu 4 Sept |
Fri 5 Sept |
Sat 6 Sept |
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08:30-09:30 09:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-18:00 |
workshop starts Welcome reception AIP site (17:00- 19:00) |
Registration Plenary Session 1 Coffee break Plenary Session 2 Lunch Plenary Session 3 Coffee break Plenary Session 4 18:15-19:00 STIX meeting |
Working Group Session 1 Coffee break Working Group Session 2 Lunch Working Group Session 3 Einstein tower and Great Refractor visit Conference dinner |
Working Group Session 4 Coffee break Working Group Session 5 Lunch Working Group Session 6 Coffee break Working Group Session 7 |
Plenary Session 5 Coffee break Plenary Session 6 workshop ends |
Note:
Coffee breaks: duration 30 mins; starting time: mornings at 11:00, afternoons at 16:00.
Lunch: duration 1 hour 30 mins; starting time: 13:00.
Session (plenary or working group): duration 1 hour 30 mins; starting time: 9:30.
Scientific agenda
| Plenary Session 1 | Gordon Hurford, UC Berkeley From RHESSI Data to Solar Physics |
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| Plenary Session 2 | Astrid Veronig, University of Graz From Flares to Microflares - A Critique of the 'Standard Models' |
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| Plenary Session 3 | Sam Krucker, UC Berkeley Coronal Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Sources, and their relation to CMEs and SEPs |
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| Plenary Session 4 | Nicole Vilmer, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon Electron and Ion Acceleration - Observations and Theory |
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| Plenary Session 5 Plenary Session 6 | Summary | ||
Working group discussions
| Session/WG | Working Group 1 | Working Group 2 | Working Group 3 | Working Group 4 |
| Thursday Session 1 09:30-11:00 |
"Traditional data analysis methods" Gordon Hurford Richard Schwartz Marina Battaglia |
"Standard Model and Acceleration vs. Heating " John Brown Arnold Benz |
"Gamma-rays and ion acceleration" Gerald Share |
I Robert Lin Gottfried Mann II Nicole Vilmer Philippa Browning V. Zharkova |
| Thursday Session 2 11:30-13:00 |
"New data analysis methods" Michele Piana Anna Maria Massone Marco Prato |
"Flare Models" Hugh Hudson Valentina Zharkova Lyndsay Fletcher |
"Thermal and nonthermal energetics" Alexander Warmuth Brian Dennis |
II Gordon Emslie Tomasz Mrozek III Nicole Vilmer Philippa Browning |
| Thursday Session 3 14:30-16:00 |
"From methods to Physics" Jana Kasparova Andre Csillaghy |
"New RHESSI Flare Observations" Weiqun Gan Hazel Bain Claire Raferty |
"Coronal HXR sources I" Brian Dennis Sam Krucker |
IVA Nicole Vilmer Philippa Browning V. Zharkova Ilan Roth Hakan Önel |
| Friday Session 4 09:30-11:00 |
"Physics" Brian Dennis Pascal Saint-Hilaire Michele Piana |
"Microflares etc..." Steve Christe Iain Hannah |
"Coronal HXR sources II" Lindsay Glesener |
IVA Procheta Mallik Eduard Kontar V. Zharkova |
| Friday Session 5 11:30-13:00 |
"Practical Analysis" Joint session |
"Relationship to CMEs" Peter Gallagher Ryan Milligan |
IVB Albert Shih David Smith |
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| Friday Session 6 14:30-16:00 |
Wrap-up | Wrap-up | "Interplanetary electrons" Andreas Klassen Christian Vocks |
IVB Ronald Murphy Gerry Share General discussion and wrap-up |
| Friday Session 7 16:30-18:00 |
Joint session with WG4: Do we need a new "standard" flare model? |
free for discussions and additional presentations |
Joint session with WG2: Do we need a new "standard" flare model? |
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WG4 session titles
I: Reconnection and acceleration: general characteristics
II: Temporal characteristics of particle acceleration: When? How fast? How long? Time scales? etc.
III: Spatial characteristics of particle acceleration: Where? Spatial scales? etc.
IV: Energy/velocity space characteristics of particle acceleration: What is the angular/energy distribution of particles? Spectral indices? etc.
A: Electrons
B: Ions
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