The summer school will take place between Sunday 13th to Friday 18th September. All the lectures will take place in the Kelvin Building in Room 323.
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 09:00-10:30 |
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Welcome (Dr Kontar, Glasgow) + Solar flares and solar activity (Prof Philippa Browning, Manchester) |
Solar interior and helioseismology (Prof Yvonne Elsworth, Birmingham) |
Magnetosphere and data analysis (Dr Robert Fear, Southampton) |
Solar Atmosphere (Prof Clare Parnell, St Andrews) |
Careers advice (Prof Ineke De Moortel, St Andrews) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Coffee |
Coffee |
Coffee |
Coffee |
Coffee |
| 11:00-12:30 |
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Fundamentals of MHD (Prof Alan Hood, St Andrews) |
Ionospheres (Dr Marina Galand, Imperial) |
Introduction to plasma physics: gyration, drifts, plasma oscillations, EM waves in magnetised plasmas, elements of plasma kinetics (Dr David Tsiklauri, QMUL) |
Mesosphere / Thermosphere (Dr Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Imperial) |
Exoplanets (Prof Giovanna Tinetti, UCL) |
| 12:30-13:30 |
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Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 |
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MHD Waves & Instabilities (Prof Róbertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, Sheffield) |
CMEs, the Solar Wind and the Heliosphere (Prof Richard Harrison, RAL/STFC) |
Public engagement (Dr Alec Mackinnon, Glasgow) |
Small bodies; origins of the solar system (Prof Mark Bailey, Armagh) |
Depart |
| 15:00-15:30 |
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Coffee |
Coffee |
Coffee & Departure |
Coffee |
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| 15:30-17:00 |
Arrival |
Shocks, turbulence, particle acceleration (Prof Tim Horbury, Imperial) |
Magnetic reconnection (Prof Gunnar Hornig, Dundee) |
Excursion to Glasgow Science Centre |
Solar variability and climate (Prof Mike Lockwood, Reading) |
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| 18:30 |
Registration at the Pond Hotel |
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| 19:00 |
Welcome Dinner at the Pond Hotel |
Dinner at the Pond Hotel |
Dinner at the Pond Hotel |
Dinner at the Pond Hotel |
School Dinner at Balbirs |
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