SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: CESRA Workshop

The high energy solar corona: waves, eruptions, particles

Monday 7 June - Friday 11 June 2004
at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye (Scotland, United Kingdom)

Co-sponsored by the Solar Physics Section of the European Physical Society (EPS) and the European Astronomical Society (EAS) Supported by the Royal Astronomical Society, Highland Council, the British Council, and Paris Observatory.

The Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) organises a workshop on energetic processes in the solar corona on small and large spatial scales:

Small scale energy release and the acceleration and transport of energetic particles in the solar atmosphere
Large-scale disturbances of the corona, their origin and consequences
Plasma parameters and particle distributions in the solar atmosphere

The aim is to stimulate discussions and cooperation between researchers using complementary diagnostics through remote sensing and in situ measurements of solar radiation and particles, numerical modelling and theory.

The meeting will take place at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sabhal Mor Ostaig is located on the Isle of Skye, about 3 hours by road from Inverness. More detailed information on the venue is given on the web page http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk. The current language of this site (but not the Workshop!) is Gaelic. You'll have to choose English on each page.

The meeting will start on Monday morning 7th June, and end on Friday 11th after lunch.

Please look at the meeting homepage
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/cesra2004
for practical information and registration.

Scientific organising committee: H. Aurass (Potsdam), M. Karlicky (Ondrejov), K.-L. Klein (Meudon, co-chair), A. MacKinnon (Glasgow, co-chair), G. Mann (Potsdam), P. Palle (Tenerife), A. Stepanov (St. Petersburg)

Local organising committee: L. Bone, L. Fletcher, R. Galloway, J. Khan, E. Kontar, A. MacKinnon (chair).

Workshop format

About equal time will be devoted during the meeting to invited talks and to working group discussions. Three working groups will be set up (chairpersons in parentheses), with the possibility to establish splinter groups:

WG I Small scale energy release and the acceleration and transport of energetic particles (H. Hudson, Berkeley; N. Vilmer, Meudon)
WG II Large-scale disturbances, their origin and consequences (G. Mann, Potsdam; B. Vrsnak, Zagreb)
WG III Radio pulsations as diagnostics of plasma parameters in the solar atmosphere (H. Aurass, Potsdam; A. Nindos, Ioannina)

Please contact the working group leaders for further discussion, specification and completion of these topics, and please bring material for the working group discussions ! The aim is not a series of full contributions during the working groups, but short focussed presentations of your material and ideas related to the topics of the groups.

A CESRA business meeting is planned for Tuesday evening (8th June), including election of three board members.

Contributions

General contributions on any subject relevant to CESRA will be given as posters. There is a possibility for about 40 poster boards during the week. Contributions on radio instrumentation, data analysis and data bases can be given orally. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 May 2004.

Invited talks and speakers:

Opening lecture: Flare Hard X-Ray Sources - The Need for a Rethink? (J. Brown, Glasgow)
Invited talks:
- New results on energetic particles at the Earth's bow shock and their radio emission (D. Burgess, London)
- RHESSI results on energetic particles in the solar atmosphere (B. Dennis, Greenbelt)
- Energetic particles related with coronal and interplanetary shocks (N. Gopalswamy, Greenbelt)
- Radio observations of the origin and development of CMEs (D. Maia, Porto)
- Pulsations of solar radio emission as a diagnostic of coronal plasma parameters (A. Stepanov, St. Petersburg)
- On the existence of non-Maxwellian velocity distribution functions in the corona and their consequences for the Solar Wind acceleration (M. Maksimovic, Meudon)
- Particle acceleration in complex magnetic field configurations: what can be observed/what should be attempted to be observed by radio techniques ?" (L. Vlahos, Thessaloniki)
- Large-scale waves in the corona (A. Warmuth, Potsdam)

Proceedings

We plan to publish invited talks and working group reports in a topical volume. We are currently in discussion with Springer Verlag about publication in the "Lecture Notes in Physics" series.

Registration Fee

The registration fee is 105 UK pounds. This includes a copy of the proceedings.

Financial support for young researchers

Very limited financial support is available. Please contact the local organising committee.