Program:

The detailed program which includes the talk abstracts is available here.

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee & Registration
10:30 - 12:35 Morning Session
Chair: Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)
10:30 - 11:05 Invited Talk: Solar flares: old problems - new answers?
Astrid Veronig (University of Graz, Austria)
11:05 - 11:20Do all Flares have White Light Emission?
David Jess (Queen's University Belfast)
11:20 - 11:35Coronal response to emerging flux
Alison Wallace (MSSL-UCL)
11:35 - 11:50Hinode/EIS observations of small flares
Urmila Mitra-Kraev (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
11:50 - 12:05Hydrodynamics and kinematics of flares
Claire Raftery (Trinity College Dublin)
12:05 - 12:20Inertial Alfvén wave acceleration of solar flare electrons
Ken McClements (Culham - EURATOM/UKAEA)
12:20 - 12:35Collisionless phase mixing as solar flare electron acceleration mechanism - a parametric study
David Tsiklauri (University of Salford)
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (available for purchase) & Poster Session
14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session
Chair: Iain Hannah (University of Glasgow)
14:00 - 14:15Stationary and impulsive injection of electron beams in presence of converging magnetic field
Taras Siversky (University of Bradford)
14:15 - 14:30Direct Observations of the Coronal Acceleration Region of a Solar Flare
Säm Krucker (UC Berkeley, USA)
14:30 - 14:45The Propagation of Impulsive Solar Energetic Electrons through the Heliosphere
Hamish Reid (University of Glasgow)
14:45 - 15:00Scientific Understanding and the Risk from Extreme Space Weather
Mike Hapgood (STFC RAL)
15:00 - 15:15A Survey of Stellar X-ray Flares from the 2XMM Catalogue
John Pye (University of Leicester)
15:15 - 15:30The Solar-C space mission - a follow-on to the Hinode mission
Louise Harra (UCL-MSSL)
15:30 - 16:00 Tea prior to RAS Ordinary Meeting
16:00 - 18:00 RAS Ordinary Meeting
features a talk by Stuart Clark, author "The Sun Kings", about Carrington and the 1859 event.