| Chair: Iain Hannah (University of Glasgow) | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | The Flaring Lower Solar Atmosphere (Invited) Hugh Hudson (UC Berkeley and U. of Glasgow) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | White-light flares, sun-quakes and magnetic transients – kith or kin? (Invited) Sarah Matthews (UCL Mullard Space Science Lab.) |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Physical Properties of Impulsive White-Light Sources in the 2011 Feb 15 Solar Flare Graham Kerr (University of Glasgow) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Chromospheric Hard X-ray Response to Nonthermal Electrons Aidan O’Flannagain (Trinity College, Dublin) |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | An emission measure distribution analysis of impulsive phase flare footpoints David Graham (University of Glasgow) |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Solar Flare Differential Emission Measures using SDO/EVE Michael Kennedy (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (available to purchase nearby) & Poster Session |
| Chair: Ryan Milligan (Queen’s University Belfast) | |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Properties of a solar flare kernel observed by Hinode and SDO Peter Young (George Mason University) |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Spectral diagnostics of solar flares Giulio Del Zanna (University of Cambridge) |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Flare Energy Transport and Heating by Alfvénic Waves Alexander Russell (University of Glasgow) |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Particle acceleration in reconnecting twisted coronal loops: the effect of magnetic field convergence Mykola Gordovskyy (University of Manchester) |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Hydrodynamic shocks in the lower atmosphere formed by electron, proton and mixed beams Valentina Zharkova (University of Bradford, Department of Mathematics) |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Discussion: Direction of future observations and simulations/theory Iain Hannah & Ryan Milligan |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea prior to the RAS Ordinary meeting |