CESRA Workshop on "Solar Radio Physics and the Flare-CME Relationship",   Ioannina, Greece, 12-16 June 2007
 

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Workshop organized by the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) : First Announcement

"Solar Radio Physics and the Flare-CME relationship"

      Ioannina, Greece, June 12-16, 2007

      Contact :     Alexander Nindos ( email: anindos-at-cc-dot-uoi-dot-gr )

      Web page : http://users.uoi.gr/anindos/CESRA2007

 

Scientific organizing committee: H. Aurass (Potsdam), K.-L. Klein (Meudon, co-chair), A. MacKinnon (Glasgow), A. Nindos (Ioannina, co-chair), G. Poletto (Arcetri ; EPS/EAS Solar Physics Section), S. Pohjolainen (Turku), A. Stepanov (St Petersburg)

CESRA, the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers, organizes workshops on investigations of the solar atmosphere using radio and other observations. Although special emphasis is given to radio diagnostics, the workshop topics are of interest to a large community of solar physicists.

The 2007 workshop, "Solar Radio Physics and the Flare-CME Relationship", will address a topic that is at the heart of contemporary investigations of the solar corona and its relationship with interplanetary space, involving phenomena related to explosive energy conversion and large-scale instabilities. Radio diagnostics contributes important information to flare/CME studies because with radio observations one can probe much of the solar atmosphere and the interplanetary medium up to 1 AU and because of the sensitivity of radio emissions to magnetic field and non-thermal particle populations. Exciting new results are anticipated from data obtained by the "Hinode" and "STEREO" spacecraft, as well as from the fleet of ground-based and space-borne instruments that will become available in the near future.  

These are good enough reasons for solar physicists (not only solar radio astronomers) involved in observations, theory, and instrumentation to meet and discuss recent results on flare/CME research and foster collaborations joining radio and space-borne diagnostics.

 

Format of the meeting             

The format of the workshop will combine plenary sessions and less-structured parallel working group sessions. The plenary sessions will consist of invited tutorial/review talks and oral contributions that will be selected by the SOC from the submitted abstracts (contributions not selected for oral presentation can be given as posters). The working group sessions will run in parallel and will be devoted to informal presentations and unconstrained discussions. Discussions in the working group sessions will be supported by the material presented in the plenary sessions.

The working groups presently planned are:

  • Pre-CME / Preflare phase studies

  • Flare and CME energetics

  • Particle acceleration related to flares and CMEs

  • Multi-frequency observations related to flare/CME shocks

·         A special half-day session will be dedicated to radio instrumentation and data analysis.

 

Venue :                                   

The workshop will take place at the "DI.K.E.P.P.E.E. Stavros Niarchos" center which is located next to the University of Ioannina campus (some 6 km south of downtown Ioannina). The center (in Greek, its acronym stands for "International Center for Greek Culture and Vocational Training") was inaugurated on February 2005 and consists of teaching rooms, laboratories for trainees, facilities for conferences and cultural events and a theater.

Plenary sessions will take place in the DIKEPPEE's central auditorium that can host up to 200 participants. Working group sessions will take place in smaller rooms. The auditorium and the other rooms that will host the workshop are equipped with all modern facilities required for a conference.

The conference site is easily accessible from downtown Ioannina via public transportation (one bus every 10-15 minutes). It is also possible (but not yet guaranteed) to use, for free, buses that belong to the University for the transportation of participants from downtown Ioannina to the conference site.

 

Registration and abstract submission: 

You may register and submit your abstract online from the workshop’s web page. The registration fee is 160 Euros.

 

Deadlines:

 -       Registration and abstract submission : May 1, 2007

-       application for financial support (registration and abstract submission are required): March 10, 2007

 

Financial support :  

Limited financial support is available, thanks to funding received primarily from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Paris Observatory.