2006 PROM WORKSHOP

George Mason University, Fairfax Campus2006 - Oct 30-31

Monday Morning, Oct 30 (Day 1)

9:15 Welcome and Announcements by Workshop Host - Art Poland

9:30 Review Talk: Continua of Filaments Properties: from Active Region to  Quiescent, from Short to Long, from Low to High - Sara Martin

Topic: Filament Channels and the Filament Environment

10:00 Magnetic Flux Transport and the Hemispheric Pattern of Filaments – Anthony Yeates

10:30 Morning Break

Topic: Solar Imaging and Image Processing

11:00 Challenging Solar Imaging Techniques Being Employed by Amateur Solar Astronomers - Greg Piepol

11:30 Application of Wavelet Technique to EIT 195A Images - Guillermo Stenborg

12:00 Tracking Magnetic Fields Near Polarity Inversion Lines in Bipolar Active Regions - Brian Welsch

12:30 Lunch Break (1 Hour)

Monday Afternoon Topic: Modeling and Theoretical Concepts

1:30 Flux pile-up Magnetic Reconnection in the Photosphere and Filament Formation - Yuri Litvinenko

2:00 Prominences and Magnetic dips - Brigitte Schmieder

2:30 The Origin of Magnetic Helicity in Filaments - Jongchul Chae

3:00 Discussion Time

3:30 Afternoon Break

4:00 Random Heating of Coronal Footpoints as Related to Prominence Formation - Judy Karpen (cancelled)

4:30 Solar Prominence Merging - Rick DeVore, Guillaume Aulanier and Spiro Antiochos

5:00 General Discussion on Filament Concepts and Theory

6:00 End of Workshop Day

2006 PROM WORKSHOP

George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - 2006 Oct 30-31

Tuesday Morning, Oct 31 (Day 2)

Topic Prominence Mass Motions, Formation

9:15 Counterstreaming in Large Filament – Yashar Agah and Sara Martin

9:30 Observed Dynamical Properties of Filament Threads and Barbs – Jongchul Chae

10:00 Dynamics of an Active Region Filament, Fibrils and Surges – Yong Lin

10:30 Morning Break

11:00 Large–scale Structure and Persistence of Filaments -  K.S. Balasubramaniam

11:30 Modes of Oscillations in Filaments – Yong Lin

12:00 Development of a Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph for the Study of Filament Thread Dynamics – Jongchul Chae

12:30 Lunch Break (1 Hour)

Tuesday Afternoon, Oct 31 - Prominence Eruption and Related Topics

1:30 Solar Erupting Filaments and Magnetic Field Configurations of IP Magnetic Clouds (15 min requested) – Yuming Wang and Jie Zhang

2:00 Coronal Streamer Detachments – Neil Sheeley

2:30 Observations of Heating in a Kink in an Erupting Prominence - Terry Kucera

3:00 Flux Rope Evolution During Prominence Eruptions – Terry Forbes

3:30 Afternoon Break

4:00 The Slow Rise of Filament Prior to their Eruption - Vishal Joshi and Nandita Srivastava

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4:30 Dual Doppler Systems for More Complete Observations of Erupting  Filaments –  Nandita Srivastava and Sara Martin

5:00 Summary Discussion and Open Questions – Everyone

6:00 End of Workshop