COMMUNITY
SOHO Science Club
In this page you will find a list of previous SOHO
Science Clubseminars.
The current seminar list can be found at
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/~kucera/SolarSeminar/
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SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2006
- Dec. 20, 2006 Gordon Petire (NASA Post Doc, GSFC/NSO), GONG Magnetograms
- May 18, 2006: Hugh Hudson (UC Berkeley), RHESSI and the Solar Radius
- Apr. 26, 2006: Mike Marsh (NASA/GSFC), P-mode Propagation into the Corona of a G-type Star
- Apr. 19, 2006: Joseph Davila (NASA/GSFC), 2006 NASA Eclipse Expedition to Libya
- Feb. 8, 2006: Joel Allred (Drexel University), Using Radiation Hydrodynamics to Model White Light Flares
- Feb. 1, 2006: Drew Medlin (L3-Comm), Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection Energy Correlation
- Jan. 25, 2006: James McLaughlin (CUA), MHD wave propagation in the neighborhood of magnetic null points
- Jan. 18, 2006: Susan Lepri (U. Michigan) , MHD Models and Observations of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2005
- Nov. 30, 2005: Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Observations of Helioseismic Response to Solar Flares from SOHO/MDI
- Nov. 9, 2005: Christophe Marque (USRA - NRL), Forward modeling of the electron density and temperature distribution in the solar corona, using PFSS extrapolations and radio metric observations
- Nov. 8, 2005: Sasha Urnov (P. N. Lebedev Institute, Moscow), The results of the XUV full-Sun imaging spectroscopy experiment SPIRIT on the CORONAS-F mission
- Oct. 26, 2005: Merav Opher (George Mason University), Effect of the Interstellar Magnetic Field on the Termination Shock:Explaining the Voyager Results
- July 28, 2005: Jane Noglik (University of Central Lancashire), Investigation of colour-colour method to determine solar atmospheric temperatures along plasma loops
- June 15, 2005: David Alexander (Rice University), SAILING INTO THE SUNSET: Solar Sail Propulsion and its Application to Solar Physics
- May 18, 2005: D. Shaun Bloomfield (Queen's University Belfast), Oscillatory Behaviour in the Quiet-Sun
- May 18, 2005: Ryan Milligan (Queen's University Belfast), Joint RHESSI and SOHO/CDS Observations of Chromospheric Evaporation in a Solar Flare
- Apr. 13, 2005: Jeremy Drake (CfA), X-ray Spectra of Stars as Probes of Coronal Structure, Stellar Evolution and Solar Physics
- Mar. 2, 2005: Valery Nakariakov (Warwick University, UK), A Kink Mode of Solar Coronal Structures
- Feb. 2, 2005: Selig Kainer(BKG Research & GSFC), Interactions of Electric Fields with a Plasma: Application to Solar Flares
- Jan. 12, 2005: Satoshi Morita (USRA & GSFC), Genesis of AR NOAA 10314 and the Role of Flares from a Topological Point of View
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2004
- Dec. 1, 2004: Danielle Bewsher (ESA & GSFC), Blinkers and Explosive Events - Are they the same thing?
- Oct. 5, 2004: Stuart Jefferies (Maui Scientific Research Center/Univ of New Mexico), Using high-frequency acoustic waves to determine the magnetic topology of the solar atmosphere
- May 12, 2004: Daniel Mueller (U. Oslo/Kiepenheuer-Institut), Catastrophic cooling and high-speed downflows in solar coronal loops
- May 5, 2004: Rajmal Jain (Space Physics Lab., Ahmedabad), Soft X-ray observations with Si and CZT detectors on the Indian Spacecraft
- Apr. 20, 2004: Valery Nakariakov (Univ. Warwick), Short Period MHD Waves in the Corona
- Apr. 14, 2004: Uri Feldman (Artep/NRL), On the Source of the 107 K Plasma: or Are Solar Flares Fueled by Magnetic Reconnection?
- Mar. 10, 2004: Mike Marsh (U.Central Lancashire), Propagating oscillations within active region loops -- Coordinated observations with SOHO/CDS and TRACE
- Feb. 25, 2004: Steven Keil (NSO), Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
- Jan. 21, 2004: Jim Drake (UMCP), Petschek vs Sweet-Parker Reconnection and the Kinetic Reconnection Model
- Jan. 14, 2004: Jonathan Cirtain (Montana State University), The Diffuse EUV Corona
- Jan. 7, 2004: Gareth Lawrence (CUA, GSFC), The Relationship Between Large Solar Flares and Very Fast Coronal Mass Ejections - Physics and Causality
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2003
- Dec. 17, 2003: Hong Xie (CUA), Cone Model for Halo CMEs: Application to Space Weather Forecasting
- Nov. 12, 2003: Jeff Brosius (CUA, GSFC), EUV and Radio Observations of Sunspot Plumes on the Disk and at the Limb
- Sept. 17, 2003: Anik De Groof (Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven), Intensity Variations in EIT Shutterless Mode: Waves or Flows?
- Oct. 29, 2003: Daniel Brown (University of St Andrews), Magnetic topology in the solar corona
- Sept. 17, 2003: Anik De Groof (Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven), Intensity Variations in EIT Shutterless Mode: Waves or Flows?
- Sept. 3, 2003: Janusz Sylwester (Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw), New X-Ray Spectra from the RESIK Bent Crystal Spectrometer on Coronas-F
- June 11, 2003: Yuan-Kuen Ko (SAO, GSFC), Dynamical and Physical Properties of a Post-CME Current Sheet
- May 8, 2003: Bernhard Kliem (Potsdam), Imaging and Spectral Observations of Erupting Core Flux in the 2002 April 21 X Flare
- April 30, 2003: Jonathan Krall (NRL), A Flux Rope Model of CME Rim-Cavity Density Structure
- Mar. 26, 2003: Linhui Sui (CUA, GSFC), Modeling Images and Spectra of a Solar Flare Observed by RHESSI on 20 February 2002
- Mar. 19 , 2003: Marc Swisdak (UMCP), The Role of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona
- Mar. 18, 2003: Bob Leamon (Montana State), Helicity of magnetic clouds and their progenitor active regions
- Mar. 12, 2003: C. Z. "Frank" Cheng (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Magnetic Reconnection and Merging - Mechanism of Solar Flares
- Mar. 11, 2003: Deborah Leddon (U. of Texas), Hard X-Ray Solar Flares and Intermittency
- Mar. 5, 2003: Jim Chen (NRL), Initiation and Acceleration of Flux-Rope CMEs
- Feb. 26 , 2003: Doug Rabin (GSFC), The Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectograph (EUNIS) Sounding Rocket Experiment
- Feb. 12, 2003: Jeff Brosius (CUA, GSFC), Chromospheric Evaporation and Warm Rain During a Solar Flare
- Feb. 5, 2003: Gordon Holman (GSFC), Extracting Physical Information about Energetic Electrons from Flare Hard X-Ray and Microwave Spectra
- Jan. 22, 2003: Enrico Landi (Artep, Inc., NRL), Plasma Diagnostics with Bremsstrahlung in the Solar Atmosphere
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2002
- Dec. 4 2002: Ken Phillips (NRC), Looking for the Coronal Heating Mechanism During Eclipses
- Nov. 20 2002: Alex Klimas(GSFC), Self-organized Criticality in Earth's Magnetospheric Dynamics
- Oct. 30 2002: Wolfgang Kalkofen (CfA), Is the Quiet Solar Chromosphere Heated by Giant Killer Waves?
- Oct. 23 2002: Valery Nakariakov (U. Warwick), Slow Magnetoacoustic Waves in the Solar Corona
- Oct. 9 2002: Alex Young(L3), Another look at the Neupert Effect
- Oct. 2 2002: Tom Moran (CUA), Waves in Coronal Holes: Alfvén or Ion Cyclotron?
- Sept. 25 2002: Amy Winebarger(CPI/NRL), Solar EUV Active Region Loops: Observations and Models
- Sept. 24, 2002: Jaume Terradas(Universitat de les Illes Balears), Application of New Techniques to the Analysis of Coronal Oscillations
- Sept. 11 2002: Leon Ofman(CUA), Wave Dissipation in Hot Coronal Loops: Interpretation of SUMER Observations
- July 10, 2002: Spiros Antiochos (NRL), Evidence that Coronal Heatingis NOT Impulsive
- May 1, 2002: Bernhard Kliem (Potsdam), MHD Simulations of Dynamic Resistive Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares
- May 15, 2002: Doug Biesecker, EIT waves - A Review: Everything we think we know
- April 24, 2002: N. Gopalswamy (NASA/GSFC), Solar Energetic Particles and Interacting CMEs
- April 10, 2000: Werner Curdt(Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie), Loop Oscillations Observed by SOHO/SUMER
- April 3, 2002: Jack Ireland (L-3), Transverse Oscillations in Coronal Loops
- Feb. 27, 2002: David Rust (JHU/APL), Magnetic Flux Emergence in AR8844 - Flare Genesis Observations
- Feb. 20, 2002: Yuan-Kuen Ko (SAO), SOHO/UVCS And Yohkoh/SXT Observation of a High Temperature Corona Above an Active Region Complex
- Feb. 13, 2002: Peter Gallagher (Emergent), The Science of Flare Forecasting
- Feb. 6, 2002: Jeff Brosius (CUA), Three-Dimensional Solar Coronal Magnetography
- Jan 30, 2002: Terry Kucera (NASA/GSFC), Prominence Motions in the UV
- Jan. 16, 2002: Scott MacIntosh (ESA), Fractal Flares?
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2001
- Dec. 5, 2001: Judit Pap (GESTC/UMBC), Comparison of the SOHO/VIRGO, SOHO/CELIAS/SEM, and UARS/SUSIM UV irradiance time series with magnetic features derived from the SOHO/MDI images
- Nov. 28, 2001: Karin Muglach (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany), Dynamics of Solar Active Regions:from the Photosphere to the Corona
- July 12, 2001: Anik DeGroof, (KU Leuven), Wave Heating of the Solar Corona
- June 14, 2001: Nelson Reginald (NASA/U. Delaware), MACS, an instrument for global and simultaneous measurement of the coronal electron temperature and the solar wind velocity
- June 7, 2001: Alex Young (Univ. New Hampshire): Solar Flare Gamma Ray Spectroscopy with COMPTEL
- May 9, 2001: Piet Martens (Montana State Univ.): On the Nature of Moss
- April 19, 2001: Valery Nakariakov (U. Warwick): MHD seismology of the solar corona
- April 12, 2001: Ineke De Moortel (U. St. Andrews): Wavelet analysis and Observation of oscillations in coronal loops
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 2000
- March 15, 2000: Engvold Oddbjorn (Univ. of Oslo), Support of prominence plasma in highly inclined magnetic fields
- February 23, 2000: Pal Brekke (SOHO/ESA), The Structure and the Dynamics of the Transition Region
- February 16, 2000: Jack Ireland (SOHO/ESA), Precision limits to line profile fitting experiments
- February 2, 2000: Sarah Gibson (CUA/GSFC),3-d and twisted: Modeling the three-dimensional magnetic field in coronal mass ejections
- January 12, 2000: Mark Linton (NRL/NRC), Kinky Flux Tubes in the Sun
- January 19, 2000: William H. Matthaeus (Bartol Research Institute, U. Delaware), Coronal Heating by MHD Turbulence
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 1999
- December 8, 1999: Peter MacNeice (NASA/GSFC), The Formation and Dynamics of Prominence Condensations
- December 1, 1999: Michael R. Collier (NASA/GSFC), Magnetic Clouds and Internal Shocks
- November 24, 1999: Joseph Davila (NASA/GSFC), SERTS Line Profiles: Implications for Coronal Heating
- November 10, 1999 Gopal Gopalswamy (CUA/GSFC), Coronal Dimming in Microwaves, X-rays and EUV
- November 3, 1999: Chris StCyr (CPI/GSFC), SOHO/LASCO CME's
- October 27, 1999: Cecille Delannee (NRC/NASA), Observations and Models of the First Steps of Coronal Mass Ejections
- October 20, 1999: Lucie Green (MSSL/UCL), Active Region Manifestations of a CME
- September 1, 1999: Eddie Breeveld (MSSL/UCL), Observing and analysing data with the GIS on CDS.
- May 26, 1999: Valery Nakariakov (St Andrews), Nonlinear MHD Waves in Open Coronal Structures.
- May 26, 1999: Joseph B Gurman (NASA/GSFC),
Astronomy
& Astrophysics Survey Committee Solar Panel: Report and Town
Meeting.
(This session will include a ~15 minute report and will be followed by a "town meeting" where anyone with an interest in solar physics could give Dr. Gurman feedback to take back to the panel).
- April 28, 1999: Dan Spicer (NASA GSFC), Are the Fundamental Assumptions of Conventional Solar Flare Theory Valid ?
- April 21, 1999: Guillaume Aulanier (NRL), New 3-D MHD model for prominences compared with observations. Can we now close the debate about "for" or "against" dipped field lines in prominences?
- April 7, 1999: William Thompson (NASA GSFC/SM&A Corp.) & Paal Brekke (SOHO/ESA), EUV Solar Irradiance and Full Disk Images using CDS
- March 24, 1999: Robert Walsh (University of St. Andrews), The Thermal Structure of Coronal Loops: Theoretical Models and Observational Consequences
- March 10, 1999: Jack Ireland (SOHO/ESA), A wavelet analysis of active region oscillations
- January 20, 1999: J. Zhang, S. M. White (Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland), Two-Temperature Coronal Models from SOHO/EIT Observations.
SCIENCE CLUB MEETINGS 1998
- December 16, 1998: Jim Miller (U. Alabama at
Hantsville)
Stochastic acceleration of particles in solar flares.
- November 18, 1998: Marc Swisdak (JILA, University of Colorado), Helioseismology and Convection.
- November 10, 1998: Satoshi Masuda (Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory).More on the Masuda Flare.
- November 12, 1998: Maarten van Aalst (SOHO/ESA). Can Streamer Blobs Prevent the Buildup of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field?
- October 28, 1998: Petrus Martens (SOHO/ESA). Hard X-ray Emission from a Mirror Trap at the Top of Reconnecting Loops.
- August 19, 1998: Alexander G. Kosovichev (Stanford University). Sunquakes and seismic diagnostics of solar active regions.
- June 17, 1998: Jeffrey Brosius (RSTX/GSFC).Coronal Magnetography with SERTS, CDS, and the VLA.
- June 10, 1998: Leon Ofman (RSTX/GSFC). Two fluid 2D MHD model of the fast solar wind, and the relation to UVCS observations.
- May 13, 1998: Mark Miesch (NRC/NASA GSFC). 3-D Numerical Simulations of Global-Scale Solar Convection and its Coupling with Rotation
- May 6, 1998: Robert Walsh (St. Andrews). Fragmented Energy Release in Solar Coronal Loops
- May 5, 1998: Dominic Zarro (SAC), Barbara Thompson (NASA) and Nat Gopalswamy (Catholic Univ). Changes in Magnetic Connectivityin Small- and Large-Scale Structures in the Solar Atmosphere (report from the third SOHO-Yohkoh CDAW),
- April 29, 1998:Quiet Sun EUV Transient Brightenings as Revealed by EIT
- April 22, 1998: George Simnett (U of Birmingham, UK). CME onsets, prominence eruptions and the global coronal magnetic field
- October 16, 1996: Leon Ofman (RSTX/GSFC), Search for signatures of solitary waves in the solar wind. and William Thompson (SAC), CDS calibration.
- November 18, 1998: Marc Swisdak (JILA, University of Colorado), Helioseismology and Convection.