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

Sponsored in part by NSF Grant 0205395 and NASA Grant NAG5-10852

Monday Morning – Oct 30,

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

Filament Channels and the Filament Environment

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

Solar Imaging and Image Processing

Challenging Solar Imaging Techniques Being Employed by Amateur Solar Astronomers
Greg Piepol

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

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

Monday Afternoon - Modeling and Theoretical Concepts

Flux pile-up magnetic Reconnection in the Photosphere and Filament
Formation Yuri Litvinenko

Prominences and Magnetic dips – Brigitte Schmieder

The Origin of Magnetic Helicity in Filaments – Jongchul Chae

Random Heating of Coronal Footpoints as Related to Prominence
Formation (tentative) – Judy Karpen

Solar Prominence Merging– Rick DeVore, Guillaume Aulanier and Spiro Antiochos

General Discussion on Filament Concepts and Theory  
Tuesday Morning,Oct 31 - 8:30AM

Prominence Mass Motions, Formation

Counterstreaming in Large Filament – Yashar Agah and Sara Martin

Observed Dynamical Properties of Filament Threads and Barbs –
Jongchul Chae

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

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

Modes of Oscillations in Filaments – Yong Lin

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


Tuesday Afternoon, Oct 31 - Prominence Eruption and Related Topics

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


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

Observations of Heating in a Kink in an Erupting Prominence (20 min)
Terry Kucera

Flux Rope Evolution During Prominence Eruptions – Terry Forbes

Coronal Streamer Detachments – Neil Sheeley

Dual Doppler Systems for More Complete Observations of Erupting   
Filaments - Nandita Srivastava and Sara Martin

Summary Discussion and Open Questions - Everyone
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