| 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 |