PROM Workshop 2007
(Prominence Research: Observations and Models)

October 29-30, Space Sciences Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley
Science program
Monday, 29 October
Morning Chair: Sara Martin
9:00
Prominences in 3D: Movies from SECCHI/EUVI
Paulett Liewer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
STEREO team
9:30
The Formation of Three Filament Channels and Filaments
Karin Muglach
Naval Research Laboratory
10:00
Magnetogram Evolution Near Neutral Lines
Brian Welsch
UC Berkeley
10:30
Break - Tea, Coffee and Snacks
11:00
Numerical Studies of Flux Cancellation
Judy Karpen
Naval Research Laboratory
11:30
Observational Evidence for Cross-Field Diffusion of Neutral
Filament Material
Holly Gilbert
Rice University
12:00
Energy Dissipation in Collisionless Plasmas         
George Parks
UC Berkeley
12:30
Lunch break
Afternoon Chair: Terry Forbes
1:30
Direct evidence of the emergence of the helical flux rope  
under an active-region prominence
Joten Okamoto
NAO Hinode Science Center
2:00
New Hinode Observations of Quiescent and Active Region
Prominences                
Tom Berger
Lockheed Solar and
Astrophysics Laboratory
2:30
Why Current-Carrying Magnetic Flux  Tubes Gobble up
Plasma and Become Thin as a Result - Model and
Supporting Lab Experiments
Paul Bellan
Caltech
3:15
Afternoon break and refreshments
3:30
The Enigmatic Threads of Filaments -- What Can be
Inferred from Current  Observations?  
Oddbjorn Engvold
University of Oslo
4:00
Discussion on Filament Threads        
Everyone
4:30
Magnetic Models: Where are we?
Jack Zirker
former director
NSO/Sacramento Peak
5:00
Illusive Illusions in the Dynamics of Filaments
Sara Martin
Helio Research
5:30
Discussion
6:00
Adjourn (Dinner at 7:00 pm - location to be announced)
Morning Chair: Brian Welsch
8:30
Association of an Erupting Filament and Neighboring Flare
(to be present by Sara Martin)
K. S. (Bala) Balasubramaniam
NSO/Sacramento Peak Obs.
8:45
High Resolution Solar Observations  Using           
Commercial Filters and Small  Aperture Telescopes
Pat Stoker
Southern Calif. Amateur
Astronomer
9:15
Progress on Ground-based Dual Beam H-alpha  
Doppler System at Udaipur Solar Observatory
Nandita Srivastava
Udaipur Solar Observatory
9:45
Small-Scale Magnetic Fields at High  Latitude on the Sun,
Their Relation to  Filaments and Prominences Observed  in
H-alpha and He II
Elena Benevolenskaya
Stanford University
10:15
Techniques for 3d Reconstruction of CME
Leading Edge        
Nandita Srivastava
Udaipur Solar Observatory
10:45
Break - Tea, Coffee and Snacks
11:00
Talking point presentation: Questions Concerning the
Disconnection and Eruption of Filaments and CMEs
Therese Kucera
Goddard Space Flight Center
11:30
The Magnetic Connectivity for Quiescent
Filaments Over Neighbouring Neutral Lines        
Yan Li and B. J. Lynch
UC Berkeley SSL
12:00
Observations of the Merging of two Quiescent Filaments
Kasia Mikurda
Prairie View Solar
Observatory, TX
12:30
Sheared-Field Prominences and the Eruptive
Implications of Magnetic Topology  
Ben Lynch, Y. Li, and
J.G. Luhmann
Berkeley SSL
1:00
Lunch break
Afternoon Chair: Oddbjorn Engvold
2:00
The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in
Prominence Eruptions
 (seminar - down the hill)

Terry G. Forbes
University of New Hampshire  
 
3:00
Afternoon break and refreshments
4:00
Newly Recognized Cases of the  Roll Effect in
Solar Prominences
Olya Panasenco
Helio Research
4:30
Modelling the Large Scale Corona:
Reproducing the Hemispheric Pattern of Filaments
Duncan Mackay and
Anthony Yeates
University of St. Andrews
5:00
Helicity in Solar Prominences
Alex Pevtsov
NASA Hq. and
NSO/Sacramento Peak Obs.
5:30
A Concept of Coronal Mass Ejections
and their Origin        
Sara Martin
Helio Research
6:00
Adjourn Workshop
Tuesday, 30 October
Program (pdf)