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The 2006 PROM Workshop will be held at the George Mason
University, Virginia, from October 30-31. The local contact is Art
Poland at apoland@gmu.edu. The PROM collaboration contact is
Sara Martin at sara@helioresearch.org.
PROM Workshops are for detailed discussions among participants
on their research on the topics of filaments and prominences and
the environment of these structures. The Workshops strive for
communication between observers and theoreticians on current
research. Presentations are informal and discussion usually occurs
during the talks as well as at the end of each talk. As long as the
Workshops remain small, every participant has up to 30 minutes to
present their research.
The talks may include work in progress and tend to focus on
current basic issues that need to be addressed to better
understand the nature of solar prominences, how they form, and
how they evolve. Equally important is new material on
filament/prominence environment: the filament channel in the
photosphere and chromosphere as well as cavity and surrounding
coronal magnetic fields. Other issues are the differences and
similarities between active region and quiescent filaments, the
origin of their chirality (observed forms that indicate their sign of
helicity), and their relationship to coronal structures known as
sigmoids.
the Swedish Solar Observatory by O. Engvold and
colleagues from the Theoretical Institute for
Astrophysics, University of Oslo. The Swedish 1-m Solar
Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by the
Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de
los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
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