2006 PROM Workshop
Agenda
George Mason University,
Fairfax Campus
30-31  Oct. 2006
Day 1

Prominences:  
Observations and Models
Day1, Oct 30
9:00 AM  Monday
Morning Coffee and Snacks
 
9:15
Welcome and announcemnts:
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
Topic
Filament Channels and the Filament Environment
Chairperson:
10:00
Magnetic flux transport and the hemispheric pattern of
filaments
Anthony Yeates -
10:30
Break
 
Topic
Imaging and Image Processing and Techniques
 
11:00
Challenging Solar Imaging Techniques Being Employed by
Amateur Solar Astronomers
Greg Piepol
11:30
Application of Wavelet Technique to EIT 195A Images
Giullermo Stenborg
12:00
Tracking Magnetic Fields Near Polarity Inversion Lines in
Bipolar Active Regions
Brian Welsch
12:30
Lunch Break - Cafeteria on 2nd floor recommended
Food also available at Food Court in Johnson Center
Chairperson:
Topic
Modeling and Concepts
 
1:30
Flux pile-up magnetic reconnection in the photosphere and
filament formation
Yuri Litvinenko
2:00
Prominences and Magnetic Dips
Brigitte Schmieder
2:30
The Origin of Magnetic Helicity in Filaments
Jongchul Chae
3:00
Discussion on magnetic helicity or theoretical concepts
Everyone
3:30
Break
 
4:00
Random Heating of Coronal Footpoints as Related to
Prominence Formation (tentative)
Judy Karpen
4:30
Solar Prominence Merging
Rick DeVore, Guillaume
Aulanier and Spiro Antiochos
5:00
Open time to continue discussion or add discussion topic
Everyone
6:00
Adjourn First Day of Workshop