Schedule Overview

The block schedule is as follows; scroll down for detailed listings of each session.

Abstracts are now available HERE (PDF)

 

 

Detailed Schedule

Day –> vvv Time	Monday, 19 June
18:00-21:00	Welcome Reception University Memorial Center, 5th Floor Rooftop Lounge

 

Day –> vvv Time	Tuesday, 20 June
08:30-08:45	Registration
	Plenary Session (Chair: Gordon Emslie)
08:45-09:00	Welcome
09:00-09:15	Säm Krucker — RHESSI & STIX Status
09:15-09:30	Martin Fivian — RHESSI Operations
09:30-09:45	Albert Shih — RHESSI Detector Status
09:45-10:00	Richard Schwartz — RHESSI Software
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00	Tom Woods — MinXSS Results & Status
11:00-11:30	Bin Chen — EOVSA Results & Status
11:30-12:00	Lindsay Glesener — FOXSI Results & Space Prospects
12:00-13:30	LUNCH
	JOINT SESSION: Working Groups 1 & 3 (Chair: Marina Battaglia)	Working Group 4 (optional) or Breakouts
13:30-15:00	Brian Dennis — Dimensions of Coronal X-ray Sources Galina Motorina — Quantification of the thermal response in a ‘cold’ flare
15:00-15:30	COFFEE BREAK
	JOINT SESSION: Working Groups 2 & 6 (Chair: Jeffrey Reep)	Working Group 5 (optional) or Breakouts
15:30-17:00	Nicola Omodei — Fermi LAT Observation of High Energy Solar Flares Vahe Petrosian — Combined Treatment of Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares and Associated CME Shocks Wei Chen — The evolution of de-excitation line shapes in solar flare

 

Day –> vvv Time	Wednesday, 21 June
	Plenary Session — Invited Talk (Chair: Brian Dennis)
08:30-09:30	Natasha Jeffrey — How to determine solar flare non-thermal electron energetics: the “warm-target” model
09:30-10:30	POSTERS and COFFEE BREAK
	Working Group 1 (Chair: Marina Battaglia)	Working Group 3 (Chair: Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros)
10:30-12:00	Gordon Emslie — The Role of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in Energy Transfer in Solar Flares Meriem Alaoui — Is a 1D return-current collisional thick target model adequate to explain RHESSI spectral breaks? – current instability Sophie Musset — X-ray emitting electrons in connection with coronal EUV jets	Yang Su — Investigating the origin of X-ray sources in solar flares Amir Caspi — Progress on MinXSS/RHESSI Joint DEMs Frederic Effenberger — Investigating the connection between RHESSI X-ray and AIA DEM heating signatures in solar limb flares Stephen White — Daily coronal DEMs with EVE
12:00-13:30	LUNCH
	Working Group 4 (Chair: Bin Chen)	Working Group 6 (Chair: Natasha Jeffrey)
13:30-15:00	Andy Inglis — A large-scale search for evidence of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares using GOES and Fermi/GBM Sijie Yu — Imaging spectroscopic observation of a new type of decimetric burst in a solar flare by VLA Laura Hayes — QPP in the soft X-ray and the Earth’s Ionosphere	Iain Hannah — Simulating tiny HXR flares Säm Krucker — Temperatures of flare ribbons derived from de-saturated SDO/AIA images: implications for the standard flare model Jeffrey Reep — Exploiting the correlation between transition region line emission and non-thermal hard X-ray emission in flares
15:00-15:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Working Group 3 (Chair: Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros)	Working Group 5 (Chair: Säm Krucker)
15:30-17:00	Athiray Panchapakesan — Solar coronal abundances: FIP bias changes with X ray flux Ryan Milligan — 3-Minute Oscillations in Hydrogen Emission During Solar Flares Alexander Warmuth — Current questions relating to solar flare energetics Christopher Moore — Exploring solar coronal properties through soft X-ray observations of the MinXSS (Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer) CubeSat	Richard Schwartz — Progress in RHESSI Imaging Gordon Hurford — RHESSI vs STIX: Implications of design and operational differences for solar imaging science

 

Day –> vvv Time	Thursday, 22 June
	Working Group 1 (Chair: Frederic Effenberger)	Working Group 4 (Chair: Laura Hayes)
08:30-10:00	Matej Kuhar — NuSTAR X-Ray Brightenings from Outside of Active regions: Closing in on Nanoflares? Marina Battaglia — Electron energization in magnetic reconnection outflow regions observed with RHESSI and SDO/AIA Gottfried Mann — Electron Acceleration in the Magnetic Reconnection Region	Larisa Kashapova — The possible method of the faint solar flare study with the Siberian Multiwave Radioheliograph Yu-Lun Liou — Analysis of Hard X-ray and Microwave Observations with Fokker-Planck Model in Solar Flares
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Working Group 3 (Chair: Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros)	Working Group 5 (Chair: Säm Krucker)
10:30-12:00	Lucia Kleint — Magnetic field changes and their relation to X-ray emission Adam Kowalski — Very Broad Hydrogen Lines in Response to High-Flux Electron Beam Heating in Solar Flares Viacheslav Sadykov — Multi-Instrument Database of Solar Flares and its Application for Statistical Studies of Chromospheric Evaporation	Joseph Plowman — Unified Source Reconstruction from Heterogeneous Observations (e.g., AIA & RHESSI) Anna Maria Massone — A Bayesian approach for parameter estimation in RHESSI images Michele Piana — Wavelet-based deconvolution for RHESSI image reconstruction from visibilities
12:00-13:30	LUNCH
13:30-19:00	Free Time
19:00-22:00	Banquet Dinner BRU Restaurant

 

Day –> vvv Time	Friday, 23 June
	Plenary Session — Invited Talk (Chair: Säm Krucker)
08:30-09:30	Gianna Cauzzi — DKIST and prospects for ground-based observations of solar activity
09:30-10:30	POSTERS and COFFEE BREAK
	JOINT SESSION: Working Groups 1 & 6 (Chair: Jeffrey Reep)	(Breakouts)
10:30-12:00	James Drake — Electron Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in 2D and 3D Systems Fan Guo — The roles of magnetic reconnection and flare termination shock in accelerating particles in solar flares Xiaocan Li — The role of fluid compression in particle energization at the reconnection site during solar flares
12:00-13:30	LUNCH
	Working Group 3 (Chair: Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros)	(Breakouts)
13:30-15:00	Aaron Hernandez-Perez — Generation mechanisms of quasi-parallel and quasi-circular flare ribbons in a confined flare Erica Lastufka — Occulted Flare Observations by RHESSI and Messenger Juliana Vievering — Investigation of Energy Release from X-ray Flares on Young Stellar Objects with NuSTAR
15:00-15:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Working Group 4 (Chair: Laura Hayes)	(Breakouts)
15:30-17:00	Hamish Reid — Type U and J Radio Bursts observed with LOFAR Imaging Spectroscopy Bin Chen — VLA observation of decimetric type III radio bursts in a microflare Gordon Holman — Imaging Spectroscopy of a Type II solar radio burst observed by LOFAR

 

Day –> vvv Time	Saturday, 24 June
	Instrumentation Plenary (Chair: Lucia Kleint)
09:00-09:15	Weiqun Gan — ASO-S: Progress and Prospect
09:15-09:30	Noriyuki Narukage — X-ray imaging-spectrometers for the next solar satellite mission
09:30-09:45	Erica Lastufka — Design of MiSolFA Hard X-Ray Imager
09:45-10:00	Marek Stęślicki — X-ray Flux Sensor for the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager – FOXSI
10:00-10:15	Dan Seaton — The Solar Ultraviolet Imager on NOAA’s GOES-16 Spacecraft
10:15-10:30	Janet Machol — First Measurements from the EUV and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) on GOES-16
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Summary Plenary (Chair: Gordon Emslie)
11:00-11:20	Working Groups 6 & 2
11:20-11:45	Working Group 1
11:45-12:10	Working Group 3
12:10-12:30	Working Group 4
12:30-12:45	Working Group 5
12:45-13:00	Closing Remarks
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