Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence


Physical processes in solar-terrestrial plasmas

Workshop conveners: Yuriy Voitenko and Andrei Zhukov

The 2014 - international workshop Physical processes in solar-terrestrial plasmas is a successor and extended edition of the past STCE workshop series Alfven waves and turbulence. In addition to the waves, turbulence, and related effects, this workshop will includes magnetic reconnection, plasma heating and acceleration, particles energization, and other physical processes crucial for solar-terrestrial connections. We aim to improve our understanding of basic physical processes driving space weather phenomena.

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Tuesday, May 20 2014 - Meridian Room at ROB

Part I - TURBULENCE & RELATED EFFECTS
10:00Scaling and intermittency of magnetic field turbulent fluctuations at non-MHD scales in the Earth's magnetosheath (invited) G. Consolini (INAF, Roma, Italy)
10:35Investigation of the spectral properties of solar wind turbulence at solar minimum and maximum M. Echim (BISA)
10:15Break
11:20Kinetic description of the turbulent solar wind V. Pierrard (STCE-BISA)
11:45Local versus nonlocal cascade in the solar wind turbulence Y. Voitenko (STCE-BISA)
12:10Alfvenic Turbulence in Solar Flare LoopsJ. Zhao (Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjin, China)
12:35Lunch
Part II - TURBULENCE & RELATED EFFECTS : LECTURE
14:00Physics of Complexity and ROMA (rank-ordered multifractal analyses) of Strong Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas and the Cosmic Web Tom Chang (Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, USA)
15:00Tea/coffee and Discussion
15:30The End

Wednesday, May 21 2014 - Free discussions

Thursday, May 22 2014 - RMI conference room

Part III - WAVES & RELATED PHENOMENA IN THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE
10:00Discovery of plentiful MHD waves in the solar atmosphere (invited) R. Erdelyi (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
10:40Wave energy flux in bundles of coronal loops T. Van Doorsselaere (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
11:10Break
11:30Large-scale wave-like phenomena in the low solar corona: EIT waves A. Zhukov(STCE-ROB)
12:00Waves in a sunspot with light bridgesD. Yuan (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
12:30Lunch
Part IV/V - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN SOLAR & SPACE PHYSICS
14:00 Energy transformations mediated by Poynting fluxes and particle energy fluxes during magnetic storms: kinetic theory and in situ observations (invited) G. Lapenta (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
14:40Coronal electron density and heating rate deduced from coronal white-light eclipse observations J. Lemaire (BISA)
15:10Propagating fast magnetoacoustic wave trains in coronal plasma structures V. Nakariakov (University of Warwick)
15:40Tea/coffee and Discussion
16:00The End

Friday, May 23 2014 - ROB Meridian Room

Part IV/V - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN SOLAR & SPACE PLASMAS
10:00Observational properties of decameter type IV bursts in the solar corona (invited) V. Melnik (Institute of Radio Astronomy, Kharkov, Ukraine)
10:40Shear flow in a plasma and its importance for magnetospheric configuration and plasma transport J. De Keyser (STCE-BISA)
11:10Break
11:30Vlasov simulations of auroral processes H. Gunell(STCE-BISA)
12:00Relativistic test particle simulations of radiation belt particles during geomagnetic stormsK. Borremans (BISA)
12:30Lunch
Part VI - WAVES AND RELATED EFFECTS : LECTURE
14:00From Ellerman Bombs to MHD Waves: Can they Heat the Solar Plasma Efficiently? R. Erdelyi (Univ. of Sheffield, UK
15:00Tea/coffee and Discussion
15:30The Final End

Registration & Logistics

Please, confirm your attendance in the doodle.
Free sandwich lunch & coffee is foreseen for the participants on the list. Subscription for lunch is not possible anymore.

Venue: Space Pole, Ringlaan, 1180 Brussel

May 20 : Meridian Room at ROB
May 22 : conference room at RMI
May 23 : Meridian Room at ROB

This meeting is supported by the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE).