| Professor Eugene Parker, from the University of Chicago, USA, will visit the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and the Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence in Brussels, Belgium. This visit gives us the opportunity to organize a small topical meeting devoted to the solar wind modeling as well as to kinetic and hydrodynamic/multi-fluid descriptions in space plasma physics. On this occasion we shall also celebrate the 70th anniversary of Professor Joseph Lemaire. |
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| Thursday June 18, 2009 | |||
| 14:00 | Welcome | ||
| 14:05 | Introduction to solar/stellar winds | J. Lemaire, BISA | |
| 14:25 | The kinetic structure of 1D and 2D magnetic discontinuities | M. Echim, BISA | |
| 14:45 | Stellar X-ray emission and spontaneous discontinuities in magnetic fields | E. Parker, Univ of Chicago, USA | |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | EUV imaging of the solar corona | D. Berghmans, ROB | |
| 16:30 | Large scale modeling of CMEs | G. Lapenta, KUL | |
| Friday June 19, 2009 | |||
| 10:00 | Kinetic and hydrodynamic representation of the solar corona and the solar wind | E.Parker, Univ of Chicago, USA | |
| 11:00 | Solar wind acceleration in exospheric models: electric field and heat flux | N.Meyer-Vernet, Laboratoire LESIA, Fr | |
| 11:30 | 3D MHD modeling of the solar corona and solar wind | A.Usmanov, GSFC NASA, USA | |
| 12:00 | Kappa distribution functions and heating of the heavy ions in the solar wind | B.Shizgal,Univ of British Columbia,Canada | |
| 12:30 | End | ||