Birmingham Workshop
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Programme

In addition to presentations and follow-on discussions, delegates will divide into three teams to consider future helioseismic observations (global, and local) and future requirements for theory in the solar-cycle area. Breakout sessions will be timetabled each day for the teams to meet, the aim being for each group to report back their conclusions at the end of the meeting. We envisage an output from the workshop being a multi-author paper that would present a forward look of this part of helioseismology, synthesising the outputs from the three teams.

Tuesday 6 January (Session Chair is Laurent Gizon)
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome
Yvonne Elsworth, Birmingham
09:10 - 09:20 Introduction: aims and objectives of the Workshop
Michael Thompson, Sheffield
09:20 - 10:00 The Solar Cycle at Low Degree
Bill Chaplin, Birmingham
10:00 - 10:25 How to Compare Sun-as-a-Star and Resolved-Sun Frequency Shifts
Thierry Appourchaux, Orsay
10:25 - 10:50 Tea and Coffee
10:50 - 11:25 Signatures of the Cycle in Resolved-Sun Data (including a coefficients))
Rachel Howe, NSO
11:25 - 11:55 Impact of Meridional Circulation on Global Mode Frequencies
Markus Roth, MPI-Lindau
11:55 - 12:30 The Solar Cycle at High Degree
Ed Rhodes, USC
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:35 The Solar Cycle at all Degrees
Sylvain Korzennik, Harvard
14:35 - 15:45 Discussion: Are the different observations giving us a coherent picture and what new data and/or theory do we need to understand it?
Led by Yvonne Elsworth, Birmingham
15:45 - 16:15 Tea and Coffee
16:15 - 18:00 Breakout Activity:
To provide feedback on
  • • observations needed for global modes
  • • analysis technique issues for global modes
  • • importance of synoptic data
 
19:00 Conference Curry
 
Wednesday 7 January (Session Chair is Rachel Howe)
09:00 - 09:15 Brief feedback from breakout sessions
09:15 - 09:50 Influence of the Atmosphere on Acoustic Modes
Michael Thompson, Sheffield
09:50 - 10:25 Implications of Global-Mode Results for our Understanding of the Sun
John Leibacher, NSO, Orsay
10:25 - 10:50 Tea and Coffee
10:50 - 11:55 Discussion: Marrying Theory with the Observations
Led by Michael Thompson, Sheffield
11:55 - 12:30 Measurements of Helioseismic Travel Times
Aaron Birch, CORA
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:35 Sensitivity of Ring Analysis to Near-Surface Magnetism
Thierry Corbard, Nice
14:35 - 15:45 Discussion: How to interpret Local Helioseismology Results
Led by Laurent Gizon, MPI-Lindau
15:45 - 16:15 Tea and Coffee
16:15 - 18:00 Breakout Activity:
To provide feedback on
  • • observations needed for local helioseismology
  • • analysis technique issues for local helioseismology
  • • developments of theory to aid understanding of activity-related variability
(Note: dinner not provided on Wednesday)
 
Thursday 8 January (Session Chair is Thierry Corbard)
09:00 - 09:15 Brief feedback from breakout sessions
09:15 - 09:50 Helioseismology of Sunspots (with movies)
Hannah Schunker, MPI-Landau
09:50 - 10:25 Far-side Imaging and Activity
Irene Gonzáles-Hernández, NSO
10:25 - 10:50 Tea and Coffee
10:50 - 11:20 Discussion: Can stars tell us anything? Part 1 Part 2
Introduced and led by Bill Chaplin and Christoffer Karoff, Birmingham
11:20 - 12:30 Feedback from raporteurs on key forward-look issues
12:30 - 13:00 Summary
Michael Thompson, Sheffield
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon Some rooms available for further discussions as required