Armagh Observatory
College Hill
Armagh
N. Ireland
An Overview of the Coupled Earth-Sun System
PPARC Introductory Solar System Plasmas School
Programme
The course will provide an introduction to the field of solar-terrestrial physics to new PPARC postgraduate students (and others) starting work in the fields of solar physics, the solar wind, magnetospheric physics and the physics of the upper atmosphere of the Earth. The programme will give students an overview of the coupled Sun-Earth system. The course (Monday-Friday) provides a general review of energy flow through the Sun-Earth system, starting in the interior of the Sun and ending in the Earth's atmosphere.
The course is hosted by Armagh Observatory with the lectures in the Saint Patrick's Trian Visitor Complex
Sunday 9 September
14:00 - 18:00 Registration
18:30 Icebreaker
19:30 Buffer meal (ONLY for those who requested!)
Monday 10 September
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 10:30 Overview of the Sun-Earth System ... Robert Walsh
11:00 - 12:30 The Structure of the Sun: The Interior .. Steve Tobias
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 The Structure of the Sun: The Outer Regions ... Robert Walsh
16:00 - 17:30 Helioseismology ... Mike Thompson
18:00 - 18:45 Presenting your research- how to get your message across! ... Mike Thompson
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday 11 September
09:00 - 10:30 The Solar Dynamo .. Steve Tobias
11:00 -12:30 Magnetic Reconnection in solar and space plasmas ... Eric Priest
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Fundamental Magnethydrodynamics (MHD) ... Eric Priest
16:00 - 17:30 Fundamentals of Plasma Physics ... Ken McClements
17:45 - 19:00 Visit to the Observatory
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday 12 September
09:00 - 10.30 MHD v. Kinetic Effects in space and solar plasmas ... David Tsiklauri
11:00 - 12:30 Atomic data: Its role in interpretating the data ... Peter Young
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Coronal Seismology ... Robert van Fay-siebenburgen
16:00 - 17:30 Solar Variability: Short and Long-term Changes ... Mike Lockwood
17:45 - 19:00 Visit to the Planetarium
19:30 Dinner
Thursday 13 September
09:00 -10:30 Climate Changes: Solar v. Man-made? ... Mike Lockwood
11:00 - 12:30 Heading our way: Surfing the Solar Wind ... Miruna Popescu
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Driving Space Weather - Flares and CME's ... Lyndsay Fletcher
16:00 - 17:30 Magnetospheric Physics ... Jom Wild
18:00 - 19:00 Grid Computing: fasct or Fiction ... John Morrison19:30 Conference Dinner
Friday 14 September
09:00 - 10:30 Physics of the Ionosphere ... Alan Aylward
11:00 - 12:30 Physics of the Mesosphere and Thermosphere ... Nick Mitchell
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Cometary Soup! ... Mark Bailey