Armagh Observatory
College Hill
Armagh
N. Ireland
STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School
Programme
STFC Courses in Solar System Plasmas have played an important part in the early training of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric physicists since the 1980s. The Introductory course, as well as providing a grounding in the theory and the most recent observations relevant to their fields, allows new PhD students and other participants to interact scientifically with each other and with the lecturers, thus strengthening the field as a whole - particularly in the UK. We wish to continue this excellent tradition by hosting the next introductory summer school in Solar System Plasmas at Armagh Observatory. The Observatory has expertise in both solar and solar-terrestrial observations and theory as well as solar system dynamics. The objective is to provide the training necessary to produce inter-disciplinary scientists who can work effectively in teams at the interfaces between different science areas.
The course is hosted by Armagh
Observatory with the lectures in the
Sunday 16 September
17:00 - 18:00 Registration
18:30 - Icebreaker 19:00 - Buffet meal
Monday 17 September -- Solar System
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 10:30 Origin of the Solar System, Planets and Small Bodies .. Mark Bailey (Armagh) – Presentation in PDF format.
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 The Sun as a Star: Internal Structure & Evolution .. Simon Jeffery (Armagh) – Presentation in PDF format.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Solar Interior: Results from Helioseismology .. Bill Chaplin (Brimingham) – Presentation in PDF format.
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 17:30 Introduction to the Solar Atmosphere: Photosphere, Chromosphere & Corona .. Shaun Bloomfield (TCD) – Presentation in PDF format and movie files.17:30 - 18:30 Set Phasers to Stun! .. Francis Keenan (Queens)
18:45 - 20:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Tuesday 18 September -- Solar-Terrestrial Relationships
08:45 - 10:15 Solar Variability and Impact on Climate ... Mathew Owens (Reading) – Presentation in PDF format.
10:15 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 The Ionosphere .. Alan Aylward (UCD) – Presentation in PDF format.12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 The Magnetosphere .. Chris Owen (MSSL) – Presentation in PDF format.
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 The Thermosphere-Mesosphere .. Mike Kosch (Lancaster) – Presentation in PDF format. 17:00 - 17:15 Break 17:15 - 18:15 Working in the Antarctia .. Mike Kosch (Lancaster)18:45 - 20:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Wednesday 19 September --MHD & Plasma Physics
08:45 - 10.15 Introduction to Plasma Physics: gyration, drifts, plasma oscillations, waves in magnetised plasmas, elements of plasma kinetics .. David Tsiklauri (Queen Mary) – Presentation in PDF format.
10:15 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 Introduction to MHD: MHD equations, applicability conditions, basic time-scales and dimensionless parameters .. Alan Hood (St. Andrews) – Presentation in PDF format.12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 MHD Waves and Instabilities: Waves in uniform media, modes of a magnetic flux tube, basic macroscopic and microscopic instabilities .. Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen (Sheffield) – Presentation in PDF format.
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 Magnetic reconnection: 2D reconnection (Petschek + Sweet-Parker), basic concepts of topology .. Alan Hood (St. Andrews)17:00 - 18:00 Using the HELiophysics Integrated Observatory (HELIO) to discover and connect data throughout the heliosphere .. David Perez-Suarez (TCD) – Presentation as YouTube video.
18:15 - 18:45 Experience the Aurora Show at the Planetarium
19:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday 20 September -- The Dynamic Sun
08:45 - 10:15 Current Solar Instrumentation (ground & space) .. Mihalis Mathioudakis (Belfast) – Presentation in PDF format.
10:15 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 The Dynamic Sun: Implications for Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Generation .. Maria Madjarska (Armagh) – Presentation in PDF format.12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Atomic Data: Its Role in Interpretating the Data .. Giulio del Zanna (Cambridge) – Presentation in PDF format.
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee 15:45 - 18:30 Downloading and Reducing Solar Remote Sensing Data (workshop at the Observatory) .. Maria Madjarska (Armagh)–Workshop tutorial in PDF format. 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Friday 21 September -- The Sun in Time: Flares, Sun-like & Cool Stars
08:45 - 10:15 The Sun in Time: Evolution of Coronae of Solar-Type & Cool Stars Stars .. Rob Jeffries (Keele) – Presentation in PDF format. and Notes in PDF format.
10:15 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 CMEs, the Solar Wind and the Heliosphere: Basic solar wind models, basic structures, phenomenology of CMEs .. Peter Gallagher (TCD) – Presentation in PDF format.12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Flares and particle acceleration .. Eduard Kontar (Glasgow) – Presentation in PDF format.
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 16:30 Radio observations: Flares, planets & Brown Dwarfs .. Alexey Kuznetsov (Armagh) – Presentation in PDF format.