Scientific Program

NOTE: Posters should be no larger than 4' x 4' (1.2m x 1.2m).


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Sunday, June 12

  • 14:00 - 17:00, SPD Committee meeting (closed)

  • 16:00 - 18:00, Student/Teacher/Scientists Outreach Event: NMSU Golf Course

  • 18:30 - 21:30, Opening Reception: NMSU Golf Course

Monday, June 13

  • 07:30 - 08:30, Breakfast/Poster viewing

  • 08:30 - 09:20, Parker Lecture 1: Abbett, Modeling the physical connection between the solar convection zone and corona, (Chair: Alexander)

    • 09:20 - 10:20, Session 1: Instrumentation/Methods, (Chair: Abramenko)

      • 09:20, Gary, The Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array
      • 09:35, Kaufmann, Search of Continuum Solar Flare Radiation from GHz to THz Frequencies
      • 09:50, Kellerer, Adaptive Optics At The New Solar Telescope - Present, Future And Beyond
      • 10:05, Davey, The Virtual Solar Observatory at Eight and a Bit!

  • 10:20 - 11:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 11:00 - 12:30, Session 2: Solar Interior, (Chair: Schou)

    • 11:00, Sturrock, Helioradiology: A New View Of The Deep Solar Interior: Indications Of A Slowly Rotating Core And An Inner Tachocline
    • 11:15, Pipin, The Waldmeier Effect and Asymmetry of Solar Magnetic Cycles in a Surface-Shear Dynamo Model
    • 11:30, Hathaway, The Sun's Meridional Circulation - not so Deep
    • 11:45, Baldner, The Magnetic Fields of the Solar Interior
    • 12:00, Munoz-Jarmillo, The Double-Ring Algorithm: Reconciling Surface Flux Transport Simulations and Kinematic Dynamo Models
    • 12:15, Weber, The Rise of Active Region Flux Tubes in the Turbulent Solar Convective Envelope

  • 12:30 - 13:30, Lunch
    • SPD E/PO lunch meeting (meet in the poster room)

  • 13:40 - 15:40, Session 3: Lower Atmosphere, (Chair: Linton)

    • 13:40, Balasubramaniam, Analysis Of Sunspot Number Counts, Sunspot Area, And Sunspot Irradiance Deficit: 2002-2011
    • 13:55, Jaeggli, An Observational Study of the Formation and Evolution of Sunspots
    • 14:10, Sainz Dalda, Spectropolarimetric Study Of Sea-serpent Penumbral Filaments And A Naked Sunspot
    • 14:25, Burleigh, The Observed Red Asymmetry in the Bisectors of the Chromospheric CaII 854.2 nm Line
    • 14:40, Schad, High-Resolution He I Spectropolarimetry of Chromospheric Fibrils
    • 14:55, Kim, Propagating Transverse Wave In A Spicule Observed By The Hinode SOT
    • 15:10, Fox, Explosive Event Rates in He II from MOSES Data
    • 15:25, Kleint, Spectropolarimetry Of The Footpoints Of A C-class Flare In The Chromosphere

  • 15:40 - 16:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 16:00 - 18:00, Session 4

    • 16:00 - 16:50, Special Lecture: Alan Stern, The coming next-gen reusable suborbital era: New capabilities for solar research (Chair: Alexander)
    • 16:50 - 18:00, Poster viewing

  • 19:00 - 20:00, Public Lecture: D. Pesnell, The Many Colors of the Sun, (Chair: McAteer), Atkinson Hall

  • 20:00 - 22:00, SPD Business meeting, Atkinson Hall

Tuesday, June 14

  • 07:30 - 08:30, Breakfast/Poster viewing

  • 08:30 - 09:20, Hale Prize Talk: H. Spruit, How the cycle does and does not work, (Chair: Habbal)

    • 00:20 - 10:20, Session 5: Upper Atmosphere I, (Chair: Reeves)

      • 09:20, Tarr, Calculating Energy Storage Due to Topological Changes in Emerging Active Region NOAA AR11112
      • 09:35, Bradshaw, Radiative Signatures of the Coronal Heating and Cooling Cycle
      • 09:50, Aschwanden, Temperature Analysis of Coronal Loop Cross-Sections: Monolithic vs. Nanoflare Heating
      • 10:05, Long, Wavefront Expansion and Dispersion of Coronal Bright Fronts

  • 10:20 - 11:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 11:00 - 12:30, Session 6: Big Bear Solar Observatory, (Chair: Goode)
    • 11:00, Goode, The New Solar Telescope in Big Bear
    • 11:15, Yurchyshyn, Utilizing NST Data To Look For Connection Between Photospheric Dynamics And Small-scale Chromospheric Activity
    • 11:30, Abramenko, New View on Quiet-Sun Photospheric Dynamics Offered by NST Data
    • 11:45, Lim, NST and Photospheric Fine -scale Structures Indicating the Small Scale Flux Emergence in an Active Region
    • 12:00, Andic, From Bright Points, Throughout The Substructures Of The Pore, To The Umbral Dots
    • 12:15, Cao, Near-infrared Imaging Spectropolarimeter For The NST

  • 12:30 - 22:00, Lunch & Excursions

Wednesday, June 15

  • 07:30 - 08:30, Breakfast/Poster viewing

  • 08:30 - 09:20, Parker Lecture 2: Pinsonneault, The solar-stellar connection in the precision stellar astrophysics era, (Chair: Jackiewicz)

    • 09:20 - 10:20, Session 7: Upper Atmosphere II, (Chair: Bradshaw)

      • 09:20, Foukal, Dimming of the 17th Century Sun
      • 09:35, Bennasar, Formation and Evolution of a Multi-Threaded Prominence with Different Heating Scenarios
      • 09:50, Tun, Three-dimensional Mapping of the Lower Corona and Transition Region
      • 10:05, Krista, The Evolution and Space Weather Effects of Solar Coronal Holes

  • 10:20 - 11:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 11:00 - 12:30, Session 8: Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, (Chair: Keil)
    • 11:00, Rimmele, The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope - Constructing The World's Largest Solar Telescope
    • 11:15, Berger, Filament and Prominence Research with the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
    • 11:30, McIntosh, Coupling The Dynamics Of The Outer Atmosphere With ATST
    • 11:45, Stein, Magnetic Fields: Modeling And ATST Observations
    • 12:00, Casini, The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) for the ATST: Science Objectives and Design Concepts
    • 12:15, Schmidt, The Visible Tunable Filter and the Science it will do

  • 12:30 - 13:30, Lunch

  • 13:40 - 15:40, Session 9: Solar Dynamics Observatory, (Chair: Thompson)
    • 13:40, Scherrer, SDO/HMI - The First Year
    • 13:55, Hock, First Year Of Science Results From Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE)
    • 14:10, Glesener, Energetics And Heating In A Solar Plasma Ejection Observed By RHESSI And AIA
    • 14:25, Sterling, Insights into Filament Eruption Onset from Solar Dynamics Observatory Observations
    • 14:40, Zhang, CME Cavity, Core And Flux Rope: New Insights From Sdo And Stereo Observations
    • 14:55, Liu, SDO/AIA Observations of a Global EUV Disturbance Traveling into a Coronal Cavity and Its Subsequent Oscillations: New Evidence of Fast Mode MHD Waves

    • 15:10, Vourlidas, EUV Imaging Of Shock Formation In The Low Corona With SDO/AIA
    • 15:25, Torok, 3d MHD Simulation Of Sympathetic Eruptions on 1 August 2010

  • 15:40 - 16:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 16:00 - 16:50, Harvey Prize Talk: Rempel, Numerical Simulations of Sunspots: From the Scale of Fine Structure to the Scale of Active Regions, (Chair: Habbal)

  • 16:50 - 17:30, Poster viewing

  • 17:30 - 22:30, Banquet, Farm and Ranch Museum

Thursday, June 16

  • 07:30 - 08:30, Breakfast/Poster viewing

  • 08:30 - 09:20, Parker Lecture 3: Karpen, Prominences: the key to understanding solar activity, (Chair: Habbal)

    • 09:20 - 10:20, Session 10: Flares I, (Chair: Qiu)
      • 09:20, Share, Impulsive High-Energy Particle Acceleration in the SOL2010-06-12T00:57 M2 X-ray Flare
      • 09:35, Petrosian, Fermi-LAT Observation of > 100 MeV Gamma-rays Of March 7-8, 2011 Solar Flares
      • 09:50, Longcope, The Origin Of High Density In Loop-top X-ray Sources
      • 10:05, Ishikawa, On the Relation of Above-the-loop-top and Footpoint Hard X-ray Sources in Solar Flares

  • 10:20 - 11:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 11:00 - 12:30, Session 11: Flares II, (Chair: McKenzie)
    • 11:00, Watson, The Magnetic and Dynamic Properties of Flaring Active Regions
    • 11:15, Christie, The Flare Productivity of Active Regions
    • 11:30, Fleischman, Detection of the Acceleration Site in a Solar Flare
    • 11:45, Inglis, Pulsations In Two-ribbon Flares: Waves, Reconnection Or Both?
    • 12:00, Qiu, Heating of Flare Loops During a Two-ribbon Flare on 2005 May 13
    • 12:15, Raulin, The Time-Extended Phase of Solar Flares at MM-SUBMM Wavelengths

  • 12:30 - 13:30, Lunch

  • 13:40 - 15:40, Session 12: CMEs, (Chair: Reinard)
    • 13:40, Olmedo, Partial Torus Instability in Initiating Coronal Mass Ejections
    • 13:55, Antiochos, CME Onset And Take-off
    • 14:10, Fan, An MHD Model of the December 13 2006 Eruptive Flare
    • 14:25, Ma, Dynamics of Coronal Mass Ejection Origins
    • 14:40, Habbal, The Coronal Imprints of Eruptive Prominences and CMEs as Revealed by the Total Solar Eclipse Observations of 11 July 2010
    • 14:55, Murphy, Plasma Heating During a Coronal Mass Ejection Observed by SOHO
    • 15:10, White, Simultaneous Observations of H$ \alpha$; Moreton Waves and EUV Waves
    • 15:25, Howard, The Evolution Of Coronal Mass Ejections And Large Solar Wind Structures

  • 15:40 - 16:00, Coffee & Posters

  • 16:00 - 17:30, Session 13: Solar Wind, SEPs, and the Heliosphere, (Chair: de Nolfo)
    • 16:00, Jackson, The 3D Reconstruction of Heliospheric Density Using Thomson-Scattering Observations - Current Progress and Future Prospects
    • 16:15, DeForest, Imaging The Solar Wind At 1 AU with Stereo/hi-2
    • 16:30, Masson, Interchange Slip-running Reconnection and Sweeping SEP Beams
    • 16:45, van der Holst, A Two-temperature Solar Wind Model: Validation And Two-temperature CMEs
    • 17:00, Linker, Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of the Origin and Evolution of Corotating Interaction Regions
    • 17:15, Park, Dependence Of Solar Proton Events On Flare And Cme Parameters