Evershed meeting at IIA

Scientific Programme

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Day 1 December 2
8:30 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 10:30	Welcome address & Inauguration
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00	Session I A
	Magnetic field generation Chair: S. M. Chitre
	11:00 - 11:40	D. Gough	Angular-momentum coupling through the tachocline
	11:40 - 12:05	A. S. Brun	The Solar Global Dynamo
	12:05 - 12:30	D. Nandi	Dynamo Models of the Solar Cycle
	12:30 - 12:45	A. R. Choudhuri	Prediction of the next solar cycle 24 from solar dynamo model
	12:45 - 13:00	P. Chatterjee	A Theoretical Explanation for the Solar Torsional Oscillations Preceding the Sunspot Cycle
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:50	Session I B
	Magnetoconvection and transport Chair: J. Leibacher
	14:30 - 15:10	A. Nordlund	Magnetoconvection
	15:10 - 15:50	D. Longcope	Active region emergence and its effect on the solar corona
15:50 - 16:20	Coffee break
16:20 - 17:00	Session I C
	Local Seismology
	16:20 - 16:45	S. P. Rajaguru	Seismology of sunspots: old needs, new ideas and new needs
	16:45 - 17:00	S. M. Hanasoge	Numerical models of MHD wave interactions for sunspot seismology
17:00 - 18:30	Posters
Day 2 December 3
9:00 - 11:00	Session II A
	Magnetic field measurement Chair: P. Venkatakrishnan
	9:00 - 9:40	J. O. Stenflo	Measuring the hidden aspects of solar magnetism
	9:40 - 10:05	K. SankarSubramanian	Spectro-Polarimetry with NLST
	10:05 - 10:30	S. K. Mathew	MAST update and the back-end instruments
	10:30 - 10:45	C. DeForest	Stereoscopic Magnetography with SHAZAM
	10:45 - 11:00	B. Schmieder	Vector magnetic field in emerging flux
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:40	Session II B
	Chair: R. J. Rutten
	11:30 - 12:10	J. Trujillo Bueno	Some Recent Advances in Polarized Radiation Diagnostics Methods for "Measuring" Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields
	12:10 - 12:25	M. Sampoorna	Probability distribution functions (PDFs) to represent the Solar surface magnetic fields
	12:25 - 12:40	E. Rebecca Centeno	Determining the magnetic field of solar spicules
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:55	Session II C
	Chair: R. J. Rutten
	14:00 - 14:25	R. Ishikawa (T. Tsuneta)	Statistical properties of transient horizontal magnetic fields
	14:25 - 14:40	J. Singh	If the coronal loops are magnetically shielded ?
	14:40 - 14:55	A. O. Carbonell	Polarimetry at the SST: CRISP
14:55 - 15:35	Session III A
	Sunspots and Active regions Chair: N. O. Weiss
	14:55 - 15:35	J. H. Thomas	Theoretical Models of Sunspot Structure and Dynamics
15:35 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:15
	16:00 - 16:25	L. R. Bellot-Rubio	The Evershed flow and the brightness of the penumbra
	16:25 - 16:50	S. P. Bagare	A revisit to the phenomenon of classic Wilson Effect in sunspots
	16:50 - 17:15	E. Khomenko	Observations and interpretation of waves in sunspots
17:15 - 18:00	Posters
18:00	High Tea
18:30	Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture by Douglas Gough
Day 3 December 4
9:00 - 11:05	Session III B
	Sunspots and active regions Chair: K. R. Sivaraman
	9:00 - 9:40	J. Sanchez Almeida	On the topology of penumbral magnetic fields
	9:40 -10:05	K. Ichimoto	Evershed Effect Observed by SOT/Hinode
	10:05 -10:20	G. B. Scharmer (A. Nordlund)	Convection and the origin of Evershed flows
	10:20 - 10:35	K. Nagaraju	Sunspot observations from Kodaikanal
	10:35 - 10:50	M. Sobotka	Evolution of sunspot small-scale features
11:05 - 11:35	Coffee break
11:35 - 12:55	Session III C
	Quiet sun and Polar regions Chair: R. Erdelyi
	11:35 - 12:15	T. Tsuneta	Polar region, quiet Sun and Aflven waves as observed with Hinode
	12:15 - 12:40	D. Banerjee	Waves in the coronal holes
	12:40 - 12:55	P. Antolin	Predicting observational signatures of coronal heating by Alfven waves and nanoflares
12:55 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:45	Session IV A
	Magnetic coupling through the atmosphere Chair: B. Fleck
	14:00 - 14:40	O. Steiner	Magnetic coupling in the quiet solar atmosphere
	14:40 - 15:05	R. Erdelyi	Heating diagnostics with MHD waves
	15:05 - 15:45	B. De Pontieu	Coupling the dynamics of the chromosphere and transition region
15:45 - 16:10	Coffee break
16:10 - 17:45	Session IV B
	Chair: M. Carlsson
	16:10 - 16:50	J. A. Klimchuk	Coronal Heating
	16:50 - 17:15	V. H. Hansteen	Results from simulations extending from the convection zone to the corona
	17:15 - 17:30	R. Ramesh	Low frequency radio observations of magnetic field in the solar corona
	17:30 - 17:45	P. K. Manoharan	Evolution of Solar Wind Density Turbulence in the near-Sun Region
	17:45 - 18:45	Posters
19:00	Departure for Conference Banquet
Day 4 December 5
9:00 - 11:00	Session V A
	Eruptive phenomena Chair: J. Karpen
	9:00 - 9:40	N. Gopalswamy	The Rate of Coronal Mass Ejections and the Sunspot Number
	9:40 - 10:20	T. G. Forbes	Recent Developments in the Modeling of CMEs and Flares
	10:20 - 10:45	P. Subramanian	Energetics of CMEs
	10:45 - 11:00	M. Zhang	Coronal mass ejection as a result of magnetic helicity accumulation
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 13:15	Session V B
	Eruptive phenomena Chair: T. Tsuneta
	11:30 - 12:10	C. Parnell	Three-dimensional Magnetic Reconnection
	12:10 - 12:35	N. Srivastava	Statistical studies on CMEs
	12:35 - 13:15	K. Shibata	Theoretical models of flares
13:15 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:55	Session VI
	Solar-Stellar connections Chair: J. Stenflo
	14:30 - 15:10	J. H. M. M. Schmitt	The Sun as a Star
	15:10 - 15:25	A. Bhardwaj	Monitoring Solar Wind in the Near-Earth Environment with SWIM of the SARA Experiment aboard the Indian lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1
	15:25 - 15:40	P. Testa	Coronal activity in non solar-like stars
	15:40 - 15:55	B. E. Reddy	FIP effect: stellar-solar connection
15:55 - 16:25	Closing Session
15:55 - 16:25	15:55 - 16:25	N. O. Weiss	Conference Summary & Perspective

Social Programme:
Welcome Reception : 1^st December 6:00 PM.
Half-day excursion (free) : 1:00 PM departure from Hotels
Conference Banquet : 4^th December.