Message from the MIST mailing list.
Dear MIST Colleagues
This email is to bring to your attention the upcoming RAS Specialist
Discussion Meeting 'Solar Flares - 150 years on from the Carrington
Event' which is taking place on 13th March 2009. Since the 'Carrington
Event' was also the first well-observed space weather event, with
impacts on the ionosphere and magnetosphere, we are very keen to have
contributions from the MIST community at this meeting.
We invite and encourage you and your colleagues and students to submit
talks or posters, and ask you to send this around your group as
appropriate. The closing date for submissions is Friday February 13th,
and talks by students and young postdocs are particularly welcome.
The meeting will focus on our modern theoretical and observational
understanding of solar flares and their impact. The remit therefore
includes observational and theoretical studies of
- coronal energy storage
- magnetic fields and topology
- MHD instabilities
- magnetic reconnection
- particle acceleration, transport and radiation
- active filaments and coronal mass ejections
- flare-related waves
- flare prediction
- CME/radiation/particle impact at Earth
- Response of Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere
- microflares
- stellar flares.
The A&G meeting which follows will include a talk by Stuart Clark,
author of the book 'The Sun Kings', about Richard Carrington and the
1859 event
More information, and meeting registration/abstract submission, can be
found at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/~iain/flares150/
best wishes
Lyndsay Fletcher and Iain Hannah
Meeting Organisers.
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