CEDAR email: SDO Workshop May 2011 near Lake Tahoe

[Barbara Emery]

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(1) The First LWS Solar Dynamics Observatory Science Workshop,
May 3 - 6, 2011, Lake Tahoe, NV/CA (exact location still under consideration).
 From Barbara Thompson (barbara.j.thompson at nasa.gov).
See also http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdoworkshop2011/.
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"Solar magnetic activity from large to small:
Scales, couplings, and cascades from the solar dynamo into the Sun's atmosphere 
and heliosphere"

Living With a Star's Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its First Science 
Workshop, to be held May 3 - 6, 2011 in the Lake Tahoe area. The theme will be 
"Solar Magnetic Activity from Large to Small," and will address science 
questions that are fundamental to all three of SDO's science investigations:

* Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)
* EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)
* Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)

The meeting will consist of both plenary sessions and working group/discussion 
sessions. All members of the science community are
welcome to attend.

The meeting sites are being investigated, and the precise location will be 
determined in mid-October. Updates will be posted to the meeting website, which 
will be launched in late September:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdoworkshop2011/


Description of Meeting Theme:

Solar magnetism forces us to view the Sun, its atmosphere, and even the inner 
heliosphere as a single coupled system from the deep dynamo to the solar wind. 
The high resolution and global view of the Solar
Dynamics Observatory, in conjunction with other ground- and space- based 
instruments and supported by advanced data-assimilation and modeling techniques, 
provide a new opportunity to study solar phenomena from near the resolution 
limit to the global scale, and how these are connected among themselves.

Within the broader context of the wide-ranging advances being made in solar and 
inner-heliospheric physics, this meeting aims to emphasize some long-standing 
problems to which SDO can uniquely contribute: What is the origin of 
self-similar behavior and power-law distribution functions for emerging bipolar 
regions, for flares, and for eruptions from small fibrils to large coronal mass 
ejections, and where and why does self-similarity break down? Why and how do 
distant regions interact, and how far do these interactions reach across the 
Sun? How, how fast, and how far do emerging bipolar regions interact with the 
atmosphere into which they rise? What role do large-scale field changes play in 
triggering or preventing impulsive and eruptive events,and vice versa? How do 
changes in field and plasma properties near to and distant from flares and 
eruptions determine global spectral irradiance variations?

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lake Tahoe.

Sincerely,

The LWS/SDO -1 Scientific Organizing Committee

*Aaron Birch
*Phillip Chamberlin
*Frank Eparvier
*Sarah Gibson
*Jim Klimchuk
*K. D. Leka
*Dana Longcope
*Dean Pesnell
*Jesper Schou
*Karel Schrijver
*Barbara Thompson (barbara.j.thompson at nasa.gov)
*Harry Warren

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