ESPD summerschool - Energisation and heating in the solar plasma

Last Updated on Monday, 19 June 2023 14:26

1st European solar physics division (ESPD) summerschool:
Energisation and heating in the solar plasma

29 April - 3 May 2024
Dubrovnik, Croatia

In-person only


European solar physics division board is organizing a summerschool in 2024 as a pilot project to what could in future become a summerschool series. The theme of the school is Energisation and heating in the solar plasma, outlining the mechanisms which may operate to produce the solar wind, to heat the corona and to drive the transient events observed in the solar atmosphere, such as flares and coronal mass ejections.

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Scientific organisers – ESPD board

The European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) represents and provides a forum for European scientists, primarily, and any scientist, secondarily, interested in aspects of the physics of the Sun. The objective of the ESPD is the advancement of the study of the Sun, the dissemination of key results of solar physics research to the general public, and the promotion and coordination of such research with other areas and branches of the physical sciences. Every 3 years the board organizes European Solar Physics meeting (ESPM).

List of board members

Istvan Ballai (President) Sven Wedemeyer (Vice-President) Sophie Masson (Treasurer) Galina Motorina (Secretary) Patrick Antolin Mateja Dumbovic Stanislav Gunar

Ioannis Kontogiannis David Long Jasmina Magdalenic Julia Thalmann Francesca Zuccarello Stefaan Poedts (co-opted: SWWT) Eduard Kontar (co-opted: former president) Mats Carlsson (co-opted: EAST)

Program

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THEME: Energisation and heating in the solar plasma
Short description: the theme outlines the mechanisms which may operate to produce the solar wind, to heat the corona and to drive the transient events observed in the solar atmosphere, such as flares and coronal mass ejections.

Lecture topics:

1. Waves and instabilities in solar atmospheric plasma
2. Evolution of magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection
3. Physics of flares and CMEs
4. Solar energetic particles
5. Heating and acceleration of the solar wind
6. Turbulence in the heliosphere

Hands-on sessions:

1. JHelioviewer
2. Sunpy
3. Machine learning

Non-scientific lecture:
How to keep your mental health in shape

Confirmed lecturers: Eric Priest (Uni. St. Andrews, UK)

Confirmed hands-on session presenters: Daniel Müller (ESA); Laura Hayes (ESA);

Tentative timetable

Release of tentative program and registration fees - Fall 2023
Applications open - Fall 2023
Decisions sent to students - early 2024

Application & registration

The school will be held in-person only.
Due to capacity limits of the classrooms and the dormitory the number of students attending is limited to 40-45 students.
Stay tunned for more details in the fall 2023.
We are still negotiating the prices and searching for funding.
If you would like to sponsor this event or otherwise support it please contact the LOC.

Contact

Local organizer (LOC):
Mateja Dumbović
Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb
Kačićeva 26, 10000 Zagreb
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