LWS/SDO-3/SOHO-26/GONG-2011 Workshop

Mini-Workshops

Friday November 4

Helioseismology

Varian Physics Bldg. Conference Room 208
organizers Rick Bogart, Rudi Komm, Alexander Kosovichev

Preliminary Agenda
9:00 -9:15 Paulett Liewer: Reliability of Helioseismology
            Far-side Predictions: Comparision of GONG far-side predictions
            of active regions with STEREO far-side observations of EUV activity
            9:15-9:30 Tom Duvall: Effect of data filtering on time-distance flow
            measurements
            9:30-9:45 Jesper Schou: Status of global helioseismology pipeline
            9:45-10:00 Rick Bogart: Status of ring-diagram pipeline
            10:00-10:15 Junwei Zhao: Status of time-distance pipeline
            10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
            10:30 - 12:00  Discussion of common issues:
                targets for special study
                what simulations are needed
                comparisons: geometry, time
            12:00 - 13:00 Technical working team meetings as needed
            Ring diagrams (Bogart convener)
                developing/implementing target/structure pipeline
                fitting improvements: rdfitc, multi-ridge
                fit parameters/inversions product restructure
                joint JILA/JSOC pipeline processing
 

Vector Magnetometry, Feature Recognition, Data Distribution and Access

Physics & Astrophysics Conf. Room 102/103
organizers Todd Hoeksema, Neal Hurlburt and Alexei Pevtsov

Preliminary Agenda
9:00 – HMI Vector Field Status & Access
General (Todd Hoeksema), Inversion (Rebecca Centeno), Disambiguation (Graham Barnes)
Data Format, Access, Plans (HMI Team)

10:00 – Other Vector Field Observations

Vector Magnetic Magnetograph from Space (Vladimir Obridko)
SOLIS, Hinode, IMaX/Sunrise (Alex Pevtsov and others)
11:00 – UNNOFIT Inversion Applied to Observations and Models (Veronique Bommier)
11:30 – Using Vector Fields to Determine Poynting and Helicity Flux (George Fisher)

12:00 – Discussion and Plans 
            

Numerical Simulations and Modeling

Physics & Astrophysics Conf. Room 232
organizers Nagi Mansour and Irina Kitiashvili

Preliminary Agenda 
9:00 am
Yuhong Fan "Global scale MHD simulations of emerging magnetic flux in the turbulent, rotating solar convective envelope"
Nic Brummell "The connection of interior models to near-surface models (what do we really know about rising magnetic flux?"
Gustavo Guererro "Simulations of magnetic buoyancy"
Irina Kitiashvili "Near-surface radiative MHD models: the role of high resolution and turbulence models"
Konstantin Parchevsky "Simulations of interaction of MHD waves with sunspots"

10:15-10:30am
Coffee Break

10:30am
Nagi Mansour "Revisiting the anelastic approximation"
Thomas Hartlep "Global Sun helioseismology simulations"

11:00am General discussion
-- How to get funding for solar interior modeling
-- The dangers of quoting aspects of simulations in real units
-- 3D visualization 
-- How to connect simulations to observational data (calculations of Stokes parameters etc)