LWS / IRIS / Hinode Workshop

Saturday, Nov. 1

Sunday, Nov. 2

Monday, Nov. 3

Plenary Session 1a.  Magnetic Energy and Field from Solar Interior to Corona and Heliosphere

10:15 am – 10:45 am  

Gordon Holman, Magnetic Evolution, Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares: Insights from RHESSI

Mikhail Sitnov, Magnetic Reconnection, Buoyancy and Flapping Motions in Magnetotail Explosions

Ian Mann, The Impacts ULF Waves on the Dynamics of the Earth's Van Allen Belts

Poster Session – P1/P2 (Monday/Tuesday group)
(featuring Plenary Sessions 2a, 2b, and Hinode/IRIS Splinter Sessions)

Madhulika Guhathakurta, Living With a Star: Science That Matters to People - Past Accomplishments and Future Promise

Marco Velli, The Solar Probe Plus Mission and our Understanding of the Solar Wind and Heliosphere

Mona Kessel, Geoscience Current and Future Space Weather Plans

Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, How the Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Structures Will Help Us Usher a New Generation of Solar Cycle Predictions

Chigomezyo Ngwira, Challenges in Modeling of Extreme Space Weather Events

Open Discussion

Splinter Session S-2 (1a).  Magnetic Energy and Field from Solar Interior to Corona

Sanjiv Tiwari, Transition-Region/Coronal Signatures of Penumbral Microjets: Hi-C, SDO/AIA and Hinode (SOT/FG) Observations

Iain Hannah, NuSTAR's First Solar Observations:  Search for a high energy X-ray component to the "non-flaring" Sun

Mark Weber, A Revolution in DEM Analysis with Application to Nanoflare Heating

Scott McIntosh, Deciphering Solar Magnetic Activity:  On the Relationship Between the Sunspot Cycle and the Evolution of Small Magnetic Features

Open Discussion

Splinter Session S-3 (2b).  From the Sun to Earth: Turbulence and wave-particle interactions at the Sun, at the Earth, and in the solar wind

Kyoko Watanabe, White-Light Emission and Related Particle Acceleration Phenomena – Conditions that Enhance White-Light Emission in Solar Flares

Andrew Hillier, Investigating Prominence Turbulence with Hinode SOT Dopplergrams

Phil Isenberg, Ion Kinetics in the Solar Wind Generation Region

Chadi Salem, Kinetic Scale Turbulence in the Solar Wind:  A review of current challenges.

Allison Jaynes, Simultaneous ULF Waves, Whistler-mode Chorus and Pulsating Aurora Observed by the Van Allen Probes and Ground-based Imagers

Rodney Viereck, NOAA Space Weather Operations:  Current operational models and future needs for space weather modeling

K. D. Leka, The Discriminant Analysis Flare Forecasting System ("DAFFS")

Paulett Liewer, Testing the Reliability of Far-side Active Region Predictions from Helioseismology using STEREO Far-side

Meng Jin, Global MHD Simulation of the Coronal Mass Ejection on 2011 March 7:  From Chromosphere to 1 AU

Ryan McGranaghan, Forecasting the Impact of Equinoctial High-Speed Stream Structures on Thermospheric Responses and an Extension to Solstitial Events

Sarah Matthews, Probing Energy Release & Transport in Flares – New insights from IRIS and EIS

Fatima Rubio da Costa, IRIS Observations of Solar Flares in Comparison with Hybrid Particle and Radiative Transfer Hydrodynamic Simulations

Hui Tian, IRIS Observations of Magnetic Reconnection and Chromospheric Evaporation in a Solar Flare

Open Discussion

Tuesday, Nov. 4

Ben Lynch, On the Initiation of Coronal Mass Ejections, Their Evolution, and Propagation into the Heliosphere:  Recent progress and outstanding questions

Jie Zhang, Observational Signatures of CME Initiation and Eruption: Does Flux Rope Exist Prior to the Eruption?

Peter Schuck, Measuring Coronal Energy and Helicity Buildup with SDO/HMI

Kathy Reeves, Direct Observations of Reconnection Outflow and CME Triggering in a Small Solar Eruption Observed with IRIS, AIA and XRT

Christina Kay, Using Deflections to Constrain the Mass of CMEs: The 12 December 2008 Case

Splinter Session S-7 (1b).  Reconnection and Magnetic Instabilities in Geospace and Heliosphere

Tim Bastian, EUV and Radio Observations of an Eruptive Magnetic Flux Rope and Fast CME

Tamas Gombosi, End-toEnd Modeling of Space Weather Events with the Space Weather Modeling Framework

Splinter Session S-8 (4a).  Solar Origins of Variability in the Space Environment

Yusuke Iida, Investigation of Surface Magnetic Flux Transport by use of Hinode/SOT and SDO/HMI

Frank Eparvier, Sub-daily EUV Irradiance Variations

Richard Mewaldt, Variations in the Properties of Solar Energetic Particle Events over Recent Solar Cycles

Delores Knipp, Mission View of Field Aligned Currents from NASA's ST5 Spacecraft

Poster Session – P1/P2 (Monday/Tuesday group)
(featuring Plenary Sessions 4a, 4b)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Plenary Session 2a.  Evolving Coronal Mass Ejections from Corona, through the Heliosphere, into Geospace

William Abbett, Modeling the Convection Zone-to-Corona System over Global Spatial Scales

Rebekah Evans, The Interaction of Solar Eruptions and Large-Scale Coronal Structures Revealed Through Modeling and Observational Analysis

Mike Liemohn, Nonlinear Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in Near-Earth Space During an ICME-Driven Storm

Plenary Session 2b.  Dynamics of Energetic Particles, Wave-Particle Interactions, Shocks, Turbulence

Lynn Wilson, Collisionless Shock Waves and Wave-Particle Interactions

Open Discussion

Wednesday, Nov. 5

James Leake, The Role of the Chromosphere in the Energization of the Corona

Tetsu Anan, Observation of Velocity Differences between Neutral Atoms and Ions in Solar Chromosphere

Nicholas Murphy, Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas

Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Torsional Motions and Heating in the Disk Counterparts of Spicules

Hsiao-Hsuan Lin, Formation of the O I 135.56 nm and the C I 135.58 nm Lines

Open Discussion

Shin Toriumi, Magnetic Reconnection in Emerging Active Regions

Wei Liu, Correlated Quasi-periodic Fast-mode Magnetosonic Wave Trains and Flare Pulsations: Implications for Pulsed Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona

Maria Madjarska, IRIS Sub-Arcsecond Scale Observations of an Explosive Event

Tibor Tӧrӧk, What Can We Learn from MHD Simulations and Observations about the Initial Phase of Solar Eruptions?

Alphonse Sterling, Miniature Filament Eruptions and their Reconnections in X-Ray Jets:  Evidence for a new paradigm

Open Discussion

Splinter Session S-13 (4a).  Effects of Solar Variability at Earth

Liying Qian, Solar Flare Effects in the Thermosphere and the Ionosphere

Scott Bailey, Influence of Solar Flare Irradiance on Nitric Oxide in the Lower Thermosphere and Ionosphere

Katharine Duderstadt, Exploring Extreme Solar Proton Events, Their Possible Atmospheric Impacts, and Potential Paleoclimate Signatures

Rob Decker, Particle Acceleration at Shocks at 1 AU and Beyond

John Wygant, Van Allen Probe Observations of Electric Fields and Their Role in the Dynamics of the Inner Magnetosphere of the Earth and Energetic Particle Acceleration

Alexa Halford, BARREL Observations of a Solar Storm:  The Flare, The SEP, and the CME arrival at Earth

David Long, The Energetics of a Global Shock Wave in the Low Solar Corona

Poster Session – P3/P4 (Wednesday/Thursday group)
(featuring Plenary Sessions 1a, 1b)

Patrick Antolin, The Multi-Thermal and Multi-Strand Nature of Coronal Rain

Sean Brannon, Using IRIS to Constrain Flare Loop Properties in Simulations of Impulsive Conduction-Driven Evaporation

Deborah Baker, Challenging the FIP Bias Paradigm?

Chad Madsen, Investigating the Nature of Running Sunspot Waves with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Mats Carlsson, Heating Requirements of the Solar Chromosphere

Juan Martinez-Sykora, Numerical Simulations of Ion-Neutral Interaction Effects in the Solar Chromosphere

Wenbin Wang, How Does the Sun Drive the Dynamics of the Earth's Thermosphere and Ionosphere

Open Discussion

Plenary Session 3b.  Heliosphere-Magnetosphere Interactions from Bowshock to Geotail

Drew Turner, An Overview of Transient Ion Foreshock Phenomena and their Impacts on Earth's Magnetosphere

Tai Phan, Ion and Electron Bulk Heating in Magnetic Reconnection: Dependence on the Inflow Alfven Speed and Magnetic Shear Angle

Scot Elkington, Energy Transfer from the Heliosphere and the Dynamics of the Van Allen Radiation Belts

Geoff Reeves, The Complex Structure and Dynamics of the Inner Magnetosphere as Revealed by the Van Allen Probes Mission

Open Discussion

Networking Event / Student Awards
Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI)

Thursday, Nov. 6

Harry Warren, Empirical, Semi-Empirical, and Physical Models of Solar Irradiance Variability

Janet Luhmann, Toward Connecting the Sun-to-Earth Picture: What we can do today

Sasha Ukhorskiy, Global Variability of the Outer Radiation Belt: Highlights from Van Allen Probes

Jeff Newmark, NASA Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO)

Panel Discussion:  Using HSO to Improve Data-Driven Modeling in Heliophysics
Panel Members: Karel Schrijver, Nathan Schwadron, Kanya Kusano, Tamas Gombosi, K. D. Leka

Poster Session – P3/P4 (Wednesday/Thursday group)
(featuring Plenary Sessions 3a, 3b)

Splinter Session S-16 (1a).   Magnetic Energy and Field in the Heliosphere

Franco Rappazo, Equilibria, Current Sheet Formation and Heating of the Magnetically Confined Corona

Olga Panasenco, Magnetic Nature of Prominences and CMEs at Different Scales Throughout the Cycle

James Spann, On Remotely Measuring the Interplanetary Magnetic Field

Leif Svalgaard, The Heliomagnetic Field 1835-2014

Ilpo Virtanen, Magnetic Flux Density in the Inner and Outer Heliosphere

Splinter Session S-17 (2a).  Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections through the Heliosphere into Geospace

Robin Colaninno, Propagation and Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere; the STEREO-era

Nat Gopalswamy, Earth-Affecting Coronal Mass Ejections

Christina Cohen, Recent Results on the Longitudinal Distribution of Solar Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere

Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Gamma-rays, EUV Wave (Shock), and SEPs Associated with the M1.5 Behind-the-limb Flare on 2013-Oct-11

Tilaye Tadesse Asfaw, First use of Synoptic Vector Magnetograms for Global Nonlinear Force-Free Coronal Magnetic Field Models

Mark Cheung, Thermal Diagnostics with SDO/AIA: Applying a Validated Method to Studying Eruptive Active Regions

Ineke De Moortel, Joint SDO/AIA and IRIS Observations of Propagating Coronal Disturbances

Splinter Session S-19 (3a).  The Ionosphere:  Dynamics, energetics and ion-neutral effects

Scott England,Atmospheric Wave Impacts on the Ionosphere via Multiple Coupling Pathways

Hui Tian, Prevalence of Micro-jets from the Network Structures of the Solar Transition Region and Chromosphere

David Brooks, A Search for the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind using Full Sun Spectroscopic Observations from Hinode

Chloe Guennou, Elemental Abundances of Plume and Interplume Regions:  Identifying the coronal source of the fast solar wind

Len Culhane, Determining the Location of Open Magnetic Field Areas in Active Regions and their Potential as Sources of the Slow Solar Wind