Schedule Overview

The schedule is now final!

The abstract book is now available! All poster and early-career talk abstracts are included. Abstracts for plenaries, scene-setting talks, and mission lightning talks will be added as they become available.

The block schedule is as follows. Scroll further for detailed daily schedules. You may also jump directly to detailed listings for each day with the following links:

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Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Monday
11 July
Tuesday
12 July
Wednesday
13 July
Thursday
14 July
Friday
15 July
<– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
STIX data/software
(Europe)
OSPEX tutorial
(Europe)
IDL imaging tutorial
(Europe)
Early-career talks
STIX analysis HelpDesk
(Europe)
10:00–12:00
LUNCH at FHNW Cafeteria (Europe) 12:00–13:30
On-site registration
(Europe)
FROM 15:00
Poster session
SSWIDL HelpDesk
(Europe)
Python spectroscopy tools
(Europe)
Python imaging tutorial
(Europe)
Early-career talks
STIX analysis HelpDesk
(Europe)
13:30–15:30
COFFEE BREAK (Europe) or BREAKFAST (US) 15:30–16:00
08:00–09:00 Plenary
(Welcome, STIX updates, white papers)
Plenary
(RHESSI, EOVSA, XRT, MinXSS updates)
Plenary
(Invited talk, new mission lightning talks)
Plenary
(Invited talk, new mission lightning talks)
Plenary:
TS 5
16:00–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
09:15–10:30 Plenary:
TS 1
Plenary:
TS 2
Plenary:
TS 3
Plenary:
TS 4
Plenary:
TS 5
17:15–18:30
10:30–10:45 COFFEE BREAK 18:30–18:45
10:45–12:00 Plenary:
TS 1
Plenary:
TS 2
Plenary:
TS 3
Plenary:
TS 4
END 18:45–20:00
12:00–13:30 Lunch (US)
Welcome Reception (Europe – to 21:00)
LUNCH (US) or DINNER on your own (Europe) 20:00–21:30
13:30–15:00 Hinode/XRT tutorial
(US)
Early-career talks
(US)
MinXSS tutorial
(US)
OSPEX tutorial
(US)
15:00–15:30 COFFEE BREAK (US)
15:30–17:00 SunPy tutorial
(US)
EOVSA tutorial
(US)
Poster session
(US)
STIX imaging tutorial
(US)

 

Detailed Schedule

Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Monday, 11 July <– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
Europe:
On-site Registration
FROM 15:00
15:00–15:30
07:30–08:00 US:
CATERED BREAKFAST
15:30–16:00
Plenary Session
(Chair: TBD)
08:00–09:00 Amir Caspi – Welcome
Säm Krucker – STIX updates
Albert Y. Shih – White papers for the Decadal Survey
16:00–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
Plenary – Topical Session 1.1
Energy storage and release – e.g., reconnection, eruption initiation
(Chairs: Joel Dahlin, Alexander Warmuth)
09:15–10:30 Spiro Antiochos – scene-setting: Models for Energy Storage and Explosive Release
Guided Discussion
17:15–18:30
10:30–10:45 COFFEE BREAK 18:30–18:45
Plenary – Topical Session 1.2
Energy storage and release – e.g., reconnection, eruption initiation
(Chairs: Joel Dahlin, Alexander Warmuth)
10:45–12:00 Jiong Qiu – scene-setting: Observing magnetic reconnection during, and prior to, solar eruptions
Guided Discussion
18:45–20:00
12:00–13:00 US:
CATERED LUNCH
Europe:
WELCOME RECEPTION
20:00–21:00
13:00–13:30
US Session
13:30–15:00 Lucas Guliano – Hinode/XRT tutorial
15:00–15:30 COFFEE BREAK (US)
US Session
15:30–17:00 Will Barnes – SunPy tutorial

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Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Tuesday, 12 July <– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
European Session
Shane Maloney – STIX overview
Shane Maloney – Data formats and data access
Shane Maloney – Overview of available software tools
Hualin Xiao – How to use the STIX webpage
10:00–12:00
LUNCH at FHNW Cafeteria (Europe) 12:00–13:30
European Session
Poster session – in person and online
SSWIDL HelpDesk – as needed, in breakout room
13:30–15:30
07:30–08:00 US:
CATERED BREAKFAST
Europe:
COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:00
Plenary Session
(Chair: TBD)
08:00–09:00 Brian Dennis / Albert Y. Shih – RHESSI updates
Dale Gary – EOVSA updates
Kathy Reeves – Hinode/XRT updates
Amir Caspi – MinXSS updates
16:00–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
Plenary – Topical Session 2.1
Energy conversion – e.g., particle acceleration (electrons and ions) and plasma heating
(Chairs: Andy Inglis, Natasha Jeffrey)
09:15–10:30 Eduard Kontar – scene-setting: Non-thermal electrons in solar flares
Guided Discussion
17:15–18:30
10:30–10:45 COFFEE BREAK 18:30–18:45
Plenary – Topical Session 2.2
Energy conversion – e.g., particle acceleration (electrons and ions) and plasma heating
(Chairs: Andy Inglis, Natasha Jeffrey)
10:45–12:00 Lindsay Glesener – scene-setting: Plasma heating in solar flares
Guided Discussion
18:45–20:00
12:00–13:30 US:
LUNCH on your own
Europe:
DINNER on your own
20:00–21:30
US Session – Early-career talks
13:30–15:00 Savannah Perez-Piel – Submerged Acoustic Sources: The SOL20140207T10:28 Study Case
Cole Tamburri – Case study analysis of solar flare development patterns with impulsiveness, ribbon morphology, and simulation
Yixian Zhang – Observations of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration locations in solar coronal jets
Will Ashfield – A Model for gradual phase heating driven by MHD turbulence in solar flares
Bennet Schwab – Modeling Abundance Evolution During Solar Flares with Soft X-ray Spectra
Crisel Suarez – Solar flare elemental abundance deviations obtained by the MinXSS-1 CubeSat mission
Sherry Chhabra – Probing the Solar SXR Background Emission with Chandrayaan-2 XSM
Milo Buitrago-Casas – The Quad-Timepix/Timepix3 Detector: A novel solution for coming solar high energy space experiments
15:00–15:30 COFFEE BREAK (US)
US Session
15:30–17:00 Dale Gary – EOVSA tutorial

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Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Wednesday, 13 July <– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
European Session
Ewan Dickson – Spectral fitting in IDL with OSPEX
Ewan Dickson – Plotting light curves
10:00–12:00
LUNCH at FHNW Cafeteria (Europe) 12:00–13:30
European Session
Dan Ryan – Spectroscopy tools in python 13:30–15:30
07:30–08:00 US:
CATERED BREAKFAST
Europe:
COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:00
Plenary Session
(Chair: TBD)
08:00–08:30 Invited Talk:
Jim Drake
– Organizing disparate communities to address the challenges of flare energy release: the SolFER model
16:00–16:30
08:30–09:00 New Missions (lightning talks):
Milo Buitrago-Casas
– FOXSI-4
P.S. Athiray – MaGIXS-2
Phil Chamberlin – SNIFS
Pascal Saint-Hilaire – GRIPS
Albert Y. Shih – COSI
Hamish Reid – SPARK
Yang Su – ASO-S
16:30–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
Plenary – Topical Session 3.1
Energy transport – probing high energy solar phenomena using remote sensing and in situ diagnostics
(Chairs: Sophie Musset, Yeimy Rivera)
09:15–10:30 Hamish Reid – scene-setting: Accelerated Electrons Escaping the Sun
Guided Discussion
17:15–18:30
10:30–10:45 COFFEE BREAK 18:30–18:45
Plenary – Topical Session 3.2
Energy transport – probing high energy solar phenomena using remote sensing and in situ diagnostics
(Chairs: Sophie Musset, Yeimy Rivera)
10:45–12:00 George Ho – scene-setting: Energetic and Suprathermal Particle Measurement at the Inner Heliosphere
Guided Discussion
18:45–20:00
12:00–13:30 US:
CATERED LUNCH
Europe:
DINNER on your own
20:00–21:30
US Session
13:30–15:00 Crisel Suarez — MinXSS and DAXSS Data Products, Data Access in python and IDL
Anant Kumar — DAXSS Data Analysis and Spectral Fitting with Python (PySPEX)
Bennet Schwab – MinXSS/DAXSS Data Analysis and Spectral Fitting with IDL
15:00–15:30 COFFEE BREAK (US)
US Session
15:30–17:00 Poster session – in person and online

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Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Thursday, 14 July <– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
European Session
Andrea Battaglia – Imaging concept including STIX imaging FOVs
Anna Volpara – Imaging with different algorithms
Hualin Xiao – Web imaging tool
Manuel Stutz – Heliostreamer3D
10:00–12:00
LUNCH at FHNW Cafeteria (Europe) 12:00–13:30
European Session
Shane Maloney – Python imaging tools
Shane Maloney – Reprojection to Solar Orbiter viewing angle
13:30–15:30
07:30–08:00 US:
CATERED BREAKFAST
Europe:
COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:00
Plenary Session
(Chair: TBD)
08:00–08:30 Invited Talk:
Kathy Reeves
– Small Flares and Big Eruptions: First Results from the HSO Connect Eruptions Project
16:00–16:30
08:30–09:00 New Missions (lightning talks):
William Setterberg
– IMPRESS
Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros – PADRE
Amir Caspi – CubIXSS
James P. Mason – SunCET
Kathy Reeves – ECCCO
Bin Chen – FASR
Mitsuo Oka – PhoENiX
16:30–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
Plenary – Topical Session 4.1
Unified “systems science” – bridging high-energy and other solar subfields
(Chairs: Bin Chen, Laura Hayes)
09:15–10:30 Vanessa Polito – scene-setting: UV spectroscopy and models of solar flares
Graham Kerr, Sijie Yu – Guided Discussion
17:15–18:30
10:30–10:45 COFFEE BREAK 18:30–18:45
Plenary – Topical Session 4.2
Unified “systems science” – bridging high-energy and other solar subfields
(Chairs: Bin Chen, Laura Hayes)
10:45–12:00 Fan Guo – scene-setting: Numerical Modeling of Particle Acceleration and Emissions during Solar Eruptions in the Imaging Spectroscopy Era
Ryan Milligan, Diana Morosan – Guided Discussion
18:45–20:00
12:00–13:30 US:
LUNCH on your own
Europe:
DINNER on your own
20:00–21:30
US Session
13:30–15:00 Ewan Dickson – OSPEX tutorial
15:00–15:30 COFFEE BREAK (US)
US Session
15:30–17:00 Paolo Massa – STIX imaging tutorial

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Day –>
vvv Time (MDT)
Friday, 15 July <– Day
Time (CEST) vvv
European Session – Early-career talks
(Chair: Hannah Collier)
STIX analysis helpdesk
– as needed, in breakout room
Sarah Paterson – NuSTAR Observations of Small-Scale Phenomena in the Quiet Sun
Kristopher Cooper – NuSTAR observations of a repeatedly microflaring active region
Zhentong Li – Detailed energy release in a microflare and the status of ASO-S/HXI payload
Mithun N. P. S. – Soft X-ray spectroscopy of sub-A class to X class flares with Chandrayaan-2 XSM
Malte Broese – Temperature and differential emission measure evolution of a limb flare on 13 January 2015
Michalina Litwicka – How precisely we can determine the thermal energy of weak flares based on STIX images?
Fanxiaoyu Xia – Evidence of energy cutoffs in flare-accelerated electrons
10:00–12:00
LUNCH at FHNW Cafeteria (Europe) 12:00–13:30
European Session – Early-career talks
(Chair: Andrea Battaglia)
STIX analysis helpdesk
– as needed, in breakout room
Morgan Stores – X-ray Diagnostics of Spatially Extended Turbulent Electron Acceleration and Transport in Solar Flares
Meriem Alaoui – Limiting regimes of the solar flare accelerated electron beam/return current system: Toward a self-consistent model of electron propagation
Anna Volpara – Parametric imaging for STIX: global search methods
Sabrina Guastavino – A video-based CNN for flare forecasting
Devojyoti Kansabanik – New prospects of combined space weather research with high fidelity low-frequency spectro-polarimetric imaging and Aditya-L1 mission
13:30–15:30
07:30–08:00 US:
CATERED BREAKFAST
Europe:
COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:00
Plenary – Topical Session 5.1
Plasma physics throughout the Universe – solar/astro and solar/planetary connections
(Chairs: Julie Vievering, Astrid Veronig)
08:00–09:00 Rachel Osten – scene-setting: Connecting the Sun and Heliosphere with Stars, Planets, and Beyond
Guided Discussion
16:00–17:00
09:00–09:15 COFFEE BREAK 17:00–17:15
Plenary – Topical Session 5.2
Plasma physics throughout the Universe – solar/astro and solar/planetary connections
(Chairs: Julie Vievering, Astrid Veronig)
09:15–10:45 Mitsuo Oka – scene-setting: Electron acceleration in solar and space plasmas
Guided Discussion
17:15–18:45
10:45–11:00 Amir Caspi, Säm Krucker – Wrap-up, thanks, adjournment 18:45–19:00
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