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:
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Monday 11 July |
Tuesday 12 July |
Wednesday 13 July |
Thursday 14 July |
Friday 15 July |
<– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| 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) |
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| 15:00–15:30 | COFFEE BREAK (US) | |||||
| 15:30–17:00 | SunPy tutorial (US) |
EOVSA tutorial (US) |
Poster session (US) |
STIX imaging tutorial (US) |
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Detailed Schedule
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Monday, 11 July | <– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 | ||
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Tuesday, 12 July | <– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 15:00–15:30 | COFFEE BREAK (US) | ||
| US Session | |||
| 15:30–17:00 | Dale Gary – EOVSA tutorial | ||
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Wednesday, 13 July | <– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 15:00–15:30 | COFFEE BREAK (US) | ||
| US Session | |||
| 15:30–17:00 | Poster session – in person and online | ||
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Thursday, 14 July | <– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 | ||
| Day –> vvv Time (MDT) |
Friday, 15 July | <– Day Time (CEST) vvv |
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| European Session – Early-career talks (Chair: Hannah Collier) STIX analysis helpdesk – as needed, in breakout room |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 | |
| END | |||