Name: SolFER Spring 2021 Meeting
Start: 2021-05-24T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-05-26T15:40:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

SolFER Spring 2021 Meeting

from Monday, 24 May 2021 (10:00) to Wednesday, 26 May 2021 (15:40)

Monday, 24 May 2021

11:00 Welcome and introduction to the meeting
Welcome and introduction to the meeting
11:00 - 11:05
11:05 Fast Release Mechanisms
Fast Release Mechanisms
11:05 - 13:05
Contributions

11:05 A Review of the 0.1 Reconnection Rate Problem and its Implications - Michael Shay (University of Delaware)

11:30 Observational Constraints on Flare Energy Release - Jiong Qiu (Montana State University)

11:55 Plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection  in a low-β plasma - Seiji Zenitani

12:08 Trigger Shy: An Observational Study of a “Rosetta-Stone” Solar Eruption - Emily Mason (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

12:21 Statistical description of coalescing magnetic islands via magnetic reconnection - Muni Zhou (MIT)
13:05
13:05 - 13:45
Contributions

13:05 Evolution of an energy release during the partially occluded flare on 29th May 2020 according to microwave observations within 4-8 GHz - Larisa Kashapova (Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia)

13:05 Characterizing the spectral profiles of Mg II, C II and Si IV in solar flares - Soumya Roy (IUCAA)

13:05 Initiation of Coronal Mass Ejections and the Associated Solar Flares - Chunming Zhu (Montana State University)

13:05 Hot Onsets of Solar Flares - Hugh Hudson (UC Berkeley and University of Glasgow)

13:05 Quasi-Periodic Pulsations During the impulsive phase of a C1.8 Confined Flare - Yingjie Luo (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

13:05 Numerical Model on Dynamic Plasma Flows above Post-flare Loops - Chengcai Shen (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

13:05 Stratification of physical parameters in a C-class solar flare using multiline observations - Rahul Yadav (Institute for Solar Physics, Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)

13:05 Empirical atmosphere model in a mini flare during magnetic reconnection - Brigitte Schmieder (Observatoire de Paris) Reetika Joshi (Kumaun University)

13:05 Probing Current Sheet Instabilities from Flare Ribbon Dynamics - Ryan French (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)

13:05 Investigating Energy Release in Eleven NuSTAR Microflares - Jessie Duncan (University of Minnesota)

13:05 Polarization signatures during the X1.6 flare observed in NOAA 12192 - Fabiana Ferrente (Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana")

13:05 Magnetic Field Measurements of a Twisted Flux Rope in a Failed Solar Eruption - Yuqian Wei (New Jersey Institute of Tech)

13:05 Measuring Soft X-Ray Variability During the First Sounding Rocket Flare Campaign - Charles Kankelborg (Montana State University)

13:05 Three-dimensional reconnection in solar flares - Jaroslav Dudík (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

13:05 Linking flare ribbon features to tearing in the flare current sheet - Peter Wyper

13:05 Correlated spatiotemporal evolution of extreme-ultraviolet ribbons and hard X-rays in a solar flare - Stephen Naus (University of Maryland, Physics Department)
13:45 Onset of flare energy release
Onset of flare energy release
13:45 - 15:45
Contributions

13:45 Theory and Models of Flare/CME Onset - Mark Linton (US Naval Research Laboratory)

14:10 Observations of Flare (and CME) onset - Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)

14:35 Hot X-ray Onsets of Solar Flares - Paulo Simões (CRAAM/Mackenzie)

14:48 Temporal Evolution of the Guide Field in Eruptive Flares - Joel Dahlin (NASA GSFC)

15:01 Dynamic evolution of a solar flare current sheet - Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
11:00 Particle transport
Particle transport
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Energetic electron transport processes in solar flares - Natasha Jeffrey (Northumbria University)

11:25 Transport of particles in a turbulent solar corona - Loukas Vlahos (Aristotle Univesrity of Thessaloniki, Greece)

11:50 Evidence of chromospheric molecular hydrogen emission in a solar flare observed by the IRIS satellite - Sargam Mulay (University of Glasgow, UK)

12:03 Modeling Large-scale Electron Acceleration Associated with Magnetic Reconnection - Xiaocan Li (Dartmouth College)

12:16 Type III burst fine structure from Langmuir wave motion in turbulent plasma - Hamish Reid (University College London)
13:00
13:00 - 13:40
Contributions

13:00 Imaging evidence for solar wind outflows originating from a CME footpoint - Juraj Lorincik (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

13:00 Role of return current in maintaining a flare and energetic electron numbers - Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

13:00 The X8 limb flare SOL2017-09-10 observed at submillimeter - Guillermo Giménez De Castro (CRAAM/Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie)

13:00 Ion Energization During Macroscale Reconnection - Marc Swisdak (University of Maryland)

13:00 Reconnection Simulations of Impulsive Flare Events in the presence of Helium-3 and Helium-4 - Anna Fitzmaurice (University of Maryland College Park)

13:00 Fully Kinetic Simulations of Radio Emission from a Propagating Electron Beam - Tien Vo (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

13:00 A Field-line Braiding Model for Variable Ion Compositions of solar energetic particle (SEP) events in the inner heliosphere - FAN GUO (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:00 Temperature in Solar Sources of 3He-rich Solar Energetic Particles and Relation to Ion Abundances - Radoslav Bucik (Southwest Research Institute)

13:00 Scattering and transport of energetic electrons in solar flares - James Drake (University of Maryland, College park)

13:00 A Type III Radio Burst Event Observed Jointly by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array and the Parker Solar Probe - Meiqi Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

13:00 Solar radio zebra emission as a probe for the plasma properties during the solar flares - Jan Benacek (TU Berlin)

13:00 A multi-wavelength study of a X9.3-class chromospheric flare ribbon, and the overlooked line profiles it contains - Malcolm Druett (Stockholm University)

13:00 Role of suprathermal runaway electrons returning to the acceleration region in solar flares - Meriem Alaoui (CUA & NASA/GSFC)

13:00 Flare Energy Release and Helioseismic Response - Alexander Kosovichev (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

13:00 A systematic study of HXR flares and Metric type III radio bursts between 2002 and 2015 - Tomin James (Paris Observatory)
13:40 Ion acceleration during impulsive flares
Ion acceleration during impulsive flares
13:40 - 15:40
Contributions

13:40 3He-rich Solar Energetic Particle Events Observed on Solar Orbiter - George Ho (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

14:05 Efficient Nonthermal Ion and Electron Acceleration Enabled by the Flux-Rope Kink Instability in 3D Magnetic Reconnection - Qile Zhang (Los Alamos National Lab)

14:30 Data-based MHD-particle modelling of solar flares - Mykola Gordovskyy (University of Manchester)

14:43 The Evolution of Plasma Composition during a Solar Flare - Andy S.H. To (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL)

14:56 Solar-Flare Particle Acceleration And Interaction Studies Using Gamma Rays - GERALD SHARE (University of Maryland)
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
11:00 Electron Energization
Electron Energization
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Multi-wavelength observations of electron energization in solar flares - Marina Battaglia

11:25 Study of Time Evolution of Thermal and Non-Thermal Emission from the M-Class Solar Flare - Shunsaku Nagasawa (Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo)

11:38 Electron Acceleration in Solar Flare Reconnection - Harry Arnold

12:03 Modelling and detecting oscillations generated by magnetic reconnection in solar flares - Philippa Browning (Uni of Manchester)

12:16 Radio diagnostics of electron shock acceleration in the corona at LOFAR frequencies - Nicolina Chrysaphi (CNES - LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
13:00
13:00 - 13:40
Contributions

13:00 The Scaling of Electron Heating in Low-beta Reconnection Exhausts with Kinetic Reconnection Simulations - Qile Zhang (Los Alamos National Lab)

13:00 Thermal Analysis of the Plasma Sheet Region - Deondre Kittrell

13:00 Mid-IR observations of a C2 flare: Characterizing the flare dynamics at Chromospheric heights - Fernando Marcelo Lopez (Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics at Mackenzie)

13:00 What drives the hot solar corona? - Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

13:00 Multi-instrument STIX microflare study - Jonas Saqri (Institute of Physics, University of Graz)

13:00 Pitch-angle distributions of accelerated particles in 3D current sheets with magnetic islands - Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

13:00 Satellite mission: PhoENiX (Physics of Energetic and Non-thermal plasmas in the X (= magnetic reconnection) region) - Noriyuki Narukage (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

13:00 A Coronal Loop Braided by Realistic Photospheric Motions - Cosima Breu (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

13:00 Slow shocks and particle heating in impulsive solar flares - Harry Arnold

13:00 On the origin of sub-THz emission from solar flares - Victoria Smirnova (University of Turku)

13:00 Electron energy spectra during the different phases of magnetotail reconnection - Mitsuo Oka (University of California Berkeley)

13:00 Connecting chromospheric condensation signatures to reconnection driven heating rates in an X1.0 flare - William Ashfield (Montana State University)

13:00 Linking 3D and 1D computational models to follow evolution of heated coronal plasma - Jack Reid (University of St Andrews)

13:00 Study of shocks in solar corona in a superimposed radio continuum emission associated with CME - Ebenezer Chellasamy Edwin (Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

13:00 The role of whistler-mode waves in electron scattering: Comparison of Parker Solar Probe observations with particle tracing simulations - Cynthia Cattell (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)
13:40 Flare and nanoflare heating
Flare and nanoflare heating
13:40 - 15:40
Contributions

13:40 Physical constraints on energy release and heating in solar flares - Dana Longcope

14:05 Thermal-nonthermal energy partition in solar flares: current state and first results from STIX - Alexander Warmuth (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

14:18 A solar source of Alfvenic magnetic field switchbacks: pressure-balanced remnants of transition region structure on supergranulation scales - Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley)

14:31 Suprathermal electrons observed by MMS in the magnetotail: What can they teach us about flare electron energization? - Li-Jen Chen (NASA/GSFC)

14:56 He I 10830 Emission in Solar Flares - Graham Kerr (Catholic University of America / NASA GSFC)