Program

Monday, August 16

7:45
 Registration
8:40
 M. Hagan: Welcome to NCAR
8:45
 A. Bhattacharjee: "Welcome, Purpose, Plan, and Expected Outcome"
9:15
 R. Fisher: "Reflections on the Future of Our Science"
9:45
 R. Loft: "Meeting the Challenges of Provisioning High Performance Computing in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences"
10:45
 Coffee Break
11:00
 D. Baker: "Computation, Modeling and Data Exploration: Fundamental Pillars of Heliospheric Science"
12:00
 Lunch Break
1:30
 Solar WG (S. Antiochos, P. Judge, and K. Schrijver, Coordinators)
3:30
 Coffee Break
3:45
 Interplanetary WG (C. Cohen, J. Giacolone, and G. Zank, Coordinators)
5:45
 Poster Viewing
6:30
 Reception
8:00–9:30
 Joint Breakout Sessions for Solar and Interplanetary WGs

Tuesday, August 17

8:30
 Advanced Computation WG (W. Daughton and T. Gombosi, Coordinators)
10:30
 Coffee Break
10:45
 The Future of High-Performance Computing: Opportunities and Challenges (A. Kellie, Chair: "Introductory Remarks", 10:45–11:00) & (M. Snir: "From Petascale to Exascale: Technical and Social Impediments to High Performance Computing", 11:00–12:00)
12:00
 Lunch Break
1:30
 Magnetosphere WG (M. Moldwin, T. Onsager, and M. Wiltberger, Coordinators)
3:30
 Coffee Break
3:45
 Ionosphere-Thermosphere WG (P. Erickson and J. Huba, Coordinators)
5:45
 Poster Viewing
6:30
 Dinner Break
8:00–9:30
 Joint Breakout Session for Magnetosphere and Ionosphere-Thermosphere WGs

Wednesday, August 18

8:30
 Contributed Talks from the Community
(Each contribution is assigned 10 minutes: 8 minutes for talk & 2 minutes for questions.)
 
  • L. Lin: "Reduced MHD via GPGPU: Applications to Coronal Heating"
  • J. Ireland: "Future Directions in Solar Image Processing"
  • M. Rempel: "Numerical MHD Simulations with Radiative Transfer on the Scale of Sunspots and Beyond"
  • C. Downs: "Studying EUV wave transients with a digital laboratory: Direct comparison of EUV wave observations to global MHD simulations"
  • A. Kosovichev: "Needs of Numerical Simulations for Helioseismology"
  • J. Tu: "Toward a Global Kinetic Model for the Core Plasma in the Inner Magnetosphere"
  • V. Lukin: "Interfacing Advanced Numerical Algorithms with Physical Model Development for Efficient Heliophysical Applications"
  • G. Lapenta: "Bridging Kinetic and Fluid scales in Heliophysics"
10:00
 Coffee Break
10:15
 Open discussions
11:00
 Summaries from each WG
12:00
 A. Bhattacharjee: "Next Steps"
12:30
 End of Meeting

Poster Presentations:

  • M. Ashour-Abdalla: "The Location of Electron Acceleration during Magnetospheric Substorms"
  • J. Dorelli: "MHD Simulations on a GPU"
  • Y. Fan: "Modeling Solar Eruptions Driven by Magnetic Flux Emergence"
  • V. Hansteen: "Numerical simulations of chromospheric dynamics and coronal heating"
  • T. Hartlep: "3D simulations of helioseismic waves in global-Sun models"
  • K. Hayashi: "A three-dimensional MHD simulation of the solar wind in the heliosphere with time-varying observation-based inner-heliospheric boundary data"
  • I. Kitiashvili: "Realistic simulations of turbulent MHD processes on the Sun"
  • A. Lazarian: "Numerical Tests of 3D Magnetic Reconnection in the Presence of Turbulence"
  • N. Mansour: "Large-Scale Simulations of the Solar Interior"
  • N. Maruyama: "Numerical Modeling of SAPS and SEDs"
  • N. Nelson: "Magnetic Cycles and Buoyant Magnetic Structures in a Rapidly Rotating Sun"
  • J. Pap: "Evolution of Active Regions and Irradiance Variations: Results and Future Requirements"
  • K. Parchvesky: "Numerical Simulations of MHD Waves in Sunspots"