Boulder Solar Alliance

Boulder Solar Day

Monday and Tuesday, March 17 - 18, 2008
NCAR/HAO, Center Green Campus

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MONDAY MARCH 17:    BOULDER SOLAR DAY -- NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus

8:00 -- 8:30 :

Poster Setup - (Auditorium Breakout)
Coffee - (lobby)

MORNING SESSION I

8:30 -- 8:35 :

Welcome, Joan Burkepile (HAO)
8:35 -- 8:45 :

Introduction to Boulder Solar Days, Tom Bogdan (NOAA)
8:45 -- 9:30 :

"Do you really want a Solar Cycle prediction?", Doug Biesecker (NOAA)
9:30 -- 10:15 :

"Observing Alfvènic Motions in the Solar Atmosphere", Scott McIntosh/Steve Tomczyk (HAO)
10:15 -- 10:45 :

Break

MORNING SESSION II

10:45 -- 11:30:

"Probing the Dynamic Solar Atmosphere with IBIS, Kevin Reardon (NSO, INAF)
11:30 -- 12:15 :

"The Visibility of the Chromosphere in Optical Diagnostics, Rob Rutten (NSO)
12:15 -- 1:45 :

LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:45 -- 2:30 :

"Fine structures of the low solar chromosphere", Friederich Woeger (NSO)
2:30 -- 3:15 :

"Latitudinal Variation in the Solar Intensity, Mark Rast (CU/LASP)
3:15 -- 4:00 :

"Prospects for the Detection of the Deep Solar Meridional Circulation", Doug Braun (NWRA/CoRA)
4:00 -- 6:00 :

POSTERS / RECEPTION
 

Keynote Talk

6:00 -- 7:00:

"National Solar Observatory Current and Future Tools for Ground-Based Observations of the Sun", Thomas Rimmele (NSO)
 

TUESDAY MARCH 18:    BOULDER SOLAR DAY -- NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus

MORNING SESSION I

9:00 -- 9:45 :

"Recent results from GONG++", Frank Hill (NSO)
9:45 -- 10:30 :

"Trends in Spectral Imaging", Craig DeForest (SwRI)
10:30 -- 11:00 :

BREAK
11:00 -- 11:45 :

"1.6 m New Solar Telescope in Big Bear", Phil Goode (NJIT)
11:45 :

Wrap-up, Gregg Kopp (CU LASP)

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