Program (Final)
The format of the summer school will incorporate both formal lectures and informal topical discussions and hands-on exercises with real helioseismology data.
Sunday (July 24):
17:00 -- 19:00: Evening Reception/Dinner at the Tree Plaza of the Mesa Lab (Bus pick-up at Courtyard by Marriott at 16:30)
Monday (July 25):
7:00 Bus transport from Courtyard to NCAR Foothills Lab 2
7:15 –- 8:15 breakfast
8:30 -- 8:40 (FL2 1022) Welcome (Tim Killeen)
8:40 –- 8:45 (FL2 1022) Opening remarks (Keith MacGregor)
8:45 -- 10:00 (FL2 1022)An overview of helioseismology and the school (John Leibacher) - presentation (pdf)
10:00 -- 10:30 refreshment
10:30 -- 12:00 (FL2 1022) The sun as a star, an overview of the the solar internal structure and evolution (J. Christensen-Dalsgaard). - abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (.ppt)
12:00 -- 12:30 getting lunch from FL cafeteria
12:30 -- 13:30 (FL2 COMET Class room) Lunch and tutorial on the solar cycle and solar dynamo (M. Dikpati) - abstract | presentation (pdf)
13:30 -- 14:00 break
14:00 -- 15:30 (FL2 1022) How to observe waves on the sun and other stars (Tim Brown) - presentation (pdf)
15:30 -- 16:00 refreshment
16:00 -- 17:00 (FL2 1022) A tutorial on solar convection (M. Miesch) - abstract | presentation (pdf)
17:30 Bus transport from NCAR Foothills Lab 2 to Courtyard
Tuesday (July 26):
8:30 -- 10:00 (FL2 1022) Theory of solar and stellar oscillations I
(J. Christensen-Dalsgaard) -
abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (.ppt)
10:00 -- 10:30 refreshment
10:30 -- 12:00 (FL2 COMET class room) Hands-on exercise: computing power spectra fro MDI and GONG data cubes (Doug Braun) - program/code with instruction (.gz)
12:00 -- 13:00 Lunch
13:00 -- 14:30 (FL2 1022) Theory of solar and stellar oscillations II (J. Christensen-Dalsgaard) - abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (ppt)
14:30 -- 15:00 refreshment
15:00 -- 16:30 (FL2 1022) Inferring solar internal structure and rotation from p-mode frequencies and frequency splittings I (Mike Thompson). abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (ppt)
17:30 Bus transport from NCAR Foothills Lab 2 to Courtyard
Wednesday (July 27):
7:00 Bus transport from Courtyard to NCAR Foothills Lab 2
7:15 –- 8:15 breakfast
8:30 -- 10:00 (FL2 1022) Inferring solar internal structure and rotation from p-mode frequencies and frequency splittings II (Mike Thompson) abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (ppt)
10:00 -- 10:30 refreshment
10:30 -- 11:20 (FL2 1022) Fluid motion and MHD in the solar convection zone and the Tachocline (Peter Gilman). - abstract | presentation (pdf)
11:20 -- 11:30 short break
11:30 -- 12:00 (FL2 1022) Measuring Meridional Circulation (Markus Roth). - abstract | presentation (pdf) | presentation (ppt)
12:00 -- 13:00 Lunch
13:00 -- 14:00 (FL2 1022) Time-distance helioseismology I (Alexander Kosovichev). - abstract | presentation (pdf)
14:00 -- 14:30 refreshment
14:30 -- 16:00 (FL2 COMET class room) Hands-on experiments with inversion (Mike Thompson) - program/code (.tar) | instructions (.doc)
16:00 -- 18:00 Volleyball (students VS lecturers)
18:30 Bus transport from NCAR Foothills Lab 2 to Courtyard
Thursday (July 28):
7:00 Bus transport from Courtyard to NCAR Foothills Lab 2
7:15 –- 8:15 breakfast
8:30 -- 10:00 (FL2 1022) Ring diagram analysis (Brad Hindman). - presentation (pdf)
10:00 -- 10:30 refreshment
10:30 -- 12:00 (FL2 1022) p-mode excitation, p-mode line shape (Mark Rast). - abstract | presentation (pdf) | .ppt presentation and movies (zip)
12:00 -- 13:00 lunch
13:00 -- 14:00 (FL2 1022) Time-distance helioseismology II (Alexander Kosovichev). - abstract | presentation (pdf)
14:00 -- 14:30 refreshment
14:30 -- 16:00 (FL2 COMET class room) Hands-on exercise with time-distance helioseismology (Aaron Birch and Junwei Zhao) - program/code (.gz) | instructions (pdf) | notes (pdf)
17:30 Bus transport from NCAR Foothills Lab 2 to Courtyard
Friday (July 29):
7:00 Bus transport from Courtyard to NCAR Foothills Lab 2
7:15 –- 8:15 breakfast
8:30 -- 10:00 (FL2 1022) Helioseismic holography (Doug Braun). - abstract | Presentation (pdf) | ppt Presentation w/movies (.zip)
10:00 -- 10:30 refreshment
10:30 -- 12:00 (FL2 1022) Probing sunspots and impact on space weather (Tom Bogdan) - presentation (pdf)
12:00 -- 13:00 Lunch
13:00 -- 14:30 (FL2 1022) Computational Asteroseismology (Travis Metcalfe). - abstract | presentation (pdf)
14:30 -- 15:00 break
15:00 -- 16:30 (FL2 1022) Future outlook: new observations and challenges (Juri Toomre)- presentation (pdf)
16:30 – 18:30 Party at FL2 Atrium
18:30 Bus transport from NCAR Foothills Lab 2 to Courtyard