Solar and Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences
A meeting dedicated to
Brendan Byrne
Armagh 2-4th September 1998
Programme
| DAY 1 - Wed. 2nd September | |
| 08:30 Registration | |
| 09:00 Introduction | Mark Bailey |
| 09:05 Brendan P. Byrne (1947-1997) | Patrick Wayman |
| Magnetic Fields in the Sun and stars: Measurements | Chair: Eric Priest |
| 09:20 Magnetic fields in the HR Diagram | Jeff Linsky |
| 10:00 The dynamic nature of the solar magnetic field | Karel Schrijver |
| 10:40 Coffee break/Posters | |
| 11:10 Review of measurements on late-type stars | Jean-Francois Donati |
| 11:50 Magnetic Activity and Variability in Stellar Coronae (EUV) | Mihalis Mathioudakis |
| 12:30 Magnetic Activity and Variability in Stellar Coronae (X-rays) | Bob Stern |
| 13:00 Lunch/Posters | |
| Magnetic Fields in the Sun and stars: Evolution | Chair: Bob Stern |
| 14:30 Evolution of chromospheric activity in low mass stars, as revealed through studies of open clusters |
Suzanne Hawley |
| 15:15 Stellar clusters as viewed in the X-rays | Robin Jeffries |
| 16:00 Tea/Posters | |
| 16:45 Activity in pre-main sequence and very active stars | Fred Walter |
| 17:30 Finish | |
| DAY 2 - Thurs. 3rd September | |
| Physical Manifestations of Activity: Spots, plages & prominences |
Chair: Marcello Rodono |
| 09:00 Spots and Plages: The Solar Perspective | Sami Solanki |
| 09:40 Observations and modelling of starspots: a tool to understand stellar dynamos |
Antonino Lanza |
| 10:20 New perspectives on Solar Prominences | Brigitte Schmieder |
| 11:00 Coffee/Posters | |
| 11:30 Stellar prominences (observ. + modelling) | Andrew Collier Cameron |
| 12:10 Stellar Flares (observ. + modelling) | Bert van den Oord |
| 12:50 Lunch/Posters | |
| Physical Manifestations of Activity: Flares | Chair: Gordon Bromage |
| 14:00 The Nature of flares and flare-like phenomena on the Sun | Ken Phillips |
| 14:40 Dynamic Solar Flare Model Atmospheres | Bill Abbett |
| 15:20 Tea | |
| 15:45 Finish | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 Tree Dedication at Armagh Observatory | |
| DAY 3 - Fri. 4th September | Chromospheric and Coronal Dynamics | Chair: Jeff Linsky |
| 09:00 The Dynamical Structure of the Solar Chromosphere | Rob Rutten |
| 09:40 Theoretical chromospheric models | Peter Ulmschneider | 10:20 Two-Component Chromosphere Models for K Dwarf Stars |
Manfred Cuntz |
| 11:00 Coffee/Posters | |
| 11:40 Diagnostics of stellar chromospheres and Transition Regions |
Alessandro Lanzafame |
| Chromospheric and Coronal Dynamics | Chair: Suzanne Hawley |
| 12:30 How is the solar corona heated? | Eric Priest |
| 13:00 Lunch/Posters | |
| 14:30 X-ray coronae of stars: theory and observations | Roberto Pallavicini |
| 16:00 Tea/Posters | |
| 15:15 SOHO - where has the quiet Sun gone? | Helen Mason |
| 16:30 Activity in the Sun and late-type stars - similarities and differences (overall summary) |
Jeff Linsky |
| 17:00 Finish |
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