SSL's Friday Solar Lunch (FSL) Journal Club

Time: every Friday, 12 noon - 1 p.m.

Place: nominally, Silver Lab, Room 247; for special occasions, the Addition Conference Room or Addition Library.

Coordinator: Brian Welsch, who can be e-mailed via welsch at ssl, berkeley, edu.


With this informal weekly discussion, devoted to theoretical and observational research topics in solar and solar-terrestrial physics, we keep abreast of progress by our own reasearchers and others in the field.

Rotating discussion leaders either outline their current work --- even if only half-baked! --- or review journal articles and preprints by other researchers. Visitors are encouraged to lead a discussion about their work.

For talks about work in progress, topics can range from science & results, to ideas for proposals, to more mundane issues --- algorithms we are developing or applying, data reduction techniques, etc. (Discussion of unsolved problems is encouraged!)

The default weekly meeting, typically over pizza, consists of an hour's off-the-cuff discussion using white boards and, occasionally, a laptop projector to show images and movies. (PowerPoint is, however, Verboten! [Except by special arrangement, or bribery.])

Reviewed journal articles might be chosen from the list of Suggested Titles.

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
24 February 2006 --- Recap of HMI/AIA Science Team Meeting
03 Mar 06 Brian Welsch Longitudinal Magnetic Field Changes Accompanying Solar Flares, Sudol & Harvey, ApJ 635, 647-658.
10 Mar 06 Hugh Hudson Emslie et al. on energy partition in flares & CMEs.
17 Mar 06 Charlie Lindsay (CoRA/NWRA) Acoustic Emission from Solar Flares
24 Mar 06 No Solar Lunch Bill Abbett delivers CISM Seminer, Thurs. 23 March, 10:00 a.m.
31 Mar 06 No Solar Lunch Cesar Chavez Day
07 Apr 06 Bill Abbett Data-Driven MHD Models of Active Region Coronal Fields
14 Apr 06 --- "Is There a Chromospheric Footprint of the Solar Wind?", McIntosh, S. W. and Leamon, R. J., ApJ 624, pp. L117-L120.
21 Apr 06 Organizer skipped town to go skiing! N/A
28 Apr 06 Many participants away. N/A
05 May 06 Forrest Mozer Collisionless Magnetic Field Reconnection From First Principles: What It Can and Cannot Do
12 May 06 Kumar Chitre The Inconstant Sun: Solar Cycle Variations Inferred from Helioseismic Data
19 May 06 Peter Beiersdorfer Possibilities for Coronal Magnetic Field Measurements via EUV & X-Ray Spectroscopy
26 May 06 No Seminar Pre-Memorial Day
02 Jun 06 No Seminar Organizer on leave.
09 Jun 06 Mike Wheatland A Fast Current-Field Iteration Method for Calculating Nonlinear Force-Free Fields
23 Jun 06 No Seminar. Hurried preparations for Solar Physics Division (SPD) meeting!
30 Jun 06 No seminar. SPD Meeting!
07 Jul 06 No seminars for the duration of summer --- it's proposal writing season!
28 Jul 06 No seminar. Preparation for SHINE Meeting.
04 Aug 06 No seminar. SHINE Meeting!
08 Sep 06 Bill "On the Availability of Sufficient Twist in Solar Active Regions to Trigger the Kink Instability,"K.D. Leka et al.
15 Sep 06 Hugh "Fast coronal mass ejection environments and the production of solar energetic particle events," by Kahler & Vourlidas (2005).
22 Sep 06 Brian Comparison of Magnetic Flux Distribution between a Coronal Hole and a Quiet Region
29 Sep 06 Brian "On the Relation between Reconnected Magnetic Flux and Parallel Electric Fields in the Solar Corona," Hesse, Forbes, and Birn
06 Oct 06 - No Solar Lunch! Research planning meeting.
13 Oct 06 Brian Models of the Large-Scale Corona. I. Formation, Evolution, and Liftoff of Magnetic Flux Ropes, by Mackay and van Ballegooijen
20 Oct 06 Brian Moving Magnetic Features around Sunspots, Hagenaar & Shine
27 Oct 06 Bill ERUPTION OF A BUOYANTLY EMERGING MAGNETIC FLUX ROPE, Manchester et al., ApJ, v.610, p. 588.
01 Nov. 06 Brian Special Wednesday Edition! 2006 PROM Meeting recap
10 Nov. 06 No Seminar Veterans Day Holiday
17 Nov. 06 No Seminar Organizer in Japan, and others were lazy!
24 Nov. 06 No Seminar Thanksgiving Holiday
01 Dec. 06 Hugh & Brian Open discussion of flare-related changes in vector magnetograms, in preparation for RAS Discussion Meeting on "Linkages Between the Solar Interior and Atmosphere."
08 Dec. 06 No Seminar Preparation for Fall AGU Meeting.
15 Dec. 06 No Seminar Fall AGU Meeting.
22 Dec. 06 No Seminar Break for Holidays
29 Dec. 06 No Seminar Break for Holidays

Previous years' Friday Solar Lunches: 2002, 2003 2004 2005


Group participants (and some who get e-mail) Name (username)
  1. Abbett, Bill(abbett)
  2. Alexander, David (Rice U)
  3. Bale, Stuart (bale)
  4. Beiersdorfer, Peter (beiersdorfer)
  5. Bercik, Dave (bercik)
  6. Berger, Tom (LMPARL)
  7. Caspi, Amir(cepheid)
  8. Christe, Steve (schriste)
  9. Eastwood, Jonathan (eastwood)
  10. Fisher, George (fisher)
  11. Fivian, Martin (mfivian)
  12. Hannah, Iain (hannah)
  13. Hudson, Hugh (hugh)
  14. Hurford, Gordon (ghurford)
  15. Krauss-Varban, Dietmar (varban)
  16. Krucker, Sam (krucker)
  17. Larson, Davin (davin)
  18. Ledvina, Steve (ledvina)
  19. Lee, Christina (clee)
  20. Lin, Bob (boblin)
  21. Li, Yan (yanli)
  22. Luhmann, Janet (jgluhman)
  23. Lundquist, Loraine (loraine; SAO/CfA)
  24. McTiernan, Jim (jimm)
  25. Roth, Ilan (ilan)
  26. Salem, Chadi (salem)
  27. Saint-Hilaire, Pascal (shilaire)
  28. Shih, Albert (ayshih)
  29. Tokman, Mayya (mayya; UC-Merced)
  30. Wang, Linghua (linghua)
  31. Welsch, Brian (welsch)
  32. Yang, Ya-Hui (yhyang)
To add your name to this list, please e-mail e-mail Brian Welsch at "welsch" @ ssl berkeley edu .