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
21 January 2005 Hugh Hudson Near-Infrared Observations at 1.56 Microns of the 2003 October 29 X10 White-Light Flare, Xu et al., ApJ 607 L131-134.
11 Feb 05 Dave Bercik Magnetic Field Generation in Fully Convective Rotating Spheres, Dobler, W., Stix, M., and Brandenburg, A. (arXiv:astro-ph/0410645 v1 27 Oct 2004).
01 Apr 05 Brian Welsch The Role of Magnetic Helicity in Coronal Mass Ejections, Phillips, MacNeice, and Antiochos, ApJ (submitted, 2005).
03 Jun 05 Brian Welsch AGU/SPD Meeting Recap, including Solar Fireworks
10 Jun 05 Brian Welsch Magnetic Flux Cancellation and Coronal Magnetic Energy
17 Jun 05 George Fisher "Dynamic Disco:" The Dynamical Disconnection of Sunspots from their Magnetic Roots, M. Schussler & M. Rempel.
28 Jul 05 N/A
(bring popcorn!)		 "Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides,"Alley Marshall (Virinia Tech) [WMV streaming A/V file]
26 Aug 05 S. T. Wu A Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Model of Active Region Evolution
02 Sep 05 H. Hudson Magnetic Topology of Impulsive and Gradual Solar Energetic Particle Events
16 Sep 05 informal The Betatron Effect in Collapsing Magnetic Traps
23 Sep 05 informal Discussion of Flare Reconnection Physics
30 Sep 05 informal Pulsed Particle Injection in a Reconnection-Driven Dynamic Trap Model in Solar Flares
07 Oct 05 informal Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Three Homologous Solar Flares Observed by RHESSI
14 Oct 05 Dietmar Krauss-Varban Flare ion and electron heating via low-beta reconnection
03 Dec 05 TBD The Nonpotentiality of Active-Region Coronae and the Dynamics of the Photospheric Magnetic Field, by C. J. Schrijver, M. L. DeRosa , A. M. Title , and T. R. Metcalf

Previous years' Friday Solar Lunches: 2002, 2003 2004

Group participants (and some who get e-mail) Name (username)
  1. Abbett, Bill(abbett)
  2. Bale, Stuart(bale)
  3. Bercik, Dave(bercik)
  4. Caspi, Amir(cepheid)
  5. Christe, Steve (schriste)
  6. Fisher, George(fisher)
  7. Hudson, Hugh (hugh)
  8. Hurford, Gordon (ghurford)
  9. Krauss-Varban, Dietmar (varban)
  10. Krucker, Sam(krucker)
  11. Larson, Davin (davin)
  12. Ledvina, Steve (ledvina)
  13. Lee, Christina (clee)
  14. Lin, Bob (boblin)
  15. Li, Yan (yanli)
  16. Luhmann, Janet (jgluhman)
  17. Lundquist, Loraine (loraine)
  18. McTiernan, Jim (jimm)
  19. Roth, Ilan (ilan)
  20. Shih, Albert (ayshih)
  21. Tokman, Mayya (mayya)
  22. Wang, Linghua (linghua)
  23. Welsch, Brian (welsch)
To add your name to this list, please e-mail e-mail Brian Welsch at "welsch" @ ssl berkeley edu .