THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

"SOLAR POLARIZATION"

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME


SUNDAY, 29th September
17:30-21:00 Registration
18:00-21:00 Welcome Cocktail
 
MONDAY, 30th September
08:45-09:00 Workshop Opening
SESSION 1: New Solar & Stellar Polarimeters (Chair: A Title)
09:00-09:30 First Results from the SOLIS Vector-Spectromagnetograph (C U Keller)
09:30-09:45 The New IZMIRAN Spectromagnetograph (B Ioshpa)
09:45-10:00 The Imaging Magnetograph Experiment for the Sunrise Balloon
(M Collados)
10:00-10:15 First Results from the HAO/NSO Diffraction-Limited Spectro-Polarimeter
(B W Lites)
10:15-10:30 First Results from the New Swedish Solar Telescope (G Scharmer)
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break and Poster Session
11:00-11:30 Spectropolarimetry in the Near Ultraviolet Part of the Solar Spectrum with ZIMPOL II 
(A Gandorfer)
11:30-11:45 High Resolution Spectropolarimetry at the TNG (F Leone)
11:45-12:15 Stellar Spectropolarimetry in ESPaDOnS (J F Donati)
12:15-12:30 Polarimetry with the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (C U Keller)
12:30-14:30 Poster Session and Lunch break
SESSION 2: Stokes Inversion Techniques and Strategies for Magnetic Field Diagnostics 
(Chair: J Sánchez Almeida)
14:30-15:15 Ghosts in the Machine: From Turbulence, Faces and Ducks to Solar Magnetic Fields 
(D Rees)
15:15-16:00 PCA Inversion of Stokes Profiles in Solar Prominences (R Casini)
16:00-16:30 Coffee-break and Poster Session
16:30-16:45 The Physical Content of the Leading Orders of Principle Component Analysis of Spectral Profiles (A Skumanich)
16:45-17:15 Hyperfine Structure as a Diagnostic Tool of Solar Magnetic Fields
(A López Ariste)
17:15-17:30 Diagnostics of Magnetic Field Meso-Structuring (J Staude)
17:30-17:45 Solar Vector Polarimetry with Filtergraph Instruments (J D Graham)
17:45-18:00 Phase Diversity Reconstruction of Long Time Series Observations at the SVST (J A Bonet)
 
TUESDAY, 1st October
SESSION 3: Chromospheric Magnetism (Chair: B W Lites)
09:00-09:45 Scattering Polarization in Magnetic Fields: Anomalies, Surprises, and Enigmas 
(J O Stenflo)
09:45-10:15 The Second Solar Spectrum in the UV (A Gandorfer)
10:15-10:30 Second Solar Spectrum THEMIS Observations (M Faurobert)
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break and Poster Session
11:00-11:45 "Zero-Field" Dichroism and Ground Level Polarization: 
A New Diagnostic Window on the Weak Magnetism of the Sun  (J Trujillo Bueno)
11:45-12:00 New Spectropolarimetric Observations in the He I 10830 Multiplet
(M Collados)
12:00-12:15 Understanding the Second Solar Spectrum of Ti I (R Manso Sainz)
12:15-12:30 Evolution of an Emerging Flux Region: Full Stokes Polarimetry with Chromospheric and Photospheric Infrared Lines (A Lagg)
12:30-14:30 Poster Session and Lunch break
SESSION 4: Laboratory Experiments and Molecular Spectropolarimetry
(Chair: M Faurobert)
14:30-15:15 Laboratory Optical Pumping Experiments in Atomic Gases (P J Nacher)
15:15-16:00 Resonance Polarization in Molecular Lines (E Landi Degl'Innocenti)
16:00-16:30 Coffee-break and Poster Session
16:30-17:15 Molecular Diagnostics of Solar Magnetic Fields (S V Berdyugina)
17:15-17:45 Chemical Evolution and Molecular Spectropolarimetry (A Asensio Ramos)
18:30-21:30 Visit to Bodegas Monje (including an informal dinner)
 
WEDNESDAY, 2nd October
SESSION 5: Photospheric Magnetism (Chair: J O Stenflo)
09:00-09:45 The Polarized Spectrum Emerging from Fast Dynamo Simulations 
(J Sánchez Almeida)
09:45-10:00 Magnetic Fields in the Quiet Sun (H Socas-Navarro)
10:00-10:15 Quiet-Sun Inter-network Magnetic Fields (E Khomenko)
10:15-10:30 Near-Limb Observations of Solar Magnetic Fields and some issues of their Interpretation (M L Demidov)
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break and Poster Session
11:00-11:15 Magnetic Elements Near the Solar Limb: Inversions based on a Flux Tube Model 
(S  Solanki)
11:15-12:00 The Fine Structure of Sunspot Penumbrae: from Observations to Realistic Physical Models (L  Bellot Rubio)
12:00-12:15 Spectroscopy and Polarimetry of Sunspots (K S Balasubramaniam)
12:15-12:30 Joint ASP/MDI/SOUP Observations of a Solar Active Region: Instrument Intercomparisons (T E Berger)
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-19:00 Option 1: Visit to Loro Parque

Option 2: Visit to THEMIS & VTT Telescopes at Teide Observatory

Option 3: Hike in the forest above La Orotava

Option 4: Free afternoon for relax

 
THURSDAY, 3rd October
SESSION 6: Generation and Transfer of Polarized Radiation
(Chair: E Landi Degl'Innocenti)
09:00-09:30 The Partial redistribution in the Atomic Density Matrix Formalism
(V Bommier)
09:30-10:00 Pali Methods for Polarized Line Formation (K N Nagendra)
10:00-10:30 Case Studies in Resonance Polarization and the Hanle Effect (M Landolfi)
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break and Poster Session
11:00-11:30 A Multilevel Radiative Transfer Program for Modelling Scattering Line Polarization and the Hanle and Zeeman Effects in Weakly Magnetized Stellar Atmospheres (R Manso Sainz)
11:30-11:45 Modelling Scattering Polarization (D M Fluri)
11:45-12:00 Depolarization of Spectral Lines by Collisions with Atomic Hydrogen: Semi-Classical Theory within the O'Mara's Interaction Potential (M Derouich)
12:00-12:15 Influence of Collisions and Magnetic Fields on the Polarization of the Na D1 and D2 Lines 
(J Klement)
12:15-12:30 A Detailed Investigation of the Kinetic Equilibrium of Sr and of Scattering Polarization in the Sr I 4607 Line (N Shchukina)
12:30-14:30 Poster Session and Lunch break
SESSION 7: Coronal Magnetic Fields and Solar Prominences (Chair: V Bommier)
14:30-15:15 Coronal Magnetism and MHD Models for Quiescent Prominences 
(A A van Ballegooijen)
15:15-15:45 Spectropolarimetry of Solar Prominences (F Paletou)
15:45-16:00 Spectropolarimetric Investigation of H-alpha Line Profiles in Moustaches
(L Kashapova)
16:00-16:30 Coffee-break and Poster Session
16:30-17:00 Towards the Measurement of Coronal Magnetic Fields (P Judge)
17:00-17:30 On the Coexistence of a Radial and Non Radial Component of the Magnetic Field in the Corona (S Habbal)
17:30-17:45 Impact Polarization as a Diagnostic Test for non Thermal Particles in Solar Flares 
(J C Hénoux)
17:45-18:00 Search for Impact Polarization in H-alpha Flares (M Bianda)
20:00-23:00 Closing Dinner at El Monasterio
 
FRIDAY, 4th October
SESSION 8: Stellar Spectropolarimetry (Chair: P Judge)
09:00-09:45 Spectropolarimetry of Magnetic Stars (S Bagnulo)
09:45-10:15 Six Years of Stellar Magnetic Field Studies with the MuSiCoS Spectropolarimeter at Pic du Midi Observatory (G Wade)
10:15-10:45 Magnetic Feedback on Stellar Convective Zones (J F Donati)
10:45-11:15 Coffee-break and Poster Session
11:15-11:45 Magnetic Doppler Imaging of Solar-Type Stars (N Piskunov)
11:45-12:00 Magnetic Doppler Imaging of Chemically Peculiar Stars (O Kochukhov)
12:00-12:30 Modelling Diffusion in Magnetic Stars: Zeeman Splitting and Radiative Accelerations 
(M  Stift)
12:30-14:30 Poster Session and Lunch break
SESSION 9: Future Horizons (Chair: S Solanki)
14:30-15:00 Space Instrumentation: What's Next? (A Title)
15:00-15:30 Spectro-polarimetric Observations: What's Next? (J O Stenflo)
15:30-16:00 Coffee-break and Poster Session
16:00-16:30 Theory of Polarization: What's Next? (E Landi Degl'Innocenti)
16:30-17:00 MHD Simulations: What's Next? (M Schüssler)
17:00-17:30 General Discussion
17:30-17:45 Workshop Closing

 
 

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