Monday | South Hall | Common Room | ||
14:00 - 17:15 | MIST | Speaker | UKSP | Speaker |
14:00 | Welcome | Alan Thomson | Welcome | Lyndsay Fletcher |
14:05 | A New Artificial Aurora Experiment Using VLF-Induced Particle Precipitation | M.J. Kosch | Helioseismology - a BiSON perspective | Y. Elsworth |
14:20 | Radar Experiments With The Eiscat HF Facility | F. Honary | ||
14:35 | Comparison Of The Characteristic Energy Of Precipitating Electrons Derived From Ground-Based And Dmsp Satellite Data | M. Ashrafi | Time-Distance Helioseismology of Sunspots | S. Hughes |
14:50 | Drift Of Auroral Absorption | R. A. Makarevitch | Resonant Coupling of Non-parallel Global Oscillations | B. Pinter |
15:05 | Statistical Study Of Night-Time Spike Events | A. Aminaei | The Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Acoustic Power at the surface of the sun as analysed by MDI | C. J. Nicholas |
15:20 | Comparisons Of The Plasmaspheric Ions With The CTIP Model And EUV Data From The Image Satellite | Stuart Thom | ||
15:35 -16:00 | Break | Break | ||
16:00 | Substorm Dependence Of Plasmaspheric Hiss | N.P. Meredith | A Review of the Solar Dynamo | D. Hughes |
16:15 | Ground Observations Of Chorus Before, During And After Geomagnetic Storms | A.J. Smith | ||
16:30 | The Heliospheric Current Sheet At Solar Maximum | S. R. Child | Ultra-efficient Tracking of Photospheric Flows |
H. E. Potts |
16:45 | Modelling Mercury's Magnetosphere | James Scuffham | The Role of Transport in Solar and Stellar Dynamos | S. Tobias |
17:00 | Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Currents In Jupiter’s Middle Magnetosphere: Effect Of Precipitation-Induced Enhancements Of The Ionospheric Pedersen Conductivity | J.D. Nichols | ||
17:15 | A New Global Model Of Saturn's Magnetospheric Field | Christopher Arridge | ||
Evening | ||||
18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner | |||
19:30 - 20:30 | Icebreaker in South Hall | |||
Tuesday | South Hall | Common Room | ||
09:00 - 12:30 | MIST | Speaker | UKSP | Speaker |
09:00 | Waves Observed In A Perturbed Magnetosheath | I. Bates | Oscillations and Dynamics of the Lower Atmosphere | R. Erdelyi |
09:15 | Simultaneous In-Situ Observations Of The Signatures Of Dayside Reconnection At The High And Low Latitude Magnetopause | J.A. Wild | ||
09:30 | Multi-Instrument Observations Of Bursty Bulk Flows In The Near-Earth Plasma Sheet | A. Grocott | Dynamic Properties of Solar Spicules Observed by SUMER/SOHO | L. D. Xia |
09:45 | Cluster Peace Observations Of Electron Distributions In And Around Magnetotail Flux Ropes | C.J. Owen | Wave Damping in Solar Prominences | I. Ballai |
10:00 | A Structured Magnetospheric Cusp Observed By Cluster During A Geomagnetic Storm | N. Balan | Low Atmospheric Signature of the Fast Solar Wind in Coronal Holes | M. D. Popescu |
10:15 | Simultaneous Interhemispheric Observations Of The Cusp | Atousa Goudarzi | Coronal Bright Points and the Chromospheric Network: Oscillations Link? | I. Ugarte-Urra |
10:30 - 11:00 | Break | Break | ||
11:00 | Magnetosheath Neutral Atom Observations And The Relationship With Radar Backscatter In The Cusp – Combined Observations From Image Lena And Superdarn | H. Khan | Slow Wave Propagation in a 2D Coronal Loop Model (tbc) | I. De Moortel |
11:15 | Superdarn Spectral Width Boundaries With DMSP Particle Precipiation Proxies For The Open-Closed Field Line Boundary | G. Chisham | ||
11:30 | A Large Scale ULF Wave Observed In The Dawn Sector Magnetosphere Using The Superdarn HF Radars | L J Baddeley | Turbulent Alfven wave-driven Coronal Loops: a Two Fluid Model | I. J. O'Neill |
11:45 | A Statistical Investigation Of Magnetospheric Particle Populations Overlying Spear | M.E. Wilson | Modelling Standing Slow-mode Oscillations in Stratified Coronal Loops | Y. Taroyan |
12:00 | Mapping Fractal Structures To The Ionosphere | Iain Coleman | Short-Period MHD Waves in Coronal Structures | V. M. Nakariakov |
12:15 | Is Phase Mixing a Viable Mechanism of Damping of Kink
Oscillations of Coronal Loops |
M. Ruderman | ||
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | ||
Tuesday | South Hall | |||
13:30- 17:30 | Joint MIST/UKSP | Speaker | ||
13:30 | Review of Waves in the Solar Corona | A. Hood | ||
14:00 | Oscillations in Hydrogen Ly Alpha Intensity observed by UVCS/SoHO | H. Morgan | ||
14:20 | An investigation of the field-aligned current associated with a large-scale ULF wave using Cutlass and FAST data | H. Scoffield | ||
14:40 | Timescale for Electron Acceleration by Whistler Mode Waves in the Earth's Radiation Belts | R. Horne | ||
15:00 | Electron Scattering and Loss in the Earth's Magnetosphere using a new pitch-angle and energy diffusion code | S. Glauert | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Break | |||
16:00 | Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere - Problems, Progress and Perspective | M. Freeman | ||
16:30 | The Structure of 3D magnetic reconnection |
D. Pontin | ||
16:50 | Anomalous resistivity and the non-linear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability | P. Petkaki | ||
17:10 | Proton versus Electron Heating in Solar Flares | V. Zharkova | ||
Evening | ||||
18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner | |||
18:00 - 20:00 | "MIST Cup" at Pleasance Sports Hall | |||
Wednesday | South Hall | Common Room | ||
09:00 - 12:30 | MIST | Speaker | UKSP | Speaker |
09:00 | Scaling Laws in Magnetic Active Regions (review) | R. Jain | ||
09:15 | The Ionospheric Effects Of 2 Large X-Class Solar Flares | Mathew Beharrell | ||
09:30 | The Dayside, High-Latitude F-Region Trough Under Quiet Geomagnetic Conditions | K L Dewis | Determining the Spatial Variation of the Local Coronal Heating Function: Comparison of SoHO/CDS Observations and Modelling of Electron Density along a Coronal Loop | R. W. Walsh |
09:45 | Why Is There More Ionosphere In January Than In July? | Henry Rishbeth | Localized Heating, Siphon Flow and Shocks in Coronal Loops | X. Li |
10:00 | Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes From Halley, Antarctica | Martin Jarvis | RHESSI microflare Statistics | I. G. Hannah |
10:15 | Remote Sensing Of The Natural Atmospheric Electrodynamic Environment | Martin Füllekrug | Non-Equilibrium Ion Populations and the Consequences for
Observable Quantities |
S. Bradshaw |
10:30 - 11:00 | Break | Break | ||
11:00 | Thunderstorms And Sporadic E | Chris Davis | New Insights into Stellar Coronae with XMM-Newton and
CHANDRA |
H. Kay |
11:15 | Numerical Modelling Of VLF Perturbations Near The Antarctic Peninsular | D. Nunn | ||
11:30 | INTERMAGNET: Worldwide Near-Real-Time Magnetic Observatory Data For Space Weather Research And Services | David Kerridge | A Quantitative Method to Optimise Magnetic Field Line Fitting of Observed Coronal Loops Observable Quantities | L. Carcedo |
11:45 | Reconstructing The Long-Term aa Index | Mark Clilverd | Large-Scale Structure of the Fast Solar Wind During the Last Solar Minimum from EISCAT IPS Measurements | M. Bisi |
12:00 | Co-Estimation Of Internal And External Geomagnetic Fields For 2001 | Susan Macmillan | Detection of Silicon Nanoparticle Dust Grains in the Inner Corona | S. Habbal |
12:15 | MIST Announcements | Andy Smith | ||
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | ||
Wednesday | South Hall | |||
13:30 - 17:30 | Joint MIST/UKSP | Speaker | ||
13:30 | Recent and Current Work of the PPARC Science Committee | M. Ward | ||
14:00 | Cluster after 3 years |
P. Cargill | ||
14:30 | Sampling a Coronal Mass Ejection at the Sun and Earth | A. Fazakerly L. Culhane | ||
15:00 | EISCAT observations of interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections | R. Jones | ||
15:20 | Ionospheric scintillations at high latitudes during the storm of October 2003 | C. Mitchell | ||
15:40 - 16:00 | Break | |||
16:00 | Satellite Vulnerability to Geomagnetic Storms | R. Horne | ||
16:20 | International Heliophysical Year 2007 |
R. Harrison | ||
16:40 | EGSO: Solving Science Use Cases That Relate To The Sun And Heliosphere | R. D. Bentley | ||
17:00 | Predicting the Next Solar Cycle | B. Bromage | ||
17:20 | Astrogrid: Developing the UK's virtual Observatory, New Capabilities for the MIST and UKSP communities | N. Walton | ||
Evening | ||||
19:00 - 24:00 | Conference Dinner and Ceilidh in South Hall | |||
Thursday | South Hall | |||
09:00-10:00 | Poster Session | |||
A Survey Of Flux Transfer Events Observed By Cluster | R.C. Fear | |||
A Cutlass Multi Frequency Study Of Atmospheric Waves In The High And Mid Latitudes | T. Karhunen | |||
The Interaction Between Atmospheric Gravity Waves And Tides In The CMAT Model | S. England | |||
The Response Of Saturn's Thermosphere To A General Polar Heat Source | C.G.A. Smith | |||
Tracking Of UV Flare Footpoints | L. Fletcher | |||
Mean And Accelerated Electron Flux Spectra In Solar Flares | E.P. Kontar | |||
Synchronised High-Cadence Imaging Of The Solar Chromosphere | D. Williams | |||
Background Determination In Post-Recovery Synoptic CDS Spectra | S. Chapman | |||
Mhd Waveguide Modes In Structured Magnetic Flux Tubes | B. Carter | |||
Non-Axisymmetric Oscillations Of Thin Prominence Fibrils | M. Dymova | |||
Initial Results Of Coronal Active Region Oscillations From Grazing Incidence Spectrometer (GIS) | C-H. Lin | |||
Variation Of Line Widths In Coronal Hole Offlimb Regions | E. O'Shea | |||
The Solar UK Research Facility http://surfwww.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/surf/ | C. Foley | |||
Steady State MHD Magnetic Flux Tubes | M.Terra-Homem | |||
Magnetic Reconnection Along Coronal Hole Boundaries | M.S. Madjarska | |||
New Insight Into The Blinker Phenomena | J.G. Doyle | |||
Proton Temperature Anisotropy In Alfven-Turbulence-Driven Solar Wind Models: 1D And 2D Results | B. Li | |||
The Return Current Effect And The Observed Rhessi Hard X-Ray Photon Spectra Flattening At Lower Energies In Solar Flares | M.Gordovskyy | |||
Fast Electron Slowing-Down And Diffusion In A High Temperature Source | R. K. Galloway | |||
Preliminary, Simple Numerical Simulations Of The Flux Tube Tectonics Model For Coronal Heating | C.L. Gerrard | |||
Investigations Of The Dynamics Of Trace EUV Flare Loops | J. Noglik | |||
Modellling The Effects Of Space Weather At The Earth’s Surface: A UK Geoelectric Field Model | A.J. McKay | |||
Three-Mode Resonance Between MHD Waves In Low-Β Plasmas | G. Botha | |||
Electron Dynamics And Wave Emissions Close To Magnetic Reconnection Sites: Examples Of Observations By The Cluster Spacecraft | A.M. Buckley | |||
Charged Particles And Alfven Wave Resonances In The Solar Terrestrial Environment | E.A. Evangelidis | |||
Absolute And Convective Instabilities Of Circularly Polarized Alfvén Waves (Decay Instability) | D. Simpson | |||
Flow Deflections Ahead Of Fast Magnetic Clouds Observed By Ulysses | A. Rees | |||
Magnetic Field Measurements By Cassini Of Jupiter's Magnetosheath Region | N. Achilleos | |||
Evidence For Electron Acceleration To Relativistic Energies By VLF/ELF Whistler-Mode Chorus Waves | N.P. Meredith | |||
On The Occurrence Patterns Of Magnetic Storms | M. Freeman | |||
Algorithm Preparation And UK Data Availability For The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Investigations In The Context Of The UK Virtual Observatory | J.L. Culhane | |||
The Effect Of Strong Magnetic Fields On Acoustic Power At The Surface Of The Sun As Analysed By MDI | C. J. Nicholas | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |||
Thursday | South Hall | Common Room | ||
10:30 - 12:30 | MIST | Speaker | UKSP | Speaker |
09:00 | CDS users meeting | |||
10:30 | A Simple Model Of The Flux Content Of The Distant Magnetotail | Steve Milan | Break | |
10:45 | A Comparison Of Observed Statistical Properties Of Substorms With Those Predicted By A Minimal Substorm Model | S.K. Morley | ||
11:00 | A Statistical Test Of The Assumptions Used To Form A Minimal Substorm Model | G. A. Abel | High Energy Flare Physics With RHESSI | E. Kontar |
11:15 | Variations Of Cut-Off Energy During Selected Polar Cap Absorption Events | K.F. Kaal | ||
11:30 | Electron Acceleration In The Downward Auroral Current Region | Alexandra Cran | Particle Acceleration from Stochastic Current Sheets Driven by Photospheric Motion | R. Turkmani |
11:45 | 2-D Hybrid Simulations Of An Alfven Wave Pulse | P.A. Damiano | Electron Acceleration at Reconnecting X-points in Solar Flares | B. Hamilton |
12:00 | Mirror Instability In Space Plasmas: Finite Ion Larmor Radius Effects | M. A. Balikhin | The Dynamics Associated with Radio Spike Bursts | J. I. Khan |
12:15 | CLOSE | |||
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | ||
Thursday | Common Room | |||
14:00 - 17:30 | UKSP | Speaker | ||
14:00 | Imaging Spectroscopy of the Fawkes X28 Flare | C. Foley | ||
14:15 | Multi-wavelength Observations of Compact Solar Flares | G. Del Zanna | ||
14:30 | Tracking of the Active Regions 484 and 486 with the EGSO Solar Features Catalogue | V. Zharkova | ||
14:45 | CLOSE | |||