Solar activity during the onset of Solar Cycle 24

7-12 December 2008

Outline:

The main goals are to assess our current knowledge of solar activity to prepare for observations of the new major activity expected from the beginning of Carrington Cycle 24, and to encourage effective observations of this activity. There will be special emphasis on coordinating ACE, Hinode, STEREO, TRACE/SDO, SOHO, RHESSI and Wind observations, among others including ground-based. The conference will have a mixture of invited and contributed talks in plenary sessions, plus focused working groups.

Dates:

December 7 (reception only) - December 12, 2008. This is the week prior to the AGU Fall meeting.

Place:

Napa, California (wine country north of San Francisco).

Milestones:

  • Registration earlybird deadline: October 27 (Monday)
  • Registration final deadline: November 10 (Monday)
  • Closing date for hotel booking: October TBD; early reservations recommended.
  • Site/Hotel:

    The Embassy Suites Hotel, Napa

    How to register?

    You need to choose a working group and provide a statement of interest/abstract for that group here then register/pay here. To see who has signed up for what working group look at the participants page and to know if you have already registered/paid look here.

    Scientific Organizing Committee:

    Doschek, Emslie (chair), Fleck, Gallagher, Lin, Luhmann, Mason, Shimizu, Vourlidas, Watanabe

    Local Organizing Committee:

    Bale, Dennis, Hannah, Hudson (chair), Hurford, Krucker, McTiernan, Mendez, Schwartz, St.-Hilaire

    Download a .pdf version of the poster if you have a large-format printer and plenty of bandwith - it is a whopping 36MB. If you have an A0 (large format) printer, we'd appreciate it if you ran one of these off and posted it prominently. Times have changed, and we may not do a general mailing of posters.

    Poster design by Steele Hill and Bernhard Fleck; Web design by Iain Hannah and Igor Ruderman.