Napa Schedule for Working Group F on CMEs. (04 Dec 2008 Version.)



Tuesday
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Session 1: 14:30 - 16:00
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Intro talks:

o Alphonse Sterling: Introduction to Group F Agenda (5 min).

o Alphonse Sterling: The earliest phases of solar eruptions (10 min).

o Gemma Atrill: Coronal 'waves' and dimmings - what can they tell us about their CME 
counterparts?  (10 min).

o James McAteer: Kinematics of CMEs (10 min).

o Kimberley  Steed: Solar source of a magnetic cloud; overview of 13 April event (10 min).

o Russ Howard: A skeptic's view of CME-surface phenomena relations (10 min).

o Virendra Verma: On the New  Classifications of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Based on 
   by LASCO/SOHO Observations (10 min).

o Discussions: general, outstanding questions so far (25 min).


Session  2: 16:30 - 18:00
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Some events:

o Dave Webb: Overview of potential events.

o Possible contributions (max, 7 - 8 min each):

     - Yan Li:  Overview of 19 May 2007 event.

     - Alphonse Sterling: Overview of 20 May 2007 event.

     - Angelos Vourlidas:  Overview of - 31 May - 06 June 2008 event.

     - Others?

o Discussion: 

     - New outstanding questions? 

     -  Which questions can be addressed by focused studies?
  
     -  Best events for focused studies.

     - Plans for focused studies.



Wednesday
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Session 3: 09:00 - 10:30
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o Additional talks possible.

o Discussion: 

   - Continuation of above.


o Work on (or plan to work on) focused studies (time permitting).



Joint Session: 11:00 - 12:30
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Joint with D & E.  E hosts, content TBD.


Thursday
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Session 4: 09:00 - 10:30
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* Joint with group J. *

o Paulett Liewer (from J group):  Stereoscopic Analysis of STEREO Filament Eruptions: 
Events of 19 May 2007 and 31 August 2007 (20 min).

o Yingna Su: Filament channels observed by Hinode/XRT and STEREO/EUVI (15 min).

o Vasyl Yurchyshyn: Halo-CME orientation vs. underlying flux rope orientation (15 min).

o Discussions:  Outstanding questions; possible joint efforts  (40 min).


Session 5: 11:00 - 12:30
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o Yuming Wang:  An Analytical Model Probing the Internal State of Coronal Mass Ejections 
Based on Observations of Their Expansions and Propagations (10 min).

o Additional discussions, and work on focused studies (65 min).

o Prep for wrap up.  (15 min).


Open: 14:30 - 16:00
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o Open.


Session 6: 16:30 - 18:00
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o Focus-study work; wrap-up and prepare presentations.