Workshop Program

Monday 19/9
08.00 Registration
09.00 Opening:
L. Eliasson
H. Lundstedt 		Lund Solar Activity Workshop
Session I:
Chairman:
N. Marsh 		Exploration of solar forcing
09.15 H. Svensmark Influences of solar activity on Earth's climate
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
09.45 R. Lundin The Sun and the climate on Venus and Mars
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
10.15 H. Gleisner
P. Thejll 		Climate responses to the 11-year solar cycle
| abstract (pdf) |
10.30 Coffee Break
Session I:
Chairman:
P. Thejll 		Exploration of solar forcing (cont.)
11.00 L. Liszka Causal Analysis of Solar Indicators
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
11.30 M. Messerotti
J. Chela Flores 		Solar activity and Solar Weather in the framework of life origin and evolution on Earth
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
Session II:
Chairman:
I. Usoskin 		Exploration of solar activity
14.00 H. Lundstedt Solar activity explored with wavelets
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
14.30 R. Muscheler Solar activity changes over centuries and millennia inferred from cosmogenic radionuclides such as 14C and 10Be
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
15.00 S. Björck 10Be variations AD-800-1500 in crater lake sediments from Tristan da Cunha, S Atlantic:
do they display solar activity changes?
| abstract (pdf) |
15.30 Coffee Break
Session II:
Chairman:
R. Muscheler 		Exploration of solar activity (cont.)
16.00 I.G. Usoskin Solar activity throughout Holocene:
How regular is it ?
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
16.30 I. Snowball
R. Muscheler 		What has the Earth's core got to do with the reconstruction of solar activity?
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
17.00 V.V. Zharkova
S.I. Zharkov
A.K. Benkhalil 		Statistical sunspot and active region analysis of the solar cycle 23 with the solar feature catalogue
| abstract (pdf) |
17.15 End
19.00 Grand Hotel Public lecture
P. Brekke Unexpected effects of solar activity

Tuesday 20/9
09.00 Poster presentations
Session III:
Chairman:
S. Gabriel 		Solar activity prediction
09.30 M.A. Clilverd Prediction of solar activity the next 100 years
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
10.00 I.G. Usoskin
G.A. Kovaltsov
K. Mursula 		Dominant 22-year periodicity in solar activity during grand minima
| abstract (pdf) |
10.15 G. Maris
A. Oncica 		Tentative neural network forecast of the 24th solar cycle
| abstract (pdf) |
10.30 Coffee Break
Session III:
Chairman:
T. Hoeksema 		Solar activity prediction (cont.)
11.00 S. Gabriel Solar energetic particle event prediction using advanced signal processing: Challenges and possibilities
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
11.30 J. M. Jensen Predictions of Solar Flares using Neural Networks and Local-Area Helioseismology
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
Session IV:
Chairman:
T. Hoeksema 		How do we understand solar activity ?
14.00 L. Gizon Helioseismological diagnostics of solar activity
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
14.30 S. Tobias The solar dynamo: timescales and modulational processes
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
15.00 A. Brandenburg The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by a near-surface shear
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
15.30 Coffee Break
Session III: Solar activity prediction (cont.)
16.00 L. Svalgaard
Ed. W. Cliver 		Prediction of solar cycle 24 (by T. Hoeksema)
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
16.30 End
18.00 Dinner Festsalen - Banquet hall at AF

Wednesday 21/9
Session V:
Chairman:
M. Messerotti 		New space-, and ground-based facilities for exploration and prediction
09.15 T. Hoeksema Solar Dynamics Observatory
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
09.45 P. Brekke Solar B
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
10.30 Coffee Break
Session V:
Chairman:
L. Eliasson 		New space-, and ground-based facilities for exploration and prediction (cont.)
11.00 B. Thidé LOIS and LOFAR - deep space probing at the longest wavelengths for solar physics and space weather
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
Session VI:
Chairman:
L. Eliasson 		Solar activity programs
11.30 A. Hilgers
A. Glover 		Influences of solar activity on society
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.00 M. Messerotti Building a foundation ontology for Solar Space Weather
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
Session VI:
Chairman:
TBD 		Solar activity programs (cont.)
14.00 N. Marsh Influence of Solar Activity Cycles on Earth’s Climate (ISAC)
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
14.30 W. Soon Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA, USA
(tele-conference)
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Conclusion
09-18 Posters Monday - Wednesday
P. Berg
P. Thejll
B. Christiansen 		The climate response to an increased solar constant: a GCM study
| abstract (pdf) |
J. Munk Jensen
F. P. Pijpers
M. J. Thompson 		Exploration of subsurface conditions around AR486 using time-distance helioseismology
| abstract (pdf) |
F. Grond
F. Halbig
J. Munk Jensen
T. Lausten 		SOL: Visualisation and sonofication of data from two solar cycles
G. Maris
O. Maris 		Fast fourier transform analysis of the high speed plasma streams in the solar wind
| abstract (pdf) |
H. Miyahara
K. Masuda
Y. Muraki
H. Kitagawa
T. Nakamura 		Variation of solar cycle during the Maunder and Spörer minima
| abstract (pdf) |
I.G. Usoskin
G.A. Kovaltsov
K. Mursula 		Maunder minimum: A conservative upper limit of sunspot activity
| abstract (pdf) |
S. Yousef Solar Induced Climate Changes,
Past records and reflections into the future
| abstract (pdf) |
S. Yousef Solar forcing on the north atlantic oscillations
| abstract (pdf) |
M. Wik
H. Lundstedt 		Solar activity indicators explored with wavelets:
A comparative study
| abstract (pdf) |
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Svante Björck (CGB, Sweden)
David Boteler (ISES/NRC, Canada)
Alain Hilgers (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands)
Todd Hoeksema (Stanford, USA)
Rickard Lundin (IRF-K, Sweden)
Henrik Lundstedt (ISES/IRF-Lund, Sweden)
Mauro Messerotti (INAF-Trieste, Italy)
Bo Thidé (IRF-U, Sweden)
Michael Thompson (Sheffield, U.K.)
Local Organizing Committee:
J. Munk Jensen, E. Jonsson, H. Lundstedt, M. Wik,
P. Wintoft