Announced Conferences 2008

International Workshop  March 10th - 12th, 2008

Calendar of Events::

• First announcement: 15 October 2007
• Pre-registration and abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2007
• Second announcement: 7 January 2008
• Final registration & abstracts deadline: 4 February 2008
• Final program (on WWW): 18 February 2008

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SMESE Overview:

The Small Explorer for Solar Eruptions (SMESE) mission is a French-Chinese satellite dedicated to the combined study of coronal mass ejections and flares. Its payload consists of a Lyman alpha imager and a Lyman alpha coronagraph (LYOT), a far infra-red telescope (DESIR) and a hard X and gamma ray spectrometer (HEBS). Its Sun-synchronous orbit will allow for continuous observations. It should operate by the end of 2012.

Objectives of the Workshop:

The aim of this workshop is to assemble the solar community experts involved in Coronal Mass Ejections (CME's) and Flare studies in the framework of the upcoming SMESE mission; to inform the community about the capabilities of the SMESE instrumentation; to assess how the SMESE mission can best meet its objectives; to establish specialist working groups and to form links between theoreticians, observers and instrumentalists from both the CME and Flare communities.

Preliminary Scientific Program:

1. Recent results from SOHO, TRACE, STEREO, /Hinode/ and RHESSI on the physics of coronal mass ejections, flares, eruptive events associated with the production of energetic particles, and the interplay between these phenomena,
2. Progress achieved, and/or to be expected, from high temporal resolution and long temporal coverage of eruptive events; access to very high-energy particles, simultaneous disk/off-limb coverage, ...
3. Key problems to be addressed by SMESE,
4. Required measurements,
5. Instrumentation and mission profile.

Program Organization:

The meeting will start on Monday morning with general presentations. The three following half-day sessions will be devoted to CME's, Flares and the CME-Flare common science; they will each comprise two invited reviews, invited and selected oral contributions and posters. The Wednesday concluding session will end at lunch time.

Proceedings:

Information will be given in the 2^nd Announcement

Conference Fee:

There will be a conference fee of 100 euros including the admission to all scientific sessions, coffee breaks, conference material, welcome reception and workshop dinner.

Scientific Organizing Committee:

• E. Antonucci, (Oss. Torino, Italy), J.-L. Bougeret (LESIA/OP, France),
• D. Deming (GSFC, USA), C. Fang (Nanjing Univ., China)(co-chair of SOC),
• A. Fludra (RAL, UK), W. Gan (PMO, China), M. Guhathakurta (NASA, USA),
• J.-F. Hochedez (ROB, Belgium), P. Kaufmann (Univ. Mackenzie & UNICAMP, Brazil),
• S. Koutchmy (IAP, France), P. Lamy (LAM, France), R. Lin (SSL, USA),
• P. Louarn (CESR, France), D. Mueller (ESA), J.-Y. Prado (CNES, France),
• U. Schühle (MPS, Germany), G. Trottet (LESIA/OP,France)(co-chair of SOC),
• J.-C. Vial (IAS, France)(co-chair of SOC), N. Vilmer (LESIA/OP, France),
• A.Vourlidas (NRL, USA), J.X. Wang (NAOC,China), J. Wu (CSSAR, China)

Practical Information::

For pre-registration, abstract submission, venue and accommodation:

http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/smese

On behalf of the organizing committee,
Sincerely,

Jean-Claude Vial