First announcement
The next workshop organised by the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) will take place in La Roche en Ardenne (Belgium), from June 15 to June 19, 2010. The title is:
"Energy storage and release through the solar activity cycle - models meet radio observations"
Contact : Christophe Marqué (christophe.marque@oma.be).
Scientific organising committee : H. Aurass (Potsdam), K.-L. Klein (Meudon), A. MacKinnon (Glasgow), C. Marqué (Brussels, co-chair), V. Melnikov (Nizhnyi Novgorod), A. Nindos (Ioannina, co-chair), S. Poedts (Leuven ; European Solar Phys Div of EPS), S. Pohjolainen (Turku).
The workshop will address explosive energy conversion, large-scale instabilities and nonthermal processes in the active and less active solar atmosphere. The present unusually long decline of the solar cycle gives us new means to study coronal physics and its impact on the Heliosphere. Radio diagnostics contribute important information notably because they cover the whole range from the low solar atmosphere to 1 AU, and because of their sensitivity to non thermal electron populations. This will continue in the coming years, with new impetus from the space missions such as STEREO and SDO, projects for Solar Orbiter, new ground-based facilities, and the development of new databases and virtual observatories.