Scientific Program


Session 1    Outstanding Problems and Key Observations in Solar and Stellar Physics Mon Aug 20
Session 2 Asteroseismology: Observations Mon Aug 20
Session 3 Asteroseismology: Theory and Modelling Tue Aug 21
Session 4 Global Helioseismology and Solar Models Tue Aug 21
Session 5 Waves, Waves & Waves Wed Aug 22
Session 6 Local Helioseismology Thu Aug 23
Session 7 Magnetoconvection, Coronal Helioseismology and Concluding Talks Thu Aug 23
Session 8 Splinter meetings Fri Aug 24


Monday August 20
8:00 Welcome addresses and LOC announcements
Session 1: Outstanding Problems and Key Observations in Solar and Stellar Physics
08:15 45 min Stellar structure and evolution: unsolved problems Norbert Langer (The Netherlands) Invited
09:00 40 min Variable stars across the observational HR diagram Laurent Eyer (Switzerland) Invited
09:40 Coffee & posters
10:40 40 min Solar and stellar activity cycles Matthias Rempel (USA) Invited
11:20 40 min Magnetic active regions and sunspots Sami Solanki (Germany) Invited
12:00 Lunch
Session 2: Asteroseismology: Observations
13:30 20 min Ground-based photometric observations Andrzej Pigulski (Poland) Invited
13:50 20 min Summary of Wire photometry Hans Bruntt (Australia) Invited
14:10 20 min Recent MOST Space Photometry Gordon Walker (Canada) Invited
14:30 40 min First assessment of COROT Data Eric Michel (TBC, France) Invited
15:10 Coffee
16:10 20 min Spectroscopic observations Wolfgang Zima (Belgium) Invited
16:30 15 min Spectroscopic mode identification for the beta Cephei star 12 Lacertae Maarten Desmet (Belgium) Contributed
16:45 15 min Observations of hot compact pulsators: the subdwarf B variables Sonja Schuh (Germany) Contributed
17:00 15 min Stellar Oscillations of Planet Hosting K Giant Stars Artie Hatzes (Germany) Contributed
17:15 15 min Asteroseismology of Przybylski's Star with HARPS David Mkrtichian (South Korea) Contributed
18:30 Poster session with dinner buffet
Tuesday August 21
Session 3: Asteroseismology: Theory and Modelling
08:00 20 min Opacity driven oscillations along the main sequence Alexey Pamyatnykh (Poland) Invited
08:20 20 min Modelling magnetic oscillators Hideyuki Saio (Japan) Invited
08:40 20 min Modelling pulsations in hot stars with winds Arlette Noels (Belgium) Invited
09:00 15 min Asteroseismology of beta Cephei stars: effects of the chemical composition on the determination of the global stellar parameters Anne Thoul (Belgium) Contributed
09:15 15 min New aspects on the driving of pulsating stars Marc-Antoine Dupret (France) Contributed
09:30 Coffee
10:30 20 min Modelling solar-like oscillators Patrick Eggenberger (Belgium) Invited
10:50 20 min Modelling compact oscillators Suzanna Randall (ESO) Invited
11:10 20 min Modelling fast rotators Daniel Reese (UK) Invited
11:30 15 min The photometric method of mode identification for rapidly rotating SPB stars: An application to mu Eridani Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz (Poland) Contributed
11:45 15 min Transport in stellar radiation zones by internal gravity waves infuenced by the Coriolis acceleration Stephane Mathis (France) Contributed
12:00 Lunch
Session 4: Global Helioseismology and Solar Models
13:30 20 min Low degree modes Rafael Garcia (France) Invited
13:50 20 min Velocity and intensity power spectra of solar oscillations Giuseppe Severino (Italy) Invited
14:10 20 min High degree modes & instrumental effects Sylvain Korzennik (USA) Invited
14:30 15 min Amplitudes of non-radial oscillations driven by turbulence Kevin Belkacem (France) Contributed
14:45 15 min The analytical signal as a tool for helioseismology Y.D. Zhugzhda (Russia) Contributed
15:00 Coffee
16:00 20 min Inversions & temporal variations Jesper Schou (USA) Invited
16:20 15 min Modelling solar and stellar differential rotation Manfred Küker (Germany) Contributed
16:35 20 min Solar structure models Sylvaine Turck-Chieze (France) Invited
16:55 20 min Solar dynamo models Mark Miesch (USA) Invited
17:15 15 min Estimation of magnetic flux in the solar convective envelope from observations of sunspots K.M. Hiremath (India) Contributed
Wednesday August 22
08:00 Buses to Göttingen University
Session 5: Waves, Waves & Waves
08:30 30 min Time reversal acoustics Mathias Fink (France) Invited
09:00 30 min Ocean acoustic tomography Bruce Cornuelle (USA) Invited
09:30 30 min Terrestrial seismic tomography Guust Nolet (USA) Invited
10:00 Refreshments
10:30 30 min Relativistic diskoseismology Robert Wagoner (USA) Invited
11:00 30 min Oscillations of neutron stars and black holes Bernard Schutz (Germany) Invited
11:30 30 min Acoustic oscillations in the early universe Ned Wright (USA) Invited
12:00 Packed lunch
13:15 Excursion to the city of Goslar
20:00 Conference Dinner at Rathskeller, Göttingen
Thursday August 23
Session 6: Local Helioseismology
08:00 20 min The forward and inverse problems in local helioseismology Jason Jackiewicz (Germany) Invited
08:20 20 min Wave scattering by small-scale inhomogeneities Thomas Duvall (USA) Invited
08:40 15 min Absorption and scattering of acoustic waves from a thin magnetic flux tube Rekha Jain (UK) Contributed
08:55 20 min Subsurface flows from ring-diagram analysis Irene Gonzalez Hernandez (USA) Invited
09:15 15 min Kinetic helicity of subsurface flows and magnetic flux Rudi Komm (USA) Contributed
09:30 Coffee
10:30 20 min Acoustic imaging of magnetic activity Paul Cally (Australia) Invited
10:50 20 min Acoustic holograms of solar active regions Dean-Yi Chou (Taiwan) Contributed
11:10 15 min Sound-speed inversions of a model sunspot using time-distance helioseismology Hamed Moradi (Australia) Contributed
11:25 20 min Simulations of wave propagation through model sunspots Robert Cameron (Germany) Invited
11:45 15 min The nature of running waves in sunspot penumbrae D. Shaun Bloomfield (Germany) Contributed
12:00 Lunch
Session 7: Magnetoconvection, Coronal Helioseismology and Concluding Talks
13:30 20 min Realistic simulations of magnetoconvection Alexander Vögler (The Netherlands) Invited
13:50 15 min Hinode observations Takashi Sekii (TBC, Japan) Invited
14:05 15 min Three-dimensional simulation of local solar supergranulation with realistic physics Sergey Ustyugov (Russia) Contributed
14:20 20 min Coronal Helioseismology: Observations Valery Nakariakov (UK) Invited
14:40 20 min Coronal Helioseismology: Modelling Jaume Terradas Calafell (Belgium) Invited
15:00 Coffee
16:00 30 min Conclusion: Helioseismology Aaron Birch (USA) Invited
16:30 30 min Conclusion: Asteroseismology Donald Kurtz (UK) Invited
17:00 30 min Survey of future projects Frank Hill (USA) Invited
Friday August 24
Session 8: Splinter Meetings
08:30 90 min Splinter meeting: Future asteroseismology projects (inc. COROT) Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Convener
10:00 Coffee
11:00 90 min Splinter meeting: Future helioseismology projects Frank Hill Convener
12:30 Lunch
13:30 90 min Splinter meeting: HELAS Local Helioseismology Laurent Gizon Convener

End of meeting around 3 pm on Friday August 24.