Scientific program

Preliminary Program

Invited Speaker

We are pleased to announce that we have secured a number of outstanding colleagues as speakers for the Solar Orbiter Workshop 2026. They will give presentations in the sessions listed below (the order need not correspond to the order of the sessions during the conference).

The meeting will begin on Monday, March 16, 2026 at 9 a.m. and is expected to end on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 4 p.m.

Polar Science

Gordon Petrie, NSO, Boulder CO, US                                      

Coronal structure and dynamics  

Cosima Breu, Uni Graz, Graz, AT
Pradeep Chitta, MPS, Goettingen, DE
Tanmoy Samanta, IIA, Bangalore, IN

Chromosphere and transition region   

Damien Przybylski, MPS, Goettingen, DE
Jayant Joshi, IIA, Bangalore, IN
Kyuhyoun Cho, LMSAL, Palo Alto, CA, US

Transients, turbulence and variability in the heliosphere       

Emilia Kilupa, Uni Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
Lorenzo Matteini, Imperial College, London, UK
Dibyendu Chakrabarty, PRL, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, IN                     

Solar eruptive events (Flares, CMEs, energetic phenomena)   

Maria Kazachenko, Uni of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US
Marilena Mierla, OMA, Brussels, BE
Soumya Roy, IUCAA, Ganeshkhind, Pune, IN
Vanessa Polito, LMSAL, Palo Alto, CA, US
Lauren Rodriguez Garcia, ESAC, Madrid, ES

Dynamos, production and the evolution of the magnetic field            

Jie Jiang, Uni Beijing, Beijing, CN
Matthias Rempel, NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, US

Connecting solar surface and atmosphere with the heliosphere           

Cooper Downs, Predictive Science Inc, San Diego, CA, US
Alexis Rouillard, cnrs, Paris, FR
Stephanie Yardley, Northumbria Uni, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK         

Small-scale magnetic field & impact on irradiance, atmosphere, etc. 

Theo Chatzistergos, MPS, Goettingen, DE
Milan Gosic, LMSAL, Palo Alto, CA, US