The UKSP Specialist Discussion Day has become the UKSP Specialist Discussion Days with talks and poster presentations now held over two days (30th and 31st July).
The meeting is being held entirely online, using Zoom for both the talks and the poster sessions. Access information for the Zoom meeting room is:
Meeting ID: 959 7970 6015
Link: https://zoom.us/j/95979706015
All the abstracts can be found in the abstracts book
Thursday 30th July
9:00 – 10:30 – UKSP Session 1 (Chairs – Andrew Hillier and Marianna Korsos)
9:00 – 9:30 – David Kuridze (Invited speaker) – X8.2 class solar flare on September 10, 2017 observed by the Swedish Solar Telescope
9:30 – 9:50 – David Millar – The effect of a solar flare on chromospheric oscillations
9:50 – 10:10 – Andy S. H. To – Anomalous Evolution of Plasma Composition During a Small Solar Flare
10:10 – 10:30 – Sargam Mulay – Thermodynamics of a flare related on-disk active region sigmoid
10:30 – 10:50 – Break
10:50 – 11:50 – UKSP Session 2 (Chairs – Andrew Hillier and Marianna Korsos)
10:50 – 11:10 – Kristopher Cooper – NuSTAR X-ray observations of a minuscule microflare from a repeatedly microflaring active region
11:10 – 11:30 – Gabriel D. Muro – Total eclipse spectroscopy of visible light coronal emission lines
11:30 – 11:50 – Roger Dufresne – Effects of density on modelling oxygen lines in the solar transition region
11:50 – 13:10 – Lunch Break
13:10 – 14:10 – UKSP Session 3 (Chairs – David Long and Marianna Korsos)
13:10 – 13:30 – Norbert Magyar – Standing Kink Waves in Sigmoid Solar Coronal Loops: Implications for Coronal Seismology
13:30 – 13:50 – Ben Snow – Mode conversion of two-fluid shocks in a partially-ionised, isothermal, stratified atmosphere.
13:50 – 14:10 – Noémi Kinga Zsámberger – Suggested solar atmospheric applications of the model of an asymmetric magnetic slab
14:10 – 14:30 – Break
14:30 – 15:10 – Poster Session 1
15:10 – 15:30 – Break
15:30 – 17:00 – Sun-Earth Session 1 (Chairs – David Long and Marianna Korsos)
15:30 – 16:00 – Stephanie Yardley (invited) – Solar Eruptions and their Space Weather Impact
16:00 – 16:20 – Jennifer O’kane – The Magnetic Environment of a Stealth CME
16:20 – 16:40 – Shannon Jones – The visual complexity of CMEs follows the solar cycle
16:40 – 17:00 – Sophie Musset – Energetic electrons from the flare to the interplanetary medium: X-ray and radio diagnostics on the 9 September 2017
Friday 31st July
9:00 – 10:30 – UKSP Session 4 (Chairs – Natasha Jeffery, Karen Meyer and Sarah Matthews)
9:00 – 9:30 – Lauren Doyle (Invited) – Solar and Stellar Flares and Their Connection
9:30 – 9:50 – Aaron Monson – An Introduction to Photospheric Flare Line Diagnostics
9:50 – 10:10 – Ryan French – Spectropolarimetric Insight into Plasma Sheet Dynamics of a Solar Flare
10:10 – 10:30 – Richard Grimes – Observation of Differential Rotation Within a Sunspot Umbra During an X-Class Flare
10:30 – 10:50 – Break
10:50 – 11:50 – UKSP Session 5 (Chairs – Natasha Jeffery, Karen Meyer and Sarah Matthews)
10:50 – 11:10 – Jack Reid – MHD avalanches: coronal heating in braided fields
11:10 – 11:30 – Tim Duckenfield – An unexplored source for the damping of slow magnetoacoustic waves in the solar corona
11:30 – 11:50 – Dmitrii Kolotkov – Constraining the coronal heating function
11:50 – 13:10 – Lunch Break
13:10 – 14:10 – UKSP Session 6 (Chairs – Anne-Marie Broomhall and Eamon Scullion)
13:10 – 13:30 – Ryan Campbell – The temporal evolution of inter-network magnetic fields in the quiet solar photosphere
13:30 – 13:50 – Giulia Murtas – Coalescence instability in chromospheric partially ionised plasmas
13:50 – 14:10 – Fionnlagh Mackenzie Dover – MHD simulations of the morphology of spicular solar jets
14:10 – 14:30 – Prantika Bhowmik – Formation and evolution of magnetic flux ropes during solar minimum
14:30 – 14:50 – Break
14:50 – 15:30 – Poster Session 2
15:30 – 15:50 – Break
15:50 – 17:20 – Sun-Earth Session 2 (Chairs – Anne-Marie Broomhall and Huw Morgan)
15:50 – 16:20 – David Stansby (Invited) – Sensitivity of solar wind mass flux to coronal electron temperature
16:20 – 16:40 – Adam Hutchinson – Energetic Proton back-precipitation onto the solar atmosphere
16:40 – 15:00 – Diego de Pablos – Analysis of time-domain correlations between EUV and in-situ observations of coronal jets
17:00 – 17:20 – Adam J. Finley – Constraining the Solar Wind Angular Momentum-loss Rate and Understanding its Astrophysical Implications