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Alliance Workshop in Manchester: 5-6 February 2018



The next Alliance Workshop will be held at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in the University of Manchester, 5-6 February 2018. The aim is to discuss energetic particles in solar flares and interplanetary space and related topics. For further information about the Alliance Workshops, please see:
About the Alliance workshops and
the list of previous workshops compiled by Eduard.

PROGRAM AND PRESENTATIONS
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MONDAY 5th of FEBRUARY
13:00-13:30 Coffee/tea
13:30-14:15 Eduard Kontar (Glasgow) PDF Solar radio imaging and radio wave propagation
14:15-15:00 Mykola Gordovskyy (Manchester) PDF Estimation of density in the outer corona using LOFAR //
Modelling of electron beam dynamics using reduced kinetics
15:00-15:30 Coffee/tea
15:30-16:15 Silvia Dalla (UCLan) PDF Heliospheric current sheet and Solar Energetic Particle propagation
15:30-16:15 Simon Thomas (UCLan) PDF Test particle simulations of Solar Energetic Particles using Parker Spiral and ENLIL fields
16:15-17:00 Vratislav Krupar
(USRA/NASA-GSFC/IAP-CAS)
Interplanetary radio bursts and electron density fluctuations in the solar wind
19:00 Dinner
TUESDAY 6th of FEBRUARY
09:00-09:45 Milan Maksimovic (Paris - Meudon) PDF Ground based and spaceborne solar radio astronomy synergies with Solar Orbiter & the Parker Solar Probe
09:45-10:30 Hamish Reid (Glasgow) PDF Type III burst time characteristics at LOFAR frequencies
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00-11:45 Asad Hussain (Manchester) PDF Analytical and MHD Modelling of Merging Magnetic Flux Ropes
11:45-12:30 James Threlfall (St Andrews) PDF Flare particle acceleration in the interaction of twisted coronal flux ropes
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Ross Pallister (Dundee) PDF Test particle simulations at tearing of 3D null point current sheets
14:45-15:30 Charlotte Waterfall (Manchester) Modelling gyrosynchrotron radiation from stellar flares on T-Tauri stars
15:30 Discussion


CONTACTS
• Philippa Browning (p.browning =AT= manchester.ac.uk) or
• Mykola Gordovskyy (mykola.gordovskyy =AT= manchester.ac.uk)