FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT EUROCONFERENCE/IAU COLLOQUIUM 188 MAGNETIC COUPLING OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE
June 11-15, 2002
Santorini, Cyclades, Greece
An international conference on the "Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere" is to be held on the Greek island, Santorini, on 11-15 June, 2002. This meeting is co-organized by the National Observatory of Athens (Greece) and the Max-Planck Institute fuer Aeronomie (Germany). The European Union and the IAU are co-sponsoring the meeting.
The aim of the conference is to concentrate on the current knowledge about the central theme of solar physics, i.e., solar magnetism, and to try to synthesize, by an integrated approach, the great collection of observations and theories in order to get a holistic picture of the solar atmosphere. The program is divided in four major sessions: Magnetic fields: Instrumentation, observational techniques models, Dynamics and evolution of the magnetic fields, Magnetic fields and coupling through atmospheric structuring, Magnetic fields and coupling of the physical processes. A full session will be devoted to the presentation of future prospects.
The topics have been chosen with the aim of maintaining a balance in the coverage of activities ranging from instrumentation and observing techniques, observations both from the ground and from space, methods for data analysis and interpretation, theoretical investigations, modeling and numerical simulations. Apart from the invited talks, oral presentations will be fed into the program by the Scientific Organizing Committee and time will be devoted to poster presentations.
Anyone who would like to attend and join in the presentations and discussions is warmly invited and encouraged to do so. Young researchers, PHD students and post-doctorates are strongly encouraged to actively participate. EC funds are available to help young researchers (under 35) from countries belonging to the European Union (plus Iceland, Israel and Norway) to attend the meeting by covering their travel and accommodation expenses and registration fees. IAU funds are also available to full or partially cover the expenses of those with few or no other means of support.
Participants interested in attending the meeting and also in contributing a paper (oral or poster) are invited to fill in the pre-registration form and the preliminary abstract submission form not later than December 10, 2001.
Detailed information on the meeting including purpose and focus, scientific program and invited speakers, pre-registration, grant request and abstract submission forms can be found at: