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Polarization in the Sun, the Solar System and Beyond

Granada, 24-28 May 2015

 

Monday 25th of May:

• 09:00-09:15: Welcome address - IAA Director

Keynote Lecture

• 09:15-10:00: Polarization in astrophysics - a personal selection (Keynote lecture)
  • Sami K. Solanki.

Session 1: Instrumentation (ground, space, laboratory)

• 10:00-10:35: Solar polarimetry from space (Invited review)
  • ​​Ted Tarbell
• 10:35-10:55: The Large Aperture Solar Optical Telescope (SUVIT) for the Solar-C mission
  • Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Solar-C Working Group
• 10:55-11:30: Coffee break
• 11:30-12:05: Solar polarimetry from the ground (Invited review)
  • ​Manuel Collados
• 12:05-12:25: Polarimeter for Multi Application Solar Telescope (MAST) at Udaipur Solar                                  Observatory                              
  • ​​​Alok Ranjan Tiwary, Shibu K. Mathew
• 12:25-12:45: Review of the preliminary design of the Brazilian Solar Vector Magnetograph
  • Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira et al
• 12:45-13:05: Error analysis and optimization of polarization calibration optics in solar telescope
  • Junfeng Hou, Dongguang Wang, Yuanyong Deng
• 13:05-15:00: Lunch
• 15:00-15:35: Instruments for Night-Time Polarimetry  (Invited review)               
  • Christoph Keller
• 15:35-15:55: High-accuracy spectropolarimetry with spectral polarization modulation
  • Frans Snik et al.
• 15:55-16:30: Laboratory studies of light scattered by macroscopic dust particles at visible                       wavelengths (Invited review)
  • Olga Muñoz
• 16:30-17:00: Coffee break

Session 2: Diagnostics and Interpretation

• 17:00-17:35: Multiple scattering in particulate media (Invited review)                 
  • K. Muinonen, et al.
• 17:35-18:10 Polarized radiative transfer in solar MHD simulations (Invited review)
  • H. Uitenbroek

 

Tuesday 26th of May:

Session 2: Diagnostics and Interpretation

• 09:00-09:35: Solar inversion codes (Invited review)                                            
  • J.C. del Toro Iniesta
• 09:35-10:10: Hanle effect diagnostics of the solar atmosphere (Invited review)
  • Jiří Štěpán
• 10:10-10:30: A Possible Resolution of the Paradox of the Enigmatic D1 Line Polarization  
  • Javier Trujillo Bueno, Luca Belluzzi
• 10:30-11:05: Stellar inversion codes (Invited review)                              
  • Thorsten A. Carroll
• 11:05-11:35: Coffee break

Session 4: Solar Chromosphere, Transition Region and Corona

• 11:35-12:10: Spectropolarimetry of the solar chromosphere (Invited review)
  • Andreas Lagg, GREGOR GRIS Team
• 12:10-12:45: Magnetic Fields in Solar Prominences (Invited review)                  
  • Arturo López Ariste
• 12:45-13:05: Non-LTE chromospheric diagnostics and inversions in flux-emerging regions
  • Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez, Viggo Hansteen, Luis Bellot Rubio, Ada Ortiz
• 13:05-15:00: Lunch
• 15:00-15:20: Design and Status Updates of a Polarimeter for Chromospheric Measurements              with SOLIS/VSM                    
  • ​Sanjay Gosain, Jack Harvey
• 15:20-15:40: Polarimetry of the X1 flare on March 29, 2014                                
  • Lucia Kleint, Phil Judge
• 15:40-16:00: Chromospheric Dichroism in Oxygen Photospheric Lines                        
  • Tanausú del Pino Alemán, Javier Trujillo Bueno, Rafael Manso Sainz
• 16:00-16:20:  Spectra of Helium D3 observed with SST/TRIPPEL                                              
  • Tine Libbrecht, Dan Kiselman, Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez
• 16:20-17:00: Coffee break

Session 5: Polarization in the Solar System and Exoplanetary Systems

• 17:00-17:35: Polarization of the jovian planets (Invited review)                           
  • Robert West
• 17:35-17:55: Optical linear polarimetric observations of Jupiter and Saturn using a Wedged                                     Double Wollaston.  
  • Ricardo Hueso et al.
• 17:55-18:15: Towards measuring the magnetic field of Mercury with spectropolarimetry
  • Arturo López Ariste
• 21:00: Buses depart for visit to Alhambra

 

Wednesday 27th of May:

Session 5: Polarization in the Solar System and Exoplanetary Systems

• 09:00-09:35: Polarization of the small bodies of the solar system (Invited review)         
  • S. Bagnulo, Alberto Cellino, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Gian Paolo Tozzi
• 09:35-09:55: Some interesting features of light scattering from grains to regolith
  • ​Gorden Videen, Karri Muinonen, Evgenij Zubko, Yuriy Shkuratov
• 09:55-10:15: Experimental scattering matrices of lunar dust simulant at 488 nm and 520 nm
  • Jesús Escobar et al.
• 10:15-10:50: Characterizing exoplanets through polarimetry (Invited review)    
  • D. Stam
• 10:50-11:10: Polarization in exoplanetary systems caused by transit, grazing transit and                         starspot         
  • Nadiia M. Kostogryz, Taras M. Yakobchuk, Svetlana V. Berdyugina
• 11:10-11:40: Coffee break

 

Session 3: Solar Photosphere

• 11:40-12:15: Polar Fields of the Sun (Invited review)                              
  • Gordon Petrie
• 12:15-12:50: Quiet Sun Magnetic Fields (Invited review)
  • ​David Orozco Suárez
• 12:50-13:10: Flux appearance and disappearance in the solar internetwork                  
  • Milan Gošić, Luis Bellot Rubio
• 13:10-15:00: Lunch
• 15:00-15:20: The evolution of individual and groups of flux tubes as seen by IMaX/Sunrise
  • Iker S. Requerey et al.
• 15:20-15:40: Small-scale intergranular upflows as seen by Sunrise/IMaX: work in progress
  • Dominik Utz, Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta, Luis Bellot Rubio, Stefan Thonhofer
• 15:40-16:00: Multi-wavelength observations of magnetic upflows in the solar atmosphere
  • Shahin Jafarzadeh, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez
• 16:00-16:20: Photospheric Flow Field Related to the Evolution of the Sun`s Polar Magnetic. Patches Observed by Hinode SOT                                                           
  • Anjali John Kaithakkal et al.
• 16:20-17:00: Coffee break
• 17:00-18:30: Poster session
• 20:30: Buses depart for conference dinner

 

Thursday 28th of May

Session 6: Stellar Magnetic Fields

• 09:00-09:35: Stellar surface magnetic fields across the HR diagram (Invited review)
  • ​Oleg Kochukhov
• 09:35-10:10: Magnetic fields of massive stars (Invited review)                                      
  • Gregg Wade
• 10:10-10:45: New insights into the origin and strength of magnetic fields in OB-type stars (Invited review)
  • Swetlana Hubrig et al.
• 10:45-11:05: The origin and role of magnetic fields in Herbig Ae/Be stars – a key to understand intermediate-mass star formation.                               
  • Markus Schoeller
• 11:05-11:35: Coffee break

Session 3: Solar photosphere

• 11:35-11:55: The distinct magnetic property of the penumbra                                        
  • Rolf Schlichenmaier
• 11:55-12:15: Penumbral return flux measured by spectral lines in the visible and infrared
  • Morten Franz et al.
• 12:15-12:35: Supersonic Evershed downflows                                                               
  • Sara Esteban Pozuelo, Luis Bellot Rubio
• 12:35-12:55: Formation of a solar Halpha filament from penumbra-like structures         
  • David Buehler, Andreas Lagg, Michiel van Noort, Sami K. Solanki
• 12:55-15:00: Lunch
• 15:00-15:20: A new vision of the line ratio method                                               
  • Marianne Faurobert, Gilbert Ricort
• 15:20-15:40:  Improved magnetogram calibration of Solar Magnetic Field Telescope and its comparison with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager                           
  • Xianyong Bai et al.
• 15:40-16:00: Vector magnetic field changes during flares using SDO/HMI data                        
  • Sebastián Castellanos-Durán, Lucia Kleint, Benjamín Calvo-Mozo
• 16:00-16:20: Can Flux Cancellation Build-Up Magnetic Flux Ropes?                            
  • Stephanie Yardley, Lucie Green, David Williams, Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi
• 16:20-16:40: GUI for LCT analysis
  • Jose Iván Campos Rozo, Santiago Vargas Domínguez

End of Meeting