Preliminary Workshop Program

Monday 19/9
08.00 Registration
09.00 Opening:
L. Eliasson
H. Lundstedt 		Lund Solar Activity Workshop
09.15 Session I: Exploration of solar forcing
H. Svensmark Influences of solar activity on Earth's climate
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
R. Lundin The Sun and the climate on Venus and Mars
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
H. Gleisner
P. Thejll 		Climate responses to the 11-year solar cycle
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10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Session I: Exploration of solar forcing (cont.)
L. Liszka Causal Analysis of Solar Indicators
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D.I. Ponyavin
T.V. Barliaeva
N.V. Zolotova 		Cross wavelet and recurrence plot analysis of solar wind and climate time series
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M. Messerotti
J. Chela Flores 		Solar activity and Solar Weather in the framework of life origin and evolution on Earth
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
14.00 Session II: Exploration of solar activity
H. Lundstedt Solar activity explored with wavelets
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
R. Muscheler Solar activity changes over centuries and millennia inferred from cosmogenic radionuclides such as 14C and 10Be
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
S. Björck 10Be variations AD-800-1500 in crater lake sediments from Tristan da Cunha, S Atlantic:
do they display solar activity changes?
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15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Session II: Exploration of solar activity (cont.)
I.G. Usoskin Solar activity throughout Holocene:
How regular is it ?
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
I. Snowball
R. Muscheler 		What has the Earth's core got to do with the reconstruction of solar activity?
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
V.V. Zharkova
S.I. Zharkov
A.K. Benkhalil 		Statistical sunspot and active region analysis of the solar cycle 23 with the solar feature catalogue
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17.30 End
19.00 Grand Hotel Public lecture
P. Brekke Unexpected effects of solar activity

Tuesday 20/9
09.00 Session III: Solar activity prediction
S. Iyengar Wavelet neural networks
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
M.A. Clilverd Prediction of solar activity the next 100 years
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
I.G. Usoskin
G.A. Kovaltsov
K. Mursula 		Dominant 22-year periodicity in solar activity during grand minima
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11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Session III: Solar activity prediction (cont.)
L. Svalgaard
Ed. W. Cliver 		Prediction of solar cycle 24
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
G. Maris
A. Oncica 		Tentative neural network forecast of the 24th solar cycle
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12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
14.00 Session IV: How do we understand solar activity ?
L. Gizon Helioseismological diagnostics of solar activity
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
S. Tobias The solar dynamo: timescales and modulational processes
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
A. Brandenburg The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by a near-surface shear
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
15.45 Coffee Break
16.15 Session III: Solar activity prediction (cont.)
S. Gabriel Solar energetic particle event prediction using advanced signal processing: Challenges and possibilities
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
J. M. Jensen Predictions of Solar Flares using Neural Networks and Local-Area Helioseismology
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
Y. Tulunay
M. Messerotti
E. Tulunay
K. Khazraei
Y. Özkök 		Neural network modeling in forecasting near earth space parameters: solar radio flux forecasting
| abstract (pdf) |
17.30 End
19.00 Dinner Festsalen - Banquet hall at AF

Wednesday 21/9
09.15 Session V: New space-, and ground-based facilities for exploration and prediction
T. Hoeksema Solar Dynamics Observatory
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
P. Brekke Solar B
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Session V: New space-, and ground-based facilities for exploration and prediction (cont.)
B. Thidé LOIS and LOFAR - deep space probing at the longest wavelengths for solar physics and space weather
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
11.30 Session VI: Solar activity programs
A. Hilgers
A. Glover 		Influences of solar activity on society
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
12.30 Lunch (AF - Academic Society)
14.00 Session VI: Solar activity programs (cont.)
M. Messerotti Building a foundation ontology for Solar Space Weather
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
N. Marsh Influence of Solar Activity Cycles on Earth’s Climate (ISAC)
| abstract (pdf) | 		(INVITED)
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Session VII: Videoconference:
W. Soon Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA, USA
RWCs of ISES and the Solar Space Weather
17.30 Conclusion
09-18 Posters Monday - Wednesday
P. Berg
P. Thejll
B. Christiansen 		The climate response to an increased solar constant: a GCM study
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J. Munk Jensen
F. P. Pijpers
M. J. Thompson 		Exploration of subsurface conditions around AR486 using time-distance helioseismology
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G. Maris
O. Maris 		Fast fourier transform analysis of the high speed plasma streams in the solar wind
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H. Miyahara
K. Masuda
Y. Muraki
H. Kitagawa
T. Nakamura 		Variation of solar cycle during the Maunder and Spörer minima
| abstract (pdf) |
D.I. Ponyavin Geomagnetic activity as predictor of solar cyclicity
| abstract (pdf) |
I.G. Usoskin
G.A. Kovaltsov
K. Mursula 		Maunder minimum: A conservative upper limit of sunspot activity
| abstract (pdf) |
M. Wik
H. Lundstedt 		Solar activity indicators explored with wavelets:
A comparative study
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Scientific Organizing Committee:
Svante Björck (CGB, Sweden)
David Boteler (ISES/NRC, Canada)
Alain Hilgers (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands)
Todd Hoeksema (Stanford, USA)
Rickard Lundin (IRF-K, Sweden)
Henrik Lundstedt (ISES/IRF-Lund, Sweden)
Mauro Messerotti (INAF-Trieste, Italy)
Bo Thidé (IRF-U, Sweden)
Michael Thompson (Sheffield, U.K.)
Local Organizing Committee:
J. Munk Jensen, E. Jonsson, H. Lundstedt, M. Wik,
P. Wintoft