Timetable

Sunday, September 14                                                         

19:00 - 21:00   REGISTRATION & OPENING RECEPTION (Scientific and Technological Park of Epirus; the conference venue)

Monday, September 15

8:00 - 9:00      Registration continued.

9:00     I. OPENING SESSION (Chair: C. Alissandrakis)

9:00                 Welcome: N. Gopalswamy, K. Shibata, A. Nindos

9:20                 Logistics

9:25                 R. Bonnet (KEYNOTE): Next 50 Years of Space Research

10:05               J. Davila (INVITED): International Heliophysical Year

10:30 - 10:50   BREAK

10:50               P. Bochsler  (INVITED): Composition of Matter in the Heliosphere

11:15               J. Beer  (INVITED): Sun and Planets from a Climate Point of View

11:40               I. Usoskin  (INVITED): Do Solar/Heliospheric Changes Affect the Earth's Climate?

12:05   II. SPACE WEATHER (Chair: K. Shibata)

12:05               N. Crosby  (INVITED): Space Weather: Science and Effects

12:30               M. Gigolashvili: Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Variation and its Connection with Some Characteristics of the Space Weather

12:45               T. Girish: Secular Changes in Solar Magnetic Flux Amplification Factor and Prediction of Space Weather

13:00 - 14:15   LUNCH          

14:15   III. SOLAR SOURCES OF HELIOSPHERIC VARIABILITY (Chair:  J. Davila)

14:15               K. Petrovay (INVITED): Solar and Planetary Dynamos

14:40               H. Antia  (INVITED): Solar and Stellar Oscillations

15:05               V. Abramov-Maximov: A Comparison of Parameters of 3-minute and 5-minute Oscillations in Sunspots from Synchronous Microwave and Optical Observations

15:20               L. Fisk (INVITED): The Heliospheric Magnetic Field

15:45 - 16:00   BREAK

16:00               S. Hasan (INVITED): Processes in Magnetized Chromospheres

16:25               B. Schmieder (INVITED): Solar Prominences

16:50               A. Nindos (INVITED): Helicity of Solar Active Regions

17:15               A. Gabriel: Outflow Velocity Structure at the Base of the Solar Corona

17:30               I. Kim: On the Electron Velocity Field of the Inner Corona

17:45               K. Marti: History of the Solar Environment

18:00               Adjourn

Tuesday, September 16

9:00     IV. SOLAR-HELIOSPHERE VARIABILITY - CMEs (Chair: C. Alissandrakis)

9:00                 R. Howard (KEYNOTE): Solar Mass Emission

9:40                 M. Jardin (INVITED): Stellar Mass Ejections

10:05               R. Harrison (INVITED): Coronal Mass Ejections

10:30 - 10:55   BREAK

10:55               S. Yashiro (INVITED): The Flare-CME Connection

11:20               N. Narukage (INVITED): Coronal Waves Associated with Solar Flares

11:45               D. Prosovetsky: 'EIT waves' in Coronal Loops During Non-flare Stage

12:00               C. Dumitrache: CMEs 'en Raffales' - Observations and Simulations

12:15               V. Fainshtein: Expansion of Coronal Mass Ejections within LASCO Field of View

12:30               C. Mandrini: The Link Between CME-associated Dimmings and Magnetic Clouds

12:45               B. Vrsnak: Aerodynamic Drag and Mass of Coronal Mass Ejections

13:00 - 14:15   LUNCH          

14:15   V. PLASMA AND RADIO EMISSION PROCESSES (Chair:  N. Gopalswamy)

14:15               D. Melrose (INVITED): Coherent Emission in Space Plasmas         

14:40               J. Cecatto: CME-associated Radio Spectrum Observed at 1-2.5 GHz

14:55               V. Melnikov: Formation of Anisotropic Distributions of Mildly Relativistic Electrons in Flaring Loops

15:10               G. Thejappa: Localization of the Type III and Type II Radio Sources Using the Multiple Spacecraft Observations

15:25               R. MacDowall: Reexamining the Correlation of Complex Solar Type III Radio Bursts and Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Events

15:40   VI. 3D RECONNECTION PROCESSES (Chair: C. Mandrini)

 15:40              J. Gosling (INVITED): Magnetic Reconnection in Heliospace

16:05 - 16:20   BREAK

16:20               K. Shibata: Discovery of Chromospheric Anemone Jets as Evidence of Ubiquitous Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere

16:35               N. Lugaz: Importance of Magnetic Reconnection during the Aug 24 2002 CME

16:50               T. Amari (INVITED): Flux Ropes as Fundamental Heliophysical Structures

17:15               S. Dasso (INVITED): Magnetic Helicity Content in Solar Wind Flux Ropes

17:40               R. DeVore (INVITED): Simulating Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere

18:05               Adjourn

Wednesday, September 17

EXCURSION               All day

Thursday, September 18

9:00     VI. 3D RECONNECTION PROCESSES, continued (Chair:  B. Vrsnak)

9:00                 H. Karimabadi (INVITED): Recent Advances in Understanding of Magnetic Reconnection

9:25                 L. Vlahos (INVITED): Magnetic Energy Release

9:50                 T. Zic: Signatures of Reconnection in the Post-CME Rays

10:05               N. Gopalswamy: The Global Solar Magnetic Field and MC structure 

10:20 - 10:40   BREAK

10:40   VII. ENERGETIC PARTICLES IN THE HELIOSPHERE (Chair: D. Webb)      

10:40               G. Zank (INVITED): Shock Theory

11:05               E. Cliver (INVITED): A Historical Introduction to Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere

11:30               H. Svensmark (KEYNOTE): Cosmic rays and Cloud Cover

12:10               B. Heber (INVITED): Solar and Heliospheric Modulation of Cosmic Rays

12:35               S. Fereira (INVITED): Theory of Cosmic Ray Modulation

13:00 - 14:15   LUNCH

14:15               A. Belov (INVITED): Forbush Effects and their Connection to the Solar, IP and Geomagnetic Phenomena

14:40               J. Calogovic: Forbush Decreases: No Change of Global Cloud Cover

14:55               E. Eroshenko: Anomalous Forbush Effects from Remote by Longitude Solar Sources

15:10               O. Sternal: The Propagation of Energetic Particles in Different Heliospheric Magnetic Field Configurations

15:25               I. Roth: Relativistic Terrestrial and Delayed Solar Electrons - Similarities and Differences

15:40               N. Arge (INVITED): Magnetic Flux Transport in the Heliosphere

16:05 -16:30    BREAK

16:30   VIII. HELIOSPHERE BOUNDARIES, INTERFACES & SHOCKS (Chair: J. D. Richardson)

16:30               D. McComas (INVITED): The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX): Imaging  the Global Heliospheric Interaction

16:55               T. Terasawa (INVITED): Astronomical Shocks

17:20               A. DeLucas: Multi-spacecraft Observations to Study the Shock Propagation in the Inner Heliosphere

17:35               Yu. Tsap: Generation and Propagation of Alfven Waves in Solar Atmosphere

17:50               G. Livadiotis: The Maximum Magnetic Flux in an Active Region

18:05               Adjourn

Evening         DINNER (Traditional food from Ioannina area with folk songs/dance)

Friday, September 19

9:00     IX. PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES, IONOSPHERES, MAGNETOSPHERES (Chair: J. Davila)

9:00                 J. Forbes (INVITED): Atmospheric Response of Earth, Mars and Venus to Periodic Forcing by Solar Radiation

9:25                 L. Vieirea: Longitudinal Anomaly in the Lower Stratospheric Temperature in Southern Hemisphere: Effects of Particle Precipitation in the Souther Hemisphere Magnetic Anomaly?

9:40                 M. Galand (INVITED): Comparative Planetary Auroras

10:05               J. Grebowsky (INVITED): Planetary Ionospheres -Sources and Dynamic Drivers

10:30               M. Kartalev (INVITED): Solar Wind Interaction with Planetospheres and Cometary Exospheres

10:55               O. Malandraki: Characteristic Signatures of Energetic Ions Upstream from the Kronian Magnetosphere as Revealed by Cassini/MIMI

11:10               G. Tisnado: Universal Euclidean Forms Emerging by Remote Sensing of the Sun-Earth System

11:25               BREAK and POSTER VIEWING

13:00 - 14:15    LUNCH

14:15   X. WAVES AND TURBULENCE IN HELIOSPACE (Chair: A. Nindos)

14:15               R. Vainio (INVITED): Particle Acceleration and Turbulence in Heliospheric Plasmas

14:40               A. Nulsen: Lower Hybrid Wave Properties in Heliospheric Environments

14:55               F. Malara (INVITED): Energy Balance and Cascade in MHD Turbulence in the Solar Corona and in the Solar Wind

15:20               S. Spangler (INVITED): Radio Remote Sensing of the Corona and Solar Wind

15:45               A. Satya Narayanan: Alfven Waves in a Gravitational Field with Flows

16:00   - 16:15 BREAK

XI. FLOWS, OBSTACLES, CIRCULATION (Chair: R. J. MacDowall)                                                                       

16:15               J. D. Richardson (INVITED): Flows and Obstacles in the Heliosphere

16:40               R. Forsyth (INVITED): 3-D View of the Heliosphere

17:05               T. Suzuki (INVITED): Evolution of Stellar Wind from the Sun to Red Giants

17:30               Closing Remarks, Publication Plan (N. Gopalswamy)                                   

17:40               END