Agenda

We started the meeting on Tuesday (31 Jan) with a reception in the evening. The scientific sessions then started Wedenesday morning and lasted until Fridy at lunch time. The conference dinner was on Wednesday evening.

The science programme focused on two main problems, the science of the solar wind as measured in-situ and the related solar wind acceleration in the corona as probed by remote-sensing observations. These two topics covered observational and theoretical/modeling aspects in equal share and were be followed up by a look ahead in terms of future efforts.

The 2.5 days were focused on the science that will be accessible with the Solar Orbiter heliophysics observatory from ESA, in particular on the interaction of the solar corona and the inner heliosphere. On 4 October 2011 Solar Orbiter was selected for a launch in 2017. Therefore this meeting came at the right time to stir some science discussions.

The invited talks reviewed our knowledge and pointed out future plans in the fields of solar wind in-situ measuments and remote sensing observations of the corona and their relation to advanves in modeling these structures. Apart from these invited talks we had room for almost 20 contributed talks focusing on special aspects. Further contributions were be made through poster presentations, for which we reserved appropriate poster sessions and advertised a poster award.

On Wednesday we devoted a full day to the in-situ science. This covered measurements from the time of Helios to most recent investigations and the associated modeling on the acceleration of and turbulence in the solar wind.

On Thursday we covered the coronal science. This encompassed remote sensing of the source region of the solar wind and associated modeling, such as particle acceleration, and various aspects of MHD modeling.

Finally on Friday morning we asked ourselves where to go from here. Certainly the main missions on the connection from the corona to the inner heliosphere in the not too distant future will be Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus. In addition, we also asked what might come after these...

We closed the meeting on Friday after lunch.

The detailed scientific programme including most of the presentations in PDF format is available in the programme area.