"Helioseismology and Applications"

The HELAS VI/ SOHO-28/ SPACEINN Conference "Helioseismology and Applications" will be held during the week of 1-5 September 2014 in Göttingen, Germany.

Scientific Program

Scientific program (pdf)

Ongoing and Future Projects
Chair: Hannah Schunker

Monday morning (Sept. 1)

09:00-9:10

Laurent Gizon

Welcome

09:10-9:30

Phil Scherrer

SDO, HMI and JSOC progress and status

09:30-9:50

Richard Bogart

HMI local helioseismology data: status and prospects

09:50-10:10

Frank Hill

GONG status and results

10:10-10:40

Coffee and Posters

10:40-11:00

Guy R. Davies

The Sun as a star: insights from BiSON, Kepler and CoRoT

11:00-11:20

Björn Löptien

Helioseismology with Solar Orbiter

11:20-11:40

Sylvaine Turck-Chiéze

The OPAC International Consortium

11:40-12:00

Markus Roth

SPRING: A new ground-based network for synoptic solar observations

12:00-12:10

Group photo

12:10-

Lunch

Convection and Dynamics
Chair: Michael J. Thompson

Monday afternoon (Sept. 1)

14:00-14:20

Atefeh Barekat

Radial gradient of the near-surface shear layer of the Sun

14:20-14:40

Jesper Schou

Interaction of waves with solar convection

14:40-15:00

Shravan M. Hanasoge

Imaging convection in the solar interior

15:00-15:20

Michal Švanda

Surface flow fields

15:20-15:50

Coffee and Posters

15:50-16:10

Jan Langfellner

Spatially resolved vorticity in supergranulation with helioseismology

16:10-16:30

Damien Fournier

Inversion of the two-point velocity correlations on the Sun's surface

16:30-16:50

Günther Rüdiger

The existence of the Λ effect in the solar convection zone as indicated by SDO observations

Active Regions
Chair: Markus Roth

Tuesday morning (Sept. 2)

9:00-9:20

Hannah Schunker

Catalogue of emerging active regions observed by HMI (May 2010 – Dec 2012)

9:20-9:40

Aaron C. Birch

Near-surface flows associated with evolving active regions

9:40-10:00

Sushanta C. Tripathy

Horizontal flows in active regions from multi-spectral observations of SDO

10:00-10:40

Coffee and Posters

10:40-11:00

Paul Cally

Can the seismology of active regions be decoupled from the chromosphere?

11:00-11:20

Axel Brandenburg

F-mode signal from localized magnetic flux concentrations

11:20-11:40

Hamed Moradi

What can we learn from directional time-distance probing of solar magnetic regions?

11:40-12:00

Sergiy Shelyag

Spectropolarimetric signatures of mode conversion in simulated sunspots

12:00-

Lunch

The Solar Cycle
Chair: Paul Cally

Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 2)

14:00-14:20

Anne-Marie Broomhall

Insights into the solar cycle from global helioseismology

14:20-14:40

Timo Reinhold

Activity, rotation and stellar ages using Kepler

14:40-15:00

Robert H. Cameron

Observational constraints on the solar dynamo

15:00-15:20

Ed Rhodes

Probing the solar interior on multiple timescales using global helioseismology

15:20-15:50

Coffee and Posters

15:50-16:10

Dean-Yi Chou

Magnetic fields at the base of solar convection zone

16:10-16-30

H.M. Antia

Solar rotation during cycles 23 and 24

16:30-16:50

Jörn Warnecke

Simulations modeling global turbulent convective dynamos of the Sun with and without coronal envelope

The Legacy of Irene González Hernández
Chair: Frank Hill

Wednesday morning (Sept. 3)

9:00-9:20

Frank Hill

Farside maps and space weather forecasting

9:20-9:40

Jesús Patrón

Pioneering work on ring diagram analysis with Irene González Hernández

9:40-10:00

Charles Lindsey

Seismic mapping of the Sun's far hemisphere

10:00-10:40

Coffee and Posters

10:40-11:00

Junwei Zhao

Farside imaging with time-distance helioseismology

11:00-11:20

Douglas Braun

Local helioseismic investigation of emerging active regions

11:20-11:40

Rudolf Komm

Solar-cycle variation of subsurface flows derived from GONG and SDO/HMI

11:40-12:00

Rachel Howe

Persistent near-surface flow structures from ring-diagram analysis of GONG and HMI data

12:00-12:45

Lunch

Excursion & dinner in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 3)

SPACEINN Workshop: Systematics
Chair: Kaori Nagashima

Thursday morning (Sept. 4)

9:00-9:30

Sylvain Korzennik

What can we learn about the solar subsurface large scale flows from accurate high-degree modes frequencies?

9:30-10:00

Thomas L. Duvall Jr.

A new time-distance measurement of meridional circulation that is not susceptible to center-to-limb effects

10:00-10:40

Coffee and Posters

10:40-11:00

Timothy Larson

Medium-degree analysis of Mount Wilson data

11:00-11:20

Kaori Nagashima

SDO/HMI multi-height velocity measurements

11:20-11:40

Vincent Böning

Extension to spherical geometry: sensitivity kernels for flows in time-distance helioseismology

11:40-12:00

Ariane Schad

Distortion of global mode eigenfunctions

12:00-

Lunch

Solar Structure / Asteroseismology
Chair: Sylvaine Turck-Chiéze

Thursday afternoon (Sept. 4)

14:00-14:20

Maria Cristina Rabello Soares

Solar structure as seen by high-degree modes

14:20-14:40

Sergei Vorontsov

Seismic diagnostics of the equation of state and element abundances in the solar envelope

14:40-15:00

Sergey Ayukov

On the possibility of constructing solar model with helioseismic convection zone

15:00-15:20

Vladimir Baturin

Evidence of early solar evolution in the tachocline and overshooting region below the present convective zone

15:20-15:50

Coffee and Posters

15:50-16:10

Rafael A. Garcia

Low-degree and low-order global seismology of the Sun and stars

16:10-16:30

Takashi Sekii

Rotation of KIC 11145123

16:30-16:50

Warrick Ball

Near-surface effects

Ways Forward
Chair: Bernhard Fleck

Friday morning (Sept. 5)

9:00-9:20

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Turbulent convection in the laboratory

9:20-9:40

Hannah Schunker

Sunspot seismology

9:40-10:00

Manfred Küker

Modeling solar dynamics

10:00-10:40

Coffee and Posters

10:40-11:00

Laurent Gizon

Trends in theoretical helioseismology

11:00-11:20

Jesper Schou

Future of observational helioseismology

11:20-11:40

Thierry Appourchaux

Prospects for asteroseismology of solar-type stars

11:40-12:00

Michael J. Thompson

Conference summary

12:00-

Lunch