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IYA 2009

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Wednesday 18.3.2009

16.00-16.20 Opening ceremony

16.20-17.00 Keynote talk: Mike Lockwood, Measurement of open solar flux by various spacecraft in the heliosphere and their implications for long term solar variability

17.00-17.50 Session 1

17.00-17.30 Sami Solanki, Modelling the variation of solar total and spectral irradiance

17.30-17.50 Werner Schmutz, The relation between TSI and SSN reinvestigated

Coffee break

18.20-19.30 Session 2

18.20-18.40 Natalie Krivova, Reconstruction of solar spectral irradiance back to 1947

18.40-19.00 Thierry Dudok de Wit, Total solar irradiance variability in comparison to other solar proxies

19.00-19.30 Jean-Pierre Rozelot, How do the Sun's dimensions vary in time?

19.30-21.00 Poster viewing session including Ice breaker

21.00- Dinner

Thursday 19.3.2009

09.00-10.50 Session 3

09.00-09.30 Jeffrey Hall, Observations of Sun-like stars and their implications for long-term solar activity

09.30-10.00 Dibyendu Nandi, The physics of solar cycle predictions

10.00-10.20 Antonio Ferriz-Mas, Energy budget for the solar dynamo

10.20-10.50 Eric Priest, Heating the Solar Corona

Coffee break

11.15-13.05 Session 4

11.15 -11.35 Paul Charbonneau, Solar cycle fluctuations and precursor schemes

11.35-11.55 Kirill Kuzanyan, Helical properties of solar magnetic fields as a proxy of dynamo mechanism - results of 20 years monitoring

11.55-12.15 Nadezhda Zolotova, Long-term asymmetries in the butterfly diagrams

12.15-12.45 Laurent Gizon, What does helioseismology tell us about solar dynamo and long-term solar magnetic activity?

12.45-13.05 Sylvaine Turck-Chieze, On the sources of the solar cycle variability

Lunch break

16.00-17.05 Session 5

16.00-16.20 Valentina Zharkova, Observational properties of sunspot and background magnetic fields during the solar cycle

16.20-16.50 Saku Tsuneta, HINODE results on solar magnetic field: solar dynamo, MHD waves and acceleration of solar wind

16.50-17.05 Yuto Shiozu, Global Temperature Distribution of the Sun as obtained with Hinode

Coffee break

17.30-19.00 Open discussion on Sun during the recent 400 years and solar cycles 23-24

19.30-20.30 Dinner

20.30-21.15 Tauno Turunen, Aurora borealis in science, history and human mind

Friday 20.3.2009

09.00-11.00 Session 6

09.00-09.30 Ed Smith, The long-term evolution of the heliospheric magnetic field: Ulysses legacy

09.30-09.50 Barbara Bromage, Variation of open magnetic flux on the Sun over the last solar cycle

09.50-10.20 John Richardson, Variation in the Solar Wind

10.20-10.40 Alexis Rouillard: STEREO observations of solar wind transients in white-light and
in-situ

10.40-11.00 Martin Leitner, The solar wind Quasi-Invariant observed by Stereo A and B at solar minimum and comparison with solar maximum results

Coffee break

11.30-13.10 Session 7

11.30-11.50 David Berghmans, Long-term properties of Coronal Mass Ejections

11.50-12.20 Bruce Tsurutani, High Speed Solar Wind Streams During the Declining Phase of the Solar Cycle: Resultant Geomagnetic Activity at Earth

12.20-12.40 Kalevi Mursula, Long-term measures of geomagnetic activity and ring current and their implications on solar change

12.40-13.10 Kanya Kusano, Multi-scale Simulation Study of Solar-Cosmic and Terrestrial Environment

Lunch break

15.00-17.00 Session 8

15.00-15.30 Juerg Beer, Cosmogenic Radionuclides and Solar Variability: Potential and Limitations

15.30-15.50 Ilya Usoskin, Grand minima and maxima of solar activity in the multi-millennial time scale

15.50-16.10 Jose Angel Abreu, For how long will the current grand maximum of solar activity persist?

16.10-16.30 Crisan Demetrescu, On the long-term variability of the heliosphere-magnetosphere environment

16.30-17.00 Katya Georgieva, Solar dynamo and terrestrial climate

17.30 Departure by bus to Conference Dinner

Saturday 21.3.2009

09.00-10.40 Session 9

09.00-09.30 Thomas Ulich, Long-term trends in the upper atmosphere

09.30-10.00 Alexander Ruzmaikin: Solar influence on climate: The role of climate patterns

10.00-10.20 John Moore, Examining causality relationships between sunspot cycles and global climate

10.20-10.40 Eugene Rozanov, Climate and Ozone response to the solar irradiance variability during 20th century

Coffee break

11.10-13.00 Session 10

11.10-11.40 Annika Seppälä, Observations of the solar effect upon the middle and upper atmosphere

11.40-12.00 Dan Marsh, WACCM simulations of the chemical response of the high-latitude middle atmosphere to solar proton events

12.00-12.20 Jan Maik Wissing, Modeling 3D atmospheric ionization by energetic charged particles

12.20-12.40 Luis Vieira, Southern Hemisphere subtropical stratospheric ozone depletion during the October-November 2003 solar extreme events

12.40-13.00 Jasa Calogovic, Forbush decreases and clouds: Do changes in cosmic ray intensity influence the cloud cover?

Lunch break

16.00-20.00 Session 11

16.00-16.20 Oleg Raspopov, Variations of climate parameters at time scales from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of years and its relation to solar activity

16.20-16.40 Radan Huth, Effects of the 11-year solar cycle on various characteristics of the Northern Hemisphere tropospheric circulation in winter

16.40-17.00 Svetlana Veretenenko, Solar activity, cosmic rays and cyclonic processes in the North Atlantic

17.00-17.20 Nir Shaviv, Quantifying the solar cycle related radiative forcing using oceans

Coffee break

17.50 Open discussion on solar and geomagnetic contributions to climate change

19.15-20.00 Symposium Summary