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Last update: August 17, 2009

Upcoming meetings

The next CESRA Workshop will take place in La Roche en Ardenne in Belgium, June 15 - 19, 2010
The workshop title is Energy storage and release through the solar activity cycle - models meet radio observations
Meeting website is at CESRA2010
Contact: Christophe Marque, christophe.marque (at) oma.be
Scientific organising committee: H. Aurass (Potsdam), K.-L. Klein (Meudon), A. MacKinnon (Glasgow), C. Marque (Brussels, co-chair), V. Melnikov (Nizhnyi Novgorod), A. Nindos (Ioannina, co-chair), S. Poedts (Leuven; European Solar Phys Div of EPS), S. Pohjolainen (Turku)

The workshop will address explosive energy conversion, large-scale instabilities and nonthermal processes in the active and less active solar atmosphere. The present unusually long decline of the solar cycle gives us new means to study coronal physics and its impact on the Heliosphere. Radio diagnostics contribute important information notably because they cover the whole range from the low solar atmosphere to 1 AU, and because of their sensitivity to non thermal electron populations. This will continue in the coming years, with new impetus from the space missions such as STEREO and SDO, projects for Solar Orbiter, new ground-based facilities, and the development of new databases and virtual observatories.


Past CESRA Workshops

  • Solar Radio Physics and the Flare-CME relationship
    • Ioannina, Greece
      June 12 - 16, 2007
      Proceedings: Review papers and original science papers were published in the Solar Physics Topical Issue Radio Physics and the Flare-CME Relationship, Vol. 253, Numbers 1-2, December 2008, editor L. van Driel-Gesztelyi and guest editors K.-L. Klein and S. Pohjolainen
  • The Dynamic Sun: Challenges for Theory and Observations
  • The High Energy Solar Corona: Waves, Eruptions, Particles
    • Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland
      June 7 - 11, 2004
      Proceedings: Invited talks and working group reports were published in a topical volume of Lecture Notes in Physics 725, editors K.-L. Klein and A. MacKinnon
  • Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona
    • Ringberg Castle near Tegernsee/Munich, Germany
      July 2 - 6, 2001
      Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Physics 612, Springer-Verlag, 2003 (ed. K-L.Klein)
  • CESRA Workshop on Collisionless Shock Waves in the Solar Corona and the Heliosphere
  • Magnetic Fields and Solar Processes
      • EPS-Solar Physics Meeting cosponsored by CESRA & JOSO
        Florence, Italy
        September 12 - 18, 1999
        Proceedings: ESA SP-448 (ed. A. Wilson)
  • Coronal Explosive Events
    • Siikaranta (Espoo), Finland
      June 9 - 13, 1998
      no Proceedings
  • Coronal Physics from Radio and Space Observations
    • Nouan le Fuzelier, France
      June 3 - 7, 1996
      Proceedings (reviews): Lecture Notes in Physics 483, Springer-Verlag, 1997 (ed.G. Trottet)
  • Coronal Magnetic Energy Releases
    • Potsdam, Germany
      May 16-20, 1994
      Proceedings (reviews): Lecture Notes in Physics 444, Springer-Verlag, 1995 (eds. A.O. Benz, A.Krüger)
      Proceedings (articles): Solar Physics Vol.160, No.1, August 1995
  • Fragmented Energy Release in Sun and Stars
      • (CESRA cosponsored)
        Utrecht, The Netherlands
        October 18-21, 1993
        Proceedings: Space Science Review, 68 (1994) (ed. G.H.J. van Oord)
  • Fragmentation of Energy Release in Space
    • Ouranoupolis, Greece
      June 3-7, 1991
      no Proceedings
  • Particle Beams in the Solar Atmosphere
    • Braunwald, Switzerland
      August 21-25, 1989
      Proceedings: Solar Phys. 130 (1990) (ed. A.O. Benz)
  • Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares
    • Aubigny-sur-Nère, France
      June 23-26, 1986
      Proceedings: Solar Phys. 111 (1987) (eds. G. Trottet, N.Vilmer)
  • Radio Continua During Solar Flares
    • Duino, Italy
      May 27-31, 1985
      Proceedings: Solar Phys. 104 (1986) (ed. A.O. Benz)
  • Solar Noise Storms
    • Duino, Italy
      August 9-13, 1982
      Proceedings: Internal Report, Osservatorio Astronomica di Trieste (eds. A.O. Benz, P.Zlobec)
  • Solar Noise Storms (Orages solaires de type I)
    • Gordes, France
      March 17-21, 1980
      Proceedings: Editions du CNRS (ISBN 2-222-03040-4) (eds. J.L. Bougeret, A.O.Benz)
  • Contexte Coronal des Eruptions Solaires
    • Toulouse, France
      March 9-10, 1978
      Proceedings: Colloques internationaux du CNES, 282 (1978), (eds. S. Dumont, J. Rösch)
  • CESRA 1975
    • Florence, Italy
      February 25-27, 1975
      Proceedings: Osservazione e Memorie, 105 (eds. C. Chiuderi, M. Landini, A. Righini)
  • CESRA 1974
    • Berne, Switzerland
      March 4-8, 1974
      Proceedings: Internal Report, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Berne (ed. E. Schanda)
  • CESRA 1972
    • Bordeaux - Floirac, France
      September 21-22, 1972
      Proceedings: Internal Report, Observatoire de l'Université de Bordeaux (eds. J. Delannoy, F.Poumeyrol)