Announcement:  radiophysics session in the AOGS/AGU 2012 meeting

Announcement:

Initiated by Robert Duffin (International Centre for Radio Astronomy 
Research, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Australia) a proposal 
was accepted of having a radiophysics session (final title and text 
below) for the AOGS/AGU 2012 meeting to be held in Singapore, 
August 13-17. Invited speakers are listed below and have accepted.

We now need to advertise the session to generate interest from 
prospective speakers for contributed talks (for which they will have 
to submit an abstract).

Here are the details for abstract submission which can be found at:

http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=abstract.htm

Submission Opens: 15 Jan 2012
Submission Closes: 12 Mar 2012
Acceptance Notification: 9 Apr 2012
Author Registration Deadline: 4 Jun 2012

Invited speakers who have accepted (with subject of talk):

Section 1:
Gottfried Mann (Theoretical aspects of solar radio emission, CMEs and
a consistent picture of solar coronal energy release processes)

Nat Gopalswarmy (CMEs and radio bursts)

Section 2:
Kazunari Shibata (X-ray events, associated simulations, and
relationships to radio events)

Section 3:
Bernard Jackson (IPS analysis)
Mario M. Bisi (IPS observations)

Section 4:
Divya Oberoi (MWA and low frequency radio emissions in the heliosphere)
Yihua Yan (CSRH and low frequency radio emissions in the heliosphere)

Session Title:
Radio Physics and Remote Sensing of the Corona and Heliosphere

Session Description:
This session is an opportunity for presentations relating to
observations and theoretical models of solar coronal and heliospheric
phenomena that generate or are otherwise associated with radio waves.
Radio physics in the heliosphere is at an exciting juncture with data
from the currently developing solar cycle 24 for multi-wavelength
studies of solar flare and CME events using radio observations from
new ground-based low frequency radio telescope antenna arrays (CSRH,
FASR, FAST, LOFAR, LWA and MWA), satellite radio data from SWAVES,
white light optical imaging of CMEs from the coronagraphs on SOHO
(LASCO) and STEREO, and high-time and high-frequency cadence data from
extreme ultraviolet wavelengths and magnetograms from SDO; together
with high quality X-ray and gamma-ray imaging of the flare site from
Hinode, GOES12 and RHESSI. The session will be structured around
several invited papers on (1) Solar radio emission, CMEs, and a
consistent picture of solar coronal energy release processes -
observations, cartoons, and models (2) Particle acceleration and
propagation in the corona, shocks, radio emission, and coronal
magnetic field structures, (3) remote sensing of CMEs and other
transients in the heliosphere using interplanetary scintillation (IPS)
techniques with extra-solar system radio sources and (4) low frequency
radio emissions in the heliosphere. We seek contributed papers related
to (a) new observations and analysis of radio emissions in the
heliosphere, (b) CME, shock and particle acceleration observation and
theory relating to radio physics, (c) theories of radio emission
mechanisms, (d) space weather forecasting: applications of solar and
heliospheric radio bursts and (e) reports on new instruments and
capabilities for present and requirements for future radio
observatories, from ground-based to space-based.


Henry Aurass (Co-convener)

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