EAST Workshop on Solar Physics "Science with Synoptic Solar Telescopes"
October 4- 7, 2010, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia

First Announcement

SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

Synoptic Long Term Investigation of the Sun (SLTI) is a complex system of activities of many groups involved in solar physics. Synoptic observations are performed at many locations over the world, in both space and networks, in different ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.

SLTI carries out rich information about the long term changes of physical conditions of the Sun. The primary goal of the SLTI is to provide fundamental data necessary to understand the solar activity cycle and contribute to answer some fundamental questions on the investigation of our star. Namely, what the nature of long-time variations of the solar magnetism – a solar cycle – is, how magnetism controls our star, how we can model and predict changing outputs from the Sun that affect the Earth – Space weather.

Effective SLTI should be able to produce real-time and near real-time data with sufficient resolution and cadence over a long time span and to augment the scientific yield from space mission and ground-based projects and networks. State-of-the-art instrumentation data collection techniques, archives and data handling are needed to enhance both the quality and quantity of data. This needs stable long term financing for instrumentation, manpower for observations and for databases, as well as synergies between the optical and radio ground base observations and space observations.

The focus topics for the workshop will include:
Science with synoptic observations, scientific objectives:

• solar cycle,
• synoptic magnetograms,
• solar constants,
• helioseismology

Solar patrols and networks

• existing networks and their results
• plans to set up new networks and projects
• solar patrols from space
• ground (optical, radio) patrols
• radio solar patrols

Tools, Techniques, Instrumentation, Databases, Archives

• an assembly of line cheap synoptic instruments
• remotely–operated instruments, networks
• effective global databases and archives

The workshop is an ideal opportunity for large communities of both observers and theoreticians to take stock of our past achievements, as well as to plan for the future of this field.

The venue and time of the workshop are also synchronized with the final phase of the construction of an advanced “Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter” CoMP at the Coronal station at the Lomnicky stit observatory, which is dedicated to study velocities and magnetic fields in the solar corona.

Deadlines

• June 1, 2010First Announcement posted
• September 1, 2010Second Announcement posted
• September 15, 2010Registration
• September 15, 2010Abstracts
• December, 31 2010Contributions to Proceedings
• May/June 2011Publication date

Fee

• 100 €    for a participant
•   30 €    for an accompanying person

The fee will be paid in cash at the registration desk after your arrival.

Hotel

We strongly recommend that you book your accommodation as early as possible. Late booking may result in a rather expensive rate.

Preliminary programme