54th SPD Meeting

Overview

SPD 54
54th Meeting of the Solar Physics Division
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
13 – 18 August 2023

Join us 13-18 August at the University of Minnesota for the 54th meeting of the Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the AAS. The meeting is open to all, not only SPD members. Registration will be required.

Registration Is Open Block Schedule

Upcoming Deadlines

27 July: Regular registration deadline
3 Aug: Last day to register! There will be no onsite registration.

Plenary Speakers

Bin Chen

Harvey Prize Lecture: Solar Flare Energy Release: Where are We and What is Next?

Bin Chen is an associate professor of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research has centered on energetic phenomena on the Sun, including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and jets. He is also keen on developing novel radio instrumentation and techniques, and pioneered the use of broadband radio imaging spectropolarimetry to study the Sun. He is the Co-PI of the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array, a state-of-the-art radio interferometer dedicated to solar observing, and has led many solar observing programs with the Jansky Very Large Array. He received the 2023 Karen Harvey Prize from the Solar Physics Division for significantly advancing the studies of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration through his groundbreaking research of solar flares.

George Fisher

Hale Prize Lecture: Understanding the Dynamics of Magnetic Field and Plasma in the Interior and Atmosphere of the Sun

George H. Fisher, currently at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, has spent most of his career doing research on the Sun. His efforts have focused on understanding the dynamics in solar and stellar atmospheres during flares, studying how magnetic fields in the solar interior emerge to the Sun's surface and form active regions, developing observational constraints on how the Sun's corona is heated, and leading an effort to drive a model of the Sun's corona from sequences of magnetic field observations at the Sun's photosphere. He is awarded the 2023 George Ellery Hale Prize in recognition of these accomplishments.

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Note: The SPD will require in-person attendees to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccination (as defined by the CDC; see below for exceptions). Furthermore, the SPD encourages all attendees to be fully up to date on all vaccinations and boosters, including the recently available bivalent COVID vaccine and seasonal influenza (flu) shot. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will need to be provided before registering. Attendees who cannot provide this information will be subject to testing and masking requirements during the meeting. This policy is identical to the one that the host institution (the University of Minnesota) requires of its students and employees. For those who provide proof of vaccination, masks are not required during the meeting but are encouraged.

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