Dear SOCers: Below is a slightly modified agenda. Judging from comments about working groups (see some below), we shouldn't schedule WG meetings in parallel with the plenary. Perhaps, WGs could be in parallel with each other? and overlapping with poster time? Also, some of the topics below are suitable for WGs rather than in the plenary. Perhaps we should think of 6 hours each day of plenary and 2 of poster/WGs for a total of 8? Let's converge on this and start organizing for selection of speakers. The website for the meeting is half-done and proposals for support have been _________________ Topics for GONG/SOHO Meeting Local and Global Helioseismology: The Present and Future 1. Latest results - GONG - SOHO - Others 2. Local Helioseimology - Interpretation and validation of local time-distance and other methods - Test artifical data with realistic convection - Progress and plans for numerical simulations - Connections between local and global helioseismology - How different approaches describe the same observational data? - Mode characteristics in local helioseismology (effects of active regions, dynamics, etc.) - Prospects and pitfalls 3. Probing the Solar Interior - Large scale flows (meridional, zonal ...) - News from the dark side - Temporal variations in the solar interior - Helioseismology and other probes of the solar interior - The hunt for g-modes/Utopia?Reality?Prospects? 4. High Degree p-modes - What have we learned (or hope to learn) about the near surface layers? - mode characteristics in local helioseismology (f.ex., effects of } active regions, dynamics, etc.) } 5. Solar Cycle Variations - Irradiance variations - What can we hope to learn about the dynamo? - Helioseismology as a forecasting tool of solar activity - Astrometric measurements and variations (?) of the solar diameter 6. Peakfinding techniques and problems -- e.g. leakage, ridge fitting, fancy time series techniques. 7. Future Prospects - What can we hope for from GONG++ and SDO? - From solar to stellar seismology Comments about Working Groups: 1) To be useful they require serious advance preparation on the part of the convenor and probably the participants too, and clearly defined objectives. For example, the convenor could suggest a *few* specific questions to be addressed, and circulate those before the meeting. I am not in favor of the sort of 'working group' that degenerates into a slightly informal succession of micro-presentations; that sort of thing gets very wearing for the audience if it goes on longer than half an hour or so. Given the overlapping interests of most participants, it may not be optimal to schedule different working groups in parallel. On the other hand, a plenary session in WG-format may not be very useful. 2) There are 8 suggested groups and 4 days of meetings. How about plenary sessions in the morning, working groups in the afternoon? Each meeting could be for 1hr 30 min so (may be 2 hours?), we could fit in one meeting between lunch and tea and one after tea. This way those interested in all groups can attend, and those not interested in any can look at the posters. 3) I have mixed feelings. The best would be to re-define the aim of the meeting. If the dialogue between the different communities involved is not so important, then, we could do with the WGs. In the opposite case, we must ensure the presence of all at all sessions. This is pretty obvious. My inclination would eventually be to consider the Gong workshop as essential for all, and therefore make sure that the sessions are concised enough as to let everyone attend all sessions:i.e. no parallel sessions! 4) I am enthusiastic about working groups, but I am concerned about parallel working group sessions, so perhaps we might schedule one or two in an evening to minimize the need for parallel afternoon sessions, unless every evening will be filled with other activities. The only other options would be to make the working group meetings relatively short or to possibly combine some topics to reduce the number of working group meetings that will be necessary. 5) In principle I do not like parallel sessions, but if you really need because there is not enough time, we certainly have to envisage it. But we need some reports in plenary to be informed what happend in the other WG. Working Groups from SOHO4 WG.01 Active region seismology WG.02 Mode excitation and damping WG.03 Local-area helioseismology studies of convection zone dynamics WG.04 Magnetic effects Wg.05 Local are helioseismology methods: Hibert Trasnform, Time-Distance, Rings WG.06 Photospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields WG.07 Surface Flows and Tracking Part I WG.08 Helioseismology Intercomparisons WG.09 Internal Structure and Inversions WG.10 Surface Flows and Tracking Part II WG.11 Frequencies of high degree solar oscillations WG.12 The search for g-modes WG.13 GONG Data reduction and analysis WG.14 p-mode parameter variations along the solar cycle WG.15 Chromospheric oscillations WG.16 Low frequency data analysis WG.17 The background solar velocity and intensity spectra WG.18 Waves in the extended transition region and loops WG.19 Asteroseismology WG.18 Waves in the extended transition region and loops WG.19 Asteroseismology WG.20 Small groups TBD If I had to pick 10, I would choose: 01 03+05 04, 07+10 09, 11, 12, 14, 16+17 19 Topics for GONG/SOHO Meeting - Global modes: utopia? reality? prospects? - Solar Cycle Variations - what can we hope to learn about the dynamo? - Temporal variations in the solar interior } - Large scale flows (meridional, zonal ...) } - Helioseismology as a forecasting tool of solar activity.} - News from the dark side } + Peakfinding techniques and problems -- e.g. leakage, ridge fitting, fancy time series techniques. - Local helioseismology, including a shootout of how different approaches describe the same observational data - Connections between local and global helioseismology - High degree p-modes - prospects and pitfalls - what have we } learned (or hope to learn) about the near surface layers, } mode characteristics in local helioseismology (f.ex., effects of } active regions, dynamics, etc.) } - Early results from GONG+ } - What can we hope for from GONG++ and SDO? } - Astrometric measurements of the solar diameter: prospects. [Is there really enough for a whole session here?] - The hunt for g-modes - From solar to stellar seismology. - Helioseismology and other probes of the solar interior ____________________________________________ Topics for GONG/SOHO Meeting Local and Global Helioseismology: The Present and Future 1. Latest results - GONG - SOHO - Others 2. Local Helioseimology - Interpretation and validation of local time-distance and other methods - Test artifical data with realistic convection - Progress and plans for numerical simulations - Connections between local and global helioseismology - How different approaches describe the same observational data? - Mode characteristics in local helioseismology (effects of active regions, dynamics, etc.) - Prospects and pitfalls 3. Probing the Solar Interior - Large scale flows (meridional, zonal ...) - News from the dark side - Temporal variations in the solar interior - Helioseismology and other probes of the solar interior - The hunt for g-modes/Utopia?Reality?Prospects? 4. High Degree p-modes - What have we learned (or hope to learn) about the near surface layers? - mode characteristics in local helioseismology (f.ex., effects of } active regions, dynamics, etc.) } 5. Solar Cycle Variations - Irradiance variations - What can we hope to learn about the dynamo? - Helioseismology as a forecasting tool of solar activity - Astrometric measurements and variations (?) of the solar diameter 6. Peakfinding techniques and problems -- e.g. leakage, ridge fitting, fancy time series techniques. 7. Future Prospects - What can we hope for from GONG++ and SDO? - From solar to stellar seismology