PUNCH 4 Science Meeting Agenda at a Glance

(All times are Colorado time - MDT).

Thursday, July 6, 2023

  • 8:30-10:00 AM: Section 1 - PUNCH mission

    • Chairs: Sarah Gibson, Barbara Thompson

    • Invited talks:

      • Craig DeForest - PUNCH mission overview

      • Robin Colaninno - The Narrow Field Imager (NFI)

      • Glenn Laurent - The Wide Field Imager (WFI) 

      • Dan Seaton - The PUNCH Science Operations Center

    • Discussion

  • 10:00-10:30 AM: Coffee break/Posters

  • 10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Section 2 - PUNCH diagnostic techniques

    • Chairs: Glenn Laurent, Robin Colaninno

    • Invited talks:

      • Raphael Attie - Flow tracking / solar wind measurement

      • Sarah Gibson - Polarization/localization diagnostics and forward modeling

      • Bernard Jackson - 3-D Reconstruction analysis

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch

  • 1:00-2:30 PM: Section 3 - The dynamic solar wind

    • Chairs: Raphael Attie, Steven Cranmer

    • Invited talks:

      • Anna Malanushenko - Interplanetary CMEs and PUNCH

      • Curt de Koning - What we think we know about CIRs/SIRs

      • Phil Hess - Outflows big and small

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 2:30-3:00 PM: Coffee break/Posters

  • 3:00-4:30 PM: Section 4 - The quiescent but turbulent solar wind

    • Chairs: Anna Malanushenko, Curt de Koning

    • Invited talks:

      • Francesco Pecora - MHD turbulence simulations

      • Steven Cranmer - Mapping the Sun’s Alfven surface with PUNCH

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 4:30-6:30 PM: Excursion to Fiske Planetarium

 

Friday, July 7, 2023

  • 8:30-10:00 AM: Section 5 - PUNCH-enabled science: coronal jets

    • Chairs: David Webb, Cherilynn Morrow

    • Invited talks:

      • Nicki Viall – Origins of variability

      • Alphonse Sterling - Review of coronal jets

      • Nour-Eddine Raouafi - Solar wind jetlets 

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 10:00-10:30 AM: Coffee break/Posters

  • 10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Section 6 - PUNCH extended impact

    • Chairs: Heather Elliott, Dan Seaton

    • Invited talks:

      • Cherilynn Morrow - PUNCH Outreach

      • Gabriela Gallarraga, Amir Caspi, Samantha Honan - Student Thermal Energetic Activity Module (STEAM)

      • Don Schmit - PUNCH Space Weather

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch

  • 1:00-2:00 PM: Posters

  • 2:00-3:30 PM: Section 7 - PUNCH connections

    • Chairs: Mihir Desai, Nicki Viall

    • Invited talks:

      • Elena Provornikova - Global Heliospheric Models and PUNCH

      • Matt West – Connecting down to the middle corona

      • Heather Elliott - PUNCH remote sensing to in-situ connections

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 3:30-4:00 PM: Coffee break/Posters

  • 4:00-5:30 PM: Section 8 – Looking forward to working together

    • Chairs: Craig DeForest, Sarah Gibson

    • Invited talks

      • Larry Kepko – The Great Observatory

      • Dipankar Banerjee – International connections

      • Barbara Thompson - PUNCH open science

      • Peg Luce – NASA Heliophysics Connections

    • Contributed talks/discussion

  • 5:30-8:00 PM: PUNCH Reception

 

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