WelcomeMarkus Roth

Kiepenheuer-Institut für SonnenphysikFreiburg

August 31, 2015

Welcome to Freiburg• One of the sunniest cities in Germany

• Freiburg is located in front of the Black Forrest• France and Switzerland are only a few kilometers away

• Freiburg is a university city and home for many research institutes

www.freiburg.de

Astrophysics in Freiburg – Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics

Fundamental research in solar & stellar physics:• Theoretical & experimental departments• Operates the German Telescopes on Tenerife

(Vacuum Tower Telescope & 1.5m GREGOR)• Builds Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) for 4m DKIST• Many international projects

(e.g. Solarnet, HELAS, SpaceInn, SPRING)

• 2 ERC groups:- Advanced Grant HOTMOL – Svetlana Berdyugina- Starting Grant ORIGIN – Markus Roth

• www.kis.uni-freiburg.de

Motivation for this Conference• Bringing together solar and stellar physics• Fostering scientific exchange and synergies between these two

areas of astrophysics• Reviewing both areas:

- Sun as a Rosetta Stone for the stars?- The large family of stars as the realizations of a physics experiment with

the Sun being one of them

• Need to understand:- Solar and stellar observations- Solar and stellar modelling- Solar and stellar activityTools to probe the interiors: Solar and stellar seismology

In Memory of Jean-Paul Zahn“… As a renowned expert in hydrodynamics, he played a central role all along in his career in our understanding of stellar and solar internal dynamics. He in particular developed theories on hydrodynamic instabilities in stellar interiors, demonstrating the key role played by rotation in shaping the evolution of stars. He made major contributions to the subjects of turbulent convection, angular momentum transport and the generation and excitation of internal gravity waves in stars. He made the first model explaining the existence of the solar tachocline, the thin intense shear layer at the base of the solar convection zone. He also was an active supporter of helio- and asteroseismology space missions. …”

Claude Catala, Observatoire de Paris

*March 23, 1935 in Mulhouse+ July 15, 2015

Solarnet - EAST• EAST – European Association for Solar Telescopes

- Plan to construct the 4m European Solar Telescope (EST) on the Canary Islands in the 2020s.

- http://www.astro-east.org

• Solarnet: High-resolution Solar Physics Network- Integrated Activity funded by EU‘s FP7; 04/2013 – 03/2017- Networking Activities, e.g. this conference & mobility program- Transnational Access and Service Programme (poster P19)- Joint Research Activities (e.g. SPRING)

- Coordinator: Monolo Collados, IAC- Technical Manager: Markus Roth, KIS- http://www.solarnet-east.eu

HELAS & SpaceInn• HELAS: European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network

- EU FP6 Coordination Action from 2006 – 2010- After 2010 Consortium continued its coordinating activities- Now: 24 partners from Europe and the USA- http://www.helas-project.eu

Initiates new projects:- FP7 Collaborative Project “Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative

Helio- and Asteroseismology – SpaceInn”; 01/2013 – 12/2016 - http://www.spaceinn.eu

- Active Participation in Solarnet (Networking Activities, Joint Research Activities, e.g. SPRING)

Solarnet – HELAS Meetings• Tradition of HELAS Meetings:

HELAS I: SOHO/GONG Meeting in Sheffield 2006HELAS II: Göttingen 2007HELAS III: 1st CoRoT Symposion in Paris 2009HELAS IV: Tenerife 2010HELAS V: Obergurgl 2012 funded by European Science FoundationHELAS VI: Göttingen 2014 funded by Max-Planck Society

• First Series of Solarnet MeetingsSolarnet I: Oslo 2013Solarnet II: Palermo 2015

-> Solarnet III / HELAS VII / SpaceInn 2015 funded by Solarnet

Your PresentationsWe have a dense conference program with many interesting talks

To allow a smooth transition between speakers:• Please upload your talk to the conference computer

at the latest in the break before the session with your talkpersons in charge: Kolja Glogowski & Vigeesh Gangadharan• Use your personal laptop only in exceptional cases

• Posters: Will be on display during the whole conference

Conference Proceedings• All material to be collected at the new open access platform

www.science-media.org

• Dedicated Conference Site (this conference as a test case): www.science-media.org/cid/solarnet3.2015

• Please create an account there: It is easy!

• Upload your talk, poster, videos, explanatory material to your account• Link your material to the conference with the unique

Conference Identifier (CID): solarnet3.2015

• Problems & Questions? The Science Media team is continuously on standby during the whole week

Thank You To• Novotel am Konzerthaus Freiburg• European Union‘s Framework Programme 7

• High-resolution Solar Physics Network – Solarnet• European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network – HELAS• Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology -

SpaceInn

• Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg• Europa-Park, Rust• Fa. Kranz Vilm Veranstaltungstechnik, Freiburg• Restaurant Divan, Bertoldstraße 54, Freiburg• The Science Media Network GmbH

I wish you an interesting conference!

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