NASA Living with a Star Extreme Space Weather Events 2012 Workshop

Program

Monday, May 14 (chair: Janet Luhmann) 08:30 Registration 09:00 Opening remarks and discussion Pete Riley 09:15 Invited talk: Extreme CMEs Nat Gopalswamy 09:45 Working Group Session Extreme CMEs: Origins and Evolution (Riley/Manchester) 10:30 Break 10:45 WG sessions continue 12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Working Group Session Understanding the CME/SEP connection (Li/Cohen) 15:15 Break 15:45 WG sessions continue 17:00 Welcome reception and Posters Tuesday, May 15 (chair: Mihir Desai) 09:00 Invited talk: Extreme Space Weather Events: Associated Solar-Terrestrial Databases Peggy Shea 09:30 Working Group Session Existence of Extreme Events in Various Solar-Geophysical Records (Shea) 10:30 Break 10:45 WG session continue 12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Invited talk: Extreme Stellar Events Dave Soderblom 14:00 Working Group Session Extreme Space Weather: Campaign Events (Dayeh/Kozorov) Limits to the maximum flare energy of stars from formation to solar age

(Soderblom/Osten/Schrijver) 15:15 Break 15:45 WG session continue 17:00 Adjourn Wednesday, May 16 (chair: Stan Solomon)

09:00 Invited talk: Ice Core Records Jack Dibb/Harlan Spence 09:30 Working Group Session Interpretation of ice core records as proxies of ESWEs (Smart/Dibb/Randall) 10:30 Break 10:45 WG sessions continue 12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Invited talk: Extreme Events in the Atmosphere Charley Jackman 14:00 Working Group Session Propagation of extreme events through the atmosphere (Randall) 15:15 Break 15:45 WG session continue 17:00 Adjourn Thursday, May 17 (chair: Tibor Torok) 09:00 Invited talk: Societal Consequences of Extreme Events Dan Baker 09:30 Working Group Session Extreme Events: What constitutes them and what are their effects? (Townsend) 10:30 Coffee break 10:45 WG session continue 12:00 Working Group Summaries WG Leaders 12:30 workshop wrap-up and plans for next year.