10th RHESSI Workshop

Thank you!

schriste — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:08:24 +0000

Thank you all for coming and making this a great workshop. Links to the collected presentations can be found on the respective working-group pages. Looking forward to seeing you all at the next RHESSI workshop!

Cheers,
The Local Organizing Committee

Suggestions for activities on Tuesday afternoon

ayshih — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:50:59 +0000

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Four Centuries Walking Tour
Colonial attired tour guides bring history to life as you visit key sites, including the Maryland State House and the US Naval Academy (building interiors when available), that are part of Maryland’s colonial past and the United States’s history.
$16/person, 1:30 PM, 2.25 hours long, bring photo ID, no weapons/penknives
http://www.watermarkcruises.com/tours.htm

Narrated Sightseeing Cruises
1) Step aboard Harbor Queen for a narrated cruise of historic Annapolis Harbor and the banks of the U.S. Naval Academy. Enjoy getting on the water and catching a glimpse of the Bay Bridges. This 40-minute cruise is the perfect introduction to Annapolis.
$12/person, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM every hour on the hour, 40 minutes long
2) This Miss Anne will tour the residential areas of Old Annapolis to the headwaters of Spa Creek and along the banks of the U.S. Naval Academy.
$12/person, 3:30 – 8:30 PM every hour on the half hour, 40 minutes long
http://www.watermarkcruises.com/cruises40min.htm

U.S. Naval Academy
The USNA Guide Service provides public walking tours throughout the year so you can experience life on the Yard.
$9.50/person, 9:30 AM – 3 PM, bring photo ID, no weapons/penknives
http://www.usna.edu/NAFPRODV/VC/vc_main.html#Hours

Maryland State House
Guided tours are conducted by State House guides to help make your visit to the Maryland State House more enjoyable, and to provide you with an understanding of its rich and historic past. Tours begin at the State House Visitors’ Center and are given upon request when arriving at the Visitors’ Center.
no charge, bring photo ID, no weapons/penknives
http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/html/tours.html

William Paca House and Garden
Visit the restored home of William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary-era governor of Maryland… one of the most elegant landmarks in Annapolis today.
Admission: $8/person (house and garden) or $6/person (garden only), 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Docent-led tours: 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM every hour on the half hour, 45 minutes long
http://www.annapolis.org/index.asp?pageid=54

Hammond-Harwood House
The Hammond-Harwood House is a five part Anglo-Palladian (derived from 16th Italian architect Andrea Palladio) mansion that features some of the best woodcarving and plasterwork in America. The museum proudly showcases the finest collection of colonial furniture in Maryland. With authentic works from Philadelphia, New York, Massachusetts, England, Ireland, and China, the collection represents a broad spectrum of 18th century artistic endeavors.
Admission: $8/person, 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Docent-led tours: every hour on the hour, 50 minutes long
http://www.hammondharwoodhouse.org/index.php?id=3

Restaurant Recommendations

ayshih — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:50:42 +0000

Recommendations by Steven Dennis, former Annapolis correspondent for the Montgomery County Gazette newspaper

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Harry Browne’s
good for meetings and crab soup
66 State Cir
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 263-4332
www.harrybrownes.com

Joss Café and Sushi Bar
the best sushi place
195 Main St
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 263-4688
www.josscafe-sushibar.com

Galaway Bay
the best Irish pub
63 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401
410-263-8333
www.galwaybayannapolis.com

Lewnes
where the lobbyists take the state senators
401 4th Street
Annapolis, MD 21405
(410) 263-1617
www.lewnessteakhouse.com

Rams Head Tavern
good for lunch
33 West St
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 268-4545
www.ramsheadtavern.com

Cantler’s Riverside Inn
the best for crabs – on the water
About 4 miles from the hotel
458 Forest Beach Rd
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 757-1311
www.cantlers.com

Websites for more recommendations:
TripAdvisor
Yelp

Using gcal for Workgroup Schedules

schriste — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:22:59 +0000

Group Leaders,

In order to coordinate our organization efforts and make the group schedules as available as possible we suggest that everyone use google calendars. Google calendars is very easy to use and provides many capabilities for free (e.g. sharing and publishing, collaborative editing). The image of the workshop schedule shown on the scientific program page has been created with google calendar. If you have never used google calendar and do not have a google account then please start here. If you already have a google (or gmail) account then you already have access to google calendar (whether you knew it or not!), just visit the google calendar homepage and login with your google (or gmail) account to access it. Once you are logged into to google calendar create a new calendar by clicking “Add” under the “My Calendars” pane in the left hand panel and call it “Working Group #” where # is your working group number.

Figure 1: Add a new calendar called "Working Group #" where # is your working group number by clicking "Add". To access calendar setting click on the arrow next to your calendar name.

Now add items to your calendar as you see fit by simply clicking where you would like the event to occur. Please note that you can browse your calendars by “Day” (see the upper right hand corner).

Figure 2: To add someone else's calendar click on the "Add" button under "Other calendars"

As a guide you can add the official RHESSI Workshop overview calendar by clicking “Add” under “Other Calendars” and adding the calendar URL

RHESSI Workshop Overview Calendar URL

This will give you a template for the times available for each working group. Finally make sure to make your calendar is public (so everyone can see it including us and your group members).

Figure 3: Make sure that your calendar is set to "Public" so that the organizing committee and your group members can access it.

To do this go to your calendar settings by clicking the little downward arrow next to your calendar name on the left-hand side pane (see Figure 1). You can also allow multiple people to edit your calendar. The next step is to publish your calendar. You can find the calendar URL in “Calendar Details” also located in “Calendar settings” under Calendar address.

Figure 4: To get your calendar HTML link click on XML under in the "Calendar Details" under your Calendar settings.

Choose the XML link to get the link to your calendar and publish it on your work group page and send it to the workshop organizers. The HTML link will give you a handy link to an HTML version of your calendar.

Hotel Reservation Reminder

schriste — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:03:56 +0000

This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow (July 2nd) is the last day to get the negotiated workshop rate at the workshop hotel (The historic Inns of Annapolis) so please don’t forget to make your reservations! It seems like the online system may not be able to give you the negotiate rate ($120/night) so please place your reservation by phone (410-263-2641) and don’t forget to mention the “NASA RHESSI workshop”.

Workshop Registration Summary

schriste — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:35:43 +0000

This page shows the most recent registration results (last updated 12-Jul-2010).

Registered People

Gordon Holman
Eduard Kontar
Albert Shih
Ewan Dickson
Nicole Vilmer
Gordon Emslie
Robert Lin
Alexei Struminsky
Gordon Hurford
Brian Dennis
Yang Su
Steven Christe
Hugh Hudson
Ronald Murphy
Ryan Milligan
Zongjun Ning
Wenjuan Liu
Phillip Chamberlin
Lindsay Glesener
Gerald Share
James Miller
Siming Liu
James Drake
richard schwartz
Weiqun Gan
Mark McConnell
Jingnan Guo
Claire Raftery
Hazel Bain
Jeffrey Brosius
Chang Liu
Alexander Warmuth
Gottfried Mann
Rim Turkmani
Pavel Gritcyk
Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros
Wei Chen
Alec MacKinnon
Valentina Zharkova
Anna Maria Massone
Marina Battaglia
Yan Xu
Rui Liu
George Doschek
Qingrong Chen
Michele Piana
Silvia Allavena
Sophie Masson
Pascal Saint-Hilaire
Liu Wei
Neus Agueda
Procheta Mallik
Iain Hannah
James McTiernan
Tom Vestrand
Amir Caspi
James Musobo
Lyndsay Fletcher
Sam Krucker
David Smith
Jack Ireland
Laszlo Istvan Etesi

Planning a New Flare/CME/SEP Mission – Supplemental Meeting

schriste — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:25:45 +0000

This page has moved. It can now be found here or look to the tabs above!

Welcome Group Leaders!

schriste — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:43:50 +0000

Group leaders,

In order to make the creation of this webpage more collaborative and user-friendly, we have chosen to use wordpress (a popular blogging tool) as the hosting service. The advantage is that editing the website is fairly easy as it provides a simple graphical user interface and allows for many users to contribute to the site. As group leaders, you can therefore manage and update the group pages as you see fit (e.g. group schedule, introductions, group participant list, photos, etc.) If you haven’t ever used this kind of software, we (the organizing committee) will be more than happy to help out if you have any problems.

The first step to editing the webpage is to create a user account. You should be soon receiving an email inviting you to do this. Due to a limitations with wordpress, only one account can be given access to edit a page therefore if leaders and co-leaders want to both edit you will have to share an account. Please keep that in mind when you create your wordpress account. After creating a user account on wordpress, you can use that account to edit any wordpress blog which gives you access. Each group leader will be given access to edit their own group page. The group pages can be found under the working group link.

The working groups link

After you have created an account on wordpress and in order to login (if you aren’t already), use the link on the lower right hand corner of the page under “For authors”. There you’ll see a “Log in” link.

The login in link can be found here (though in this case it says logout as I was already logged in at the time)

You’ll know you are logged in if a bar appears above the page.

This grey bar tells you you are logged in.

When you are logged in you will be able to edit your own group page. To do that simply navigate to your group page. There are two ways to start editing. You can click on the edit button next to the title of the post.

The edit link next to the title of the post allows you to enter into edit mode.

Alternatively you can also click on the edit link in the grey bar above the page.

The "Edit Post" link in the grey bar will also enter you into edit mode.

In edit mode you will be presented with a simple “Microsoft Word”-like interface to edit the your group page. You can simply type text or add bulleted lists and so on and so forth. You can also upload images to add into the post. We hope that this interface is not to hard to decypher. If you are an html guru, feel free to enter into HTML mode and edit the html directly.

A preview of edit mode.

When you are done editing please be sure to save your work by clicking the “Update” button. This will make your changes live. There is also a preview button which will let you see how your changes will look on the actual page without making your changes live.

After editing please don't forget to save your work by clicking "Update"

As mentioned previously, the organizing committee will be more than happy to help. The organizing committee can also come in and edit any page on the website including the group pages therefore please do not be surprised if you find some (helpful) changes along the way.

WG6: Particle Acceleration & Transport

awarmuth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:04:42 +0000

Group Leader: Alexander Warmuth
Co-Leader: Rim Turkmani

The Presentations

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The aim of this group is to examine the theory versus the observations in particle acceleration by concentrating on observations that give us inference on the particle acceleration and transport mechanisms, as well as on theory and modelling of these processes. In their contributions, participants are encouraged to have in mind the interplay between observations and theory, i.e. theorists should point out predictions of their models that can be tested observationally, just as observers should clearly convey the constraints their observations provide for acceleration and transport mechanisms.

Some of the anticipated topics will include:

- implications of using improved particle transport and interaction models, such as alternatives to the Thick Target Model and consequences for interpreting HXR observations
- comparing the properties of different acceleration models
- acceleration and transport of electrons versus ions
- observational constraints from new analysis methods (electron maps,…)
- can acceleration models fulfill observational constraints beyond the mere
spectral index, such as total flux, timescales, or correlations between flux
and spectral index?

Draft Schedule

Google Calendar: view it in your browser or import it into your favorite calendar software with this XML Calendar file (or iCal).

Draft schedule for working group 6

Draft Schedule (contributions are still being added)

Mon 2:00pm-3:30pm: Improved particle transportation & interaction models 1
effects of nonthermal recombination, numer of accelerated electrons

nonuniformly ionized target and return current
(Su, Holman)

Mon 4:00pm-5:30pm: Improved particle transportation and interaction models 2
effects of turbulence, and nonthermal recombination
(Hannah, Kontar, Mallik)

Tue 9:00am-10:30am: General particle acceleration 1
HXR and radio diagnostics, stochastic acceleration, acceleration at current sheets and nulls
(Vilmer, Chen, Guo, Zharkova)

Tue 11:00am-12:30am: General particle acceleration 2
HXR and radio diagnostics, beaming, IP propagation, beam kinetics
(Emslie, Masson, Zharkova)

Wed 9:00am-10:30am: General particle acceleration 3
acceleration models, electron budgets
(Drake, Turkmani, Mann)

Wed 11:00am-12:30am: Ion acceleration
(Share/Murphy, Miller, Mann)

Wed 2:00pm-3:30pm: Energetics / thermal-nonthermal issues 1
thermal/nonthermal energetics and evolution
(Ning, Warmuth, Guo)

Wed 4:00pm-5:30pm: Energetics / thermal-nonthermal issues 2
themal plasma, heating, evaporation
(Liu, Chamberlin, Doschek)

WG5: Instrumental Issues

rhessivii — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:02:52 +0000

Group Leader: David Smith
Co-Leader: Gordon Hurford

The Presentations

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Hello, all,

Here are some of the outstanding issues off the top of my head; I’ll ask Gordon to edit or add to the list. Please enter your own ideas in the comments, and in particular tell us your own priorities! Finally, please weigh in on this question: do we want to limit the meeting times of the group so that some folks have time to attend other groups? Or should we just expect people to wander in and out as they prefer?

Instrument response matrix of radiation-damaged detectors (front and rear)
Improving knowledge of relative normalization of the detector segments (for imaging)
Improvements to the gain solution at the level of < 0.1 keV, mostly for allowing study of energy shifts to the 6 keV line (this is the easiest of these problems to tackle, and it’s being worked on right now, but please tell me whether you find it important!)

best wishes,

David Smith