Bear Solar Observatory Summer School
Big Bear Lake, California
July 28 - Aug 2, 2024
Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) held a Summer School at BBSO in Big Bear Lake, California, from July 29 – August 2, 2024, geared toward graduate students, postdocs, and junior researchers. The goal is to stimulate the interest of next-generation researchers in using high-resolution solar data taken with large ground-based telescopes (like GST and DKIST). Within one week, the invited speakers discussed how high-resolution solar data advance our understanding of our star in various aspects. We also offered a tour of the 1.6-meter GST facilities and a tutorial on GST data processing, calibration, and co-alignment with SDO/HMI data.
List of Invited Speakers
Wenda Cao (BBSO/NJIT), Gianna Cauzzi (NSO), Jongchul Chae (SNU), Satoshi Inoue (NJIT), David Kuridze (NSO), Jiong Qiu (MSU), KevinReardon (NSO), Matthias Rempel (HAO), Tom Schad (NSO), Haimin Wang (NJIT), and Vasyl Yurchyshyn (BBSO).
The speakers made keynote presentations to review small-scale magnetism and plasma flows, high-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry, data-driven MHD, magnetic reconnection, small-scale chromospheric activity and diagnostics, physics of solar flares, waves in the chromosphere, study of the Sun in IR, as well as GST and DKIST instrumentation.
List of Keynote Presentations
| Presenter | Keynote Title (Downloadable PDFs) |
|---|---|
| Lisa Winter (NSF), Wenda Cao (NJIT) | Opening Remarks |
| Haimin Wang (NJIT) | Study of solar flares with highest resolution observations |
| Jiong Qiu (MSU) | Temporal and spatial structures and physical properties of elementary energy release in solar flares |
| Wenda Cao (BBSO/NJIT) | GST and its instruments at BBSO |
| Vasyl Yurchyshyn (BBSO) | GST Data Pipeline and Access |
| Matthias Rempel (HAO) | Solar small-scale magnetic fields and their effect on convection and activity |
| Satoshi Inoue (NJIT) | Data-based MHD simulations for coronal magnetic fields and solar eruptions |
| Xu Yang (BBSO) | GST imaging data registration and coalignment |
| Vasyl Yurchyshyn (BBSO) | Small-scale activity observed with GST |
| Fredrich Woeger (NSO) | DKIST and its Instruments |
| David Kuridze (NSO) | High-resolution solar spectropolarimetry and magnetic field diagnostics |
| Kevin Reardon (NSO) | Chromospheric diagnostics with GST/DKIST |
| Tom Schad (NSO) | The infrared solar spectrum: diagnostics and methods |
| Taylor Baildon (BBSO) | GST NIRIS data processing and calibration |
| Jason Wang (NJIT) | Combining AI and cyberinfrastructure to understand solar astronomy and forecast space weather |
| Gianna Cauzzi (NSO) and Wenda Cao (NJIT) | Dicsussion and Closing remarks |
