Dear Colleagues,
There is a meeting announcement from Pascal Saint-Hilaire that
could be of interest:
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Save the Date: "FASR2021 workshop: Solar Physics with a Next
Generation Solar Radio Facility", Dec 1-3, 2021 (virtual).
The need for a high-performance solar radio telescope in the
United States has been recognized for many years. The FASR concept
represents such a telescope, one that provides high-resolution
imaging over a broad range of frequencies, sufficient to probe the
solar atmosphere from the mid-chromosphere to the mid-corona, with
high time and spectral resolution. EOVSA implemented many FASR
design elements and, as such, has served as a valuable pathfinder
instrument, spectacularly validating both the fundamental concept
of time-resolved broadband imaging spectroscopy and the science it
enables. In the meantime, science and technology have advanced and
the need for full implementation of the FASR concept has only
grown more important
In anticipation of upcoming funding opportunities, this workshop
is being convened from 2021 Dec 1-3 to highlight progress in solar
physics over the past decade, and to take stock of the unique
contributions enabled by the current suite of new radio
instruments, to refine the science goals and requirements of a
next-generation solar radio facility. The workshop will provide a
forum to discuss relevant new and emerging technologies that will
enable this new science. We invite colleagues with an interest in
solar physics and radio technology, and from other fields that
would stand to benefit, to help explore the frontiers of science
and technology that will guide updates and refinements to the FASR
concept.
The workshop will be virtual, hosted from the University of
California Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (LOC: Pascal
Saint-Hilaire, Milo Buitrago-Casas, Jim McTiernan, Gelu Nita). The
Scientific and Technical Organizing Committee is composed of Marin
Anderson (JPL), Tim Bastian (NRAO), Bin Chen (NJIT), James Drake
(UMD), Dale Gary (NJIT), Lindsay Glesener (UMN), Gregg Hallinan
(Caltech), Jonathon Kocz (UCB), Haosheng Lin (U. Hawaii), Sophie
Musset (ESA), Dan Werthimer (UCB). The website and registration
will be enabled and announced around October 1st.