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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Colloquium at Glasgow University this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Daniel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Sonja Franke-Arnold [mailto:Sonja.Franke-Arnold@glasgow.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 December 2015 23:31<br>
<b>To:</b> phas-staff@glasgow.ac.uk; phas-hon-staff@glasgow.ac.uk; phas-pgall@glasgow.ac.uk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Daniel Oi <daniel.oi@strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Glasgow Colloquium: Wed 16/12/2015, Lyndsay Fletcher "Solar Flares - How the Sun Relaxes"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Please note this week's colloquium by Professor Lyndsay Fletcher - a belated inaugural colloquium.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">speaker: <b>Lyndsay Fletcher, Glasgow</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">title: <b>Solar Flares - How the Sun Relaxes </b>(abstract below)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Wednesday 16/12/2015, 3pm</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Best wishes, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sonja<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">abstract: <br>
Abstract: The outer atmosphere of the Sun is a magnetically-dominated <br>
environment. The magnetic field determines the transport, storage and <br>
dissipation of energy, in fairly steady ways (coronal heating, solar <br>
wind acceleration) but also in abrupt and impulsive events called solar <br>
flares. Solar flares represent the rapid conversion of energy in the <br>
magnetically stressed corona into plasma heating and the KE of <br>
accelerated particles and mass motions. Flares are now observed in <br>
exquisite detail with imaging and spectroscopy across the <br>
electromagnetic spectrum, allowing increasingly meaningful comparisons <br>
with detailed theory. In this talk I will give a general overview of <br>
recent flare observations and the framework in which they are <br>
interpreted, before focusing on one aspect of flare physics, namely the <br>
need to rapidly transport energy through the corona and accelerate <br>
particles. I will also place our knowledge of solar flares and their <br>
effect on Earth in the context of what we are learning about stellar <br>
flares and their possible impact on their planetary systems.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">
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