The 2003 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Eugene Newman Parker

U.S.A. / June 10, 1927
Physicist; Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago

Workshop

Symposium:Cosmical Magnetohydrodynamics and Solar Activity

Coordinators:
Humitaka Sato (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University)
Kazunari Shibata (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Moderator:
Atsuhiro Nishida (Professor Emeritus, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science)

13:00
Opening Address
Humitaka Sato
 
Laureate Lecture
Eugene Newman Parker
"Spontaneous Discontinuities in Magnetic Fields and Stellar X-Ray Coronae"
 
Lecture
Kazunari Shibata
"Cosmical Magnetohydrodynamics: From Solar Wind to Reconnection"
 
Intermission
 
 
Lectures
"Solar Activity and Terrestrial Environment"
Moderator:
Kazunari Shibata
   
Saku Tsuneta
(Professor, Division of Solar Physics, National Astronomical Observatory)
"Gene Parker and Revolutionary Developments in Solar Physics"
   
Toshio Terasawa
(Professor, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo)
"Heliosphere, Interstellar Matter, and Cosmic Rays"
   
Tateo Goka
(Director, Space Environment Engineering Group, Institute of Space Technology and Aeronautics, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
"Space Development and Solar Activity"
   
Yasushi Muraki
(Professor, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University)
"The Long Term Variation of Solar Activity and its Effect on the Climate"
 
Question-and-Answer Session
 
 
Address
Atsuhiro Nishida
17:30
Closing
 

Workshop Abstract(PDF)