PUNCH 5 Science Meeting Agenda

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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentation files
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Section 1 - PUNCH Mission	Chairs: Sarah Gibson, Barbara Thompson
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM	Introduction and Logistics	Sarah Gibson, NSF NCAR HOA	View recording
8:40 AM - 8:55 AM	PUNCH Overview & Mission Status	Craig DeForest, (PUNCH PI), SWRI	View presentation file View recording
8:55 AM - 9:10 AM	(Invited Talk) NFI Instrument Status Overview	Robin Colaninno, US Naval Research Laboratory	View presentation file View recording
9:10 AM - 9:25 AM	(Invited Talk) The Wide-Field Imager (WFI) Instruments for the PUNCH Mission: Instrument Integration and Current Status.	Glenn Laurent, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
9:25 AM - 9:40 AM	(Invited Talk) The PUNCH Science Operations Center: Data Pipeline, Products, and Tools Update	Marcus Hughes, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM	Coffee break / Posters
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Section 2 - PUNCH Connections: Part One	Chairs: Glenn Laurent and Mihir Desai
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	(Invited Talk) Celebrating PUNCH Outreach	Cherilynn Morrow, Education & Diversity Consultant for SwRI	View presentation file View recording
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	(Invited Talk) Student Thermal Energetic Activity Module (STEAM): Science, Design, and Build	Mary Hanson, SWRI	View presentation file View recording
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	(Invited Talk) Working with PUNCH Data : A How-To Guide	Chris Lowder, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	(Invited Talk) Diving through the plane of sky : Using PUNCH to inform in situ to solar magnetic connections	Samuel Badman, Center for Astrophysics \| Harvard & Smithsonian	View presentation file View recording
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch 12:20-12:55 – Transform to Open Science (TOPS 101) NASA's Open Science 101	Barbara Thompson	View recording
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Posters
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Section 3 - Cross-scale Analyses: Part One	Chairs: Curt de Koning and Nicki Viall
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	(Invited Talk) 3D Solar Wind Mapping for the PUNCH mission	Raphael Attié, NASA GSFC / GMU	View presentation file View recording
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	(Invited Talk) The Alfven Transition Zone observed by the Parker Solar Probe in Young Solar Wind -- Global Properties and Model Comparisons	Rohit Chhiber, NASA GSFC and University of Delaware	View presentation file View recording
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	(Invited Talk) Data enhanced modelling of magnetized turbulence	Yan Yang, University of Delaware	View presentation file View recording
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	(Contributed Talk) Exploring the relation between transverse energy injection scales and plasma properties in the corona	Rahul Sharma, Northumbria University	View presentation file View recording
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee break / Posters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Section 4 - Cross-scale Analyses: Part Two	Chairs: Anna Malanushenko and Rohit Chhiber
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	(Invited Talk) Connecting Solar-Heliosphere Structures Across the PUNCH Field of View: Heavy Ion Diagnostics	Yeimy Rivera, Center for Astrophysics \| Harvard & Smithsonian	View presentation file View recording
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	(Invited Talk) Probing CIRs With Thomson-Scattered White Light	Curt de Koning, University of Colorado/CIRES	View presentation file View recording
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	(Invited Talk) The evolution of SEP events through the inner heliosphere	Gabriel Muro, California Institute of Technology	View presentation file View recording
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	(Contributed Talk) Forecasting Shock-associated Energetic Particle Intensities in the Inner Heliosphere: A Proof-of-Concept Capability for the PUNCH Mission	Mihir Desai, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM	Reception and PUNCH Outreach Activities, Center Green

Friday, June 21, 2024
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentation files
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Section 5 - Tomography and 3D tracking: Part One	Chairs: Robin Colaninno and David Webb
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM	(Invited Talk) Solar Rotational Tomography of the Corona with Latest Instrumentation	Alberto Marcos Vasquez, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, UBA-CONICET) Buenos Aires - Argentina	View presentation file View recording
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM	(Invited Talk) Tomographic Reconstructions of Coronal Mass Ejections and the Solar Corona with Physics-Informed Neural Radiance Fields	Robert Jarolim, High Altitude Observatory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research	View presentation file View recording
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	(Invited Talk) Deprojected White-Light Tracers of the Slow Solar Wind	Cynthia Lopez-Portela, NASA-GSFC	View presentation file View recording
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	(Contributed Talk) Demonstrating wind speed measurements with WISPR via the stationary point	Sam Van Kooten, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Coffee break/Posters
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Section 6 - Tomography and 3D localization: Part Two	Chairs: Heather Elliott, Dan Seaton
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	(Invited Talk) Investigating the 3D morphology and kinematics of CMEs via multipoint synthetic white-light imagery	Erika Palmerio, Predictive Science Inc., USA	View presentation file View recording
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	(Invited Talk) Low-polarized emission from the core of a coronal mass ejection	Iulia Chifu, Georg-August University of Goettingen	View presentation file View recording
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	(Invited Talk) Analysis of Synthetic Flux Rope in ICME Simulation Using Unpolarized and Polarized White-Light Signal and In-Situ Data	Anna Malanushenko, High Altitude Observatory, UCAR	View presentation file View recording
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	(Contributed Talk) Validating Image-Based Methods for Improving Coronal Magnetic Field Models	Christopher Rura, Catholic University of America / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	View presentation file View recording
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch 12:20-12:55 - NASA Heliophysics Connections	Joe Westlake	View Presentation File View recording
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Posters
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Section 7 - PUNCH and space weather	Chairs: Raphael Attie, Steven Cranmer
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	(Invited Virtual Talk) UCSD Time-Dependent 3-D High-Resolution Reconstructions Providing Brightness and Polarization Brightness Analyses	Bernard Jackson, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego	View presentation file View recording
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	(Invited Talk) QuickPUNCH Data for Space Weather Operations	Dan Seaton, Southwest Research Institute	View presentation file View recording
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	(Invited Virtual Talk) PUNCH and space weather operations	Huw Morgan, Aberystwyth University, UK	View presentation file View recording
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	(Contributed Talk) Enhancing STEREO-HI data with machine learning for efficient CME forecasting and multi-spacecraft observations	Justin Le Louëdec, Austrian Space Weather Office, Geosphere, Graz, Austria	View presentation file View recording
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee break/Posters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Section 8 – PUNCH connections: Part Two	Chairs: Craig DeForest, Sarah Gibson
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	(Invited Talk) The COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) and its potential synergies with PUNCH	Marta Casti, The Catholic University of America at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	View presentation file View recording
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	(Invited Talk) Dynamic Flows and Jets in the Middle Corona	Samaiyah Farid, NCAR-High Altitude Observatory (HAO)	View presentation file View recording
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	(Invited Talk) ASO-S Mission and future synergies with PUNCH and other coronagraphs	Jie Zhao, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences	View presentation file View recording
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	(Contributed Talk) Solving the Sun with the SunCET and PUNCH Missions	Michael Kirk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	View presentation file View recording
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Q&A/Panel Discussion	All speakers from above section	View recording
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM	Final Words and Wrap-up	Sarah Gibson and Craig DeForest

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PUNCH 5 Science Meeting Agenda

Section 1 - PUNCH Mission

Section 2 - PUNCH Connections: Part One

Posters

Section 3 - Cross-scale Analyses: Part One

Section 4 - Cross-scale Analyses: Part Two

Section 5 - Tomography and 3D tracking: Part One

Section 6 - Tomography and 3D localization: Part Two

Posters

Section 7 - PUNCH and space weather

Section 8 – PUNCH connections: Part Two