PUNCH 6 Science Meeting Agenda

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time (MT)	Session/Presentation Title	Presenter	Presentations
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Section 1 - PUNCH Mission Chairs: Sarah Gibson, David Webb Introduction - Sarah Gibson Mission Status Presentations Follow
8:40 AM	(Invited Talk) Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere: Overview, Status, and Call to Action	Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:00 AM	(Invited Talk) NFI Instrument Status Overview	Robin Colaninno, US Naval Research Laboratory	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:15 AM	(Invited Talk) The Wide-Field Imager (WFI) Instruments for the PUNCH Mission: Instrument Performance and Current Status	Glenn Laurent, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:30 AM	Discussion		View recording
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Section 2 - PUNCH For All Chairs: Mihir Desai, Curt de Koning
10:30 AM	(Invited Talk) PUNCH Outreach Update: Celebrating Mission Team Contributions	Cherilynn Morrow, Consultant - Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:50 AM	(Invited Talk) The PUNCH Science Operations Center	Marcus Hughes	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:05 AM	(Invited Talk) PUNCH Data - A Guided Tour	Chris Lowder, SwRI	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:45 AM	Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Section 3 - PUNCH Working Groups: Ambient Solar Wind Chairs: Glenn Laurent, Cherilynn Morrow
1:00 PM	(Invited Talk) Tracking Solar Wind Evolution with PUNCH Flow Maps	Raphael Attie, NASA-GSFC / GMU	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:15 PM	Photometric starfield subtraction from PUNCH images	Sam Van Kooten, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:25 PM	(Invited Talk) Mapping the Sun's Alfven Surface (Soon!) with PUNCH	Steven Cranmer, University of Colorado Boulder	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:40 PM	The Alfven surface: A hole PUNCHed by the April 2023 CME	Li-Jen Chen, NASA/GSFC	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:50 PM	Remote Sensing of CME Magnetic Field Across the Corona to Heliosphere Using Coordinated Wide Field of View Radio Polarimetric and PUNCH Observations	Devojyoti Kansabanik, University Corporation for Atmospheric Reseach (CPAESS-UCAR), Boulder, CO	View Presentation PDF View recording
2:00 PM	(Invited Talk) Mesoscale Solar Wind Structures: Origins of Variability	Nicholeen Viall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	View Presentation PDF View recording
2:25 PM	Discussion		View recording
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM	Poster Session/Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 5:30 PM	Section 4 - Synergistic Missions Panel Chairs: Craig Deforest, Robin Colaninno
4:20 PM	The ASPIICS Coronagraph Aboard the PROBA-3 Mission	Andrei Zhukov, Royal Observatory of Belgium	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:23 PM	Synergies of ground-based coronagraph observations with PUNCH	Joan Burkepile, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:26 PM	Knockout Solar Science: SunCET with PUNCH	Michael Kirk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:29 PM	Campaign mode observations with Aditya L1	Dipankar Banerjee, Indian Institute of Space Science and tenchnology	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:32 PM	PUNCH and MUSE: A harmonious collaboration	Rebecca Robinson, SETI Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:35 PM	The Solar Orbiter Mission – Many Eyes on the Sun	Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:38 PM	Parker Solar Probe	Nour Rawafi, NASA, Parker Solar Probe
4:41 PM	Panel Discussion		View recording
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Networking Event

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Time (MT)	Session/Presentation Title	Presenter	Presentations
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Section 5 - PUNCH Working Groups: Dynamic Solar Wind Chair: Raphael Attie
8:30 AM	(Invited Talk) How Can Polarimetry Help Us Study Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections?	Anna Malanushenko, High Altitude Observatory, UCAR	View Presentation PDF View Second Presentation PDF View recording
8:45 AM	(Invited Talk) For CIRs and Beyond: Polarization Ratio to Feature Location	Curt A de Koning, University of Colorado	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:00 AM	(Invited Talk) Forecasting Shock-associated Energetic Particle Intensities in the Inner Heliosphere: A Proof-of-Concept Capability for the PUNCH Mission	Maher Dayeh, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:15 AM	Validation of MHD Simulated 3D CME Trajectories for the PUNCH Mission	Nathaniel Laurent, Southwest Research Institute	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:25 AM	Tomographic Inversion of Synthetic White-Light Images: Observing Coronal Mass Ejections in 3D	David Barnes, RAL Space, UK	View Presentation PDF View recording
9:40 AM	Discussion		View recording
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 AM	Machine Learning for MHD Structures	Nat Mathews, NASA / UMD	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:30 AM	Understanding CME Evolution: The Influence of Solar Wind and Other CMEs	Prateek Mayank, University of Colorado, Boulder	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:40 AM	The importance of time-dependent MHD solar wind simulations in the frame of the PUNCH mission	Evangelia Samara, NASA/GSFC	View Presentation PDF View recording
10:50 AM	Solar wind observed by Parker Solar Probe and modelled by EUHFORIA	Jasmina Magdalenic Zhukov, Royal Observatory of Belgium & KU Leuven	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:00 AM	Discussion		View recording
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM	Section 6 - Synergistic Models Panel Chairs: Sarah Gibson, Nicholeen Viall
11:10 AM	Mesoscale Structures in the CME-Solar Wind Interaction: Insights from High-Resolution Heliospheric Simulations	Elena Provornikova, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:13 AM	Coronal and Heliospheric Modeling Tools, Data Products, and Capabilities at Predictive Science Inc.	Cooper Downs, Predictive Science Inc.	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:16 AM	Simulation of Geo-Effective Small-to-Mesoscale Solar Wind Structures as Viewed by PUNCH.	Chip Manchester, University of Michigan	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:19 AM	A Global Three-Dimensional MHD Model Of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind with Turbulence Transport, and Applications for PUNCH	William Matthaeus, University of Delaware	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:22 AM	Space Weather modelling tools from Sun to Earth	Tinatin Baratashvili, KU Leuven	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:25 AM	Combining PUNCH Observations with OSPREI Modeling	Christina Kay, JHU APL	View Presentation PDF View recording
11:28 AM	Panel Discussion		View recording
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Section 7 - PUNCH Science Connections Chairs: Steven Cranmer, Marcus Hughes
1:00 PM	(Invited Talk) PUNCH, Shocks, and Radio Emissions	Iver Cairns, School of Physics, University of Sydney	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:15 PM	(Invited Talk) Near Sun and interplanetary evolution of slow and fast CMEs	Volker Bothmer, University of Goettingen	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:30 PM	(Invited Talk) Enhancing Solar Imagery: Methods, Applications, and Implications for PUNCH DataC	Chris R. Gilly, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:45 PM	3D Reconstruction of PUNCH radial structures with the CROBAR Method	Joseph Plowman, SwRI	View Presentation PDF View recording
1:55 PM	Coronagraphic Reconstruction of the Open-Field Solar Corona Using QRaFT Technique	Vadim Uritsky, Catholic University of America	View Presentation PDF View recording
2:05 PM	Discussion		View recording
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Poster Session/Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Section 8 - PUNCH Science Connections Continued Chairs: Sarah Gibson, Craig DeForest
4:00 PM	(Invited Talk) PUNCH: Connections to the Magnetosphere and the Aurora	Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA/CUA	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:15 PM	(Invited Talk) Zodiacal Dust Observations From the Punch Mission	Russell Howard, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:30 PM	Using Sun-grazing Comets to Probe the Solar Corona and Young Solar Wind: Observing Campaigns with PUNCH and Other Facilities	Wei Liu, LMSAL/BAERI	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:40 PM	Potential Solar System Objects Polarimetric Science using PUNCH	Yoonsoo Bach, KASI, Korea	View Presentation PDF View recording
4:50 PM	Discussion		View recording
5:15 PM	NASA Heliophysics Division Perspective, Joe Westlake
5:30 PM	Final Words and Wrapup, Craig DeForest

PUNCH 6 Science Meeting Agenda

Section 1 - PUNCH Mission

Section 2 - PUNCH For All

Section 3 - PUNCH Working Groups: Ambient Solar Wind

Section 4 - Synergistic Missions Panel

Section 5 - PUNCH Working Groups: Dynamic Solar Wind

Section 6 - Synergistic Models Panel

Section 7 - PUNCH Science Connections

Section 8 - PUNCH Science Connections Continued