Joint Discussion JD08

Thursday 17 August 2006
Session I - Solar activity cycle in the interior, atmosphere and corona
Room	Club A
14:00-14:30	J. Toomre (USA) Solar-cycle variations of the internal structure, differential rotation, and meridional circulation
14:30-15:00	J. Wang (China) Evolution of the solar magnetic fields
15:00-15:30	E. Benevolenskaya (Russia) Polar magnetic field reversal
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-16:30	S. Berdyugina (Switzerland) Flip-flop cycles in solar and stellar activity
16:30-17:00	P. Ambroz (Czech Republic) Large-scale patterns, complexes of solar activity and 'active longitudes'
17:00-17:30	S. Solanki (Germany) Variations of solar irradiance

Friday 18 August 2006
Session II - Observations of stellar magnetic activity and cycles
Room	Club A
09:00-09:30	S.L. Baliunas (USA) Decadal ind interdecadal surface magnetic variability of sunlike and other cool stars
09:30-10:00	P. Petit (France) Cyclic variation of differential rotation of active stars
10:00-10:30	J.T. Wright (USA) "Maunder Minimum" stars revisited
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	K. Oláh (Hungary) Photospheric stellar activity cycles
11:30-12:00	G. Mathys (Chile) Global stellar magnetic fields: the crossover from fossils to dynamos
12:00-12:30	G. Peres (Italy) Recent X-ray observations of stellar cycles and long-term variability
Session III - Solar-Stellar Connections and Theories
Room	Club A
14:00-14:30	M. Jardine (UK) Magnetic topology and stellar coronas
14:30-15:00	A. Brandenburg (Denmark) Why coronal mass ejections are necessary for the dynamo
15:00-15:30	S. Saar (USA) The many cycles of cool stars
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-16:30	G. Rüdiger (Germany) On the role of the dynamo and the tachocline
16:30-17:00	I. Ribas (Spain) Impact of stellar activity on habitable planets
17:00-17:30	K.G. Strassmeier (Germany) Current and future observations of solar and stellar activity from the ground and space