Third Meeting of the Italian Solar and Heliospheric Community
The Italian Solar and Heliospheric Community (SoHe) periodically organizes national conferences: the last two conferences of the series were held in Catania in September 2013 and in Rome in May 2016, at the ASI headquarter. The next meeting will be host in Turin, on October 28-31, 2018.
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum at the national level for the discussion of the main topics of solar and heliospheric physics, and space weather. The conference will strengthen existing collaborations and establish new ones, both in the context of projects in which part of the community is involved in (such as the European Solar Telescope – EST, Solar Orbiter, Bepi Colombo, Proba-3, CSES-Limadou space missions, etc.), and beyond.
The conference will support the participation of Ph.D. students and young researchers to facilitate their entry into the Italian community. The conference will have a total duration of two days and a half, during which ten oral talks will be held upon invitation, and 30 contribution talks will be given; about 30 posters will also be presented during the coffee breaks.
The event is locally organized by the INAF – Turin Astrophysical Observatory, the Physics Department of the University of Turin, and the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (CIFS).
PARTICIPANTS
PROGRAM
Go to the poster presentations program.
OCTOBER 28th
Outreach conference (free entrance)
Sole, tempeste spaziali e clima terrestrePiero Bianucci, Carla Taricco, Mauro Messerotti
Welcome reception
Provided by Az. Agr. Bric Cenciurio
OCTOBER 29th
Welcome and opening
First session — The cool Sun: solar cycle, solar wind, coronal heating
Chair: Thomas Straus
9:10 – 9:40
Attracted by the Fascinating Magnetism of the SunGiuseppina Nigro (Invited talk)
9:40 – 10:00
Diffusion of emerging bipolar magnetic pairs in solar photosphereLuca Giovannelli
10:00 – 10:20
Testing the Gallavotti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem on the Solar PhotosphereGiorgio Viavattene
10:20 – 10:40
New atmosphere models to reconstruct solar irradianceIlaria Ermolli
10:40 – 11:00
From the bottom of the photosphere to the middle chromosphere: Penumbral fine structureMariarita Murabito
Coffee break and poster viewing
First session (cont.)
Chair: Salvo L. Guglielmino
11:30 – 12:00
The Hanle effect as a diagnostic tool for investigating the magnetism of the solar atmosphereLuca Belluzzi (Invited talk)
12:00 – 12:20
Spatial variations of the Sr-I 4607 Å scattering polarization signatures at granular scale observed with ZIMPOL at the GREGOR telescopeSajal Kumar Dhara
12:20 – 12:40
Updates on the PeNCIL projectCristian Baccani
12:40 – 13:00
Comparing extrapolations of the coronal magnetic field with multi-spacecraft coronagraphic observationsClementina Sasso
Lunch break
First session (cont.)
Chair: Fabio Reale
14:30 – 15:00
Active region coronal heating properties from observations and modeling of chromospheric, transition region, and coronal emissionPaola Testa (Invited talk)
15:00 – 15:20
Impulsive coronal heating from large-scale magnetic rearrangements: observations with SDO/AIA and MHD modelingAntonino Petralia
15:20 – 15:40
Simultaneous Optical and Millimetric Observations of the Quiet SunGianna Cauzzi
15:40 – 16:00
Imaging of the Solar Atmosphere in the Centimetre-Millimetre Band through Single-Dish ObservationsAlberto Pellizzoni
16:00 – 16:20
Spectropolarimetric investigation of MHD waves in a sunspotMarco Stangalini
Coffee break and poster viewing
First session (cont.)
Chair: Gianna Cauzzi
16:50 – 17:10
Talk given by Giorgio Viavattene, winner of the “E. Landi” Prize
17:10 – 17:40
Can the low magnetic field compressibility of solar wind plasma produce its 1/F turbulent spectrum?Lorenzo Matteini (Invited talk)
17:40 – 18:00
High-cross helicity turbulence between 0.2 and 1 AUAndrea Verdini
18:00 – 18:20
No Evidence for Critical Balance in the Solar Wind TurbulenceDaniele Telloni
18:20 – 18:40
Magnetic spectrum anisotropy and intermittency in high resolution hybrid simulationsSimone Landi
OCTOBER 30th
First session (cont.)
Chair: Simone Landi
9:00 – 9:30
Kinetic description of turbulence, discontinuities and reconnection in the solar windGiovanni Lapenta (Invited talk)
9:30 – 9:50
Investigating plasma turbulence and magnetic reconnection in Hall-MHD and Hybrid-PIC numerical simulationsEmanuele Papini
9:50 – 10:10
Helios observations of quasi-periodic density structures in the slow solar windSimone Di Matteo
10:10 – 10:30
AntarctiCor: Solar Coronagraph in Antarctica for the ESCAPE ProjectSilvano Fineschi
10:30 – 10:50
UV core dimming in coronal streamer belt and the projection effectsLucia Abbo
Coffee break and poster viewing
Second session — The impulsive Sun: solar eruptions, particle acceleration
Chair: Alessandro Bemporad
11:30 – 12:00
Diagnostics and empirical modeling of heating and cooling of CME plasmas from remote sensing and in‐situ observationsEnrico Landi (Invited talk)
12:00 – 12:20
Compressed sensing and Sequential Monte Carlo methods for image reconstruction from RHESSI and STIX visibilitiesAnna Maria Massone
12:20 – 12:40
Properties of a Small-scale Short-duration Solar Eruption with a Driven ShockBeili Ying
12:40 – 13:00
Comprehensive analysis of the formation of a shock-wave associated with a CMEFederica Frassati
Lunch break
Second session (cont.)
Chair: Paolo Romano
14:30 – 15:00
Solar prominences plasma properties: recent advances and opportunities from the upcoming instrumentationSusanna Parenti (Invited talk)
15:00 – 15:20
Satellite observations of reconnection between emerging and pre-existing small-scale magnetic fieldsSalvo L. Guglielmino
15:20 – 15:40
Broad Non-Gaussian Fe XXIV Line Profiles in the Impulsive Phase of the 2017 September 10 X8.3 class Flare Observed by Hinode/EISVanessa Polito
15:40 – 16:00
Spectral signatures for multi layered heating and condensation in a solar flareLuca Zangrilli
Coffee break and poster viewing
Third session — Solar-planetary relations, space weather, and climate
Chair: Susanna Parenti
16:30 – 17:00
Invited talk given by Oreste Pezzi, winner of the “A. Egidi” Prize
17:00 – 17:30
Two different approaches to the observation of solar flares: science or forecasting?Paolo Romano (Invited talk)
17:30 – 17:50
Predicting the Onset of Flux-Rope EjectionsPaolo Pagano
17:50 – 18:10
Machine learning for flare forecasting using SDO/HMI dataMichele Piana
18:10 – 18:30
Raytracing simulations of observations with Parker Solar Probe/WISPRGiuseppe Nisticò
Conference dinner
Award of the "E. Landi" Prize to Giorgio Viavattene and of the "A. Egidi" Prize to Oreste Pezzi
OCTOBER 31th
Third session (cont.)
Chair: Dario Del Moro
9:00 – 9:30
Galactic cosmic-ray flux short-term variations, tracking of the associated interplanetary structures and geomagnetic storm forecastingCatia Grimani (Invited talk)
9:30 – 9:50
Investigating space weather phenomena in the outer Solar SystemChristina Plainaki
9:50 – 10:10
Evolution of plage areas since 1907Theodosios Chatzistergos
10:10 – 10:30
Grad-Shafranov reconstruction of a magnetic cloud: effects of the magnetic topology on the galactic cosmic-ray intensitySimone Benella
10:30 – 10:50
A Short-term ESPERTA-based Forecast Tool for Moderate-to-extreme Solar Proton EventsTommaso Alberti
10:50 – 11:10
Shock location and CME 3-D reconstruction of a solar type II radio burst with LOFARPietro Zucca
Coffee break and poster viewing
Award of the "L. Paternò" Prize to Vanessa Polito
Third session (cont.)
Chair: Maria Federica Marcucci
11:40 – 12:10
The consequences of ICME impact on the circumterrestrial environment: the September 6-11, 2017 geomagnetic storm case eventMirko Piersanti (Invited talk)
12:10 – 12:30
The Probabilistic Drag Based Model for ICME propagationDario Del Moro
12:30 – 12:50
Detection of cosmogenic 44Ti activity in meteorites as a mean to infer the long-term evolution of the heliospheric magnetic fieldSalvatore Mancuso
12:50 – 13:10
Mercury sodium exospheric emission as a proxy for solar perturbations transitValeria Mangano
Closing remarks
POSTER PRESENTATIONS PROGRAM
1. Limb brightening observed with the UltraViolet Coronagraph SpectrometerA. Cora, D. Marocchi, S. Giordano, L. Zangrilli
2. Thermal evolution and dynamics of supra-arcade downflowsJ. Xue
3. First determination of 2D speed distribution within the bodies of Coronal Mass EjectionsB. Ying, A. Bemporad, S. Giordano, P. Pagano, L. Feng
4. Feasibility study of a dedicated filter based polarimeter system for large telescopes: comparing two different camerasE. Capozzi, S. Kumar Dhara, D. Gisler, M. Bianda, R. Ramelli
5. On the connection between solar activity cycles and grand minima occurrenceF. Lepreti, A. Vecchio, M. Laurenza, T. Alberti, V. Carbone
6. Continuum emission enhancements and penumbral changes observed during flares by IRIS, ROSA, and HinodeF. Zuccarello, V. Capparelli, M. Mathioudakis, P. Keys, L. Fletcher, S. Criscuoli, M. Falco, S. L. Guglielmino, M. Murabito
7. The Critical Science Plan for the DKISTG. Cauzzi, M. Rast, V. Martinez Pillet
8. On the dynamics of solar polar plumes as observed by SoHO/UVCSL. Zangrilli, L. Abbo
9. Solar flare forecasting using photospheric active region propertiesM. Falco, P. Romano
10. The Heliospheric Space Weather Center: a novel Space Weather ServiceM. Casti, R. Susino, A. F. Mulone, D. Telloni, G. Chiesura, E. Antonucci, R. Messineo, A. Bemporad, F. Solitro, S. Fineschi, M. Messerotti, G. Nicolini, E. Magli, T. Bjorklund, A. Volpicelli, M. Martino
11. Determination of the physical properties of an erupting prominence from SOHO/LASCO and UVCS observationsR. Susino, A. Bemporad, P. Heinzel, S. Jejčič, U. Anzer
12. High-resolution observations of the umbral filament in AR NOAA 12529S. L. Guglielmino, P. Romano, B. Ruiz Cobo, F. Zuccarello, M. Murabito
13. Metrology on-board PROBA-3: the Shadow Position Sensors (SPS) subsystem – Design and performanceV. Noce, M. Focardi, F. Landini, C. Baccani, M. Romoli, M. Pancrazzi, S. Fineschi, D. Loreggia, A. Bemporad, M. Casti, S. Buckley, F. Denis, C. Thizy
14. In Situ Generation of Transverse Magnetohydrodynamic Waves from Colliding Flows in the Solar CoronaP. Pagano, P. Antolin, H.-J. Van Damme, I. De Moortel, V. Nakariakov
15. Assessment of the particle radiation environment at L1 point and near-Earth spaceM. Laurenza, T. Alberti, M. F. Marcucci, G. Consolini, C. Jacquey, S. Molendi, C. Macculi, S. Lotti
16. Echo occurrence in the polar ionosphere as measured by Dome C East radar in 2013 and 2016 yearsM. F. Marcucci, I. Coco, S. Massetti, S. Longo, D. Biondi, E. Simeoli, A. Marchaudon, G. Consolini, M. Laurenza
17. Recent insights on the penumbra formation processM. Murabito, S. L. Guglielmino, P. Romano, F. Zuccarello
18. Introducing SWERTO: a Regional Space Weather ServiceF. Berrilli, M. Casolino, A. Cristaldi, D. Del Moro, R. Forte, L. Giovannelli, M. Martucci, M. Mergé, G. Napoletano, L. Narici, E. Pietropalo, G. Pucacco, A. Rizzo, S. Scardigli, R. Sparvoli
19. The Ionosphere Prediction Service ProjectF. Rodriguez, L. R. Ronchini, S. Di Rollo, G. De Franceschi, C. Cesaroni, Spogli, V. Romano, M. Aquino, S. V. Veettil, F. Berrilli, D. Del Moro, M. Hutchinson, O. Kalden, A. Aragon-Angel, E. Guyader
20. H2020 SOLARNET Integrating High Resolution Solar PhysicsI. Ermolli, F. Berrilli, F. Zuccarello and the Italian EST-SOLARNET team
PRIZES
To commemorate the scientific career of Prof. Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti and Prof. Alberto Egidi, the scientific organizing committee of the SoHe3 conference established two prizes named after them. In particular:
- the “E. Landi” Prize was established and financed by INAF – Astrophysical Observatory of Turin; the initiative is aimed at rewarding the best Master Thesis in the research field of Solar Physics and published in the last three years (from July 1st, 2015, onwards);
- the “A. Egidi” Prize was established by the Interuniversity Consortium of Space Physics (CIFS), in collaboration with the Physics Department of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; the initiative is aimed at rewarding the best PhD Thesis in the research field of Physics of the Interplanetary Medium, Eliophysics, or Space Weather, published in the last three years (Doctoral Cycles XXVIII, XXIX, XXX).
The winners of the “E. Landi” Prize and of the “A. Egidi” Prize will be reimbursed for travel expenses and the conference registration fee; in addition, the winners of the two prizes will be invited to give an oral presentation about their awarded works and to publish an article on the proceedings of the congress (in the magazine “Nuovo Cimento”).
Moreover, to commemorate the scientific career of Prof. Lucio Paternò, the same organizing committee decided to establish the “L. Partenò” Prize, funded by the INAF – Astrophysical Observatory of Catania, which aims to reward the best oral presentation held by a young student or a postdoc during the SoHe3 conference; the prize will be awarded during the conference.
THE VENUE
The SoHe3 meeting will be held at the new Great Hall of the University of Turin, which is housed in the complex of the Royal Riding School – or "Cavallerizza Reale" – originally devoted to the care of the horses of the royal stables.
The venue – University of Turin, Via Verdi 9
HOW TO GET THERE
By plane
Turin's International Airport is connected to the city center by the SADEM shuttle service. Shuttles leave every 15 minutes from outside the airport terminal and stop at both the city main railway stations: 
Porta Nuova and 
Porta Susa. Tickets can be bought at the kiosk inside the terminal.
By train
From the railway stations of Porta Nuova and Porta Susa you can reach the meeting venue (or move around) using public transport. Visit the GTT local transport company website for routes, timetables, and ticket fares. You can also use Google Maps to plan your itineraries with public means.
By car
You can reach Turin by driving on motorways A4 from Milan and Venice, A5, A6 from Genoa, A21, and A32 from France. Be aware that restrictions apply to private vehicles in the city center around the venue. Visit the dedicated Turin municipality webpage to know how to get special passes.