Session 27. Magnetic Reconnection Flares and CMEs

SPD Oral, Monday, May 31, 2004, 2:00-3:30pm, 704

27.01 High resolution flare observations using adaptive optics

T. Rimmele, K. Sankarasubramanian (NSO)

27.02 Observation of current sheet pinch in a solar flare

H. Ji, H. Wang, P. R. Goode (Big Bear Solar Observatory/New Jersey Institute of Technology)

27.03 The Association of Big Flares and CMEs: What is the Role of Magnetic Helicity?

A. Nindos (Section of Astrogeophysics, Physics Dept., University of Ioannina, Greece), M.D. Andrews (Computational Physics Inc., NRL)

27.04 Magnetic Reconnection and Mass Acceleration in Solar Eruptive Events

J. Qiu (BBSO/NJIT)

27.05 Forecasting Coronal Mass Ejections from Magnetograms

D. A. Falconer (UAH/MSFC/NSSTC), R. L. Moore, G. A. Gary (NASA/MSFC/NSSTC), S. Balasubramanian (UAH/ NSSTC)

27.06 The Topology Of Solar Eruptions

S. K. Antiochos, C. R. DeVore (NRL), P. J. MacNeice (Drexel U.)

27.07 MHD Simulations of CME Acceleration and Impulsive Magnetic Reconnection

C. Z. Cheng, G. S. Choe, Y. Ren (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University), J. Qiu (NJIT/BBSO), Y. J. Moon (Korea Astronomy Observatory)