[Everyone] First Announcement : Warm Ionized Medium in Galaxies Workshop (Oct. 6-9, 2019)

[Dan Stinebring]

Colleagues,

My apologies if you receive this multiple times or if this is astro-spam from your point of view. I wanted to make sure that as wide a pulsar audience as possible knows about this meeting. I plan to be there and hope to see some of you there, too!

Regards,

— Dan

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Warm Ionized Medium in Galaxies
Green Bank Observatory
Green Bank, WV (October 6-9, 2019)
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We are happy to announce a workshop on the Warm Ionized Medium (WIM) in Galaxies to be held at the Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, WV from October 6-9, 2019.  A similar meeting was held twenty years ago in Green Bank in September 1999, with many of the recipients of this message in attendance.  A summary of that meeting can be found in PASP: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/316537/pdf <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/316537/pdf>.

This workshop will provide ample time for discussion, several review talks, and posters for ~50 participants.  Registration will be open between July 1 and August 1 at the following link:https://greenbankobservatory.org/event-details/?ee=1880 <https://greenbankobservatory.org/event-details/?ee=1880>.  The meeting will run from approximately 5 pm on Sunday, October 6 through 1 pm on Wednesday, October 9.


SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE:

The warm ionized medium, also called diffuse ionized gas, is a major component of the Galactic interstellar medium and is clearly important in other galaxies as well.  In the twenty years since our previous workshop, understanding on the ionization, heating, cooling and overall dynamics of this gas has remained challenging.  With several new Galactic surveys, the wealth of extragalactic data, and the advances in theoretical and computational models in the past few decades a workshop to reevaluate our understanding of the warm ionized medium is timely.

Below are some potential topics to be discussed:

1. The WIM in our Galaxy
2. The WIM in other Galaxies
3. Optical/UV observations of the WIM
    a. H-alpha surveys
    b. He I, [NII], [SII], etc.
4. Radio and sub-mm observations of the WIM
    a. pulsar observations (dispersion measure)
    b. radio recombination lines (emission measure)
5. Infrared observations of the WIM
    a. fine-structure transitions ([CII], [NII], etc.)
6. Theory
    a. ionization of the WIM
    b. distribution/dynamics of the WIM
    c. heating of the WIM
7. Relationship to other ISM components


STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP:

In the tradition of past Green Bank Workshops the total number of participants will be limited (~50 people) which allows for candid discussions.  The workshop will be held from Sunday evening to Wednesday afternoon. Only a limited number of talks will be given which will allow ample time for discussion.  Talks given will focus on new results and general reviews.  There will be space and time for poster presentations.  The detailed schedule of the workshop, including the date, the number of talks, the length of each talk, etc., will be determined at a later date.  There are no planned proceedings for this workshop other than a review summary in PASP.  

Clear skies, and we hope to see you in Green Bank! Please feel free to share this invitation with your students and collaborators.

Will Armentrout, PhD
Local Organizing Committee
Postdoctoral Fellow at Green Bank Observatory

Matteo Luisi, PhD
Scientific Organizing Committee
Postdoctoral Fellow at West Virginia University

Scientific Organizing Committee
Dana Balser, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Matt Haffner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Felix J. Lockman, Green Bank Observatory
Matteo Luisi, West Virginia University
Toney Minter, Green Bank Observatory
Jorge Pineda, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dan Stinebring, Oberlin College
Kenny Wood, University of St. Andrews




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