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SOLVE Workshop (1Sep95)
(from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 43, September 1995)

NSO has proposed an 11-year, community-wide study of solar
variability. The study, named the Solar Variability Enterprise
(SOLVE), has four goals: to understand the physical cause of the solar
cycle, to understand the coupling of the convection zone to the
surface, to understand the coupling of the surface to the solar
envelope, and to explore the unknown aspects of variability. The
ultimate, overarching goal is to learn enough about the Sun to gain
some predictive capability of its variability.

To initiate the study, NSO has joined with the University of Sonora to
sponsor a two-part meeting on "The Solar Cycle: Recent Progress and
Future Research." The first part will be held as a workshop, 28-30
March 1996, and the second part, a general meeting, in Hermosillo,
Mexico, on 1-4 April. The workshop is intended to bring together
specialists who will address a small number of key problems relating
to the origin of the cycle in the convection zone. The general meeting
opens the discussion to the full range of solar variability. If you
are interested in attending or seek more information, please contact
jzirker@noao.edu or tsm96@fisica.uson.mx.

Jack Zirker

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