Organizing Committee :

Madga Stavinschi (Romania, co-director), Jean-Paul Zahn (France, co-director), Petr Heinzel (Czech Republic), Zadig Mouradian (France), Jay Pasachoff (USA).

The goal of this Institute is to present the most recent results in solar physics which have been obtained from ground, from space and during eclipses, at the location - Bucharest - where the last total eclipse of the millennium has its maximum duration.

The ASI is aimed at scientists of postdoctoral level who wish to learn of recent developments, but it will not exclude students who are about to obtain a PhD. The two first days will be devoted in part to preparing the observation of the eclipse; the lectures will be given by leading specialists in the field.

There will be no living expenses nor registration fee at the charge of the participants, and a number of travel grants are available for those who have insufficient support from their home institution.

Lectures and lecturers (in chronological order)

Magda Stavinschi                                magda@roastro.astro.ro
(Astronomical Institute, Bucharest, Romania)    
  	Earth orbit and theory of eclipses

Jay Pasachoff                                   jmp@williams.edu        
(Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., USA)    
	The observation of solar eclipses 
	What eclipses have taught us about the Sun

Pierre Mein                                     mein@obspm.fr
(Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)         
        Inversion of spectral lines: 
        fine structures and prominences (2)
        
Suzy Collin-Zahn                                suzy@obspm.fr
(Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)         
        Radiation processes in LTE and non-LTE

Pierre Cugnon                                   pierrec@astro.oma.be
(Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Belgium)       
        The solar corona (2)

Yutaka Uchida                                   uchida@astro1.yy.kagu.sut.ac.jp
Science University, Tokyo, Japan)               
        Observing the Sun from outer space (2)

Petr Heinzel                                    pheinzel@asu.cas.cz
(Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic)          
        Models of the solar atmosphere (2)

Zadig Mouradian                                 mouradian@obspm.fr
(Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)         
        Solar activity (2)

Georgeta Maris                                  gmaris@roastro.astro.ro
(Astronomical Institute, Bucharest, Romania)    
        Extension of coronal structures into the heliosphere

Iraida Kim                                      kim@sai.msu.su
(Sternberg Institute, Moscow, Russia)           
        Observing the solar magnetic field (2)
        
Eric Priest                                     eric@dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
(University of St. Andrew, Edimborough, UK)     
        The solar magnetic field

Wojciech Dziembowski                            wd@camk.edu.pl
(Copernic Institute, Warsaw, Poland)            
        Sounding the solar interior (2)

Andre Mangeney                                  mandre@obspm.fr
(Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)         
        Magnetosphere and solar wind (2)

Henk Spruit                                     henk@mpa-garching.mpg.de
(Max-Planck Inst. fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany) 
        Solar dynamo (2)

Jean-Paul Zahn                                  zahn@obspm.fr
(Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
        Physics of the solar interior
        Theory of solar rotation

APPLICATION FORM

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Send to 

        Dr. Magda Stavinschi,
                Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy
                Str. Cuticul de Argint 5
                RO-75212 Bucharest, Romania 
                tel: +401 335 68 92
                tel/fax: +401 337 33 89

or preferably by e-mail at              magda@roastro.astro.ro

The deadline for application has been extended to April 30.