Professor Valery Nakariakov open lecture and scientific seminar: "A Plasma Orchestra, or Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Corona"
January 23, 2026
You are kindly invited to attend a scientific seminar that will take place on June 27, 2025, at Room D407, VeA IZI VSRC.
Seminar Programme
10:00 – 11:00 Prof. Valery M. Nakariakov, University of Warwick, UK "A Plasma Orchestra, or Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Corona"
11:00 – 12:00 Lunch break
12:00 – 15:00
Scientific seminar “Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Corona” as part of the JIV-ERIC National Node Scientific Seminar Series
Please confirm your participation by marking your name in the Excel sheet: Participation Sheet
You can join in person or online via Google Meet. Google Meet link
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A Plasma Orchestra, or Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in the Solar Corona
Valery M Nakariakov (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
The corona of the Sun is the outermost part of the solar atmosphere. The corona is a very hot, fully ionised plasma dominated by the magnetic field. The corona is the birthplace of extreme events of space weather, and a natural laboratory for plasma physics. One of the most fascinated discoveries made with recent high-precision spaceborne imaging telescopes operating in the extreme UV band is the ubiquitous dynamics of the corona in a form of various large-scale wave motions. An example of such an instrument is the Extreme UV imager on the recently launched Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Typical oscillation periods are several minutes, typical wavelengths are tens to hundred thousand kilometres, and typical speeds are from several tens to several thousand kilometres per second, which make the solar coronal waves the largest electromagnetic wave motions resolved simultaneously in time and space, detected in the Universe. The observed waves are confidently interpreted in terms of the magnetohydrodynamic theory. Various plasma structures of the corona support different types of wave modes, allowing for the use of the waves for the plasma diagnostics via the method of magnetohydrodynamic seismology.