Much of the excitement in modern Solar Physics has come from the realisation that the Sun is a plasma and that this plasma is interacting with the magnetic field in a wide variety of subtle ways. As well as being of great interest in their own right the observed plasma phenomena on the Sun are of much wider importance, since they reveal to us details of basic phenomena that are expected to be occurring throughout the universe. It was with this in mind that 173 solar physicists from 17 countries gathered together in Bangalore with an air of anticipation. We were not disappointed as we received the warmest of welcomes from our graceful and charming host,Vinod Krishan. She and her colleagues worked tirelessly to make our stay a most memorable one and to ensure that the meeting ran with calm and efficiency. In addition to being stimulated by an excellent series of talks on the up-to-the minute advances in our subject, it was a pleasure to make new friendships from so many countries and to learn, in particular, of the Solar Physics being done in India which has a great tradition and is of a high standard. Furthermore, we enjoyed hearing about Indian culture and appreciating its beauty, especially on our day's tour into the countryside to visit some Hindu and Jain temples.

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InhaltsangabeI. Introduction.- Good Morning.- Welcome.- The Plasma Universe.- II. The Solar Interior.- Interior Structure of the Sun.- The Electrodynamics of Neutrinos in Dispersive Media.- Problems of Solar Convection.- Mechanisms for Dynamo Mode Excitation.- Locating the Seat of the Solar Dynamo.- Helioseismological Determination of Stratification and Dynamic Processes in the Solar Core.- Internal Large-Scale Toroidal Magnetic Field of the Sun.- Magnetic Buoyancy with Viscosity and Ohmic Dissipation and Flux Tube Formation.- Effect of Turbulence on Emerging Magnetic Flux Tubes in the Convection Zone.- Plasma Damping of Gravitational Waves.- Propagation and Oscillation of Neutrinos with Magnetic Moment inside the Sun.- III. Stellar Plasmas.- Magnetic Braking.- Energy Release in Stellar Flares.- Stokes Parameters for Thomson Scattering in Magnetized Plasma.- Classical Treatment of the Compton Collision in General Relativity.- Chromospheric and Coronal Heating Mechanisms.- IV. Photospheric Flows and Magnetic Fields.- Large-Scale Flow Patterns in the Solar Atmosphere.- Sunspot Motions from a Study of Kodaikanal and Mount Wilson Observations.- Observations of Magnetic Features with the German Solar Telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide/Tenerife.- Interpretation of the "Third Harmonic" of the Solar Magnetic Cycle.- Self-Organization Processes on the Sun: The Heliosynergetics.- Linear and Nonlinear Convection with an Aligned Magnetic Field.- V. Photospheric Flux Tubes.- Magnetohydrodynamics of Sunspots.- Sunspot Seismology Theory.- Waves in Magnetic Flux Tubes.- Nonlinear Waves in Flux Tubes.- Resonant Absorption of P-Modes by Sunspots.- Wave Propagation in Sunspots.- On the Location of Footpoints of Sub-Arc-Second Magnetic Structures in the Quiet Solar Photosphere.- VI. Chromospheric And Coronal Heating.- The Heating of the Quiet Solar Chromosphere.- Coronal Heating by DC Currents.- Relaxed States of MHD Turbulence: Minimum Dissipation or Minimum Energy?.- A Case for Alfvén Wave Heating.- Recent Advances in Acoustic Heating.- Nonlinear Surface Alfven Wave Propagation in the Solar Atmosphere.- Interaction of Flux Tubes with Sound Waves.- Resonant Absoiption of Alfvén Waves and the Associated Phenomenon of Magnetic Reconnection.- Fabry-Perot Interferogram Profiles in ?5303 in Relation to Coronal Structures: 1980 and 1983 Eclipses.- Density Irregularity of the Inner Corona determined from Simultaneous Measurements of the XUV and the K Coronal Brightness.- Simultaneous Organisation of (V, B): The Spicules.- Magnetic Helicity of Oscillating Coronal Loops.- Nonlinear Alfvén Waves with Large Larmor Radius Effect.- Cosmic Ray Signatures of Different Types of Solar Wind Streams.- Calcium K Line Profiles as a Function of Latitude and Solar Cycle Phase.- On the Existence of Hydromagnetic Interface Waves in a Structured Atmosphere.- Acoustic Wave Generation in Vertical Magnetic Fields.- Wave Energy Dissipation in the Solar Atmosphere.- VII. Magnetic Reconnection And Coronal Evolution.- Magnetic Reconnection on the Sun.- The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Flares and Prominence Equations.- Structure and Equilibrium of Coronal Magnetic Fields.- The Evolution of a Sheared Potential Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona.- Storage and Release of Magnetic Energy in a Force-Free Field.- Magnetic Shear and Flares.- Implications of Tension-Free Equilibria for Pre-Flare Energy Build-Up.- Energy Balance in Prominence-Corona Transition Regions.- Numerical Simulations of Solar Disturbances and their Interplanetary Consequences.- Stability of a Massive Current Sheet Supported by a Two-Dimensional Potential Magnetic Field.- Nature of Large-Scale Magnetic Field and Complexity of HCS as observed in Interplanetary Plasma.- The Quasi-Static Evolution of Magnetic Structures on the Sun and Their Topological Reconstruction.- Slight Disappearance of Prominence Plasma to the Solar Corona.- Coronal Loop Interaction.- VIII. Solar Flares.- Plasma Processes in Solar Flares.- Cohere