Mechanisms of Chromospheric and Coronal Heating

1: Solar Observations.- Observations of Waves and Oscillations.- Observations of Waves and Oscillations in Solar Magnetic Fluxtube Concentrations.- The Generation of Long Period Acoustic Waves by Solar Global Oscillations.- Measurements of 1-Hz Coronal Oscillations at Total Eclipses and Their Implications for Coronal Heating.- Short-Term Oscillations in Green and Red Coronal Lines.- Height-Dependent Short-Period Oscillations in the Fe XIV (530.3 nm) Solar Corona Above a Sunspot Group Crossing the Limb.- On the Dynamics of Granulation in Active Regions and the Heating Problem.- Generation of Electric Currents and Waves on Magnetic Flux Tubes by Horizontal Velocities in the Photosphere.- On the Magnetic Field Activity in Solar Active Regions.- The Bright Points in the Ca II K-Line and Their Relation to the Inner Network Magnetic Structures.- K2V Cell Grains and Chromospheric Heating.- Wave Heating in Chromospheric Bright Points.- Do We Really Know What the Actual Chromospheric Heating Requirements Are?.- The Effects of Electron Scattering on the Si II 1816 Line in the Solar Chromosphere.- SIMURIS: a High Resolution Solar Physics Interferometric Mission in Answer to the Chromospheric and Coronal Heating Problem.- The Solar Ultraviolet Network (SUN).- HRTS Time Series Observations: Chromospheric and Coronal Heating.- High Spatial Resolution Observations of the Solar Transition Region: Spicules and Microflares.- New Models of the Chromosphere and Transition Region.- The Role of Particle Diffusion in the Lower Transition Region: Revised Interpretation of Emission Measures.- Why Heating is Not Necessary in the Transition Region or Upper Chromosphere.- Height-Dependent Solar Plage Temperature Distribution.- On the Temperature Inhomogeneity of the Lower Solar Corona.- Very High Resolution Solar X-ray Imaging.- Spectra of MHD Turbulence in Coronal Active Regions.- Observations of Coronal Bright Points and Implications for Coronal Heating Mechanisms.- Modelling Coronal Active Region Emission Patterns.- The Fe Ionization Equilibrium in the Solar Corona With a Non-Maxwellian Distribution Function.- Energetics of Solar Coronal Holes.- Coronal Radio Emission.- Implications of Microwaves for Heating and Particle Acceleration on the Sun.- Properties of Impulsive Events in a Polar Coronal Hole.- Explosive Instability in Solar Coronal Loops.- Signatures of Coronal Structures and Turbulence in the Solar Wind.- 2: Stellar Observations.- What Can Solar and Stellar Ultraviolet Observations Tell About Chromospheric and Coronal Heating Mechanisms?.- He I 5876 Å Line As an Indicator of Chromospheric Heating in Young F-Type MS Stars.- Chromospheric Modelling of Active Regions on AU Mic.- New Clues to Atmospheric Heating Processes in Luminous Cool Stars.- Chromospheres of Cool Non-Mira Giant Stars.- What Can Observations of Giants and Supergiant Stars Tell Us About Chromospheric and Coronal Heating?.- Chromospheric Activity in Late-Type Giants and Supergiants: Constraints on Heating Theories.- Coronal Heating and the Dividing Line.- An Infrared Perspective on Chromospheres.- Magnetic Activity Across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.- Relations Between Activity and Magnetic Fields.- Recent Measurements of Stellar Magnetic Fields.- Chromospheric/Coronal Emission Correlations in ‘Quiescent’ and Eruptive Phenomena in M-Dwarf Stars.- Global Electrodynamic Coupling in Stellar Atmospheres.- Implications for Coronal Heating Theories from Stellar X-ray Observations.- Empirical Constraints on Coronal Heating Processes.- Minimum Coronal Energy Requirements: Constraints for Heating Mechanisms.- Sun-Hot Star Contrast in Chromospheric/Coronal Te(r). Nonradiative Heating vs. Outflow Enhanced Opacity.- Formation of Chromospheres and Coronae of Accretion Disks by Viscous Dissipation.- 3: Wave Heating Mechanisms.- Acoustic Heating.- On the Intrinsic Difficulty of Producing Stellar Coronae With Acoustic Waves.- The Effect of Waves on Optically Thin Transition Region Lines.- Heating of the Solar Atmosphere by Spicules.- Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in a Stratified Atmosphere.- The Shock Wave Heating Mechanism of Pulsating Star Chromospheres.- Ionization Pumping.- Shock Amplification by Radiation.- Recent Developments in Theories of Wave Generation.- Generation of Acoustic Flux Derived from Numerical Simulations of the Solar Granular Convection.- Magnetoacoustic Waves and Their Generation by Convection.- Magnetoacoustic Heating of the Solar Chromosphere.- Effects of Line-Tying and Non-Uniformities on Thermal Instabilities and Slow MHD Modes.- Heating in Intense Flux Tubes.- Line Simulation of Solar Structures Permeated by Acoustic and MHD-Waves.- Damping of Shocks in Magnetic Flux Tubes.- Heating of the Solar Chromosphere by MHD-Waves.- Alfvén Waves.- Reflection of Alfvén Waves and Heating in Solar Coronal Holes.- Alfvén Wave Propagation in a Solar Magnetic Structure.- On Propagation and Absorption of Alfvén Waves in Coronal Loops.- Magnetic Confinement, Alfvén Wave Reflection, and the Origin of X-ray and Mass Loss “Dividing Lines”.- Heating in Stochastic Magnetic Fields.- Resonance Absorption Heating.- Resonant Absorption of MHD Waves in Magnetic Loops in the Solar Corona.- On the Time Scales and the Efficiency of Solar Coronal Loop Heating by Resonant Absorption.- Line-Tying Effects on Stability and Heating of Solar Coronal Loops.- Coronal Loop Heating by Discrete Alfvén Waves.- Magnetohydrodynamic Surface Waves.- Magnetoacoustic-Gravity Surface Waves.- Properties of Non-Parallel Magnetoacoustic Surface Waves.- Viscous Damping of Magnetohydrodynamic Surface Waves.- Coronal Loop Heating by the Fast Surface Wave.- 4: Electrodynamic Heating Mechanisms.- The Formation of Current Sheets and Coronal Heating.- Current Sheet Formation in Force-Free Magnetic Fields.- Two-Dimensional Magnetic Neutral Points.- The Significance of Magnetic Null Points.- Effect of Coronal Heating on Coronal Arcades.- Heating by Field Aligned DC Joule Dissipation.- Joule Heating in the Sun’s Lower Transition Region.- Plasma Heating by Current Sheets in Solar Active Regions.- Chromosphere Generation in Magnetic Flux-Tubes.- Coronal Magnetic Structure: the Role of Ideal MHD Invariants.- Current Helicity and the Generation of Magnetic Field Aligned Currents.- Nonlinear Evolution of a Force-Free Arcade Field Driven by Shear Flow.- Two-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection.- Magnetic Field Annihilation Within a Stagnation Point Flow.- Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection: Basic Concepts.- Atmospheric Heating in Emerging Flux Regions.- Micro/Nanoflare Coronal Heating.- Numerical Simulation of Microflare Evolution in the Solar Transition Region and Corona.- Coronal Heating by Nanoflares: Plasma Dynamics of Elementary Events.- Coronal Heating by Nanoflares: Possible Evidence of Plasmoids in Radio Occultation Data.- Author Index.- List of Participants.