1st Announcement
                                              10 April 2005
"The 6-th Solar-B Science Meeting"
in Kyoto, Japan, from November 8 to 11, 2005.

The Solar-B satellite will be launched next year by ISAS/JAXA as an 
international collaboration project with USA (NASA), UK (PPARC), and 
ESA. The main purpose of Solar-B is to clarify the coronal heating 
mechanism and basic magnetohydrodynamic processes occurring in the 
solar atmosphere such as magnetic reconnection.  For this purpose, 
Solar-B will carry three instruments, 1) SOT (solar optical telescope),
enabling the first space observations of vector magnetic field of the 
Sun at unprecedentedly high spatial and temporal resolution, 2) XRT 
(X-ray telescope), which observes the full Sun soft X-ray images at the 
highest spatial resolution in the soft X-ray wavelength range, and 
3) EIS (EUV imaging spectrometer), which gives us Doppler velocity data 
for coronal plasma flows at the highest spatial resolution.  
We are now about one year before the launch and it is therefore timely 
to discuss basic scientific objectives, possible observing proposals 
and programs of the Solar-B mission.

Those who are interested in Solar-B and related science are invited
and encouraged to attend this meeting. 

The scientific topics include:
coronal heating, chromospheric heating, solar wind acceleration, 
flares, coronal mass ejections, jets, waves/shocks, magnetism of quiet 
Sun, flux tubes, convection and dynamo, and local helioseismology.

PROGRAM: The program will consist of oral sessions with invited and
contributed talks. There will be ample time for discussion, with
reserved time at the end of each session. There will be poster
presentations. The proceedings will be published. 

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
K. Shibata (co-chair), T. Sakurai (co-chair),
M. Carlsson, J.L. Culhane, J. Davis, L. Golub, H.S. Hudson,
T. Kosugi, B. Lites, T. Sekii, K. Shibasaki,
A.M. Title, S. Tsuneta, T. Watanabe, T. Yokoyama

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
K. Shibata (chair), H. Kurokawa, R. Kitai, S. Nagata, S. Ueno,
T. Miyagoshi, T. Ishii, H. Isobe, A. Asai, M. Shimojo

VENUE: The meeting will be held at the Kyoto International Community  
House  (http://www.kcif.or.jp/en/index.html). November is the highest 
time for tourists to visit Kyoto during the year. It will be difficult 
to reserve a hotel just prior to the meeting, so we recommend you to 
reserve an appropriate hotel in Kyoto at your earliest convenience. 
Some hotels convenient from the venue are listed below, though more 
information of hotels will be distributed in the 2nd announcement. 

http://www.westinmiyako-kyoto.com/
http://www.ishinhotels.com/kyoto-royal/en/index.html
http://www.fujita-kyoto.com/index2.html

IMPORTANT DATES:
        2nd announcement: 15 July  2005
        abstract submission and registration deadline: 15 August 2005
        3rd announcement: 1 Octorber 2005
        meeting: 8-11 November 2005

CONTACT:  shibata@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp, miyagosi@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp

For further information, please visit:
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/solarb6/