Scientific summary and highlights of the IAU Symposium 286

摘要

IAU Symposium 286, "Comparative Magnetic Minima: Characterizing Quiet Times in the Sun and Stars", was held in Mendoza, Argentina from 3 to 7 October 2011. The symposium attracted scientific experts on the various topics pertinent to the meeting from all over the world. Participants came from 23 different countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and the USA. The goal of IAU Symposium 286 was to consider solar and stellar minima, from generative dynamo mechanisms to in-depth analyses from Sun to Earth for recent well-observed and modelled minima, to a range of stellar cyclic activity, to outlier "grand minima". Solar, heliospheric, geospace, atmospheric, stellar, and planetary sciences were included in the meeting's scope.