Multi-Scale Physics in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration, 2013 From the Sun into the Inner Heliosphere Space Sciences Series of ISSI Series, Vol. 38

From the Contents: UVCS Observations of Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Coronal Holes.- Helios: Evolution of Distribution Functions 0.3-1 AU.- Sources of Solar Wind at Solar Minimum: Constraints from Composition Data.- SUMER Observations of Coronal-Hole Temperatures.- Recent Observations of Plasma and Alfvenic Wave Energy Injection at the Base of the Fast Solar Wind.

David Burgess is a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include space and astrophysical plasma physics; shocks and turbulence in collisionless plasmas; and large scale, highly parallel plasma simulation. He is the co-investigator on three instruments on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission.

James Drake is a professor of physics and the University of Maryland College Park. He earned his bachelors degree from UCLA and remained at UCLA to complete his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1975. After completing his doctorate, Professor Drake remained at UCLA for a brief time as a post-doctoral scholar and then moved to the University of Maryland first as a post-doctoral scholar and then as a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. Professor Drake has worked on a very broad range of topics in the general area of theoretical plasma physics using both analytical and numerical techniques. His work has applications spanning a variety of physical systems, including the solar corona, the earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, magnetically confined plasma, and the interaction of intense lasers with plasma. His present focus is on magnetic reconnection with space physics applications and turbulence and transport with applications to the magnetic fusion program. In recognition for his contributions to the field of plasma physics, he was granted fellowship status in the American Physical Society and was awarded a Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Award.

Dr. Rudolf von Steiger is the director of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland. His research is primarily about the  solar wind, mainly using data from SWICS on Ulysses. He also lectures at the University of Bern, where he earned his PhD in experimental physics in 1988.

Dr. Marco Velli has taught mechanics, electromagnetism, astrophysicsand plasma physic

Relates kinetic processes to macroscopic phenomena in the solar atmosphere Uses theoretical models that have observable consequences through remote sensing