Excitation and damping of disturbances in cylindrical coronal loops.

The excitation and damping of transversal coronal loop oscillations is studied using one-and two-dimensional models of line-tied cylindrical loops. By solving the time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic equations it is shown how an initial disturbance generated in the solar corona induces kink mode oscillations. We investigate the effect of the disturbance on a loop with a non-uniform boundary layer.

Recent progress in prominence seismology.

Prominence seismology is a rapidly developing topic which seeks to infer the internal structure and properties of solar prominences from the study of their oscillations. An extense observational background about oscillations in quiescent solar prominences has been gathered during the last 70 years. These observations point out the existence of two different types of oscillations: flare-induced oscillations (winking filaments) which affect the whole prominence and are of large amplitude and small amplitude oscillations which seem to be of local nature.