Authors: Yeimy J. Rivera (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

A more comprehensive understanding of the formation, development, and evolution of large-scale solar structures, like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), begins with identifying the necessary observations and modeling required to make progress within our current framework. The talk will discuss current approaches to examining CMEs via single event studies and statistical approaches and what they can each tell us. I also discuss how the integration of multi-perspective/multi-point observations with 3D modeling of transients can help address open questions in CME science, including examples of studies that have capitalized on unique spacecraft configurations to do so.