UK Solar Physics Newsletter
Philippa Browning & Iain Hannah, Editors
July 1st 2016
Dear Colleagues,
Here are a few items which have come to our attention since the last Newsletter.
You can find this news also at the UKSP website:
http://www.uksolphys.org/news/last-15-days/
or the newsletter in full in our JISCMail archive:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/uksp
Iain ([log in to unmask])
Philippa ([log in to unmask])
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General News/UKSP Business:
- STFC CLASP – Energy and Environment Call
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #69
- RHESSI Nuggets in June, 2016
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- Fall AGU – SH020: Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions
- FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Fall AGU – SH019: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, and Missing Information
- First Announcement / Save the Date for the 8th Coronal Loops Workshop
- Fall AGU 2016 Session on “Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for Discovery”
- PIPA 2016 – Extended registration deadline
- Mini-Workshops at SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Jobs/Studentships:
- Research Fellow in Solar/Stellar Seismology at the University of Birmingham
- Joint PhD opportunity between Northumbria University, Armagh Observatory and the IAC
- Postdoctoral Positions in Solar Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
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General News/UKSP Business
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STFC CLASP – Energy and Environment Call
from Dave Godfrey [June 21, 2016]
STFC CLASP – Energy and Environment Call
5th July 2016 – Church House Conference Centre – London
STFC Innovations Club would like to invite you to the Launch Event for the STFC 2016 Challenge Led Applied Systems Programme (CLASP) call. The event will be held in the Harvey Goodwin suite of the Church House Conference Centre, London on the 5th July 2016.
CLASP is intended to support the de-risking of the R&D process for industry through the development of technology demonstrators and industry-ready prototype systems.
The focus of the 2016 CLASP call is Energy and Environment. The launch event aims to bring together academia, industry and knowledge exchange professionals to discuss how CLASP can support projects that apply STFC-funded research and capabilities to address key energy and environment challenges.
Up to £1.5M will be available in this call to fund a range of projects, from short feasibility studies to larger developmental projects. Proposals will have a focus on, but not limited to, key priority areas that will be identified by a focus group composed of stakeholders. These priority areas will be announced shortly before the launch event.
The day will comprise of presentations from academic researchers and industry figures highlighting their work in energy and the environment, as well as information on funding opportunities and opportunities to meet potential future collaborators.
For more information contact: Stephen Loader or Dr Vlad Skarda or go to
www.stfc.ac.uk/clasp
Please register here to attend the day https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stfc-clasp-energy-and-environment-call-information-and-networking-day-tickets-25427214483.
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Nuggets
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New UKSP Nugget #69
from Iain Hannah [June 28, 2016]
69. Low-Coronal Sources of “Stealth” Coronal Mass Ejections
by Nathalia Alzate & Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth University)
Image processing reveals the Not-So-Stealthy Sun.
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=11722
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UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics research led from the UK.
http://www.uksolphys.org/uksp-nuggets
Iain Hannah and Lyndsay Fletcher
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=11722
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RHESSI Nuggets in June, 2016
from Hugh Hudson [June 28, 2016]
No. 277, June 27: “Spotlessness returns,” by Hugh Hudson
No. 276, June 20: “RHESSI has resumed operations,” by Albert Shih, Brian Dennis, and Sa”m Krucker
No. 275, June 6: “Non-thermal recombinationin solar flares and microflares,” by Jeffrey Reep and John Brown
See
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets
listing the current series, 2008-present, and
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/
for the original series, 2005-2008.
We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions,
which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.
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Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools
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Fall AGU – SH020: Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions
from Miho Janvier [July 1, 2016]
We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following Solar and Heliospheric Physics session at this year’s AGU meeting in San Francisco (12-16 December): “Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions”
This session will investigate the conditions under which the most geo-effective coronal mass ejections (CMEs) form and propagate in the corona and interplanetary space. Abstracts are invited that discuss topics such as the identification and characterization of the solar source region of the eruption, preconditioning of the corona and heliosphere for CME propagation, interactions of CMEs with the ambient solar wind structures and other CMEs, transformation of the CME flux rope, and geo-effective plasma and magnetic field characteristics at the Earth. Contributions that discuss multi-point observations and modeling that address these questions are especially welcome.
Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 3 August 23:59 EDT (Early Submission Deadline: 27 July, 11:59 P.M. EDT Submit early for your chance to be a Fall Meeting VIP)
Abstract submission link at: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/
The session conveners: Ying D. Liu (NSSC National Space Science Center), Emilia Kilpua (University of Helsinki), Noé Lugaz (University of New Hampshire), Miho Janvier (Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale)
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Fall AGU – SH019: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, and Missing Information
from Mario M. Bisi [June 30, 2016]
Dear All.
We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) space-weather science, forecasting, operations, and missing information session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/). The abstract-submission deadline is 03 August 2016 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 04 August 2015 at 03:59UT. However, if you submit early (before 27 July 2016 11:59 P.M. EDT/28 July 2016 03:59UT), you will be entered into a free prize draw for a VIP Package (see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/early-abstract-submission/).
Full session details are below. To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (before 24 July 2015). First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.
To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359.
Please note that this session is being organized as one of the new alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions. Invited abstracts and panelists to be announced in due course.
Best wishes,
Mario (on behalf of all the SH019 Conveners).
Session ID#: 12359
Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on reliable energy supplies and the technologies which they enable/run. These are susceptible to both extreme and everyday space weather (SW); the latter in the current solar cycle has proven to be more-surprisingly influenced by solar-wind structures and not just CME events. Such susceptibilities include power grids, aviation/maritime, communications, GNSS positioning/timing, etc…
Following the highly-successful session at Fall-AGU-2015, this session is intended to follow-up and expand/continue the assessment of the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities.
The session solicits contributions of: the provision of suitable observations/measurements; the developments of scientific models into operational use; and ongoing developments of SW forecasting. Contributions emphasizing science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES/DSCOVR/NOAA-2020/Carrington) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also very-much welcomed.
Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)
Cross-Listed:
NH – Natural Hazards
P – Planetary Sciences
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359
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First Announcement / Save the Date for the 8th Coronal Loops Workshop
from Steve Bradshaw [June 29, 2016]
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that the 8th Coronal Loops Workshop will be held in Palermo, Sicily, during the week of 26-30 June, 2017. The venue for the Workshop will be the Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa, located in the old city centre. Fabio Reale will Chair the SOC.
Further announcements will be made in due course.
Best wishes,
Steve Bradshaw
(On behalf of the Coronal Loops Workshops Steering Committee)
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Fall AGU 2016 Session on “Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for Discovery”
from Jack Ireland [June 28, 2016]
You are invited to submit abstracts to the 2016 Fall AGU session
“Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for
Discovery” (description below). Abstracts may be submitted here
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558
The abstract submission deadline is 3 August 2016 11.59pm EDT.
Session Description:
The Sun influences the Earth through a complex set of interactions
across interplanetary space. The behavior of this system is measured
by many different instruments that produce many varied data. In the
near future, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will produce data at
rates exceeding the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Solar Probe Plus
and Solar Orbiter will bring entirely new perspectives on the
Sun-Earth system. These disparate data are essentially different views
of the same Sun-Earth system. Maximizing the scientific output from
these variegated data is the key to progress, and the subject of this
session. We solicit contributions covering the following topics: –
automated solar feature recognition and tracking – cloud computing in
support of solar big data analysis – data/knowledge visualization and
discovery – efficient spatio-temporal data querying – machine learning
from solar data – spatio-temporal pattern mining – storage of, and
access to big data repositories.
Conveners: J. Ireland (ADNET Systems, Inc.,/NASA GSFC), R. Angyk (Georgia State University, USA)
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558
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PIPA 2016 – Extended registration deadline
from Istvan Ballai [June 28, 2016]
3rd Announcement of Meeting on “Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics”
Extended registration and abstract submission deadline
Tenerife, Spain
Monday 29th August – Friday 02 September
The registration and abstract submission has been extended to July 5, 2016.
Hotel reservation deadline – 28 July 2016
The meeting will cover various aspects of partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics, such as solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc. The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interest that could enhance cross-collaborations between the different fields.
The meeting will focus on the observational and theoretical aspects of the following topics:
Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations
Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas
Web page: www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016
On behalf of the Organizers:
Elena Khomenko and Istvan Ballai
www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016
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Mini-Workshops at SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
from W. Dean Pesnell [June 23, 2016]
SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Oct. 17-21, 2016 * Burlington, VT
Website: http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org
Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity.” One of the defining characteristics of past SDO Meetings are the excellent mini-workshops. On Friday, Oct. 21, we have 8 workshops planned. Join us for one or more! They are:
1) Magnetic Data Calibration: Vector Field Working Group, 2) Solar Cycle Prediction Retrospective, 3) EUV Irradiance Calibration and Data Inter-Comparisons, 4-5) Thermal Diagnostics with SDO/AIA (Part I – II), 6) Image Processing and SunPy: Bridging from IDL to Python, 7) Image Processing and SunPy: Solar Data Processing with Python, and 8) Local Helioseismology Working Group.
SDO 2016 Important Due Dates:
• Abstracts: July 15
• Early Registration & Hotel Reservation: September 16
All members of the science community are welcome to SDO 2016. With a great science program and Vermont’s beautiful fall foliage in mid-October, we hope you make plans to join us. Submit your abstract today!
Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson
http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org
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Jobs/Studentships
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Research Fellow in Solar/Stellar Seismology at the University of Birmingham
from Bill Chaplin [June 27, 2016]
Helioseismology and asteroseismology: the Solar-Stellar Connection
Applications are invited to join the Solar and Stellar Physics Group at Birmingham to work on the analysis and interpretation of helioseismic data – collected by the group’s own Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON), as well as other ground-based solar networks and space missions – and asteroseismic data (e.g. from Kepler, K2 and SONG) on other Sun-like stars. The post is available for 19 months initially, with the possibility of extending for another 36 months.
The focus of the work will be on exploiting these data to further our understanding of the solar activity cycle and the structure and dynamics of the deep solar interior; and, in a more general context, the solar-stellar connection, and the structure, dynamics and activity of Sun-like stars using asteroseismic data. Additionally, we are interested in exploiting data and results from BiSON to inform studies of other Sun-like stars; and in using developments in asteroseismology to apply new approaches to the helioseismic analysis.
The research of the group is centred on studies of the Sun and other stars, the characterization of exoplanet systems, and stellar population studies, using in particular the techniques of helio- and asteroseismology.
For informal enquiries please contact Professor Bill Chaplin ([log in to unmask])
To apply, search for post 43840 at http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/jobs/
Closing date for applications: July 24
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Joint PhD opportunity between Northumbria University, Armagh Observatory and the IAC
from Eamon Scullion [June 27, 2016]
Instabilities in Solar Prominences
Deadline Friday 29th July 2016
Prominences and their on-disk counterpart (filaments) constitute the largest structures close to the surface of the Sun. They contain a relatively dense hydrogen dominated plasma and can become suspended above the solar surface by a complicated magnetic field. In addition, they can erupt suddenly and impact upon the Earth’s magnetosphere leading to space weather phenomena. What triggers this eruption remains unclear. It is thought that MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) instabilities (such as the Kelvin-Helmholtz, magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor, vortices etc) play an important role in prominence/filament dynamics. This PhD project will investigate prominence instabilities, life-cycles and connectivity using observations at the highest resolution from international, ground-based solar telescope facilities. The PhD project will also involve the application of advanced 3D numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations for further understanding of the onset of plasma instabilities in prominences.
It is expected that the student has either a degree in Mathematics and/or Physics. Experience with coding in a scientific language (e.g., C, C+, IDL, Python) will be looked upon favourably. The PhD project will be a three-year joint venture between Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), Armagh Observatory (Northern Ireland) and the IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Canary Islands, Spain). The candidate will spend the majority of their time at Northumbria University and part of the project will be spent at the other institutes.
Eligibility and How to Apply:
Please note eligibility requirement:
• Academic excellence of the proposed student has at least an upper second-class degree (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities) with a preference for 1st class honors; or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement.
• Appropriate IELTS score, if required.
For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
Start Date: 3rd October 2016
Contact: [log in to unmask]
https://www.findaphd.com/search/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=76062&LID=2712
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Postdoctoral Positions in Solar Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
from Johannes Stecker [June 21, 2016]
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) invites applications for postdoctoral positions in solar physics. The successful candidates will join the SOLMAG project based on an ERC Advanced Grant and led by Sami K. Solanki. The project will follow an integral approach for understanding the physics underlying the structure and dynamics of the solar magnetic field combining new observational facilities, novel instruments currently being developed at the MPS and the next generation of inversion techniques for data analysis and state-of-the-art MHD simulations.
Correspondingly we are searching for postdocs within a wide range of expertise comprising instrumentation, ground-based observations, data calibration and reduction, image restoration, analysis of spectrapolarimetric data, inversion techniques, radiative transfer, MHD simulations, solar irradiance modelling, and magnetic field extrapolation.
The SOLMAG project will reside in the solar department of the MPS, one of the largest groups in solar physics worldwide with leading participations in many of the major solar space missions as well as in ground based and balloon-borne observational programs. The institute is located in Goettingen (Germany), a lively and scenic university town, in a striking new building in the immediate vicinity of the Institute for Astrophysics of the University.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in physics, astrophysics or a closely related field. They should have an outstanding research record. Relevant experience in at least one of the fields listed above will be of advantage. The positions are available as early as 1.10.2016 and are offered for a period of two or three years. An extension is possible depending on performance. Salary will be according to grade E13 of the TVöD scale of the German public services.
Applications including a CV, a statement of research experience and interests, and a publication list should be sent to [log in to unmask] In addition, applicants should arrange to have three letters of reference sent separately to Sami K. Solanki ([log in to unmask]). Review of applications will begin July 15, 2016 and continue until the positions are filled.
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and particularly encourages applications from women and persons with disabilities.
For further information please contact Sami. K. Solanki ([log in to unmask]) or Johannes Stecker ([log in to unmask]).
http://www.mps.mpg.de/career/jobs
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