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Dear Colleagues,
NAM 2017 starts this evening! Looking forward to seeing some of you there.
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
Richard ([log in to unmask])
Mihalis ([log in to unmask])
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General News/UKSP Business:
Launch of the EGU – Solar Terrestrial Division blog
RCUK Policy Internships for STFC-funded PhD Students
STFC Balance of Programme (Skills) review Follow-up Community Consultation
Nuggets:
New UKSP Nugget #80
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
MINI-CONFERENCE: Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics
Fall AGU – SH012: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case – FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
“Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK (03-08 December 2017) – First Announcement.
Dynamic Sun: II. Solar Magnetism from Interior to the Corona
RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting “Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere”
Abstracts Solicited for AGU Fall 2017 Meeting Session SH003: Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective
Newton Fund Malaysia Call
Fourth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS) – Final Announcement
Jobs/Studentships:
Director General for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
Research associate in Space Physics
ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science
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General News/UKSP Business:
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Launch of the EGU – Solar Terrestrial Division blog
from Athanasios Papaioannou [June 27, 2017]
We are happy to announce the launch of the EGU – Solar Terrestrial division blog together with other social media webpages where you can get in touch with us. This is run by a group of enthusiatic volunteers, Koen Hendrickx (Stockholm University, Sweden), Kamalam Vanninathan (University of Graz, Austria) and the editor Athanasios Papaioannou (National Observatory of Athens, Greece).
We are putting all our efforts in bringing the community together, to
explain science in attractive ways and to encourage others to understand the intimate connection between the Sun and the Earth. Follow our monthly blogposts to find out more.
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/st/
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RCUK Policy Internships for STFC-funded PhD Students
from Sian Giles [June 26, 2017]
STFC participates in the Research Councils Policy Internships scheme, a programme in which STFC-funded PhD students are given the opportunity to spend three months working in Parliament or Government. Opportunities are available with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) or the Government Office for Science (GO-Science).
Applications for the 2018 scheme are now open.
The scheme presents a unique opportunity for PhD students to gain an insight into the political process. Fellows learn how policy is developed, interact with policy makers and develop the skills needed to communicate effectively with non-academic audiences.
• POST is an independent office of the Houses of Parliament whose role is to provide clear, expert, impartial advice on science to MPs and Peers. Its goal is to keep them up to date on current scientific issues and allow them to make informed decisions. Fellows either work on a ‘POST Note’ or research project, or provide specialist advice to a Parliamentary Select Committee or the House of Commons Library.
• GO-Science looks to ensure that Government policies and decisions are informed by the best scientific evidence and strategic long-term thinking. Placements are likely to involve undertaking research, drafting briefing notes and background papers, and organising workshops and meetings. They will offer opportunities to work with a number of different teams and across a wide range of science and technology policy topics in GO-Science.
Successful applicants will receive funding for their secondment period and will receive a three-month extension to their STFC PhD status. Interns will receive a stipend equivalent to that of a London-based PhD student for three months. Interns based at non-London institutions will receive an additional sum to cover the costs of relocating to London for three months.
Applications for 2018 Internships will close at 4pm on Thursday 10 August 2017. More details about the hosting partners and the application form can be found on the RCUK site.
Further information:
• STFC Policy Internships (includes past case studies)
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
• Government Office for Science
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/skills/policy-internships-scheme/
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STFC Balance of Programme (Skills) review Follow-up Community Consultation
from Huw Morgan [June 23, 2017]
STFC’s Balance of Programme (Skills) review is inviting community responses to targeted questions. If you have ideas or opinions you wish to be included in the Solar System Advisory Panel’s response to the following questions, please email Huw Morgan before Monday 10th July.
1) In relation to the five skills areas in scope of the review (apprentices, graduates, studentships, fellowships and public engagement) please comment on the level of resources currently allocated to the facilities operated by STFC. For the purpose of this exercise ‘facilities’ refers to ISIS, Central Laser Facility, RAL Space & Hartree Centre.
2) What skills should be maintained or strengthened to enable your community to respond flexibly to new funding opportunities such as (but not exclusively) those offered by the Global Challenges Research Fund and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund?
3) Under the following funding scenarios indicate a clear prioritisation (1-5, 1 is highest priority; no equal priorities to be given) of skills areas (including all five skills areas in scope of the review – apprentices, graduates, studentships, fellowships and public engagement): Flat cash +5% and Flat cash -5%
4) What opportunities exist for skills activities that would enhance your programme under an optimistic funding scenario in which significant funding becomes available to implement the “Building Our Industrial Strategy” Green Paper via e.g. the technologies allocated support by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund?
Please indicate if there are any parts of your response that you wish to remain confidential to STFC and the Review Panel.
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Nuggets:
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New UKSP Nugget #80
from Iain Hannah [June 29, 2017]
80. Large Scale Coronal Structures Imaged During the 2012/2013 Total Solar Eclipses
by Nathalia Alzate, Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth University), Shadia R. Habbal (IfA, Hawai’i), Miloslav Druckmüller (Brno UT), Constantinos Emmanouilidis (K@stro Obs)
The imprints of dynamical events in the 2012 and 2013 total solar eclipses.
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=13114
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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
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http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=13114
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Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
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MINI-CONFERENCE: Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics
from Christopher Chen [July 2, 2017]
MINI-CONFERENCE: Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics
Organizers: Jason TenBarge, Greg Howes, Kris Klein, Chris Chen, Stanislav Boldyrev
October 23-27, 2017 in Milwaukee, WI
The American Physical Society Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics is sponsoring a mini-conference held as part of the 2017 Division of Plasma Physics meeting. Many of the challenges facing the laboratory plasma physics and fusion confinement communities are rooted in fundamental kinetic plasma physics phenomena that are also crucial to understand the physics of the heliosphere and astrophysical systems. This mini-conference is dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary interaction and communication among plasma physicists, space physicists, and astrophysicists. We solicit talks and poster presentations focusing on new results from spacecraft missions that illuminates plasma phenomena, laboratory findings relevant to space physics, and theoretical and computational work that covers the fundamental physics common to studies of space and laboratory plasmas.
Abstract Deadline: July 14, 2017
https://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/annual/
Please note that when submitting your abstract, presenters must select mini-conference subject category 15.1 and may include a brief mini-conference title in the Special Instructions (e.g., bridging the divide-GPAP). Mini-conference presenters are allowed one additional first author paper submission in the regular technical program.
https://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/annual/
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Fall AGU – SH012: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case – FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
from Mario Bisi [July 2, 2017]
Dear All.
We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, Future Missions, Missing Information, and the Economic Case session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 11-15 December 2017 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/). The abstract-submission deadline is 02 August 2017 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 03 August 2017 at 03:59UT. However, if you submit early (before 26 July 2017 11:59 P.M. EDT/27 July 2017 03:59UT), you will be entered into a free prize draw for a VIP Package (see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions/).
To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (by early July 2017). 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/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23441.
Please note that this session is being organized as one of the alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions. Invited abstracts and panelists to be announced in due course.
This is a follow-on from last-years very-successful session which attracted 69 abstracts covered over three dedicated oral sessions, one of which was a panel session, as well as a full and active poster session.
Best wishes, and thanks,
Mario (on behalf of all the SH012 Conveners).
Session ID#: 23441
Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on energy supplies and technologies proving increasingly susceptible to everyday and extreme space weather (SW) (power grids, GNSS-positioning/timing, aviation/maritime/rail, communications, etc.). The present solar cycle’s SW has proven to be, perhaps surprisingly, mostly driven by solar-wind structures rather than CME events.
Following the highly-successful sessions at Fall-AGUs-2015/2016, this intends to follow-up and further expand/continue the assessment of state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities with a focus on Lagrange missions.
We solicit contributions of: provisions/justifications of suitable observations/measurements; model developments to utilize future missions’ data; ongoing developments in SW forecasting; science from SW operational missions (SWFO/ESA-UK-L5/GOES/DSCOVR/etc.); and identifications of data/model gaps. We also encourage submissions that quantify the economics of SW. It is time to review the economic assessments status and identify the paths forward to further-improve the societal-economic case for SW research and operations.
Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom.
Co-Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Edward J. Oughton, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and David F Webb, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States.
Co-Organized between:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)
Cross-Listed:
NH – Natural Hazards
P – Planetary Sciences
PA – Public Affairs
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
Index Numbers:
4305 – Natural Hazards: Space Weather
7594 – Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Instruments and techniques
7924 – Space Weather: Forecasting
7999 – Space Weather: General or miscellaneous
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23441
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“Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” at the Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, UK (03-08 December 2017) – First Announcement.
from Mario Bisi [July 2, 2017]
Dear Colleagues.
It is with great pleasure that we announce that registration and bookings are now open for our workshop entitled “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather” – we expect around 40 participants to take part in this workshop which will be held at The Clayton Hotel, Cardiff, Wales (UK) 03-08 December 2017. This immediately follows the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) in Belgium and precedes the Fall AGU in the USA.
Full details and deadlines can be found on the workshop website here: https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/IntoTheRedDragonsLair/.
Our Workshop encompasses four main themes:
– The “Fourth Remote-Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere Workshop”;
– “Where are we on Bz?” (a SEREN follow-on);
– “Novel Ionospheric Studies with Advanced Observing Techniques”; and
– The “11th LOFAR Solar Physics and Space Weather Key Science Project”.
(The combined workshop also incorporates the MWA SHI and future potential SKA SHI SWG science.)
The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote¬-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including EUV, white-/visible-¬light, and radio observations, together with modellers, in order to tackle key outstanding heliophysics issues. The science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-¬weather forecasting as well as having an impact on the fundamental physics behind how the Sun creates and drives the heliosphere. It is also intended to establish closer working relations and devise the best ways our group can move the field forward as a whole, tapping into observational capabilities that can be used to aid the upcoming Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe Communities, as well as Space Weather science and forecasting enhancements in general. The workshop also aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and across the different techniques.
The workshop will have a small registration fee (£120 early/£150 late – this includes the lunches, refreshments, welcome reception, workshop dinner, and excursion – but NOT accommodation) and a strong Welsh theme (including the refreshments, food, and excursion).
We look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff!
Best wishes,
Mario (SOC and LOC Chair, on behalf of the SOC and LOC).
Science Organising Committee (SOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Michael (Mike) A. Hapgood (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Richard A. Fallows (ASTRON, NL)
Kent Miller (EOARD, UK/AFRL, USA)
Bernard (Bernie) V. Jackson (UCSD, US)
David (Dave) F. Webb (BC, US)
Biagio Forte (University of Bath, UK)
Alexander (Alec) MacKinnon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gottfried Mann (AIP, DE)
Local Organising Committee (LOC):
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) (Chair)
Catherine A. Baker (Baker-Bisi Executive Assistance, UK)
Annabel Cartwright (Cardiff University, UK)
https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/IntoTheRedDragonsLair/
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Dynamic Sun: II. Solar Magnetism from Interior to the Corona
from Viktor Fedun [July 2, 2017]
Venue: Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Dates: Monday 12 – Friday 16 February 2018
“Dynamic Sun” is a newly proposed conference series, which will provide a highly visible platform to the observers, theoreticians, numerical modellers and instrumentation experts in the field of solar physics and space science to discuss cutting edge scientific challenges. The first Dynamic Sun meeting, which focused on MHD wave phenomena in the solar atmosphere, took place in 2016 in Varanasi, India and was highly successful with more than 120 participants (http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/India_2016/index.html).
The Dynamic Sun II meeting will follow up the success of the first and also an additional requested session devoted to the Sun driving magnetospheric dynamics will be added. As well as this new magnetospheric session, the focus of the Dynamic Sun II meeting will be to discuss in detail the recent achievements in understanding photospheric, chromospheric and coronal dynamics, energy transport between the lower and upper layers of solar interior and the solar atmosphere, dynamical processes in the confined solar transients. Special attention will be paid to the key results and goals of the current and proposed space and ground-based instruments. These topics are also aligned with the long-term goals of current and proposed space/solar missions. This meeting will be also useful for future scientific data interpretation from forthcoming new generation ground-based instruments, e.g., the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST, USA), European Solar Telescope (EST, Europe), new Indian facilities (MAST, upcoming 2m-NLST, Aditya-I) and more recently CHROMIS (located alongside CRISP at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope) which will be able to significantly advance scientific understanding of our solar-terrestrial environment.
We warmly welcome participation of internationally recognised experts in the field of solar physics, early career researchers and PhD students. We anticipate that Dynamic Sun II conference will help to establish a long-term relationships between research groups.
Conference website http://star-lab.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Cambodia_2018/index.html
Registration and accommodation deadline: 15th December 2017
Abstract submission deadline: 15th January 2018
http://star-lab.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Cambodia_2018/reg_and_accom_main.html
S. Shelyag, E. Scullion, V. Fedun, G. Verth and A.K. Srivastava (on behalf of SOC)
http://star-lab.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Cambodia_2018/index.html
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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting “Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere”
from Paolo Pagano [June 26, 2017]
Friday, 12 January 2018 – 10:30 – 15:30
Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre
The Royal Astronomical Society will host a Specialist Discussion Meeting on January 12th 2018 on Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere. We aim to bring together experts in numerical modelling, observational detection and theoretical analysis of wave-based heating mechanisms to shed light on the role of MHD waves in coronal heating.
Information on registration, abstract submission and programme will be announced in due time.
Paolo Pagano, Patrick Antolin, Ineke De Moortel, Sergiy Shelyag
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Abstracts Solicited for AGU Fall 2017 Meeting Session SH003: Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective
from William Dean Pesnell [June 23, 2017]
Announcing an opportunity to submit an abstract to a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting this December.
SH003. Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective
Long-range predictions of solar activity are essential to our space weather forecast capability. In order to improve predictions it is important to understand why past predictions succeeded or failed. Solar Cycle 24 was a below-average cycle. There were peaks in the sunspot number in the Northern hemisphere in 2011 and in the Southern in 2014. Predictions of the amplitude of Solar Cycle 24 had values ranging from zero to unprecedentedly high levels of solar activity. With the rapid increase in the quality of solar data and the capability of numerical models, we are improving our ability to forecast the amplitude of the next sunspot cycle. Some questions this session would address include: How did predictions of Solar Cycle 24 compare with the actual cycle? How do recent advances constrain future predictions? Papers addressing the success and failure of predictions of Solar Cycle 24 are solicited for this special session.
Follow this link to submit an abstract to this session https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/sa/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=25018
The Early Abstracts Submission deadline is 26 July, 2017, and the Regular Abstracts Submission deadline is 2 August, 2017.
Please join us in New Orleans for a discussion on how to more accurately predict the next solar cycle.
The Conveners of SH03:
William Dean Pesnell, NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Douglas Alan Biesecker, NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
Lisa Upton, Space Systems Research Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States
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Newton Fund Malaysia Call
from Sian Giles [June 23, 2017]
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) are pleased to announce a workshop to take place in Malaysia on 11-13 September 2017.
During the workshop, UK and Malaysian attendees will scope outline proposals aimed at developing a programme for delivering transferable skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The training would be in the context of some of the biggest and most cutting-edge scientific collaborations in the world e.g. the Large Hadron Collider and astronomical telescopes.
For full details and links to the expression of interest for attending the workshop please go to http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/research-grants/funding-opportunities/funding-calls/stfc-mohe-scoping-workshop/
Regards,
STFC
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/research-grants/funding-opportunities/funding-calls/stfc-mohe-scoping-workshop/
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Fourth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS) – Final Announcement
from Viktor Fedun [June 20, 2017]
Fourth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS) Kyiv, Ukraine
Monday 28th August – Friday 1st September 2017
Important deadlines
Registration deadline – 15 July 2017
Abstract submission deadline – 20 July 2017
The meeting will cover a broad range of aspects of solar physics, space science and solar-terrestrial relations. We aim to include every side of solar and space research, including observations, theory, and numerical modelling. The main idea behind the meeting is to treat the entire solar-terrestrial domain as one system, rather than each region independently.
The participants of the UKUS usually come from different backgrounds, therefore the meeting will be divided into a number of different topics highlighting a number of areas of expertise.
The most of the oral presentations will be scheduled in the morning sessions, followed by dedicated discussion meetings in the groups relating to the workshop objectives in the afternoon session. For the morning presentations, we foresee one-two invited speaker per topic, who should introduce their expertise to the participants. Contributed talks will be scheduled after the invited lecture. The afternoons are foreseen to have a more open character.
Our aim is to develop new collaborative projects leading to publications and grant applications. Enough discussion time will also be scheduled, to ensure sufficient interaction between the scientists, and allow for the generation of ideas for collaboration.
Tentative Programme:
– Dynamic processes in the Earth ionosphere
– MHD waves – coupling between lower solar atmosphere and corona (observations, theory, numerics)
– Solar energetic processes: dynamics of a small and large scale eruptive events
– Multi-scale plasma waves in the Sun-Earth system
http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Ukraine_UK_2017/index.html
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Director General for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
from Sian Giles [July 2, 2017]
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is searching for a Director General to lead the organization. The Director General has the overall responsibility for the management of the organization in charge of the construction and future operation of Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory.
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a multinational project to observe extremely high energy photons from the Universe with greatly improved sensitivity than has been done previously. On the site of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma (Canaries, Spain) and at the European Southern Observatory in Chile about 120 telescopes will be in-stalled, in order to measure the Cherenkov radiation produced by the atmospheric particle showers initiated by cosmic photons.
CTAO is seeking an internationally renowned science manager with several years of experience in successfully managing large Research Infrastructures or at least large international construction projects. Experience in the relevant experimental areas of CTA would be welcome in addition. He/She will be well experienced in negotiations with international partners and with funding agencies and ministries in particular. Further requirements include: outstanding leadership and communication skills, excellent knowledge of English, competence in contractual and economic affairs.
Applications should be submitted by September 1st 2017 to the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the CTA-Council.
Further information is available here:
https://www.cta-observatory.org/jobs/#1498053859055-ce74b0ee-c838
https://www.cta-observatory.org/jobs/#1498053859055-ce74b0ee-c838
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Research associate in Space Physics
from Tim Horbury [June 27, 2017]
The Space and Atmospheric Physics group are looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to work on the analysis and interpretation of data related to the solar wind, preferably related to turbulence, kinetic processes or structures in the inner heliosphere. Our Group has built the magnetometer instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft due for launch in 2019 and has scientific involvement in the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, launching in 2018. Between them, these two spacecraft will explore the inner heliosphere and open a new chapter on the study of the generation and evolution of the solar wind. The successful applicant will use our closest solar wind plasma and magnetic field measurements to date, from the twin Helios spacecraft, and apply modern analysis techniques to study the fine scale structure of the solar wind. An element of theory or simulation is possible within this work.
You will have a PhD (for appointment at Research Associate level) or be about to obtain a PhD (for appointment at Research Assistant level) or equivalent level of professional qualifications and experience in the field of space physics and expertise in at least one of the following: collisionless plasmas; turbulence; kinetic plasma physics; heliospheric physics; plasma simulation. You should have experience in data analysis of in situ spacecraft plasma data or the analysis and interpretation of equivalent data from space plasma simulations.
Closing date: 20 July 2017
For more information please contact Tim Horbury ([log in to unmask]) or see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCG649/research-assistant-associate-in-space-physics/
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCG649/research-assistant-associate-in-space-physics/
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ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science
from Richard Morton [June 20, 2017]
Oliver Jennrich (fellowship at cosmos.esa.int)
The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each year.
The aim of these fellowships is to provide young scientists, holding a PhD
or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing space science
research in fields related to the ESA Science Programmes.
Areas of research include planetary science, astronomy and
astrophysics, solar and solar-terrestrial science, plasma physics and
fundamental physics. The fellowships have a duration of two years, with the
possible extension to three years, and are
tenable at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in
Noordwijk, Netherlands, or at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in
Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.
Applications are now solicited for fellowships in space science to begin in
the fall of 2018. Preference will be given to applications submitted by
candidates within five years of receiving their PhD. Candidates not holding
a PhD yet are encouraged to apply, but they must provide evidence of
receiving their degree before starting the fellowship.
ESA fellows are enrolled in ESA’s Social Security Scheme, which covers
medical expenses. A monthly deduction covers these short-term and long-term risks.
The deadline for applications is 2 October 2017.
More information on the ESA Research Fellowship programme in Space Science,
on the conditions and eligibility, as well as the application form can retrieved from
http://cosmos.esa.int/fellowship
Questions on the scientific aspects of the
ESA Fellowship in Space Science not answered in the above pages can be sent
by e-mail to the fellowship coordinators, Dr. Oliver Jennrich or Dr. Bruno
Altieri at the address [log in to unmask]
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