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
Richard ([log in to unmask])
Mihalis ([log in to unmask])
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General News/UKSP Business:
New version of SunPy released
Congratulations to Prof. James McLaughlin
Nuggets:
New UKSP Nugget #82
RHESSI Science Nugget No. 305
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
“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) – Third Announcement.
RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting “Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere”
Solar Orbiter: Synergy Between Observations and Theory – Abstract Submission Open
Jobs/Studentships:
Postdoc position in Solar Physics at Stockholm University
JOB OPENING: Six (6) Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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General News/UKSP Business:
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New version of SunPy released
from Jack Ireland [August 31, 2017]
Submitted by Jack Ireland on behalf of the SunPy community.
We are pleased to announce the release of SunPy 0.8. This new version brings many major features to SunPy including:
– a coordinates package that facilitates the easy representation of locations on the Sun, and their transformation between different solar and astrophysical coordinate systems.
– unified data search and retrieval capabilities.
– a timeseries data type for the representation and manipulation of time series data.
– powerful tools for manipulating map data, coordinates and plots.
– a gallery of examples demonstrating SunPy functionality.
To install SunPy 0.8, please go to http://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/guide/installation/index.html.
This release features 1442 commits solving 163 issues in 200 pull requests from 35 contributors, including 17 new contributors. For more details see http://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.8.html.
SunPy is a community-developed free and open-source software package for solar physics, written in Python. To ask a question, report a bug or contribute code, please go to http://sunpy.org/contribute.html.
http://sunpy.org/
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Congratulations to Prof. James McLaughlin
from Richard Morton [August 24, 2017]
The UKSP Council wish to congratulate Professor James McLaughlin on his recent promotion to Professorship at Northumbria. Well done James!
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Nuggets:
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New UKSP Nugget #82
from Iain Hannah [August 31, 2017]
82. Propagation of information within coronal mass ejections
by Matthew Owens (Reading)
Communication by Alfven waves sets a basic limit to the coherence of propagating CMEs.
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=13322
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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=13322
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RHESSI Science Nugget No. 305
from Hugh Hudson [August 29, 2017]
“Electric Current Neutralization and Solar Eruption in Active Regions”, by Yang LIU. Active current systems in the solar corona don’t have return currents.
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-weekly 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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“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) – Third Announcement.
from Mario Bisi [September 1, 2017]
Dear Colleagues.
This is the third announcement of our upcoming exciting workshop entitled “Into the Red Dragon’s Lair: Four-in-One Workshop Tackling Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics and Space Weather”. Please register and submit your abstracts soon – only one month left – and please remember to pay in the second step of the process as registration is not complete until payment has been made – we are only expecting around 40 participants to be able to maintain the workshop environment.
***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 (EUV, white-/visible-¬light, radio), together with modellers, in order to tackle key outstanding heliophysics issues. 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 registration fee (£150 late registration) includes lunches, excursions, welcome reception, and workshop dinner (the latter three are all Welsh themed allowing participants an insight into Wales’ culture and recent history). Menus and excursion details have been updated accordingly on the website along with some other updates.
Several invited speakers have already been confirmed to include Sarah Gibson (UCAR), Colin Lonsdale (MIT Haystack), Jackie Davies (STFC RAL Space), Curt de Koning (NOAA SWPC), Anthony Yeates (Durham), David Jackson (Met Office), Giovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven), Dusan Odstrcil (GMU/NASA), and Cleo Loi (Cambridge University).
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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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting “Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere”
from Paolo Pagano [August 31, 2017]
RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting
“Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere”
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”. This meeting aims to bring together experts in numerical modelling, observational detection and theoretical analysis of the role of MHD waves in heating the solar atmosphere.
Invited talks will be given by Tobias Felipe (IAC), Tom Van Doorsselaere (KU Leuven), and Bart De Pontieu (LMSAL)
Further information and abstract submission details can be found on the meeting website:
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ppagano/ras/
The deadline for abstract submission is November, 12th 2017
Paolo Pagano, Patrick Antolin, Ineke De Moortel, Sergiy Shelyag
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ppagano/ras/
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Solar Orbiter: Synergy Between Observations and Theory – Abstract Submission Open
from Duncan Mackay [August 22, 2017]
RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting
“Solar Orbiter: Synergy Between Observations and Theory”
Friday 10th November 2017
10.30am-3.30pm
Dear Colleagues,
The Royal Astronomical Society will host a Specialist Discussion Meeting on November 10th 2017 on, “Solar Orbiter: Synergy between Observations and Theory”.
Information regarding the scope of the meeting, abstract submission and the science programme can be found at,
http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~duncan/RAS_SO/RAS.html
Please note that the closing date for abstract submission is 7th October 2017.
Organisers: Duncan Mackay, Andrzej Fludra, Louise Harra, Tim Horbury and Chris Owen
http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~duncan/RAS_SO/RAS.html
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Jobs/Studentships:
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Postdoc position in Solar Physics at Stockholm University
from Richard Morton [September 1, 2017]
Dear colleagues,
I have announced a 2 years postdoc position in Solar Physics at Stockholm University.
For further details see: http://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs?rmlang=UK&rmpage=job&rmjob=3782
All best!
Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez
http://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs?rmlang=UK&rmpage=job&rmjob=3782
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JOB OPENING: Six (6) Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
from Minna Palmroth [August 22, 2017]
The Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/spacephysics/) is a leading European space physics group specialised both in observations and modelling of space plasmas. For example, we develop the novel global hybrid-Vlasov simulation Vlasiator and have a strong focus on solar eruptions. Our current research areas include physics of coronal mass ejections, their influence in the magnetospheric dynamics, as well as reconnection, shocks and particle acceleration.
We have recently obtained several new research grants, including a Finnish Centre of Excellence (2018 – 2025), two European Research Council grants (2016 – 2021, 2017 – 2022), and two Academy of Finland grants (2018 – 2022).
We are now opening six positions, of which four are postdoctoral positions, and two are for PhD students. We are especially looking for expertise in modelling of the solar corona, experimental solar wind research, observations and modelling of the inner magnetospheric waves and wave-particle interactions.
Strong expertise in space plasma physics is required. Other useful skills include: Python, C/C++, supercomputer environments, experimental data analysis techniques. Previous knowledge of cubesat projects is also considered an advantage.
We offer a position in a dynamic and international research group, with a possibility to network and to develop as a researcher. As our the Centre of Excellence builds and launches cubesats establishing new technologies with cutting edge scientific payloads, our community extends from space physics to space technology and entrepreneurial startups.
The positions are available from 1 Jan 2018, initially for one year with a possibility to extend. The positions are open until they are filled.
For specifics about the position, contact Professor Minna Palmroth (minna.palmroth ‘at’ helsinki.fi) and Assistant Professor Emilia Kilpua (emilia.kilpua ‘at’ helsinki.fi). Interested candidates should send their informal application, CV, list of publications, and maximum of three names to act as references to the above addresses.
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/spacephysics
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