The study of the Sun, or solar physics, is a vibrant field of research in the UK. Over 150 UK scientists are actively investigating the dynamic evolution of our closest star using numerical, computational and observational techniques.
The UK Solar Physics community (UKSP) is a Specialist Scientific Group affiliated to the Royal Astronomical Society. This website serves as a repository of information for the UKSP community, with community news, information about national and international conferences, employment and study opportunities, solar missions, and computing resources.
We distribute a newsletter of the latest Solar Physics and related news twice a month (1st and 15th). To sign up to the emailing list or to view the archive of newsletters please go here. These news items are also reproduced on this website and can be viewed as a summary of the last 15days, last 32days or the whole archive. To submit information to be posted to the website and to be included in the newsletter please go to the Submit News page.
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Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- AHEAD2020 – 2nd Announcement of Opportunity
from Steve Brygan [July 22, 2021] - The call for STFC’s Knowledge Exchange Schemes (Innovations Partnership Scheme and Follow-on fund) opens 20th July
from Steve Brygan [July 22, 2021] - Quantum Technology for Fundamental Physics Community Survey
from Steve Brygan [July 22, 2021] - Roadmap for Solar System Research
from Malcolm Booy [July 14, 2021] - The European Space Weather decides its new future organisation!!!
from Marianna Brigitta Korsos [July 8, 2021]
Nuggets:
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- AGU Fall Session SH022 – Origins of Long Duration Gamma-Ray Emission at the Sun
from Silvia Dalla [July 14, 2021] - AGU Session: Cool stars and their influence on (exo)planetary habitability
from Athanasios Papaioannou [July 14, 2021] - European Space Weather Week 2021 (ESWW2021/ESWW17) – FINAL REMINDER
from Mario M. Bisi [July 5, 2021]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Applying for STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to be hosted at the University of Dundee – Expressions of Interest – deadline 27th August 2021
from Karen Meyer [July 12, 2021] - Fellowships at Durham – Deadline August 6th
from Peter Wyper [July 12, 2021] - PDRA post in Solar Physics at the University of Exeter
from Andrew Hillier [July 8, 2021] - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Space Plasma Physics at Queen Mary University of London
from Christopher Chen [July 7, 2021]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 116. Pushing GREGOR to the limit: observing weak, small-scale magnetism in the photosphere with the GRIS-IFU [February 2021]
- 115. Revealing the dynamic & magnetic nature of chromospheric vortices [December 2020]
- 114. Hidden Coronal Loop Strands within Hi-C 2.1 Data [October 2020]
- 113. Probing small-scale solar magnetic fields [September 2020]
- 112. Particle acceleration and transport in CME eruptions [August 2020]
- 111. Increasing occurrence of inverted magnetic fields from 0.3 to 1 au [July 2020]
- 110. Flare/CME Cartoons [June 2020]