Welcome
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. Follow our twitter feed: @uksolarphysics.
Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- Announcing a new book “Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun”, Cambridge University Press by Eric Priest
from Eric Priest [April 8, 2014] - Call for proposals for the Projects Research and Development scheme
from Gemma Ladd [April 7, 2014]
Nuggets:
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- 7th Solar Information Processing Workshop – 2nd announcement
from uksp_sec [April 15, 2014] - Third Announcement: 14th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-14)
from D. Shaun Bloomfield [April 15, 2014] - STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School
from Steve Schwartz [April 15, 2014] - 11th European Space Weather Week, 17-21 Nov 2014: Call for abstracts is open
from Mike Hapgood [April 9, 2014] - 11th European Space Weather Week Session: SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE EVENTS: FROM FORECAST TO RADIATION IMPACT – Call For Abstract Submisisons
from Mike Marsh [April 10, 2014]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in Solar Physics and Space Weather at New Mexico State University
from James McAteer [April 10, 2014] - Faculty position at KU Leuven (Belgium): Numerical Modelling of Stellar Interiors
from uksp_sec [April 9, 2014]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 45. A new approach to unveil the shape of interplanetary structures [March 2014]
- 44. Slipping reconnection during a solar flare [February 2014]
- 43. Solar Dynamo Waves at High Magnetic Reynolds Number [January 2014]
- 42. SDO observations of a flare’s coronal “implosion” [December 2013]
- 41. Magnetic Reconnection in an X-point Collapse [November 2013]
- 40. Once in a blue-shift moon [October 2013]
- 39. Continuum Contributions to the SDO/AIA Passbands During Solar Flares [September 2013]
