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.
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Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- ST15 ‘MHD Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere: Identification and Modelling’, AOGS 2019 – deadline extended to 19 February 2019
from Viktor Fedun [February 14, 2019] - Nordic Optical Telescope: OPTICON Call for proposals
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [February 14, 2019] - Software in Solar Physics Survey
from Stuart Mumford [February 13, 2019] - Influencing the future ESA archives (including for Solar Orbiter).
from Louise Harra [February 11, 2019] - pfsspy: a new python package for PFSS calculations
from Richard Morton [February 9, 2019] - Congratulations
from Richard Morton [February 4, 2019] - Special issue “Advances in Solar Physics” – published
from Eduard Kontar [January 31, 2019] - SSI/ISSI-BJ Joint Call for Proposals 2019 for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences
from Richard Morton [January 28, 2019] - UK access to the Swedish Solar Telescope during the 2019 Observing Season
from Mihalis Mathioudakis [January 28, 2019] - European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) 2019 PhD Thesis and Early Career Researcher Prizes – Upcoming deadline
from Istvan Ballai [January 27, 2019]
Nuggets:
- RHESSI Nuggets in January 2019
from Hugh Hudson [January 30, 2019]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- ST15 ‘MHD Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere: Identification and Modelling’, AOGS 2019 – deadline extended to 19 February 2019
from Viktor Fedun [February 14, 2019] - AOGS 2019 Abstract-Submission Deadline Extended to 19 February 2019
from Mario M. Bisi [February 14, 2019] - NAM Session: Active Region Laboratories
from Paolo Pagano [February 14, 2019] - IAU Symposium 355
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [February 12, 2019] - NAM 2019 abstract submission now open
from Jim Wild [February 11, 2019] - 7th Space Climate Symposium: Future of Solar Activity, 8-11 July 2019, Orford, Canada
from Ilya Usoskin [February 9, 2019] - AOGS 2019 ST20 Solar Flare Forecasting Using Machine Learning
from Róbertus Erdélyi [February 1, 2019] - 18th RHESSI Workshop – Second Announcement
from Eduard Kontar [January 31, 2019] - RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Flares on the Sun and stars: microflares, megaflares, and the largest flare of Solar Cycle 24
from Anne-Marie Broomhall [January 31, 2019] - Reminder: EWASS – Session on Coronal Mass Ejections, observations and models
from Paolo Pagano [January 29, 2019]
Jobs/Studentships:
- University of Hawai‘i, Institute for Astronomy (Pukalani, Maui) – Solar Physics Postdoctoral Fellow
from Richard Morton [February 15, 2019] - University of Oslo, Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics – 1–2 positions as Research Software Engineer
from Richard Morton [February 15, 2019] - Research Fellow in Solar Physics and Space Plasma Physics
from Suzanne Winter [February 15, 2019] - Lecturer in Mathematics and Physics
from Gunnar Hornig [February 9, 2019] - UAF in Fluid Dynamics at Leeds
from Richard Morton [February 4, 2019] - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Magnetohydrodynamics/Solar Physics at the University of Dundee
from David Pontin [January 31, 2019] - JOB OPENING: A Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
from Hanna Partio [January 29, 2019] - STFC-funded PhD positions at Aberystwyth University – closing date March 1st 2019
from Huw Morgan [January 27, 2019]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 98. Observing and Modelling a Flux Rope in the Corona [January 2019]
- 97. Jet formation and evolution due to 3D magnetic reconnection [December 2018]
- 96. Magnetic Helicity, Sunspot Number and Solar Activity [November 2018]
- 95. Trick or TWIKH Spicules [October 2018]
- 94. Evidence of coronal jets in the solar wind? [September 2018]
- 93. The Magnetic Response of the Solar Atmosphere to Umbral Flashes [August 2018]
- 92. Null collapse and oscillatory reconnection about 3D magnetic null points [July 2018]