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:
- Sunspot Solar Observatory – New Prepped Data
from Richard Morton [November 15, 2018] - First UK-led Solar Science Space Mission: SULIS – Consortium Membership OPEN
from Eamon Scullion [November 14, 2018] - Reminder: Ph.D. Dissertation Prize — deadline Dec 15
from Richard Morton [November 12, 2018] - Solar System Advisory Panel Questionnaire 2018 – request for community input to the Astronomy Programme Evaluation
from Huw Morgan [November 7, 2018] - Obituary – Prof. Michael Thompson
from Bill Chaplin [October 29, 2018]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #95
from Iain Hannah [October 30, 2018]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: 1st IAU Symposium on Laboratory Astrophysics: From Observations to Interpretation IAU S350
from Sian Giles [November 8, 2018] - Royal Astronomical Society specialist discussion meeting on The Future Of High-Resolution Imaging in the Visible and IR
from Sian Giles [November 5, 2018] - RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Flares on the Sun and stars: microflares, megaflares, and the largest flare of Solar Cycle 24
from Anne-Marie Broomhall [October 31, 2018] - Python in Astronomy 2019
from Andrew Leonard [October 31, 2018] - Axel Brandenburg’s 60th Birthday Symposium
from Mihalis Mathioudakis [October 31, 2018] - Communicating physics and astronomy to a visually impaired audience : Manchester, January 15th 2019
from Sian Giles [October 29, 2018] - RHESSI Workshop XVIII – High Energy Solar Physics: Building on the RHESSI Legacy
from Eduard Kontar [October 29, 2018]
Jobs/Studentships:
- High Altitude Observatory( Boulder, Colorado, USA) – HAO: Newkirk Graduate Research Fellowship, Application Deadline January 18, 2019
from Richard Morton [November 15, 2018] - Los Alamos National Laboratory – Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics Instrumentation and Data Analysis
from Richard Morton [November 15, 2018] - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Tenerife, Spain) – Postdoctoral Contract: SNSF Sinergia Project
from Richard Morton [November 15, 2018] - Lecturer in Space Plasma Physics
from Tim Horbury [November 12, 2018] - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mathematics or Astrophysics at Northumbria University
from Richard Morton [November 12, 2018] - Postdoc position at the University of Seville
from Nicolas Labrosse [November 9, 2018] - Graduate Studies in the Solar-Stellar Connection at Georgia State University
from Jane Pratt [November 5, 2018] - 4-year PhD studentship in data-intensive science in astronomy and solar physics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
from Thomas Neukirch [November 5, 2018] - Vacancy: Rankin-Sneddon Research Fellows, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow
from Richard Morton [November 5, 2018] - Lectureships in Astrophysics – Queen’s University Belfast
from Mihalis Mathioudakis [October 29, 2018]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 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]
- 91. Magnetic field line tangling and twisting in the corona [June 2018]
- 90. A novel magneto-seismology technique for solar magnetic field diagnostics [May 2018]
- 89. When are Coronal Jets miniature CMEs? [April 2018]