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:
- Nordic Optical Telescope: OPTICON Call for proposals
from Sian Giles [August 14, 2018] - Living Reviews in Solar Physics – Extended MHD modeling of the steady solar corona and the solar wind
from Richard Morton [August 2, 2018]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #92
from Iain Hannah [July 31, 2018]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- Final Deadline for Submitting Abstracts to the SDO 2018 Workshop
from William D Pesnell [August 15, 2018] - STFC Advanced Summer School – last call for registrations
from Robert Fear [August 13, 2018] - Dundee Numerical Methods in MHD
from Simon Candelaresi [August 13, 2018] - Announcement of Recent Advances in Solar Partially Ionised Plasma RAS Discussion Meeting
from Andrew Hillier [August 13, 2018]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) – 2 Postdoc positions
from Richard Morton [August 15, 2018] - NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship – Application Deadline November 1, 2018
from Richard Morton [August 15, 2018] - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA) Department of Astrophysics/AIM and Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) (near Paris, France) – Post-doctoral Researcher Position in Solar Physics
from Richard Morton [August 15, 2018] - Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) – Postdoctoral Research Assistant I
from Richard Morton [August 15, 2018] - State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Science, Macau University of Science and Technology is seeking several researchers in planetary sciences
from Richard Morton [August 14, 2018] - Stanford University – Physical Science Research Scientist Position in Solar Magnetic Field Research
from Richard Morton [August 2, 2018] - Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) – Solar and Heliospheric Physics Postdoctoral Fellowships
from Richard Morton [August 2, 2018] - National Solar Observatory (NSO) – Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) Astronomery/Scientist
from Richard Morton [August 2, 2018] - Institute for Solar Physics of Stockholm University – Support Observer
from Richard Morton [August 2, 2018] - “la Caixa” Foundation postdoctoral fellowships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
from David Williams [July 31, 2018]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 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]
- 88. Excitation of coronal loop oscillations by coronal rain [March 2018]
- 87. Giant solar loops and LOFAR radio observations [February 2018]
- 86. Evidence of recurrent reconnection driving fan-shaped jets. [December 2017]