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:
- Policy Internships for STFC-funded PhD Students
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [June 19, 2019]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #101
from Iain Hannah [June 12, 2019]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- AGU 2019 Fall Meeting – Session SH010 Innovative approaches in solar flare forecasting. San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2019
from robertus erdelyi [June 25, 2019] - AGU 2019 SH001 Acceleration and Transport Processes of Energetic Electrons in Solar Flares and Interplanetary Space – abstract submission now open.
from Natasha Jeffrey [June 24, 2019] - Registration Open: STFC Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas (2019)
from Richard Morton [June 15, 2019] - SHINE Session #18 – Data Analysis Tools and Methods for Observations of the Solar Corona
from Nathalia Alzate [June 13, 2019] - Preparing for When the Sun Wakes Up: Workshop on Deep-Space Sun-Earth L5/L1 Space-Weather Missions
from Mario M. Bisi [June 7, 2019]
Jobs/Studentships:
- JOB OPENING: PhD Student Position in the Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
from Lucile Turc [June 25, 2019] - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Magnetohydrodynamics/Solar Physics at the University of Dundee
from David Pontin [June 15, 2019]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 101. Mapping the magnetic field of solar coronal loops [June 2019]
- 100. A Century of UKSP Nuggets [April 2019]
- 99. Preflare and flare turbulence in the transition region [March 2019]
- 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]