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:
- SOLARNET – Access Time: Call for Proposals
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - Change of UK Hinode EIS PI
from Sarah Matthews [May 13, 2019] - UK Space Agency call for nominations for the position of Chair of the Science Programme Advisory Committee
from Sarah Matthews [May 13, 2019] - Stephen Hawking Fellowships – New Call Opportunity
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [May 9, 2019]
Nuggets:
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School, 26th – 30th of August 2019, Aberystwyth University
from Youra Taroyan [May 22, 2019] - ESWW16 Session 7 – Space Weather Instrumentation
from Richard Morton [May 22, 2019] - Hinode-13/IPELS 2019 – Abstract and Early-bird Registration Due on 31 May
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio, Amsterdam ) – Registration Open
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - “Scintillating Science: Cutting-Edge Science Achieved Through the Observations of Radio Scintillation” Workshop – Second Announcement
from Mario M. Bisi [May 15, 2019] - European Space Weather Week – Abstract Submission is Open…
from Mario M. Bisi [May 15, 2019] - Call accouncement – SOLARNET Summer School for Solar Observers – A week above the clouds
from Richard Morton [May 14, 2019] - Preparing for the next generation of ground-based solar physics observations – Second announcement
from Lucie Green [May 14, 2019] - Increasing our preparedness for space weather events
from Lucie Green [May 14, 2019] - UK Solar Orbiter workshop – Last call for abstracts
from Valori Gherardo [May 13, 2019]
Jobs/Studentships:
- PhD Position at KULeuven
from Richard Morton [May 22, 2019] - JOB OPENING: A Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
from Hanna Partio [May 16, 2019] - Center for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics Mackenzie (CRAAM, São Paulo, Brazil) – Postdoc Position Available
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Space Physics Department, Geophysics Institute, México City)
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - University of New Hampshire (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS) and the Department of Physics) – Post-doctoral Research Position in the Study of CMEs and SEPs
from Richard Morton [May 15, 2019] - Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) – PhD position in Solar Physics
from Patrick Antolin [May 13, 2019]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 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]
- 94. Evidence of coronal jets in the solar wind? [September 2018]