Welcome
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. To submit information to be posted to the website and to be included in the newsletter please go to the Submit News page. Follow our twitter feed: @uksolarphysics.
Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- Inputs solicited by COSPAR/ILWS Space Weather strategic planning activity
from uksp_sec [December 1, 2013] - The life of solar prominences Specialist Discussion Meeting: Approaching deadline for abstract submission
from Nicolas Labrosse [November 30, 2013] - RAS fully-sponsored Daphne Jackson Fellowship
from uksp_sec [November 27, 2013]
Nuggets:
- RHESSI Science Nugget No. 213
from Hugh Hudson [November 26, 2013]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- UK-Japan 150-year anniversary: Science, Technology and Innovation symposium – Astronomy & Space Science
from Louise Harra [November 20, 2013] - Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School
from uksp_sec [November 26, 2013] - COSPAR-14-E2.3: Energy Transfer from the Photosphere to the Corona (IRIS)
from Louise Harra [November 20, 2013] - COSPAR 40th Scientific Assembly, Moscow, Russia, 2-10 August 2014 Session E2.1: Coronal Magnetism
from Laurel Rachmeler [November 26, 2013]
Jobs/Studentships:
- College PhD Studentship in Heliophysics at the University of Exeter (UK)
from Claire Foullon [December 2, 2013] - Three Research Associate positions in the Space Plasma Physics Group, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
from uksp_sec [November 26, 2013] - Post-doctoral and visiting scientist positions available at the Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, China
from Bo Li [November 26, 2013]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 40. Once in a blue-shift moon [October 2013]
- 39. Continuum Contributions to the SDO/AIA Passbands During Solar Flares [September 2013]
- 38. Hi-C observations of EUV anti-parallel filament flows and sparkling dots [August 2013]
- 37. What is our current understanding of solar irradiance variations? [July 2013]
- Three years of UKSP Nuggets [July 2013]
- 36. Observations of Alfvén Vortices in the fast solar wind [June 2013]
- 35. Decayless coronal loop oscillations seen by SDO/AIA [May 2013]
