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:
- Royal Astronomical Society Early Career Poster Exhibition – Registration
from Marianna Korsos [August 12, 2020] - Interview with Leicester Solar Physics PhD student Harneet Sangha
from Harry Hothi [August 8, 2020] - UK SKA Community Events Committee Vacancies
from Astrolists [August 6, 2020] - National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) is now live!
from Astrolists [July 27, 2020]
Nuggets:
- New Hinode/EIS Nugget
from Deb Baker [July 29, 2020]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- UK Space Safety Community Meeting – Registration is Open!
from Natasha Jeffrey [August 13, 2020] - Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and Beyond
from Kirill Kuzanyan [August 3, 2020] - Dynamic Sun III: A new era of multi-wavelength solar and stellar observation
from Viktor Fedun [July 30, 2020] - UK Space Safety Community Meeting – Registration is Open!
from Natasha Jeffrey [July 28, 2020]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Central Lancashire
from Daniel Brown [August 12, 2020] - Research Fellow in Space Weather – UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
from Lucie Green [August 10, 2020] - STFC INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDENTSHIPS 2020
from Georgina Bennett [August 5, 2020] - EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellowships Call 2020
from Astrolists [July 30, 2020]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 111. Increasing occurrence of inverted magnetic fields from 0.3 to 1 au [July 2020]
- 110. Flare/CME Cartoons [June 2020]
- 109. Kink oscillations of sigmoid coronal loops [May 2020]
- 108. Cool and hot emission in a recurring active region jet [February 2020]
- 107. Forced reconnection unveiled in the large-scale corona [December 2019]
- 106. A new procedure for detecting periodicities within complex coronal arcades [November 2019]
- 105. Transient inverse-FIP effect observed during a solar flare [October 2019]