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 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. Follow our twitter feed: @uksolarphysics.
Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- Solar Physics Topical Issue “Radio Heliophysics: Science and Forecasting” – First Announcement
from Dr. Mario M. Bisi [March 4, 2014] - Sunspotter: Using Citizen Science to Determine Sunspot Complexity
from Dr. Paul A. Higgins [March 4, 2014] - Consolidated Grant Implementation Review – Opportunities for Community Input
from uksp_sec [February 27, 2014] - New Editor-in-Chief for Space Weather Journal
from Richard Harrison [February 27, 2014]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget: 44. Slipping reconnection during a solar flare
from Iain Hannah [March 3, 2014]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- 2014 LWS Science Meeting — Nov. 3-6, 2014 — Portland, Oregon
from uksp_sec [March 3, 2014]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Public outreach positions at Northumbria
from Richard Morton [March 4, 2014] - Research Assistant in Solar Physics at the University of Glasgow
from Lyndsay Fletcher [February 27, 2014]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 44. Slipping reconnection during a solar flare [February 2014]
- 43. Solar Dynamo Waves at High Magnetic Reynolds Number [January 2014]
- 42. SDO observations of a flare’s coronal “implosion” [December 2013]
- 41. Magnetic Reconnection in an X-point Collapse [November 2013]
- 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]
