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:
- Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics – Research Call Opens 30th September 2019
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [September 18, 2019] - Ninth Call for PROBA2 Guest Investigators
from Matthew West [September 16, 2019] - IAU PhD Prize 2019 – deadline for applications
from Richard Morton [September 13, 2019] - New UKSP council
from Richard Morton [September 13, 2019] - Science and Technology for Security
from Georgina Bennett [September 9, 2019] - A Topical Issue in the Frontiers in Astronomy & Space Sciences :: Data-driven MHD: Novel Applications to the Solar Atmosphere
from Abhishek K. Srivastava [September 9, 2019] - Change of address – Ryan Milligan
from Ryan Milligan [September 9, 2019] - SOLARNET Access Programme – call for proposals for the Piz Daint supercomputer
from Richard Morton [September 1, 2019] - ING ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR OBSERVING TIME IN SEMESTER 2020A
from Sian Giles-Titcombe [August 30, 2019]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #103
from Iain Hannah [September 11, 2019]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting – Save the Date Announcement – 10-14 February 2020
from Mario M. Bisi [September 17, 2019] - RAS specialist discussion meeting on high precision photometry for exoplanet and time domain astronomy
from Georgina Bennett [September 12, 2019] - Knowledge Exchange Showcase – 5th November 2019
from Georgina Bennett [September 9, 2019]
Jobs/Studentships:
- Academic position at the University of Dundee – closing date 6 October
from Alexander Russell [September 17, 2019] - Funded PhD position at Aberystwyth University – closing date November 1st 2019
from Huw Morgan [September 16, 2019] - JOIN NOAA’S SOLAR & TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS GROUP AS A SOLAR SCIENTIST
from Richard Morton [September 16, 2019] - A tenure-track faculty position in Solar Physics at New Mexico State University
from James McAteer [September 12, 2019] - JOB OPENINGS: Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at the University of Helsinki, Space Physics Group, Finland
from Minna Palmroth [September 11, 2019] - CASE Call Information
from Georgina Bennett [September 9, 2019] - International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science (University of Göttingen, Germany) – PhD Positions in Solar System Science
from Dr. Sonja Schuh [September 9, 2019] - Tenure-Track Assistant Astronomer in Solar Physics at the Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
from Richard Morton [September 1, 2019] - QUEST PhD position at the Leibniz-Institute for Solar Physics (KIS)
from Richard Morton [September 1, 2019] - JOB OPENING: Space Physicist in Machine Learning and Space Weather
from Richard Morton [September 1, 2019]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 103. Modelling multi-scale solar eruptions [September 2019]
- 102. Do p-modes power the corona of cool stars? [July 2019]
- 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]