Month: February 2019

NAM 2019 – Solar and MIST Outreach Session

Please join us at NAM 2019, Tuesday, 2nd July, and submit an abstract

Session title
Engaging the public and schools with science through the solar system

Organiser(s)
J. Coxon, H. Mason, R. Walsh, M. Archer

Description
Engaging the public and schools with research into the physics driving the Sun, and its effect on the Earth and other planets, is more important than ever. Such research is vital to our understanding of the risks (space weather) posed by the star we orbit and their implications for human space flight and exploration. We need to communicate this outside academia. Future ESA (Bepi-Columbo, Solar Orbiter, SMILE); NASA (Parker Solar Probe); and ground-based (EISCAT3D) projects are prime opportunities for engagement. We will share and discuss good practice in engagement to inform and encourage researchers to engage people with research.

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NAM2019 session: Explosive Energy Release in the Solar Atmosphere

We would like to encourage abstract submission to the NAM session “Explosive Energy Release in the Solar Atmosphere”.

The solar atmosphere is constantly storing and impulsively releasing energy across a range of scales, from small-scale spicules and jets to larger-scale confined and eruptive flares. Understanding how, why and where explosive energy release occurs is a fundamental and long-standing problem in solar physics. In the era of observatories such as SDO, IRIS, SST and NST we are now in a position to compare and contrast energy release signatures across wide ranging scales in the solar corona. This session aims to look for commonality across the scales by showcasing current research on both large and small-scale energy release events in the solar atmosphere. Theoretical as well as observational contributions are welcome.

Abstract submission is now open (https://nam2019.org/science/abstract-submission) and closes March 15th.

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RAS Discussion Meeting on “Transitioning Research and Instrument Expertise in Heliophysics into Space Weather Monitoring Capabilities at L1 and L5

On March 8th, we are holding an RAS Discussion Meeting on “Transitioning Research and Instrument Expertise in Heliophysics into Space Weather Monitoring Capabilities at L1 and L5” that is specifically targeting the exploitation of our research and instrumentation into space weather applications, in particular, associated with the ESA Lagrange mission and the associated NASA L1 mission.

 

The programme is now available at https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/SiteAssets/RAS-Programme.pdf

and further details can be found at the RAS meetings page https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/RAS-Meetings.

 

Richard Harrison

Jackie Davies

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Vice-Chancellor Fellowship in Mathematics or Astrophysics at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Northumbria University is currently advertising a position for a Vice-Chancellor Fellowship within the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering. The disciplines of Astrophysics and Mathematics are contained within this Department. Vice-Chancellor Fellows are permanent academic positions with a significant focus on research in the first three years of the appointment, then moving to a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position after that time.

The Department has particular strengths in Solar Physics and Space Weather, but we will also consider high-quality applications in any relevant area. For more information about the Group, visit https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/mathematics-physics-and-electrical-engineering/research/solar-physics/. For informal enquiries about this post, please contact Professor James McLaughlin, Director of Research, on james.a.mclaughlin@northumbria.ac.uk .

The deadline for applications is 10th March 2019.

The job advert can be found at:

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Call for Papers: Stars, Pyramids & Photographs

A symposium to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Piazzi Smyth

The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3-4 September 2019

Charles Piazzi Smyth, second Astronomer Royal for Scotland (1846-1888), had a career that took him to the Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife and Egypt and encompassed interests spanning mountaintop observation, photography, spectroscopy, meteorology, metrology and pyramidology. He was responsible for developing a time service for Edinburgh, with a time ball on Calton Hill and time gun fired from Edinburgh Castle. He was in close correspondence with many of the leading scientific figures of the day, including John Herschel, who encouraged his early experiments in photography, and was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh.

In this bicentennial meeting we invite speakers to explore the life, work and legacy of Smyth. We aim to bring together historians, scientists, curators, archivists and others in order to do justice to the wide range of Smyth’s interests, to consider the objects and papers he left behind and the on-going fascination generated by his often pioneering and sometimes eccentric work.

We welcome abstracts of c.200 words proposing 30-minute papers, which should be sent to r.higgitt@kent.ac.uk by 5 April 2019. We particularly welcome those that consider:

* Smyth’s contributions to astronomy and the legacy of the approaches he pioneered, including in spectroscopy and mountaintop observation

* Smyth’s heritage, including objects, archives and buildings, in Edinburgh and beyond

* Smyth’s work on metrology and pyramids, and its significance to Egyptology

* Smyth’s beliefs, reactions to and controversies surrounding his work and reputation

* The visualisation of astronomy, in history and today
* The history of photography and stereography

* 19th-century time distribution and its legacies

* Smyth’s family, including his naval officer and astronomer father, William Henry Smyth, and geologist wife, Jessie Duncan Piazzi Smyth.

The symposium is being organised by Rebekah Higgitt (Senior Lecturer in History of Science, University of Kent), Andy Lawrence (Regius Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh) and Chris Hall (Curator, Royal Society of Edinburgh). We are grateful to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Centre for the History of the Sciences at the University of Kent for their support.

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NAM Session: Connecting MHD Wave Research from the Sun to the Magnetospheres

We would like to encourage abstract submission to the NAM2019 session ‘Connecting MHD Wave Research from the Sun to the Magnetospheres’.

This cross-disciplinary session aims to bring together MHD waves experts from both solar and planetary physics. The goal is to encourage the transfer of knowledge between research fields that share areas of commonality but often remain disparate. For example, field line resonance in magnetospheres and resonant absorption in the solar corona; the Kelvin Helmholtz instability on the magnetospheric flanks and in coronal loops. We invite submissions from multiple areas of MHD wave research, from solar to planetary magnetospheres, including theoretical/numerical studies or observational studies from spacecraft or ground-based data. This session aims to bring together these research elements, including the potential of data from upcoming missions.

NAM 2019 will be held at Lancaster University between Sun 30 June – Thu 4 July. Abstract submission is now open and closes on March 15th.

T. Elsden, J. Sandhu, S. Wharton, P. Antolin

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2020 Sun-Climate Symposium — Jan. 27-31, 2020 — Save the Date!

2020 Sun-Climate Symposium
“What is the Quiet Sun and What are the Subsequent Climate Implications?”

Jan. 27-31, 2020 * Tucson, Arizona
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sorce/news-events/meetings/2020-scs/

We are pleased to announce the 2020 Sun-Climate Symposium, which is sponsored by the Sun-Climate Research Center, a joint venture between NASA GSFC and LASP at the University of Colorado.

What is the quiet Sun? Is it a time-invariant base level or is there secular variability in the Sun’s radiative output? What do those alternate scenarios imply for Earth-climate responses? The current solar minimum provides an opportunity to answer these and related questions.
Observations of the Sun and Earth from space have revolutionized our view and understanding of how solar variability and other natural and anthropogenic forcings impact Earth’s atmosphere and climate. For more than four decades the total and spectral solar irradiance and global terrestrial atmosphere and surface have been observed continuously, providing unprecedented high-quality data for Sun-climate studies. The 2020 Sun-Climate Symposium will convene experts from across the solar-terrestrial community, including the disciplines of climate research, atmospheric physics and chemistry, heliophysics, and metrology, to discuss solar and climate observations and models over both spacecraft-era and historical timescales.

Sessions will be organized around the following six themes:

1. The Sunset of SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment)
2. Recent/Space-Era Solar Cycle Timescales
3. Secular Timescales
4. Observational Predictions
5. A New Reference Spectrum for Remote Sensing
6. Children of SORCE

The format for this symposium consists of invited and contributed oral and poster presentations. The Call for Abstracts will come out later this spring. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues.

Please save the date and join us!

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National Astronomy Meeting 2019 – Registration now open

The online registration system for the 2019 Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting is now open.

 
NAM2019 will be held at Lancaster University between Sunday 30 June – Thursday 4 July 2019. Delegates can register for the full meeting (four days) or for individual days. All attendees are required to register online before the closing date for registration (20 May 2019 for presenting authors, or 14 June 2019 for all other participants). There will be no opportunity for on-site registration at the conference venue.

The NAM2019 website (https://nam2019.org) contains further information on registration, the outline programme, social events, the RAS Awards dinner, accommodation and childcare. Abstract submissions will remain open until 15 March. A full list of parallel sessionsand a link to the abstract submission systems can be found on the NAM2019 website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster in the summer!
 
The NAM2019 LOC. 
 
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Fifth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS)

Fifth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS), Kyiv, Ukraine
Monday 26th August – Friday 30th August 2019

http://pdg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/UKUS_2019/index.html

Important deadlines
Registration deadline – 1 July 2019
Abstract submission deadline – 15 July 2019

The meeting will cover a broad range of aspects of solar physics, space science and solar-terrestrial relations. We aim to include every side of solar and space research, including observations, theory, and numerical modelling. The main idea behind the meeting is to treat the entire solar-terrestrial domain as one system, rather than each region independently.

The participants of the UKUS usually come from different backgrounds, therefore the meeting divided into a number of different topics highlighting a number of areas of expertise.

Our aim is to develop new collaborative projects leading to publications and grant applications. Enough discussion time has been scheduled, to ensure sufficient interaction between the scientists, and allow for the generation of ideas for collaboration.

Tentative Programme:

– MHD waves – coupling between lower solar atmosphere and solar corona (observations, theory, numerics)
– Role of magnetic fields in solar variability
– Multi-scale plasma dynamic processes in the Sun-Earth system
– Dynamic processes in the Earth ionosphere and magnetosphere

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