Month: April 2019

CESRA Workshop 2019: – registration and abstract submission deadline – May 1,2019

Please note the approaching deadline for CESRA2019 workshop – May 1, 2019 https://meetings.aip.de/cesra2019/cms/registration/

The workshop is of relevance to the SKA and similar to the previous CESRA meeting we can organize a splinter session on solar SKA for face-to-face discussions.

The details are below…

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We are pleased to announce registration/abstract submission for the next CESRA Workshop, “CESRA2019: The Sun and the inner heliosphere” which will be held on July 8th – 12th, 2019, at Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany.
https://meetings.aip.de/cesra2019/cms/

CESRA, the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers, organizes triennial workshops on investigations of the solar atmosphere using radio and other observations. Although special emphasis is given to radio diagnostics, the workshop topics are of interest to a large community of solar physicists. The format of the workshop will combine plenary sessions and working group sessions, with invited review talks, oral contributions, and posters.

To register and to submit the abstract please follow the link: https://meetings.aip.de/cesra2019/registration/

The CESRA 2019 workshop will place an emphasis on linking the Sun with the heliosphere, motivated by the launch of Parker Solar Probe in 2018 and the upcoming launch of Solar Orbiter in 2020. It will provide the community with a forum for discussing the first relevant science results and future science opportunities, as well as on opportunity for evaluating how to maximize science return by combining space-borne observations with the wealth of data provided by new and future ground-based radio instruments, such as ALMA, E-OVSA, EVLA, LOFAR, MUSER, MWA, and SKA, and by the large number of well-established radio
observatories.

On behalf of the CESRA Board and the local SOC representatives, Eduard Kontar, Gottfried Mann, Alexander Warmuth

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100. A Century of UKSP Nuggets

Authors: Iain Hannah and Lyndsay Fletcher
University of Glasgow.

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Introduction

Welcome to the 100th UKSP nugget*. To mark this milestone we thought it was time to have a look back at some of the solar physics research we have been highlighting through the nuggets since the first one back in July 2010. Thanks to all the authors for their work and a visual summary of all their nuggets is shown in Figure 1.

What have the nuggets been about?

What topics do the UKSP Nuggets cover? A word cloud of all the nugget titles is shown in Figure 2. It appears that “coronal” and “corona” are our favourite part of the Sun, “magnetic”, “reconnection” and “waves” are also well covered, but not so many people are working on “sunspots” or “chromosphere” or “particles”, it seems! If you think that your favourite solar word is too small here, why not write a nugget?

UKSP nuggets are written by authors throughout the UK, as can be seen in Figure 3. Most of the main centres for solar physics in the UK are covered – can you name them? If you have a piece of solar physics work that is led from the UK and want to write a nugget for us, please get in touch. General advice is still under 1,000 words is best if you want the most readers, however from the previous nugget summary the relationship between page views and length is no longer as clear, see Figure 4.

Who is reading the nuggets?

Each nugget still typically gets about 100 views just after publication and that slowly grows over time, with a long term average of unique views per nugget at nearly 400. Some of the most popular nuggets have several thousand views. In total we have had nearly 40,000 page views, and 34,000 unique pages views of the nuggets. The readers of the nuggets are predominantly from the UK (43%), but we have page views from around the world, see Figure 5. The rest of the top ten countries for views are United States (15%), China (5%), India (5%), Russia (4%), Mexico (3%), Poland (2%), Germany (2%), Ireland (2%).

What next?

UKSP nugget 101 of course. Solar physics continues to be a highly productive field in the UK, which will no doubt continue given our leading involvement in new telescopes and missions like Solar Orbiter, DKIST (and EST), SKA etc, as well as the latest numerical and analytical work. We are very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the UKSP nuggets, and are always looking for new UK-based nuggeteers (particularly early-career researchers) to help tell the world about our solar physics research. We would also like to hear your comments and suggestions about the UKSP nuggets.

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Reminder – RAS 2019 Council Elections & AGM

In case you have not yet voted in the RAS Council election, this is a reminder that you can log in to the Fellows’ dedicated website to cast your vote electronically:  https://fellows.ras.ac.uk/.  
 
If you need help logging in to the Fellows’ site, click here: https://fellows.ras.ac.uk/help/5-logging-on-for-the-first-time. Those Fellows who have made a membership payment online, will already have their username and password.
***If you have opted to vote via post, your ballot paper will be sent in the mail. You do not need to go online to vote***
***If you submit votes both online and by post, the electronic vote will take precedence and the paper ballot will be discarded***
Once you have logged in, you will see a heading located top right which reads: ‘Vote for Council’. Click the links below the heading to see details of this year’s candidates (‘Candidates’) and to cast your vote (‘My Vote’).
The results of the election will be announced at the 2019 AGM to be held on Friday, 10 May.
 
AGM The AGM will be held in the lecture theatre of the Geological Society and will start at 16:00 and conclude at 17:00. Tea will be available beforehand from 3.30 pm in the Geological Society’s library.  As in previous years the Honorary Auditors will be preparing a report that will be presented to the AGM, if you have any matters that you would like to bring to their attention please email Dr Natasha Stephen natasha.stephen@plymouth.ac.uk and Dr Geraint Jones g.h.jones@ucl.ac.uk.
 

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SOLARNET- Mobility Programme Announcement

The SOLARNET Mobility Evaluation Committee (MEC) is pleased to announce the 1st Call for Proposals of Mobility Programme of Young and Experienced Researchers (Deadline: May 31st, 2019).

SOLARNET (http://solarnet-project.eu/home) aims to bring together and integrate the major European research infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics, in order to promote coordinated research and development. In this regard, SOLARNET will support the mobility of early stage researchers (ESRs) as well as experienced researchers as part of the networking activities foreseen in the project. This task is supervised by the MEC, which evaluates and selects the submitted applications.

This first Call is related to stays to be carried on during the period September 1st, 2019  – February 29th, 2020. Detailed information about the Young and Experienced Researchers Mobility Programme can be found at http://solarnet-project.eu/Mobility-Programmes… continue to the full article

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NAM 2019 programme and registration update

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to provide the following updates and reminders.

Programme: The schedule for NAM 2019 has now been updated to include the timing of parallel science sessions. This can be found on the web site listed above. Confirmation emails with poster/oral talk allocations and timings are being sent to individual presenters this week.

Key Registration dates: Please remember that there will be no on-site registration at NAM 2019. When registering online, you also have the opportunity to select on-campus accommodation and a range of social events. The registration deadline for presenters (those giving talks or posters) is 20th May, whereas the final registration date for those not presenting is 14th June. After final registration closes, we will circulate a full list of attendees to registered delegates.

Poster session: As previously advertised, posters for all sessions will be displayed from Monday – Wednesday morning (1st-3rd July) only, and a dedicated poster session will be held (with afternoon tea!) on the afternoon of Tuesday 2nd July. Please plan your attendance accordingly. We expect to make posters available online throughout the meeting.

Crèche: we are offering a free on-site crèche during the meeting. The deadline for requesting places is 20th May, and we hope many of you will take advantage of this service. Please visit the NAM2019 web site for details.

We look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster!

The NAM2019 LOC

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Research Assistant/Associate in Space Plasma Physics, Imperial College London

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant / Associate position within the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group of the Department of Physics. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the newest measurements from the inner solar system, investigating the fundamental processes that form and accelerate the solar wind.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched in August 2018 and has already made measurements closer to the Sun than ever before: Professor Tim Horbury is a team member of the FIELDS and SWEAP instruments and has access to the latest data. In addition, the magnetic field investigation of ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission, due for launch in February 2020 and which will travel to 60 solar radii and take simultaneous remote sensing and in situ measurements, was built at Imperial College.

You will analyse data from both these missions, with the aim of investigating transient events in the solar wind, sources of the wind and fundamental processes such as turbulence and shocks.

The position is available for a fixed term of 2 years with the possibility of extension and is available to start as soon as possible. The closing date is 29 May 2019.

For further information please see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/NAT00443/research-assistant-associate-space-plasma-physics or contact Tim Horbury, t.horbury@imperial.ac.uk .

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LSST:UK All-Hands Meeting (Cardiff, 13-15 May 2019) Registration deadline: Monday, 6 May at 16:00

The LSST:UK Consortium is holding an all-hands meeting in Cardiff from 13-15 May and wishes to invite all those interested in UK involvement in LSST to attend. This meeting is open to all, not just those who have been involved in LSST:UK to date.

This meeting takes place at an important point for LSST and for LSST:UK. Telescope construction is nearing a successful conclusion in Chile and the Project is now starting to focus on plans for Commissioning and models for survey operations, while, in the UK, the STFC-funded LSST:UK Science Centre (LUSC) project is reaching the end of its Phase A (“Development”) and starting Phase B (“Commissioning”).

Invited speakers will review progress from LUSC Phase A and plans for Phase B, and there will be a number of contributed talks given by members of the wider LSST:UK community who participate in the international LSST Science Collaborations.

With the start of LSST Commissioning now less than 18 months away, this is a very good time for all those interested in LSST to gather and discuss preparation for the start of LSST survey operations in 2022.

Further details of the meeting can be found at
https://lsst-k.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/pages/650215429/LSST+UK+All+Hands+Meeting+Cardiff+13th+15th+May+2019, including links to the registration page and provisional programme.

Bob Mann and Stephen Smartt
(LSST:UK Project Leader and Project Scientist)

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Fifth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS) – second announcement

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:

– Coupling between lower solar atmosphere and solar corona (magnetic field restoration, energetic particles and waves)
– General solar activity in the Sun and heliosphere
– MHD waves – coupling between lower solar atmosphere and solar corona (observations, theory, numerics)
– Multi-scale plasma dynamic processes in the Sun-Earth system
– Dynamic processes in the Earth ionosphere and magnetosphere

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Postdoc in solar physics at PMOD/WRC and ETH-Zurich

The main duties are to undertake original research in the area of solar physics. Specifically, the topic will be on understanding sources of the solar wind, such as regions of upflowing plasma in active regions or jets. The research will lead towards the science of the ESA Solar Orbiter mission which is due to be launched in February 2020. PMOD/WRC are involved in two instruments onboard (the EUV imagers, and the EUV spectrometer, SPICE), and it is now timely to focus research this topic. There are also opportunities to work with data from the new 4m telescope DKIST that will have first light at the end of 2019. It is expected that you will communicate the results through regular publication of high-impact journals and presentations at conferences. You should collaborate actively within the Solar Orbiter team to prepare for the imminent, new scientific opportunities. Due to the international importance of the science from this new mission, there will be opportunities for career advancement both within Switzerland and across Europe and the US in particular.

For further details and to apply go to: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/7082/pub/1/index.html

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Interact 2019 – An Engagement Symposium for the Physical and Life Sciences is back – Workshop closing date reminder

Dear All,

Interact 2019 – An Engagement Symposium for the Physical and Life Sciences is back – Workshop closing date reminder

Thank you to everyone who has registered and put forward suggestions on workshops for Interact, we have had some fantastic proposals already. The closing date for Workshop submissions is Tuesday 30th April, we will then ask registered delegates to vote on these. The day promises to be lively and full of interest with something for everyone and an excellent networking opportunity too. There is also plenty of space for exhibitions in the market place and if you have something you would like to show, then let us know!

Spanning the physical and life sciences this event offers something for everyone with an interest in improving their public engagement capabilities. It will provide a fantastic opportunity to learn new ways to engage with your audience, explore the barriers to engagement and discuss how the engagement landscape is changing. But above all, it will be a chance to share your experiences with like-minded people in a fun and friendly environment.

The STFC, IOP, SEPnet, RSC, RAS Ogden Trust and UCLAN are partnering together to develop an inspiring, challenging and refreshing programme on the following key themes:

• Evaluation & Impact and REF2021
• Reaching under-served audiences
• Schools outreach
• Sharing best and worst practice in a safe space

UCLAN is a fantastic location with state-of-the-art facilities, including a fully-functioning laboratory for experimental demonstrations and activities, and a completely kitted-out performing arts facility including a dance stage.

We all look forward to seeing you there.

For more details and workshop ideas, please register here –
https://stfc.ukri.org/public-engagement/training-and-support/the-interact-symposium-2019/

To see what happened at Interact 2017 please have a look here –
http://www.sepnet.ac.uk/launch-interact-2017-evaluation-report/

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