Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools
Registration for the Hinode-6 meeting is now open at
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hinode6/Hinode-6/Welcome.html
The Hinode-6 meeting will take place at the University of St Andrews (UK) from 14-17 August 2012.
Important deadlines:
Application for financial support – 18 May 2012
Abstract submission – 1 June 2012
Normal registration – 1 June 2012
Late registration – 13 July 2012
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hinode6/Hinode-6/Welcome.html… continue to the full article
First announcement: The Royal Astronomical Society Discussion Meeting “Kinetic Processes and Radiophysics of the Sun”, 12th of October 2012, London, UK,
organised by V. Nakariakov (Warwick), D. Tsiklauri (QML) and M. Gordovskyy (Manchester)
Observations in the radio and X-ray bands band allow us to get unique information about the plasma physics processes associated with the solar activity. This 1-day meeting will address the important and timely topics of solar plasma physics and radiophysics, and provide a joint forum for the specialists in relevant theoretical and data analysis approaches, specifically addressing LOFAR and ALMA projects and linking them to SDO and RHESSI missions.… continue to the full article
STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School
16 – 21 September 2012
Armagh Observatory
STFC Courses in Solar System Plasmas have played an important part in the
early training of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric
physicists since the 1980s. The Introductory course, as well as providing a
grounding in the theory and the most recent observations relevant to their
fields, allows new PhD students and other participants to interact
scientifically with each other and with the lecturers, thus strengthening the
field as a whole – particularly in the UK. We wish to continue this excellent
tradition by hosting the next introductory summer school in Solar System
Plasmas at Armagh Observatory. The Observatory has expertise in both solar and
solar-terrestrial observations and theory as well as solar system dynamics.
The objective is to provide the training necessary to produce inter-
disciplinary scientists who can work effectively in teams at the interfaces
between different science areas.
STFC-Funded Students:
Accommodation & meals: paid for by STFC directly.
Travel Costs: You will be re-imbursed by STFC directly, please keep tickets
etc. (claims forms handed out during School).
Non-STFC-Funded Students:
You will have to get re-imbursed by your research group.
Registration is now open, go-to:
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http://star.arm.ac.uk/summerschool2012//
for full information on the range of topics plus the registration form.
Deadline: Registration and Accommodation — 6 August 2012 (rooms are only held
until this date).
Students will be booked into the Charlemont Arms Hotel which is a 8 min walk
to the Observatory. For further details, contact Gerry Doyle jgd@arm.ac.uk.… continue to the full article
SIPWork VI – Registration and abstract submission OPEN
Monday 13 – Thursday 16 August, 2012, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission are now OPEN for the Sixth Solar Information Processing Workshop. Please go to https://tofu.msu.montana.edu/cs/sip/registration to register, submit your abstract, and record your Working Group preferences.
You can submit your abstract at any time, and register later.
Important dates:
15 June 2012: Abstract submission deadline 22 July 2012: Accommodation at special rate at conference hotel closes. 6 August 2012: Registration deadline
Latest information is available at http://www.sipwork.org/
We are also pleased to confirm the following invited speakers: Prof. A. Hero (U. Michigan, USA) will give two lectures: one on dimensionality reduction and another on machine learning. Dr. S. Moussaoui (ICCRYN, Nantes, France) will present source separation techniques. Dr. K. Reardon (Arcetri Observatory, Italy) will introduce to the challenges of future Advanced Technology Solar Telescope.
Held since 2003, the Solar Information Processing workshops focus on the extraction of useful information from solar data. This meeting will broaden our attention on how to obtain the best scientific return out of the petabytes of data that are now available. We will also look at future challenges, such as the even larger data acquisition rates from the ATST, and the combination of heterogeneous, multivariate & distributed observations such as those from Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus.
Workshop structure: The morning is given over to plenary sessions, with breaks being poster sessions. Participants are expected to attend all talks and poster sessions. In the afternoons, the conference splits into splinter sessions, where the following subject areas are covered. We solicit contributions in these areas. Participants may record an interest in multiple working groups.
Working group 1: Tracking solar features and eruptive events in space, time, and wavelength
Working group 2: Reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of the corona
Working group 3: Solar information processing techniques
Working group 4: Accessing, browsing, retrieving data
Working group 5: Problem-solving session
For more details on the working groups visit http://www.sipwork.org/ for the extended announcement.
Limited student support available. Contact the SOC Co-Chairs for more details. Deadline for this request is 1st June 2012.
We hope to see you in Bozeman in August!
LOC Chair: Petrus Martens, Montana State University (martens@physics.montana.edu ) SOC Co-Chairs: Jack Ireland, ADNET Systems Inc./NASA GSFC (Jack.Ireland@nasa.gov ), C. Alex Young (c.a.young@nasa.gov)
Second Announcement -“Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events” November 27 – December 2, 2012, Sheraton Sonoma County Hotel Petaluma, CA USA (Please note: these dates are three days earlier than originally announced, due to a change in the dates of the Fall AGU Meeting, which now starts on December 3)
http://hessi.ssl.berkeley.edu/petaluma/index.shtml
The conference will be devoted to sharing analysis, interpretations, and results based on recent observations from various solar spacecraft, such as ACE, Fermi, Hinode, RHESSI, SDO, SOHO, and STEREO. This is the third in a series of “California Wine Country” conferences, and the format will be a mixture of plenary sessions and cross-connected working groups following the highly successful model established by earlier conferences in the series (Sonoma 2004 and Napa 2008).
The overarching objective of the conference is to examine the connections amongst the phenomena that lead to solar eruptive events. The current slate of themes includes:
– Measuring the Coronal Magnetic Field;
– Connections to, and Reactions of, the Large-Scale Corona;
– Large-scale Magnetic Connectivity of Active Regions;
– Transfer of Energy to, and Storage of Energy in, the Corona; and
– The High-Energy Particle – Flare – CME connection.
and additional working group topics may be created, depending on the content of the abstracts that are submitted. We also intend to have a “presidential-candidate” style debate on the topic of “How much closer are we to flare prediction?”
The registration and abstract submission will both open on or around May 21.
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Dear All,
Please note that the last date for submitting your contribution to UKMHD2012 meeting is April 15. We have obtained generous funding for this meeting and hope the UKMHD community can continue to support the long tradition of these annual gatherings. So come and share your research work. There are also student prizes for the best talk and poster!
We would encourage early registration as there is limited en-suite accommodation. Other accommodations may be non en-suite, or more expensive.
with best wishes
Rekha (on behalf of SP2RC)
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