Dear Colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention our session “Exploring the Slow Solar Wind from the Photosphere to the Heliosphere” at the fall 2012 AGU meeting in San Francisco.

The abstract deadline is *08 August 2012* at 23:59 EDT. More details on the meeting can be found at
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

Session Description:

Successful theories of the origin, evolution and governing processes of solar and stellar winds must be able to address all physical states. The goal of this session is to discuss the current status of observations, theories and models of the low-speed wind. Specific topics include: 1) The generation and release of the slow solar wind from the corona including the role of high speed outflows from solar active regions 2) Identifying the role of magnetic topology in the origin of the slow wind 3) The processes that impart energy to the wind 4) In situ observations and 5) Spatial distribution of the slow solar wind and its evolution during the solar cycle.

Best wishes,

The Session Conveners:

S. Lepri, slepri -at- umich.edu
H. Warren, harry.warren -at- nrl.navy.mil
J. Edmondson, jkedmond -at- umich.edu
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8-11 October 2012
Göttingen, Germany.

In 2012, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) celebrates the 10th anniversary of its International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond. On the occasion, the current PhD students of the Solar System School are organizing a scientific conference, named Rocks’n’Stars.

The conference covers all research topics of the Solar System within Geo- and Astrophysics, including sessions on star and planet formation, solar-stellar relations, the solar photosphere and chromosphere, the solar corona and solar wind, solar MHD, solar variability and climate, Sun-planet interactions, terrestrial planets, gas planets, planetary dynamics, small bodies in the solar system, and exoplanets.

The Rocks’n’Stars conference will be attended, by leading researches in solar system sciences, both former and current students of the Solar System school and by further attendees from institutes other then MPS.

Please visit our website – http://www.rocksnstars.de
Registration deadline – 10th August, 2012.

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STFC Advanced Summer School in Solar Physics 2012 (ASSSP12)
2 – 7 September 2012
University of Warwick
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/asssp12

The 2012 STFC Advanced Summer School in Solar Physics will be hosted by the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. The School programme will consist of a set of specialised lectures in advanced topics in solar physics, as well as hands-on and transferrable skills sessions. It is suitable for PhD students entering their second or third years, as well as early-stage postdocs.

Registration is now open and details of how to register can be found on the School’s website:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/asssp12

The registration deadline is: Friday 3rd August 2012

Full funding is available for up to 20 STFC-supported PhD students. These places will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Non-STFC students and early-stage postdocs are welcome to attend subject to a conference fee. Residential and non-residential fee packages are available.

Contact: Erwin Verwichte (Erwin.Verwichte@warwick.ac.uk)

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Call for Abstracts – Session SH011 – Fall AGU 2012.
03-07 December 2012 – San Francisco, CA, USA.

Dear Colleagues.

We call for contributed abstracts for our session “Radio Observations of the Sun and Heliosphere and their Applications in Space Weather” (SH011 – co-sponsored by NH, SA, and SM) at the upcoming Fall AGU Meeting in December. The full session description is below along with the contact details of all four conveners. The abstract deadline is 08 August 2012 at 23:59EDT. The full AGU meeting details can be found from the AGU website: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/ where the necessary guide and links to submitting abstracts can also be found.

Please can you forward this on to colleagues whom you think this session will also be on interest and apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message/posting.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Dr. Mario M. Bisi (on behalf of the SH011 Session Conveners).

Session Description:
“Solar wind transients such as CMEs, interaction regions, and interplanetary (IP) shocks are 3-D features of IP space that create space weather. The session will focus on investigations involving observations and modeling of solar phenomena that are detected using, associated with, or which generate, radio waves, and on their applications in space weather. We invite contributions covering observations, theory, and analyses of solar and interplanetary radio emission and of flares, shocks, particle events, magnetic-field determinations, CMEs, IPS, and the time-varying and inhomogeneous coronal and IP plasma that involve radio as the primary source of data, or as supporting data, detected from ground or space.”

Conveners:
Dr. Mario M. Bisi (Mario.Bisi [at] aber.ac.uk – Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK)
Prof. Iver H. Cairns (cairns [at] physics.usyd.edu.au – The University of Sydney, Australia)
Dr. Nat. Gopalswamy (nat.gopalswamy [at] nasa.gov – NASA/GSFC, USA)
Prof. Gottfried Mann (gmann [at] aip.de Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany)

AGU Index Terms:
4305, 6900, 7534, and 7847.

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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. We organise a meeting that 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.

The radio band is a major observational window for the study of the Sun. Along with EUV and X-ray data, radio observations can provide unique information about the phenomena associated with the solar activity, such as solar flares, CMEs and various processes in active regions and sunspots. This information is crucial for revealing the physical mechanisms for particle acceleration, generation of micro-turbulence and the associated anomalous values of transport coefficients, and hence the effect of microphysical processes on observable macro-physical processes. Understanding of the delicate interplay between kinetic scales (observed in radio and X-ray bands) and magnetohydrodynamic scales (observed in EUV) is considered to be the key element of answering the enigmatic questions of solar physics: heating of the solar coronal plasma, acceleration of the fast solar wind and the mechanisms for the powerful energy releases in solar flares and CMEs.

Meeting conveners:
Prof. Valery Nakariakov (Warwick),
Dr. David Tsiklauri (Queen Mary),
Dr. Mykola Gordovskyy (Manchester).

Confirmed invited speakers:
Dr. Henry Aurass (AIP Potsdam);
Prof. Joerg Buechner (MPS Katlenburg-Lindau);
Dr. Eduard Kontar (Glasgow);

Further details:
http://astro.qmul.ac.uk/~tsiklauri/ras2012/

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