Dear Colleagues.

I would like to draw your attention to the Sun and Heliosphere General Session at the upcoming AOGS 2013 (http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/) at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) (http://www.bcec.com.au/), Brisbane, Australia, 24-28 June 2013. This will mark a decade of the AOGS with increasing scientific excellence year on year and marks the first time leaving Asia into neighbouring Oceania for this 10th Anniversary meeting. The abstract-submission deadline has been extended to Friday 08 February 2013 and the Mars submission system for abstract submissions (and links to registration) is here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/public.asp?page=abstract.htm – please submit your abstract to this diverse and exciting general session ASAP!

Thanks in advance!

Best wishes,

Dr. Mario M. Bisi (AOGS ST-H Secretary).

ST02 – Solar and Heliosphere General Session
This session aims to cover any aspects of solar or heliosphere research under the broad ST-H Physics spectrum which is not directly covered by other sessions available.
Convenor: Dr. Mario Bisi (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom) Mario.Bisi [at] aber.ac.uk

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Dear Colleagues.

I would like to draw your attention to the Sun and Heliosphere sessions at the upcoming AOGS 2013, the 10th Annual Meeting celebrating a decade of the AOGS and hosted in Oceania for the first time! The abstract-submission deadline has been extended to Friday 08 February 2013 and the Mars submission system for abstract submissions (and links to registration) is here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/public.asp?page=abstract.htm – as well as links to the full meeting details and other session lists/descriptions. The meeting will take place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) (http://www.bcec.com.au/), Brisbane, Australia, 24-28 June 2013.

Session headings and the lead convener in each case are all listed below as a summary, but the full details of these sessions and their respective conveners can be found here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/public.asp?page=mars2/confSessionList.asp.

Best wishes,

Dr. Mario M. Bisi (AOGS ST-H Secretary).

ST01 – Sun-Earth system response to extreme solar and seismic events, and space weather effects
Dr. Nanan Balan (National Central University, Taiwan) B.Nanan [at] Sheffield.ac.uk

ST02 – Solar and Heliosphere General Session
Dr. Mario Bisi (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom) Mario.Bisi [at] aber.ac.uk

ST06 – The Outer Heliosphere
Dr. John Richardson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) jdr [at] space.mit.edu

ST07 – Future Space Missions and Instrumentation for Space and Planetary Science
Prof. Andrew Yau (University of Calgary, Canada) yau [at] phys.ucalgary.ca

ST08 – Space Weather and Space Climate: Coupling Processes from the Sun to the Earth
Prof. Katya Georgieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) katyageorgieva [at] msn.com

ST11 – Turbulence, Reconnection, and Energetic Particles in Solar, Heliospheric Physics and Laboratory Studies: A synergetic approach
Dr. Bo Li (Shandong University, China) bbl [at] sdu.edu.cn

ST14 – Global Study of Solar Wind-magnetosphere Interactions: a Comparative View of Recent Observations, Modeling and Numerical Simulations
Dr. Dongsheng Cai (University of Tsukuba, Japan) cai [at] cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

ST15 – Space Environment interaction with the solar ejected masses
Prof. Ahmed Hady (Cairo University, Egypt) aahady [at] yahoo.com

ST20 – Sources of solar magnetism: From the deep interior to the upper atmosphere
Prof. S. Sirajul Hasan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India) hasan [at] iiap.res.in

ST21 – From solar environment to stellar environment
Dr. Jean Rozelot (OCA – Nice University, France, Metropolitan) rozelot [at] obs-azur.fr

ST28 – Radio emission from the Sun and planets, and from and through the heliosphere
Dr. Bo Li (University of Sydney, Australia) boli [at] physics.usyd.edu.au

ST29 – Understanding climate and weather of the Earth-Sun System
Prof. Toshitaka Tsuda (Kyoto University, Japan) tsuda [at] rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp

PS01 – Solar wind interaction with planetary environments
Dr. Dominique Delcourt (LPP – CNRS, France) dominique.delcourt [at] lpp.polytechnique.fr

PS10 – Future Space Missions and Instrumentation for Space and Planetary Science
Dr. Yoshifumi Saito (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan) saito [at] stp.isas.jaxa.jp

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Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2013)
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/public.asp?page=home.htm
24 – 28 Jun 2013, Brisbane, Australia

Please note that abstract submission closes on 8 Feb 2013.

Session Description：

Magnetized plasmas are frequently turbulent in both space and laboratory. In the context of solar and heliospheric physics, turbulence plays a critical role in generating the Sun’s magnetic field, heating its atmosphere to millions of Kelvin, driving the solar wind, picking up the newly ionized ions, and in interpreting the Voyager data at and beyond the edge of the Heliosphere. On a more fundamental level, turbulence changes many properties of fluids, in particular their properties for transporting energetic particles. Recent advances in understanding turbulence induce substantial changes in the understanding of cosmic ray transport parallel and perpendicular to mean magnetic field. In addition, turbulence changes the properties of magnetic reconnection and magnetic reconnection has shown the ability to accelerate energetic particles.

We aim at creating a forum for experts to summarize recent significant advances in the corresponding fields and to discuss new directions.

Confirmed invited speaks:
Andrey Beresnyak, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Steven Cranmer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
Dietmar Krauss-Varban, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, USA
Xing Li, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University, UK
Martin Pohl, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Gary Zank, CSPAR, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

Session Conveners:
Bo Li (Shandong University, China), BBL@sdu.edu.cn
Huirong Yan (Peking University, China), hryan@pku.edu.cn
Alex Lazarian (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US), alazarian@facstaff.wisc.edu
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Call for abstracts for AOGS2013: 10th Annual Meeting

http://www.asiaoceania.org/
24-28 June 21013 Brisbane, Australia
ST20 Sources of solar magnetism: From the deep interior to the upper atmosphere

The dynamic coupling throughout the solar atmosphere from the deep interior to the upper atmosphere is a
fundamental and challenging problem in solar physics. High-resolution observations of the solar atmosphere by instruments especially on SOHO, TRACE, Hinode, STEREO and SDO missions have provided considerable information about the nature and properties of solar magnetic fields and their influence on activity. The avalanche of observational discoveries provided by these facilities have stimulated complex theoretical and numerical studies of energy, momentum transport and stability analysis from the deep interior into chromospheric and coronal plasma structures. Recent major leaps have enabled the identification of key processes associated with magnetic fields that encompass small-scale flux tubes, MHD and kinetic wave modes, signatures of localised reconnection and plasma flows. Discovery of a range of dynamic phenomena in localised magnetic structures are not just typical of the Sun, as flare-induced bursts are now a popular subject of late-type star studies expanding the field of high-resolution solar physics to other astrophysical objects.

The goal of this session is to gather together a focussed group of specialists who, observationally and
theoretically study a wide range of phenomena that have their pronounced signatures across the solar
atmosphere. These signatures are manifest in multi-wavelengths. The proposed session attempts to bring
theorists and observers to critically evaluate the processes related to magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere. We aim to:

(i) carefully examine current trends and challenges related to sources of solar magnetism and identify their effects on processes in the solar atmosphere;
(ii) make progress in attacking key problems in the above area through a synthesis of theoretical modelling and data analysis.

You are cordially invited to the next AOGS annual meeting. The abstract submission deadline is: 29 January 2013.

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Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London W1J 0BQ
8 March 2013, 10:30 – 15:30.

Comets have played an important role in the formation and evolution of the planets, through bombardment of their surfaces and consequent delivery of volatile species to those bodies. Such impacts occur remarkably frequently even today as evidenced by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event at Jupiter in 1994, and recent discoveries of impact plumes in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Even without impacts, close approaches of fragile cometary nuclei to massive bodies often causes their tidal disruption. The recently-revealed existence of main belt comets partly results from their collisions with other minor bodies. 2011-12 yielded an unexpected wealth of data and theory on the destructive interaction between comets and the inner solar atmosphere (eg. Brown et al. 2011, A&A 535, A71). SDO yielded detailed EUV observations of the demise of small comet C/2011 N3 (SOHO) in the low solar corona (Schrijver et al. 2012, Science 335, 324), while the spectacular near-destruction there of the much larger sun-grazer Comet Lovejoy was observed over a wide wavelength range. At this meeting, we shall review recent progress in understanding comets’ interactions with other bodies and their atmospheres, and what we have learnt about the solar atmosphere, planets, and comets themselves through these interactions.

We welcome abstracts for presentations at the meeting within all the areas covered above; please send your abstracts to all three conveners below at your earliest convenience.

Organised by:

Dr Geraint Jones (MSSL-UCL/Centre for Planetary Sciences at
UCL/Birkbeck) g.h.jones@ucl.ac.uk

Professor John Brown (University of Glasgow) john.brown@glasgow.ac.uk

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Dear Colleague,

The next STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, organised
by SP2RC of University of Sheffield will be 26-30 August 2013 at the Dept of Astronomy,
Eotvos University, Budapest. The School is free for STFC-supported PhD students. Please
pencil in the dates and advertise it to your PhD students. More logistic details will be announced
in due course.

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Please could you bring to the attention of your final year undergrads UCL’s MAPS Faculty Open Day on 23 January 2013. Further details and registration at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps-faculty/student/PGOpenDay

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The physics of flares in the lower solar atmosphere
RAS Discussion Meeting
Friday 12th April 2013, Burlington House, London
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?page_id=827
Organisers: Iain Hannah (University of Glasgow) and Ryan Milligan (Queen’s University Belfast).

Solar flares are impulsive releases of energy in the Sun’s corona and yet it is emission from the lower atmosphere (the photosphere and chromosphere) that contains the bulk of the energy. This radiation also provides some of the best diagnostics of the flaring process. The availability of optical, UV/EUV and hard X-ray observations, made with the current fleet of space-based (SDO, Hinode, RHESSI, etc.) and ground-based (ROSA, IBIS, Big Bear, etc.) observatories, combined with recent developments in flare modelling, presents a timely opportunity to study the cause and effect of energy deposition in the lower solar atmosphere. The combination of multi-wavelength observations with advanced numerical simulations can provide key insights into the processes of particle acceleration, plasma heating, energy transport, and wave propagation.

This Royal Astronomical Society discussion meeting will focus on work investigating the response of the solar and stellar atmospheres during a flare’s impulsive phase and we welcome contributions from both observation and theory. The registration deadline for talk presentations is Thursday 7th March 2013: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?page_id=831

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