Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

IAGA Div. IV Symposium A28 “New advances in Solar and Interplanetary Physics” to be held during the 26th IUGG General Assembly 2015 in Prague

IAGA Div. IV Symposium during the 26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, June 22-July 2, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.

We invite abstracts for IAGA Div. IV Symposium A28 “New advances in Solar and Interplanetary Physics” to be held during the 26th IUGG General Assembly 2015 that will take place from June 22-July 2, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.

www.iugg2015prague.com

This session is dedicated to new observational results from present space and ground-based observatories, and latest theoretical and modelling research on the dynamics and structure of the Sun and the interplanetary medium. We in particular welcome presentations on new advances about the physics of solar eruptions, heating of the corona, origin and acceleration of the solar wind, acceleration and transport of energetic particles, plasma waves and turbulence as well as their interactions with particles, and the dynamics/structure in the interplanetary space. The session is aimed at stimulating discussions and exchanges from different perspectives to improve our understanding of the Sun and the interplanetary medium as a system.

Convener: Spiros Patsourakos (University of Ioannina, Greece) Co-conveners: Yuan-Kuen Ko (Naval Research Lab, USA), Nour Eddine Raouafi (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

Abstract submission DEADLINE: February 8, 2015.

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The 14th International Solar Wind Conference (SW14): Abstract submission deadline extended to Feb 10, 2015

The Fourteenth International Solar Wind Conference (SW14) will be held in Weihai, China, from 22 to 26 June 2015 (21 June: Registration and Welcome Reception), which will be jointly organized by Peking University and Shandong University.

The deadline for online abstract submission (including application for students’ support) is now extended to Feb 10, 2015, 11:59am Beijing time. (03:59 GMT)

Confirmed invited speakers include Jack Gosling, Adam Szabo, Hardi Peter, Bernard Jackson, Gregory Howes, Munetoshi Tokumaru, Jiansen He, Peter Hunana, Lorenzo Matteini, Haihong Che, Ronan Modolo, Yoshifumi Saito, Mihir Desai, Christina Cohen, Nat Gopalswamy, Nathan Schwadron, John Richardson, Jonathan Slavin, Vladislav Izmodenov, and Yannis Zouganelis.

For further details, please visit http://sw14.csp.escience.cn

We look forward to welcoming you to Weihai.
With best regards,
The SW14 Scientific and Local Organizing Committees

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Coronal Loops VII – 2nd announcement

Coronal Loop Workshop VII – Heating of the Magnetically Closed Corona
DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2015

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to announce that the online registration and abstract submission for the 7th Coronal Loops Workshop to be held at the CMS, University of Cambridge, from 21-23 July 2015 will be open on February 4th. The workshop is expected to extend over three full days. A reception will take place on the evening of Monday, 20th July. A conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 22nd July.

A limited amount of funds may be available to support students and early
post-docs. Requests for financial support should be made via the comments
section when submitting an abstract.

Conference website: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/astro/cl7/index.html

Registration and Deadlines:

* All abstracts due by 17 Apr 2015
* Financial support request (via abstract submission form) deadline: 17 Apr 2015
* Registration deadline: 1 Jun 2015 (100 GBP),reduced for students (50 GBP).

After this deadline please email loopworkshop@damtp.cam.ac.uk to check
availability to attend this workshop. The SOC intends to limit the number of
participants to ensure focused discussions.

Accommodation

We have made a block booking of 60 en-suite rooms at Gonville and Caius
college, a few minutes walking distance from the conference location.
Bookings for these rooms can be made via the registration form on the
conference website. The cost is 66 GBP per night (including breakfast). The
rooms are basic student-type accommodation and will be allocated on a first
come first served basis.

Hotels are available in the area (see links on the conference website), but
we strongly advise early booking.

Scientific Programme

The loops workshops are a series of highly focused workshops dealing with
the observation and modeling of magnetically confined plasma in active
regions. The programme and invited speakers are as follows:

Session 1 – Coronal Heating: Global Active Region Models and Mechanisms
– Heating mechanisms (reconnection vs waves vs spicules)
Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi
– Global AR models (visualizations etc.)
Ignaki Ugarte-Urra
– Beyond hydro or MHD modeling
Tony Arber

Session 2 – Transition Region-Corona Connection
– Observations (IRIS, Hi-C, AIA, CRISP etc) vs theory; chromosphere
Bart De Pontieu
– Classical TR vs low lying cool loops
Pia Zacharis
– Role of spicules
Tiago Pereira

Session 3 – Fine Scale Structure and Non-equilibrium Processes
– Fine-scale structure of loops, and/or braiding (observations vs modeling)
Patrick Antolin
– Current sheets and turbulence
Bruno Coppi
– Diagnostics – developments and limitations
Peter Young
– Advances in treating non-equilibrium processes
Jaroslav Dudik

Session 4 – Wrap up session
– What doesn’t match up between theory and observations?
Philippa Browning and Harry Warren

PLEASE NOTE: Only abstracts (and registrations of participants) directly
relevant to the main focus of the workshop will be accepted by the SOC.

For further information please check the web site:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/astro/cl7/index.html
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AOGS-2015 – ST22 : New Views on MHD Waves in Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Structure

You are cordially invited to a one-day session (ST-22) on “New Views on MHD Waves in Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Structures” at the AOGS-2015 (2-7 August 2015), Singapore.

The main focus of ST-22 is on the advent of high-resolution ground- and space-based observatories now revealing the ubiquitous presence of MHD waves in a very wide range of magnetic structures of the solar chromosphere and corona. The observations of these waves in such magnetic waveguides provide a tool to diagnose their local plasma conditions using the principle of solar magneto-seismology (SMS). Exploring the plasma properties (e.g. density, temperature, magnetic field) by means of MHD waves may provide
a critical insight into the local dynamical conditions, as well as into the local energetics, bringing us closer to fully understand the outstanding problem of chromospheric/coronal heating and solar wind formation.

The one-day session will be attended by pioneering experts of MHD waves & oscillations in solar physics (both theorist and observers). In proportionate strength, it is anticipated to have young researchers to discuss their latest discoveries/developments on solar MHD waves with their potential implications for SMS and plasma energisation.

In parallel, future plans and collaborations will be encouraged to be developed during this forum to widen the research cooperation in the understanding of the solar atmospheric wave phenomena.

For more info please consult http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2015/public.asp?page=home.htm from where the important deadlines and further relevant information can be obtained.

We greatly look forward for your contribution to ST-22. For any queries please contact the conveners of ST-22.

Conveners
A.K. Srivastava (IIT (BHU), India, asrivastava.app@iitbhu.ac.in)
Robertus Erdelyi (Sheffield University, UK, robertus@sheffield.ac.uk)
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First Announcement: IRIS-4 Workshop

The IRIS-4 workshop will be hosted by the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) and held at NCAR’s Foothills Lab 2 Building in Boulder, CO, USA during the week of May 18–22, 2015.

NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) was launched in June 2013 and has been providing high resolution spectra and images from the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region and corona since July 2013.

This workshop has two main goals:
1. facilitate use and analysis of IRIS-related data by the broader community through tutorials on IRIS-related topics such as the ins-and-outs of IRIS data analysis, optically thick radiative transfer, IRIS-related MHD simulations, and flare-related simulations (using Radyn);

2. present and discuss IRIS-related science results (oral and poster contributions welcomed). There will be invited review talks on coupling between different regions in the atmosphere (Joten Okamoto), chromospheric and transition region dynamics (Luc Rouppe van der Voort), chromospheric heating (Mats Carlsson), coronal science with IRIS (Paola Testa), flares (Lyndsay Fletcher) and coordinated observations with IRIS (Paul Boerner).

Registration fees are low, and financial support is available (see webpage below).

Important dates:
January 15, 2015: Registration/Abstract submission starts
February 15, 2015: Travel support deadline
March 6, 2015: Early registration deadline
March 6, 2015: Abstract submission deadline
April 18, 2015: Hotel reservation deadline
April 18, 2015: Late registration deadline
May 18-22, 2015: Meeting starts on Monday afternoon and ends Friday at noon

Meeting website:
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First Announcement: 35th Dynamics Days Europe Conference, Exeter.

The 35th Dynamics Days Europe will be held from September 6 – 10, 2015 at the University of Exeter.

Dynamics Days Europe is a major international conference with a broad interdisciplinary focus on nonlinear dynamics in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Pre-registration and abstract submission for contributions is now open on
store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=169&prodid=931

Further details are available on
ex.ac.uk/dd2015

Deadlines:
01 March 2015 Deadline for submission of mini-symposium proposals
31 May 2015 Deadline for early registration

The remit of Dynamics Days includes research in all areas of dynamical systems and nonlinear science from the perspectives of modelling, mathematical foundations, applications, and experiment.

Contributions are invited in all areas of theoretical and applied dynamics including: active-matter physics, astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter, climate science, elastic media, fluid dynamics, granular materials, magnetohydrodynamics, microfluidics, networks, neural dynamics, non-equilibrium statistical physics, pattern formation, percolation, plasma physics, quantum chaos, soft matter, stochastic processes, turbulence, and weather modelling.

The program will include plenary talks, minisymposia, contributed talks, and posters. Minisymposia are sessions of invited talks that centre around a specific topic or theme.

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Space Weather, Space Climate, and VarSITI session, JpGU 2015

We, conveners, invite you to submit your research paper to JpGU 2015 international session P-EM07 “Space Weather, Space Climate, and VarSITI.”

This session will be held during JpGU (Japan Geoscience Union) meeting 2015 on May 24-28 in Makuhari, Japan. Details of the session and JpGU 2015 can be found at www.jpgu.org/meeting_e/

Final submission close: At 12:00 JST [3:00 UTC] on 18 February, 2015

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SEREN workshop on “Physical pathways to space weather impacts”

Dear colleagues,

As part of the Space Weather Research Network (SEREN) funded by STFC Futures, a workshop on “Physical pathways to space weather impacts” is being held.

The objective of the workshop is to explore how UK scientists from across the range of relevant disciplines can best respond to the adverse impacts of space weather on advanced technologies. The aim is to go well beyond generic statements, in particular:

a.       to improve and consolidate our understanding of how these adverse impacts arise from complex chains of physical processes that occur in the Sun, in the solar wind, and in the magnetosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere of the Earth,

b.      to embody that understanding in some concrete form that facilitates its future use across the research community, e.g. in writing and reviewing proposals, and in the development of policy by the Research Councils and other relevant bodies.

The workshop will start with a wide-ranging series of talks to set the scene for the workshop (see web link below for full list of topics), followed by plenary and splinter discussions to discuss meeting outputs.

The workshop will take place in London between lunch-time on 10 February and lunch-time on 12 February and the SEREN project will reimburse all reasonable costs for attending the workshop. A fuller discussion of the workshop aims is on the meeting web page at http://tinyurl.com/p8ugj5v.

Attendance is limited (by room size) to about 50 participants. If you would like to attend, please register your interest by sending an email to Mike Hapgood (mike.hapgood@stfc.ac.uk), with copy to Lucie Green (lucie.green@ucl.ac.uk) and Mario Bisi (mario.bisi@stfc.ac.uk), including the following information: name, email and affiliation, plus a short statement (say 200 words maximum) of your interests in attending the workshop. Please also contact us if you have any queries about the workshop.

Best wishes,
Mike
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Multi-Spectral Studies of Solar Flares

Mini-symposium “A30 Multi-Spectral Studies of Solar Flares (Div. IV)” as a part of 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015.

Abstract submission (deadline January 31,2015):

http://www.iugg2015prague.com/abstract-submission.htm

Solar flares are often viewed as the most dramatic and powerful magnetic explosions in the solar system. Despite of the substantial progress made over the last few decades in understanding the physics of solar flares, there are many open questions. Over the last few years, the unprecedented variety of the spacecraft and ground based observations of solar flares become available: from the high energy gamma and X-ray emission (RHESSI, Fermi), through EUV, optical (SDO, Hinode, STEREO) range down to radio frequencies (STEREO, Wind). These space-based observations are substantially enhanced via a number of ground based observations, notably with solar radio observatories. The symposium aims to bring together the diverse solar flare community to discuss the latest observations, modelling and theoretical developments in the area of solar flare physics. It will focus on correlative analysis of simultaneous multi-spectral observations of solar flare phenomena addressing the key science questions of magnetic energy release, energetic particle acceleration and transport, the response and emissions in the solar atmosphere and the heliosphere. In addition, the connection of the observational results with the modelling and theoretical developments in this area will be discussed.

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AOGS 2015, 12th Annual Meeting, 2–7 August 2015, Singapore

Dear Colleagues.

I would like to draw your attention to the ST33 session: ‘Multi-scale plasma wave processes in the solar atmosphere’ in the framework of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting.
The 12th Annual AOGS will take place in Singapore, 2-7 August 2015. Further details regarding abstract submission, registration, accommodation and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:

http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2015/public.asp?page=home.htm

Important! Abstract submission deadline is 18 February 2015.

ST33: ‘Multi-scale plasma wave processes in the solar atmosphere’

Conveners:
Viktor Fedun (The University of Sheffield, UK), v.fedun@sheffield.ac.uk
Leon Ofman (Catholic University of America and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States), Leon.Ofman@nasa.gov
Dipankar Banerjee (Indain Institute of Astrophysics, India), dipu@iiap.res.in

Session Description
Multi-scale plasma wave processes play a fundamental role for energy transfer from the lower solar atmosphere to corona. The innovative “new generation” hi-resolution solar observing instruments (IBIS/DST, CRISP/SST, ROSA/DST, IRIS, Hinode, SDO, Hi-C) have provided a step-change in understanding the non-thermodynamic physical mechanisms contributing to solar atmospheric heating. Concurrently, results of cutting-edge numerical simulations, hi-resolution observations and theoretical development have produced great advances in multi-scale plasma modelling and data inversion. Scientific debate is still on-going as to how observed MHD-scale waves generated at the photospheric region can be transformed into much smaller (kinetic) length scales where heating processes become more efficient. The current numerical modelling of solar atmospheric waves is separated by two main physical regimes i.e. MHD and kinetic. The large-scale MHD simulations of the wave processes in the lower solar atmosphere include the effects of radiation and partial ionisation. The question is: do contemporary MHD simulations have anything like time/space resolution and the complex magnetic topology (and the additional observed properties such as flux emergence, cancellation, shearing, granular buffeting) required to adequately model what is happening in the small-scale wave/reconnection/heating events? This is the key motivation of the proposed session.

With our Best Regards,
Viktor Fedun, Leon Ofman and Dipankar Banerjee

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