Lviv, Ukraine
Monday 7th September – Friday 11th September 2015

Important deadlines
Registration and accommodation deadline – 1 August 2015
Abstract submission deadline – 1 August 2015

The meeting will cover various aspects of solar physics and space weather related processes. The special emphasis will be paid to progress in data-driven simulations and high-resolution spectro-polarimetry as powerful diagnostic techniques to unravel information about magnetic fields in the photosphere and chromosphere of the Sun.
The topics to be covered are:

Solar Physics:

– Waves, flows and instabilities in solar atmosphere
– Spectropolarimetry and diagnostic tools
– Helioseismology, the structure and dynamics of solar interior

Solar-Terrestial links & Space Plasmas

– linking solar interior with heliosphere
– particle acceleration in the Sun and heliosphere
– non-linear phenomena in space plasmas
– physics of magnetosphere and ionosphere

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The next RHESSI Workshop (number XIV in the series) will be held in Newark, NJ, USA, from August 11-15, 2015. As is customary, this workshop will consist of a blend of plenary sessions and group sessions, with ample opportunity for discussion and interaction. Topics to be addressed in the groups include radio and hard X-ray flares, the flare thermal response, electron acceleration/thick-target modeling, ion acceleration and Fermi LAT events, and magnetic evolution. There will also be a topical session on new instrumentation.

The meeting website is now open at ovsa.njit.edu/rhessi14/index.html, and the registration page at ovsa.njit.edu/rhessi14/register.html is now open. No registration fee is due at this time; registration fees will be collected on-site. The abstract submission and registration deadlines are both June 1.

So, please register, submit an abstract/group preference if you have not already done so, and I look forward to seeing you in New Jersey !

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The 2015 International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space (IPELS2015) will take place on August 23-28, 2015 in the Atholl Palace hotel in Pitlochry, Scotland, UK.

Call for papers: http://ipels2015.iopconfs.org/IOP/media/uploaded/EVIOP/event_661/J%20PPCF%20LF%200415%20IPELS-3.pdf

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to foster intellectual interaction and scientific collaboration between the ionospheric, magnetospheric, solar, heliophysics, and astrophysics communities and the laboratory experimental, theoretical and computational communities to address the fundamental plasma processes governing these extraordinarily complex and dynamic environments. Dedicated laboratory studies (1) probe and elucidate fundamental plasma physical processes, (2) provide benchmarks for validating theory and modeling, and (3) produce spectroscopic measurements, all in support of interpreting rocket, satellite and telescope data. Contributions to facilitate this interaction in terms of diagnostic-techniques needs and emerging instrumentation development as well as theory, modeling and simulations are also welcome.

Key dates
Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2015
Early registration deadline: 15 July 2015
Registration deadline: 10 August 2015
Hotel reservation deadline: 10 August 2015
Paper submission deadline: 31 October 2015

Organised by the IOP Plasma Physics Group

http://ipels2015.iopconfs.org/home

 

 

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Dear Colleagues.

We would like to remind you to take part in the first consortium workshop to discuss the proposal for an operational space-weather mission to L5. This is a follow-on and associated workshop to those previously taken place in the USA (e.g. Boulder, CO, 02-04 December 2014 was the latest).

The registration places are going fast (on a first-come basis) and registration will close promptly at 12:00UT on 30 April 2015 – please register sooner rather than later if you intend on taking part in the workshop.

Once your registration place is confirmed, you will be sent an E-Mail with the necessary instructions on how to submit your abstract (the abstract deadline has been brought forward to 24 April at 23:59:59UT to accommodate planning of the final programme, so please register well ahead of this deadline if you also wish to submit an abstract. Abstracts can be for either discussion topics and for individual presentations fitting within the overall theme of the workshop.

The workshop will take place 11-14 May 2015 at the Business Innovation Skills (BIS) Westminster Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET, UK (http://www.1victoriastreet.co.uk/1_victoria_street).

As a reminder, the objectives for the meeting include:
– Agreeing the continuing need for an operational mission to L5;
– Confirm good science can be achieved from an operational mission;
– Discuss the instrumentation to be included within the spacecraft; and
– Demonstrate to key stakeholders that there is a global interest and need for an Operational Mission to L5.

To register your attendance and for additional information and updates on the workshop details as they are made available, please go to the official workshop website: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/conference/L5-Consortium-workshop and scroll down for further information as well as for a preliminary agenda.

There will be no registration charges, lunches and tea/coffee breaks will be provided on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for all registered participants, and we will also hold events on the Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for all workshop participants. Full details will be updated on the official website in due course.

Best wishes,

Mario.

On behalf of the Workshop Organising Committee (WOC)
Mark Gibbs (Met Office)
Catherine Burnett (Met Office)
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space)
Markos Trichas (Airbus Defence and Space UK)
Lucie M. Green (MSSL)
Jonathan P. Eastwood (Imperial College)
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Call for abstracts for the following session at the 2015 NAM in Llandudno (deadline 14th April 2015)

Solar and Stellar Flares: observation, theory and simulations

Flaring processes in the Sun, cool stars, and solar-like stars are observed across the electromagnetic spectrum revealing the stars’ atmospheric response to energy release processes. Solar observations with high spatial, spectral and/or temporal resolutions from many different instruments provide insights to plasma heating and cooling, change in ionization, and flows during flaring events. These processes are further investigated by means of detailed numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamics and radiative transfer. Moreover, Sun-as-a-Star observations provide a link to flare phenomena observed in other stars. Stellar Activity is a growing subject, having attracted more attention in recent years given the observations of flares in G-, K- and M-type stars from the Kepler satellite and its implications to wider subjects, such as the search for exoplanets. We aim to bring together observers and theoreticians in Solar and Stellar activity to review and discuss recent advances in the fields, producing knowledge exchange between the two communities. In this session we welcome contributions discussing observational data analysis of stellar or solar flares, and theoretical or modelling efforts aimed to improve our understanding of the many physical processes in these energetic events, such as energy release and transport mechanisms, atmospheric response to energy input and, evolution of the magnetic field.

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Coronal Loops Workshop VII, Heating of the Magnetically Closed Corona, DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, UK, 21-23 July 2015. We have some funding to support young researchers from Europe and the USA.

Abstract and Financial Support Deadline: 17th April 2015

See: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/astro/cl7/

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The International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST)/MiniMax Workshop is aimed at bringing together scientists from different countries to interact and establish collaboration links that can effectively address the physical mechanisms of the origin, propagation, and Earth impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other transient events. The ultimate goal is to develop the capability to predict the arrival of solar transients at Earth and their potential Space Weather consequences. ISEST/MiniMax is one of the four projects of SCOSTEP’s VarSITI program (2014-2018). The workshop coordinates international activity in observation, theory and modeling, and involves scientists from both developed and developing countries. The workshop also provides an online platform for research and educational opportunities for students. The workshop will have sessions relevant to the seven ISEST/MiniMax working groups: (1) data, (2) theory, (3) simulation, (4) event campaign, (5) Bs challenge, (6) Solar Energetic Particles, and (7) MiniMax campaign.

If you are interested in attending this workshop in Mexico City, please register at cintli.geofisica.unam.mx/congreso by June 15, 2015. You are also welcome to participate online through solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/Main_Page . A limited financial support is available to graduate students and young researchers. This support comprises only the local hotel cost and the registration fee. Please send an email along with your CV and tentative abstract to Alejandro Lara (alara.unam@gmail.com) before May 15, 2015 to apply for this financial support.

SOC: Jie Zhang (Co-Chair, USA), Nat Gopalswamy (Co-Chair, USA), Manuela Temmer (Co-Chair, Austria), Ayumi Asai (Japan), Mario Bisi (UK), Kyungsuk Cho (South Korea), Peter Gallagher (Ireland), Manolis Georgoulis (Greece), Alejandro Lara (Mexico), Noé Lugaz (USA), Alexis Rouillard (France), Nandita Srivastava (India), Bojan Vršnak Croatia), Yu-Ming Wang (China), David Webb (USA) and Yuri Yermolaev (Russia)

LOC: Alejandro Lara (Chair), Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Rogelio Caballero, Olivia Enríquez, Alberto Flandes, Primož Kajdič and Hector Pérez de Tejada

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Following the extension for the abstract submission at the National Astronomical Meeting, we are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following parallel session at this year’s RAS National Astronomy Meeting (5-9 July, Lllandudno).

Solar wind initiation, evolution, and interplanetary consequences

How the solar wind is structured and propagates through the heliosphere is a consequence of a number of changes in the solar activity. These changes include long term variations in the active regions, coronal holes and irradiance, as well as more dynamic events such as flux emergence, flares and coronal mass ejections. Nowadays, a large range of analysis techniques has been developed improving the ability to track the solar wind transients from the solar surface upward using remote sensing observations (such as STEREO and SDO) and in situ measurements (e.g.Wind, ACE and Ulysses). However, we still need to learn more about the underlying mechanism generating and structuring the solar wind, as well as its propagation into the interplanetary space with subsequent interactions with planets or other solar system bodies.

This session aims at reviewing the different efforts to better understand how solar structures are feeding the solar wind and how the solar wind evolves up to 1 AU and beyond. We invite contributions exploiting multiple instruments, especially emphasising the link between in situ and
remote sensing measurements or with quantitative comparisons with numerical models.

The format for this session consists of two 90mn-blocks, with two invited talks (Louise Harra (MSSL) on observations and Matthew Owens (Univ. Reading) on theory/modelling) and contributed oral presentations. We encourage participation from modellers, observers and theoreticians.

Abstract submission deadline: 14th April 2015
Abstract submission link at: http://nam2015.org/

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Following the extension for the abstract submission at the National Astronomical Meeting, we are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following parallel session at this year’s RAS National Astronomy Meeting (5-9 July, Lllandudno).

Magnetic flux ropes from the Sun to the Heliosphere

The coronal mass ejections causing the most spectacular space weather events are widely believed to be magnetic flux ropes – twisted bundles of magnetic field – that erupt from the Sun. There is an increasing international focus on understanding these events to improve space weather prediction. It is timely for a session bringing together researchers from both UKSP and MIST who focus on diverse aspects of this chain events. The session will focus on fundamental outstanding problems, such as predicting where and when flux ropes will form and erupt on the Sun, how quickly they will reach the Earth, or how they will interact with our magnetosphere.

The format for this session consists of invited and contributed oral presentations. We encourage participation from modellers, observers and theoreticians.

Abstract submission deadline: 14th April 2015
Abstract submission link at: http://nam2015.org/

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The RAS invites suggestions from Fellows of the RAS who wish to propose (and therefore organise) Specialist Discussion meetings for the academic year beginning October 2015.

For information, detailed guidance for meeting organisers may be found at:

http://www.ras.org.uk/events-and-meetings/1747-general-information-about-meetings

Proposals for Astronomy SD meetings should be sent to Mandy Bailey
(a.e.bailey@ljmu.ac.uk) and proposals for Geophysics SD meetings (including Planetary Science and Solar-Terrestrial Physics) should be sent to Lyndsay Fletcher (lyndsay.fletcher@glasgow.ac.uk).

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