Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

DiRAC-3 proposal Review Working Group meeting

DiRAC-3 proposal Review Working Group meeting, Friday 17th July.

Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University College London, room E7

This meeting will consider the proposed DiRAC Phase 3 High Performance Computing Facility to provide for future theoretical calculations in astronomy, astroparticle physics, nuclear and particle physics.

From 09:30 to 13:00 will be an open session and all are invited to attend.
The timetable is:

Broad Science Themes and Science deliverables:
0930-0945 Cosmology (Carlos Frenk)
0945-1000 Star and Planet Formation (Richard Nelson)
1000-1015 Solar System & Planetary Science (Tony Arber)
1015-1030 Lattice QCD flavour physics and spectroscopy (Christine Davies)
1030-1045 QCD under extreme conditions and Beyond the Standard Model (Simon Hands)
1045-1100 Q and A on Science
1100-1130 Coffee

Technical Solutions Required to Deliver Science
1130-1145 Extreme Scaling (Peter Boyle)
1145-1200 Memory Intensive (Adrian Jenkins)
1200-1215 Data Intensive (Mark Wilkinson)
1215-1230 Operational solution required to deliver science programme (Jeremy Yates)
1230-1245 Q and A on Technical Solutions
1245-1330 Lunch

If you intend to come, please register at https://eventbrite.com/event/17495411246/

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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT – Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop

Dear Colleagues.

We need that all the people interested in attending the workshop will let us know ASAP in order to arrange hotel discounts and local workshop facilities – please note the slight change in dates of the workshop to allow for easier travel on to the ISEST-2015 Workshop the following week.

Please can fill you complete the pre-registration form on the web pages before 31 July 2015 if you are intending on taking part in the workshop.

Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop, Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.

The workshop’s website is for pre-registration: http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/
We also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/remotesensingofinnerheliosphere

Thanks and best wishes,

Mario (On behalf of the SOC and the LOC).

 

“Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop”.

Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.

We announce the “Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop” to be hosted by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and held in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015. The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including white-light, EUV, and radio observation, together with modellers in order to tackle key outstanding science and space-weather operational issues, establish closer working relations, and devise the best ways to move the field forward as a whole. In addition, the science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-weather forecasting. The workshop aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and sub-communities and to officially launch the IPS Common Data Format v1.0 (IPSCDFv1.0) now in use. It also aims to allow investigations into ways in which we model the inner heliosphere looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the available modelling, updates on present and future remote-sensing capabilities, and investigating further the ways in which these data sets all complement each other and are necessary to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical processes that occur within the inner heliosphere. These are critical processes that are key to both Heliophysics science as well as to space-weather operations and forecasting.

***REVISED Key Dates:***
Pre-registration: Friday 31 July 2015
Early Registration (~US$100): Friday 28 August 2015
Abstract Deadline (Free): Friday 28 August 2015
Final Registration (~US$150): Friday 25 September 2015
Updated Workshop Dates: Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 October 2015

Venue
Unidad Michoacán, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

Core Organisers
J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza (SCIESMEX, UNAM, Mexico)
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Bernard V. Jackson (UCSD, USA)
David Webb (BC, USA)

Further information about registration, scientific program, financial support, etc., will be posted soon at the following site.
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Fall AGU – SH021: Space Weather Forecasting: Science and Operations

Dear All.

We ask for contributed abstracts to our SH (Solar and Heliosphere) space-weather science, forecasting, and operations session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015. Abstract submission deadline is 05 August 2015 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 06 August 2015 at 04:59UT.

Full session details are below. To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (before 24 July 2015). First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=7566

Invited abstracts to be announced in due course.

Best wishes,

Mario.

Session ID#: 7566

Session Description:

Human technologies/industries are becoming more reliant on regular, uninterrupted energy supplies. They are at high risk from extreme space weather. However, such technologies/industries are also susceptible to a lesser extent by ‘everyday’ space weather (SW) that occurs at Earth during moderate-to-intense geomagnetic storms (often caused by CMEs, but sometimes by solar-wind structure). Susceptibilities include power grids, airlines, communications, GNSS, etc.

The session intends to assess the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where improvements/additional services are necessary to advance our forecast/prediction of potential SW incoming to Earth.

This session solicits contributions of: ongoing developments of SW forecasting services/models; the provision of observational data/measurements from instruments/spacecraft; and pulling through of scientific models into operational use. Contributions emphasising science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES, DSCOVR, NOAA-2020, etc.) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also highly welcomed.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11, United Kingdom
Convener: David F Webb, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Cross-Listed:

NH – Natural Hazards
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7959 Models [SPACE WEATHER]

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Dynamic Sun: I. MHD Waves and Confined Transients in the Magnetised Atmosphere

Venue : Varanasi, India
Duration : Monday 22 – Friday 26 February 2016

The new series of conferences “Dynamic Sun”, and in particular the first one: “Dynamic Sun: MHD Waves and Confined Transients in the Magnetised Atmosphere” is organised by Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India in collaboration with The University of Sheffield, UK. The main aim of this meting is to discuss cutting edge developments in observations, instrumentation, numerical and analytical modelling of plasma wave processes in the solar atmosphere and corona. This meeting will be also useful for future scientific data interpretation from current (SOHO, Hinode, STEREO, IRIS, SST, ROSA) and forthcoming groundbreaking high-resolution instruments, e.g., the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST, USA), European Solar Telescope (EST, lead by Spain) and new Indian facilities (2m-NLST, Aditya-I). We warmly welcome to participate internationally recognized experts in the field of solar physics, early career researchers and PhD students. We anticipate that the proposed conference series will help to establish a long-term relationships between research groups.

Conference website: http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/India_2016/index.html

Registration and Deadlines:
Registration and accommodation deadline – 15 January 2016
Abstract submission deadline – 15 December 2015

http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/India_2016/reg_and_accom_main.html

Scientific Programme

[1] Solar Photosphere: Magnetism, dynamical phenomena, waves, and connection with sub-layers
[2] Chromospheric dynamics and heating processes
[3] MHD waves in partially ionized plasma, as well as prominence dynamics
[4] Waves and plasma flows at diverse spatial-scale
[5] MHD waves: Observations in various magnetic structures and seismology
[6] MHD waves: Analytical and numerical modelling
[7] Coupling of solar atmospheres at various scale-heights
[8] Solar eruptions, associated EUV waves, and CMEs
[9] Instrumentation and future aspects
[10] Spectroscopic techniques and coronal physics

Discussion session every day: one hour with various sub-groups

More info and updates may be found at:
http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/India_2016/index.html

Dr. A.K. Srivastava 
Dr. V. Fedun

For any query email to dynamicsun1.2016 at gmail.com

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Mysteries of the Sun’s magnetic field III: Understanding stellar activity

Date: 17th-18th June
Location: University of Warwick

For mankind, the Sun is the most important star in the universe. Despite being influential to life on Earth many mysteries concerning the Sun’s magnetic field remain unsolved. However, the Sun is just one star and magnetic field-associated variability is frequently observed on other stars. Many other stars have very similar properties to the Sun and we can use observations of these stars to make inferences about the Sun’s magnetic activity. For example, flares substantially larger than even the most energetic flare ever observed on our own Sun are regularly detected on other Sun-like stars, and are usually referred to as superflares. Studying stellar flares can not only tell us about the magnetic fields of stars themselves, but may also provide useful information on the physical processes responsible for flares and space weather on our own Sun. We can, therefore, ask what the chances of a superflare occurring on our own Sun are. However, in order to make inferences concerning the Sun’s magnetic field based on stellar variability the typicality of the Sun’s variability and magnetic field must be established. Studies of stellar flares can also impact predictions for the habitability of exoplanets: If flares on our relatively quiet Sun can disrupt life on Earth the same will be true for other planets. Of course, flares are not the only aspect of stellar activity that can be examined and studies of stellar variability in general allow constraints to be placed on models of both solar and stellar magnetic fields. This meeting will discuss aspects of stellar magnetic activity, both observational and theoretical, and will explore the solar-stellar connection.

Confirmed speakers: Simon Candelaresi (University of Dundee), Gavin Ramsay (Armagh Observatory), Victor See (University of St. Andrews).

If you would like to attend please register by sending an e-mail to Anne-Marie Broomhall (a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk) by Wednesday 3rd June. We would also encourage anyone who would like to give a talk at this workshop to submit a request to a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk by this date. The workshop will be relatively informal and so we particularly encourage students and early career researchers to consider submitting. Please contact Anne-Marie for more details.… continue to the full article

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Multi-wavelength Studies of the Solar Atmosphere: Celebrating the Career of Costas Alissandrakis, Ioannina, Greece, 21-24 September 2015

On the occasion of the forthcoming retirement of Prof. Costas Alissandrakis, an international solar physics conference entitled “Multi-wavelength Studies of the Solar Atmosphere: Celebrating the Career of Costas Alissandrakis” will be held in Ioannina, Greece, 21-24 September 2015.

The conference will focus on our understanding of the solar atmosphere through observations and modeling. Speakers will address the present state of knowledge of topics such as the quiet Sun, coronal/chromospheric heating, properties and measurements of solar magnetic fields, active regions, flares, coronal mass ejections, and shocks. Recent and forthcoming developments in instrumentation will also be discussed.

The conference will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations. More details including registration, abstract submission, travel, and accommodation can be found on the conference’s web site: http://solar15.uoi.gr
The deadline for registration and abstract submission is July 20, 2015. For questions, please contact Alexander Nindos or Spiros Patsourakos (SOC/LOC co-chairs) through the conference’s email, solar15.conf@gmail.com

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Solar-Tokamak 2 Workshop – Beyond single fluid.

This is to announce the Solar-tokamak 2 workshop meeting, which will have the theme of “beyond single-fluid”. Topics of interest are

  • Single-fluid plus kinetic effects
  • Plus radiation effects
  • Spectroscopic data
  • Two-fluid

The aim of the meeting is to promote links between UK universities and CCFE, the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The theme reflects the fact that tokamak edge plasmas will be the main physics focus of CCFE’s programme in the coming years. The morning session will include introductory material, and participants are also encouraged to submit abstracts of short talks relevant to the theme. The meeting will take place on 11th September 2015 at CCFE. No fee, local transport to/from the CCFE site will be arranged.

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