Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, 8th January 2016

Modern data-analysis in solar physics: Progress in the automated analysis of solar features and their dynamics

An RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, 8th January 2016
Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London, UK

In recent years a number of satellites and telescopes have become operational that provide near continuous, high-resolution and high-cadence observations of the Sun. This has resulted in a wealth of data that cannot be analysed by hand alone. To make full use of the information it is essential that automated techniques are developed to aid identification and tracking of the various phenomenon of interest. This meeting will bring together those interested in the use and development of automated routines for astrophysical data analysis, with focus on the analysis of dynamics in solar atmospheric datasets. It will enable a discussion on currently available techniques and routines and those under development. Additionally the meeting aims to highlight the future directions required to aid the analysis of large data sets.

If you would like to take part in the meeting, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/moderndataanalysis/home
and register for the meeting. The meeting is free for RAS Fellows and there is a small charge on the door for non-members.

Abstract submissions for both oral and poster contributions are also welcomed. The closing date is December 5th 2015.

We are pleased to announce that as part of our meeting, we will be joining the Royal Astronomical Society in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first women RAS Fellows. Prof. Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (University College London) will give a talk highlighting the contribution of women to solar physics. It is likely this talk will be closing the day and we welcome people to attend who could not make it to the earlier discussions.

Best wishes,

Richard Morton (Northumbria) & Erwin Verwichte (Warwick)

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Space Climate School and Space Climate 6 Symposium

from Timo Asikainen

******************* First Announcement *******************

Dear Colleagues and Friends!
We have the great pleasure to invite You to

Space Climate School
and
Space Climate 6 Symposium

to be held in Levi, Finnish Lapland.

The School will take place from 30 March to 3 April, 2016, and the Symposium in 4 – 7 April, 2016.

Space Climate is an active and topical field of research of space physics, which studies the long-term variations of solar activity and its effects in the heliosphere and near-Earth environment, including atmosphere and climate.  Space Climate 6 Symposium brings together leading experts on the field with the objective, e.g., to better understand sunspots and the other forms of solar activity (flares, coronal mass ejections, coronal holes, high-speed solar wind streams etc.) during the last few centuries. One important aspect is to better understand the various datasets used for space climate studies.

Space Climate School is concentrated on different long-term datasets available for space climate studies and their analysis using, e.g., pattern recognition, statistical and other methods relevant to large data bases. These topics are important for space climate research, which utilizes long, often inhomogeneous measurement series of, e.g., solar, solar wind, geomagnetic and climate observations. School lecturers are internationally recognized scientists with broad teaching experience. Space Climate School offers, to students and young scientists, a unique opportunity to learn important aspects of Space Climate science.

 

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Axel Brandenburg, Paul Charbonneau, Ed Cliver, Marius Echim, Katya Georgieva, Sarah Gibson, Nat Gopalswamy, Maarit Käpylä, Dan Marsh, Kalevi Mursula (chair), Dibyendu Nandi, Alexei Pevtsov, Alexis Rouillard, Alexander Ruzmaikin, Eija Tanskanen, Andrei Tlatov, Ilya Usoskin (vice-chair), Mirela Voiculescu, Bertalan Zieger

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Timo Asikainen (chair), Lauri Holappa, Jennimari Koskela, Kalevi Mursula, Timo Qvick, Ilya Usoskin,
Ilpo Virtanen (vice-chair), Iiro Virtanen, Pauli Väisänen, Liyun Zhang.

Further details on abstract submission, registration, and accommodation will be available soon at the meeting website
www.spaceclimate.fi/

For questions, contact: spaceclimate@spaceclimate.fi

Welcome to Space Climate School and Space Climate Symposium in Levi!

Sincerely Yours,

Kalevi Mursula (SOC chair) Timo Asikainen (LOC chair)
Ilya Usoskin (SOC vice-chair) Ilpo Virtanen (LOC vice-chair)

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Science for Space Weather — 2016 ILWS Workshop, January 23 – 29, 2016 in Goa, India

Understanding and being able to forecast space weather is an increasingly important aspect of our modern technology-reliant society. This workshop will treat all aspects of space weather, ranging from solar origins of transient events (CMEs, Flares, CIRs) to their propagation through the heliosphere and effects on Earth and planetary bodies, from particle energization to forecasting particle environment and its effects on technological and biological systems, as well as solar-cycle effects and coupling of space weather to atmospheric response. Metrics to assess predictions will also be discussed. The workshop is structured along the lines of the COSPAR space weather pathways and will include invited, contributed talks and posters, as well as panel discussions and tutorials.

This workshop is being jointly organized by the International Living with a Star (ILWS) Program, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), the SCOSTEP-VarSITI Program and hosted by the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI). The workshop will be held in the seaside town of Goa situated on the western coast of India.

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International Chapman Conference on Currents in Geospace and Beyond

Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 22 ­ 27, 2016

Abstract submission opens: 16 November 2015
Abstract submission closes: 18 January 2016

Conference website: chapman.agu.org/spacecurrents/

 

Electric currents are fundamental to the structure and dynamics of space plasmas. In the last decade, significant advances have been made in our understanding of fundamental processes related to such currents. To build up a comprehensive picture, this international Chapman Conference will address electric currents in various space plasmas, including:

* Earth’s magnetosphere & ionosphere

* Planetary magnetospheres & ionospheres (other than Earth)

* Solar atmosphere and solar wind

The conference will provide a forum in which different space science communities can come together to discuss recent achievements of observational, theoretical, and modelling studies. The emphasis will be on cross-disciplinary science sessions, covering topics such as:

* Current sheets (e.g., coronal current sheets, heliospheric current sheet, magnetotail current sheets).

* Ring currents (e.g., at Earth and at the giant planets, influence of planet-­moon interaction, etc.).

* Field-aligned currents (incl. corona-photosphere coupling, M-I coupling at Earth and other planets).

* Small-scale / filamentary currents (e.g., on auroral field lines, in turbulent regions, etc.).

* Energetics of currents (incl. current-driven models, magnetic energy release).

* Current measurement and data analysis techniques.

* Current modeling and simulation techniques.

 

The science program committee includes: Andreas Keiling (UC Berkeley, USA), Octav Marghitu (Institute for Space Sciences, Romania), Michael Wheatland (University of Sydney, Australia), Chris Arridge (Lancaster University, UK), Fran Bagenal (University of Colorado, USA), Brigitte Schmieder (Observatoire de Paris/Meudon, France), Iannis Dandouras (IRAP, France), Eduard Dubinin (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany), Malcolm Dunlop (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), Catherine Johnson (University of British Columbia, Canada), Kanya Kusano (STELab, Nagoya University, Japan), Michael Liemohn (University of Michigan, USA), Hermann Lühr (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany), Igor Veselovsky (Moscow State University, Russia), Masatoshi Yamauchi (Swedish Institute of Space Physics/Kiruna, Sweden), Akimasa Yoshikawa (Kyushu University, Japan).… continue to the full article

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Call for Letters of Intent, IAU Symposia 2017 (deadline 15th September 2015)

Thinking of proposing an IAU Symposium? This a two-step process, the first step being the submission of a letter of intent. The deadline for submitting letters of intent for IAU Symposia to be held in 2017 is September 15th 2015.

Please see the link below for the submission form
http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/proposals/loi/

and more generally about IAU symposia
http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/proposals/lop/

The second link will show you the level of detail and information required, so that you can get a head start!

Best wishes
Lyndsay Fletcher
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