from Dean Pesnell

Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity,” to be held October 17 – 21, 2016, at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in Burlington, VT. The workshop will celebrate the breadth of research topics enabled by SDO during its Prime Mission and the First Extended Mission.

The workshop’s theme is “Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity”

SDO research connects to many areas of solar physics and many other solar missions. Tracing these connections allows us to build a more accurate understanding of the Sun and solar activity. The workshop will focus on our improved knowledge and understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field that have come from the SDO data, and what will come in the future. Scientific sessions will feature a broad spectrum of science topics fundamental to SDO’s science investigations: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), EUV Variability Experiment (EVE), and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), as well as the overlap between SDO and other scientific missions and activities.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend. Registration and abstract information will be posted at sdo2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org The Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center can be explored at sheratonburlington.com

We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016
Charles Baldner
Mark Cheung
Frank Eparvier
Meng Jin
Aimee Norton
W. Dean Pesnell (chair)
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from Hui Tian

First Announcement

Dates: April 11 – 15, 2016

Venue: Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, Shandong, China

Hosts: Shandong University and Peking University

Scientific Rationale:

The rationale is to reach out to the solar physics community in Asia, where there has been ever growing interest and use of data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) mission. The workshop is designed for researchers and students in this region. The program will be similar to that of the IRIS-5 workshop in India and will consist of mainly tutorials on UV spectroscopy, IRIS data analysis, radiative transfer, and IRIS-related quiet Sun and flare simulations. There will be lectures as well as hands-on sessions. A secondary goal of the workshop is to facilitate future IRIS-coordination and synergy with ground-based instruments (such as NST, NVST and ONSET) built/operated by solar physicists in this region.

SOC:
Hui Tian (Peking University, China; Chair)
Bart De Pontieu (LMSAL, USA)
Jongchul Chae (Seoul National University, Korea)
Haisheng Ji (Purple Mountain Observatory, China)
Wei Liu (LMSAL, USA)
Lidong Xia (Shandong University, China)

LOC:
Hongqiang Song (Shandong University; Chair)
Meng Du, Hui Yu, Qiping Hu, Hui Fu, Zhao Wu (Shandong University)
Limei Yan, Jiansen He, Hui Tian (Peking University)

Confirmed Tutors/Speakers (more to be added):
Tiago Pereira (University of Oslo, Norway): Tutorial on IRIS data analysis
Mats Carlsson (University of Oslo, Norway): Tutorial on Radiative transfer
Bart De Pontieu (LMSAL, USA): Tutorial on coordination between IRIS and other instruments
Hui Tian (Peking University, China): Tutorial on UV Spectroscopy

Haisheng Ji (Purple Mountain Observatory, China): NST coordination with IRIS
Jongchul Chae (Seoul National University, Korea): NST/FISS coordination with IRIS
Zhi Xu (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, China): NVST coordination with IRIS
Yu Dai (Nanjing University, China): ONSET coordination with IRIS

Tentative schedule:
Days 1 – 3: Tutorials on UV spectroscopy, IRIS data analysis, radiative transfer, Bifrost simulation, and flare simulation with RADYN
Day 4: IRIS-related science talks; Posters will be on for the whole week.
Day 5: Tutorials on coordination between IRIS and NST, NVST, ONSET and possibly Hinode, including description of these instruments and tutorial on writing observing proposals.

Website:
in-progress

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Jorrit Leenaarts

The sixth IRIS workshop titled “IRIS-6: the chromosphere” will be held from Monday June 20 to Thursday June 23, 2016 and is organized by the Institute of Solar Physics in Stockholm, Sweden.

The workshop aims to bring together scientists interested in the solar chromosphere and its connections to the photosphere, transition region and corona.

Registration and abstract submission will start early January 2016 at www.isf.astro.su.se/iris-6/

Invited speakers: Patrick Antolin, Mats Carlsson, Manolo Collados, Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez, Ryoko Ishikawa, Lucia Kleint, David Orozco Suárez, Hardi Peter, Bart de Pontieu, Tom Schad, Göran Scharmer, Gary Verth, Alfred de Wijn.

SOC: Gianna Cauzzi, Bernhard Fleck, David Jess, Elena Khomenko, Andreas Lagg, Jorrit Leenaarts, Joten Okamoto, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Paola Testa,… continue to the full article

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Saturday, November 21, 2015
10.30 am – 5.00 pm
St Cross College, University of Oxford

The Sun, our closest star, has been a source of fascination and awe since the very earliest civilisations and was worshipped by many ancient peoples who built monuments to mark the position of the Sun during the year. It was long believed that the Sun orbited the Earth until Copernicus and then Galileo proposed a heliocentric Solar System. By the nineteenth century solar astronomy was gaining momentum with observations of sunspots and measurements of absorption lines in the spectrum of light from the Sun and in the 1930s the Sun’s mechanism for the production of energy was determined to be nuclear fusion. Since the 1970s there have been a series of increasingly sophisticated satellite missions which have discovered many more intriguing features of the Sun and significantly progressed our knowledge of our closest star, however, a number of mysteries remain including the coronal heating problem. This conference seeks to review the history of the Sun and engage with the latest solar research on the outstanding questions.

Registration to attend this conference is free, but must be confirmed using the Conference booking form at the website by Monday 16th November.

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When: 4th November 2015, 10:30 – 18:00
Where: The Place, Dulcie Street, Manchester, M1 2TP

Registration is free and will be used for catering numbers:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-ska-science-meeting-tickets-17477042304

***PLEASE REGISTER IF PLANNING TO ATTEND***

Abstract deadline: 23 October 2015 (see below)

This one-day meeting will provide a forum for the UK Science Community to come together and discuss their ambitions for science with the SKA and its pathfinders. It follows the first SKA Key Science Workshop in Stockholm and will provide an opportunity to disseminate the outcomes from that workshop within the UK community as well as widen the understanding of SKA capabilities within the UK community and help interested people to get involved.

We would like to invite talks on science that is currently being done or planned with the SKA pathfinders and precursors. We particularly welcome talks on science with ASKAP, MeerKAT/KAT-7, as well as LOFAR, MWA and others. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday October 23. Please send all abstracts to ska-science-abstracts@manchester.ac.uk
The UK SKA science meeting will be held at The Place, Manchester, 2 mins walk from Piccadilly train station. Lunch and refreshments will be provided during the meeting at no charge and the scientific presentations will be followed by a drinks reception to continue discussions in a more informal setting.

For those who wish to stay a little longer discounted rooms are available at The Place for meeting participants, with shared two bedroom apartments available for those wishing to minimise costs. Arrangements to visit the SKA Offices at Jodrell Bank can be made for anyone who wishes to do so on the adjacent days.

We would like to thank our sponsors CISCO systems and STFC for supporting the UK science community.
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

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 organized by Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India in collaboration with The University of Sheffield, UK.

The main aim of this meeting 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 (MAST, upcoming 2m-NLST, Aditya-I).

We warmly welcome the participation of 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

22 February 2016

[1] Magnetized Solar Photosphere : Dynamical phenomena, waves, and coupling with sub-layers
[2] Chromospheric dynamics and heating processes

23 February 2016

[3] MHD waves: Observations in various magnetic structures and seismology

24 February 2016

[4] MHD waves: Realistic modeling through various layers of the solar atmosphere

25 February 2016

[5] Waves, confined ejecta, and plasma flows at diverse spatio-temporal scales
[6] Instruments and their novel science aspects

26 February 2016

[7] Special Session on “Spectroscopy of Sun’s Atmosphere”, and Concluding Ceremony

Day and Evening Excursion to Varanasi and nearby places

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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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to announce the third International Symposium on Recent Observations and Simulations of the Sun-Earth System (ISROSES III), which will be held during September 11-16, 2016, at the beautiful Golden Sands resort, Hotel International (http://www.hotelcasinointernational.com/en/meetings-conferences), situated at the Black Sea near the city of Varna, Bulgaria.

It is a continuation of the highly successful ISROSES symposia held in Varna, Bulgaria, during September 2006 and in Borovets, Bulgaria, during September 2011. The main objective of this symposium is to bring together scientists from the heliophysics communities worldwide to present and discuss recent advances in modeling and observations of the Sun-Earth System. A strong emphasis will be put on solar magnetosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere interactions and understanding the coupled geospace system.

The Science Organizing Committee includes:
Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Michael Denton, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
Katya Georgieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Jerry Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
Richard Horne, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Benoit Lavraud, IRAP/CNRS/Université de Toulouse, France
Yoshizumi Miyoshi, STEL, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
David Sibeck, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

We cordially invite you to participate in this meeting and hope that you
will share this first announcement with colleagues worldwide. Further
information about this meeting can be found at: http://www.isroses.lanl.gov/

If you wish to be added to our mailing list please send your name and e-mail
address to (isroses at lanl.gov)

The conveners:
Vania Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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