Session: Solar flares: recent advances on observations and modelling

We have just had a solar maximum and recent solar missions (e.g. SDO, Hinode, IRIS) have provided a wealth of observations of flares of all classes.
In this session we aim to review what we have learned about flares
and discuss the latest results, in particular from the spectroscopic instruments
and their measurements of plasma flows, a fundamental aspect in flare evolution.
However, we welcome contributions on all observational and theoretical aspects of solar flares.

To submit an abstract (no registration required for the submission),
go to https://nam2016.org

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Abstract Submission deadline approaching: 15 March 2015

Important meeting deadlines: http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2016/dates.jsp

This year’s European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) will take place in Athens, Greece, during 4 – 8 July, 2016. For more information on the meeting as a whole, please visit http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2016/

We are pleased to announce the meeting’s Symposium S17, entitled

  Magnetic Helicity in Sun and Stars: From Dynamo Action to Eruptive Phenomena

The Symposium’s description can be found at http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2016/session.jsp?id=S17

This Symposium will recap studies that have shaped and continue to shape the intricate topic of magnetic helicity, affording the well-acquainted or simply interested audience a succinct, top-level view of our understanding of the topic. Future prospects enabled by contemporary understanding will also be discussed. The Symposium will promote a balance between observational effects of helical manifestations and theory, emphasizing studies that embolden this connection. To remain attractive to both solar / space physicists and astrophysicists, it will also investigate the solar-stellar connection of helical manifestations in the universe.

Please consider submitting an abstract to the Symposium. We solicit both oral and poster presentations. Please notice, however, that due to the lack of poster space the European Astronomical Society and the meeting’s Scientific Organizing Committee have decided that posters will be all-electronic and will be distributed to all participants. In addition, each presenting author will be allotted a few (up to 5) minutes to present his/her poster during the Symposium.

The Symposium’s confirmed invited speakers currently include M. Berger (University of Exeter, UK), M. Cheung (LMSAL, USA), K. Kusano (University of Nagoya, JP), Gherardo Valori (UCL, UK), and H. Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHN)

The Symposium’s SOC: Manolis K. Georgoulis, Alexander Nindos, Dibyendu Nandi

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from W. Dean Pesnell

October 17 – 21 2016 | Burlington, Vermont

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. All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Invited speakers will introduce eight broad areas of solar research:

• Motions Inside the Sun
• The Evolution of Active Regions
• Studies of Solar Eruptive Events (SEEs)
• Motions Near and Above the Solar Surface
• Atmospheric Dynamics and Sources of the Solar Wind
• Solar Magnetic Variability and the Solar Cycle
• The Sun as a Star
• Space Weather at the Earth and other Planets

Abstracts are solicited for presentations describing research in those areas.

Important dates:

The abstract and registration websites at SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org will open March 1, 2016.
Abstract submission closes July 15, 2016 (all late submissions will be assigned to poster sessions.)
Early registration and hotel reservation deadline is September 16, 2016.

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
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Dear Colleagues,

as you are probably already aware, this year the European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS), organised by the European Astronomical Society (EAS), will be held in Athens, Greece, from July 4 to 8, 2016. The website of this major annual event in European astronomy is:

http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2016

We would like to remind you that the deadline to take advantage of the very early registration fee is February 15, 2016.

We encourage you to forward this message to all interested colleagues who would be interested to register for the conference onetime via the dedicated link:

http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2016/registration.jsp

Full information on the scientific and social programme, as well as on all aspects of the logistics of the conference, is available on the EWASS 2016 website, which is updated continuously.

We would be pleased to help you should you experience any difficulties in the registration process and we are looking forward to welcoming you to Athens in a few months.

With best regards,

Your EWASS 2016 Congress Secretariat
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This workshop, “The Sun’s Chromosphere in the Era of ALMA, IRIS, and DKIST,”
will take place March 15-18 in Boulder, CO (USA). See

http://www.nso.edu/workshops/SunAID

and its links for full details. The workshop aims at exploiting new data and
simulations from existing facilities in anticipation of the revolutionary
capabilities of ALMA and DKIST. The program is complete and includes
practical demonstrations as well as planning aids for the first ALMA
solicitation for solar proposals. Some additional registrations (and poster
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Dear colleagues

registration is now open for the DKIST community meeting, to be held at the RAS in London on 7th April 2016.

There will be a series of invited talks about the telescope and its science, a tutorial about how to start turning your science ideas into observing plans, and a series of contributed 15 minute talks about science ideas for DKIST observations. There will also be space for posters.

Please see the website here:

https://sites.google.com/site/dkistcommunityworkshop1/

You can register your intention to attend, and submit your talk or poster abstract here:

https://sites.google.com/site/dkistcommunityworkshop1/registration

Deadline for abstract submission is 11th March 2016, and registration deadline is 21 March 2016.

We hope for a lively discussion about the UK’s DKIST science!

Lyndsay Fletcher (meeting organiser)
Mihalis Mathioudakis
Erwin Verwichte
Valentin Martinez Pillet (NSO)

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Dear Colleagues.

We would like to invite you to submit a contributed abstract for our exciting upcoming AOGS 2016 session in Beijing, China, 31 July 2016 to 05 August 2016 – ST19: “Radio Heliophysics and Space Weather”.

The full session description is given below and the Conference WebPages can be found here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/.

The full abstract-submission details are given here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm ; but please note that the AOGS Conference Fee only covers two abstracts – any more would require additional fees. The abstract-submission deadline is 19 February 2016.

Please submit early so as not to have any last-minute submission problems…

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Many thanks and best wishes,

Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space) – AOGS ST-H Secretary, and
T. Oyuki Chang M. (UNAM Morelia);
Convenors for ST19.

ST19: “Radio Heliophysics and Space Weather”

Various industries and aspects of human society have become highly reliant on modern technologies and regular, uninterrupted energy supplies, many of which are at risk from extreme space weather. Such industries and our technologies can also be impacted to a lesser degree by the ‘everyday’ space weather that often occurs at the Earth during moderate-to-intense geomagnetic storms. Such industries include the power grids, airlines, telecommunications, GNSS, etc…

Radio heliophysics in all aspects of space weather is being enhanced in no small part by the use of new-generation radio-telescope arrays such as the Long-Wavelength Array (LWA) in the USA, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in western Australia, and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) in northern and western Europe. In addition, various new techniques and model developments are, and have, enabled the use of radio systems to greater effect for space-weather purposes. For example: solar radio bursts can now be studied in far-greater detail; interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations (via tomographic reconstructions) are being used to drive 3-D MHD models; tests of heliospheric Faraday rotation are being undertaken in the hope of being able to measure and predict Bz through the inner heliosphere; and new methods and advances are being made in ionospheric riometry and scintillation studies such as being able to obtain estimates of the height of the scattering screen in the ionosphere.

This session solicits contributions based around the ongoing development of space-weather forecasting services using radio techniques, new scientific methodologies that could be employed for space-weather purposes, novel results which could not be obtained before the advent of such radio systems, and plans for new observations (such as on the Square Kilometre Array – SKA) and new designs or concepts for future radio instruments.… continue to the full article

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Dear Colleagues.

We would like to invite you to submit a contributed abstract for our exciting upcoming AOGS 2016 session in Beijing, China, 31 July 2016 to 05 August 2016 – ST20: “Sun and Heliosphere General Session Including Solar Diagnostic Techniques and Variability, and Helioseismology”.

The full session description is given below and the Conference WebPages can be found here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/.

The full abstract-submission details are given here: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm ; but please note that the AOGS Conference Fee only covers two abstracts – any more would require additional fees. The abstract-submission deadline is 19 February 2016.

Please submit early so as not to have any last-minute submission problems…

Apologies if you receive multiple instances of this advertisement.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space) – AOGS ST-H Secretary, and
Alessandra Giunta (STFC RAL Space);
Convenors for ST20.

ST20: “Sun and Heliosphere General Session Including Solar Diagnostic Techniques and Variability, and Helioseismology”

This is the general session of talks within the ST Section covering topics on the Sun and/or Heliosphere that are not suited to any of the other sessions available. In addition, talks based on or around solar diagnostic techniques, the related atomic physics and spectroscopy, space climate, solar variability, or Helioseismology are also welcomed into this session including abstracts related to all aspects of solar irradiance as well as studies on climate change (local and/or global) that can be attributed to, at least in part, solar variability. The Sun varies in brightness over differing time scales. There is evidence that some climate change on Earth can be attributed to solar variability. Variations in solar radiation output beyond that of the solar cycle are typically not well known.… continue to the full article

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