Category: Conferences

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Conference on Partially Ionised plasmas in astrophsyics—Second Announcement

Second Announcement for the meeting on Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics
Tenerife, Spain
Monday 29th August – Friday 02 September

Important deadlines (Registration and abstract submission is now open)

Registration and Abstract submission deadline – 28 JUNE 2016
Hotel reservation deadline – 28 JULY 2016

The meeting will cover various aspects of partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics, such as solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc. The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionised plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interest that could enhance cross-collaborations between the different fields.

The meeting will focus on the following topics:

– Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
– Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations
– Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
– Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas

Web page: http://www.iac.es/congreso/pipa2016/

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Grants to attend IAU Symposium 327

We are pleased to announce that the application deadline for the IAU Travel Grants and Thomas Metcalf Travel Awards to the participation of a limited number of students and early career scientist in the next IAU Symposium 327 on Fine Scale and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere to be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (October 9-14, 2016), has been extended to 13th June.

This is a great opportunity to take part in the IAUS327. Applicants are requested to submit an oral contribution.

Further information about the IAUS327 can be found at:
http://iaus327.unal.edu.co

For more details on the application process please visit:
http://iaus327.unal.edu.co/grants

or contact: Santiago Vargas Domínguez (svargasd@unal.edu.co)

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SDO 2016 — Burlington, VT, Oct. 17-21 — Abstracts, Registration, Funding

SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Oct. 17-21, 2016 * Burlington, VT

Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity,” October 17-21, 2016, at the Sheraton Conference Center in Burlington, VT. All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend. To submit your abstract, reserve your hotel room, register, apply for a Metcalf Travel Award, or review the science program details, please visit our website: http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org.

Important Due Dates:
Abstracts: July 15
Metcalf Travel Award Applications: June 15
Early Registration & Hotel Reservation: September 16

Abstracts are solicited for presentations describing solar research in the following eight broad areas: 1) Motions Inside the Sun, 2) The Evolution of Active Regions, 3) Studies of Solar Eruptive Events (SEEs), 4) Motions Near and Above the Solar Surface, 5) Atmospheric Dynamics and Sources of the Solar Wind, 6) Solar Magnetic Variability and the Solar Cycle, 7) The Sun as a Star, and 8) Space Weather at the Earth and other Planets.

With a great science program and Vermont’s beautiful fall foliage in mid-October, we hope you make plans to join us. Submit your abstract today!

Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson

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SHINE session on The Magnetic Nature of Solar Filaments

I would like to invite you to our session on magnetic fields in solar filaments at this years’ SHINE meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 11-15 2016.
http://shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php

We will discuss modern and future instrumentation and modeling of filaments, and their role in CME propagation and CME geoeffectiveness.
SHINE presents an opportunity for an open and frank discussion on important research topics. As such we do not have formal presentations. But if you would like to showcase how your research addresses this topic, send me an email with the details. We hope you can come along and provide input to this discussion on the magnetic nature of solar filaments, and play a role in all the SHINE sessions in Santa Fe.

The SHINE session will discuss the magnetic nature of solar filaments, focusing on two overarching science questions.

What is the magnetic field configuration of unstable solar filaments?

How does the magnetic field in erupting filaments manifest in disturbances at 1AU?

Given the impact of filament eruptions throughout the heliosphere, the objective of this session is to clarify where our understanding of filament magnetic structure and most importantly its destabilization, lies. We seek to engage experts in spectropolarimetry instrumentation, flux rope modeling, CME propagation observations, and Space Weather predictions in a discussion on solar filament magnetic fields. We seek to determine the future requirements in instrumentation and modeling that are necessary to replace ad-hoc (often missing) input of filament magnetic fields with near-realtime data. The interaction of the filament magnetic field (and that of the magnetic cloud) with the background solar wind plays a key role in predicting Bz at 1AU.

Solar filaments remain an enigma in the three important interconnected aspects of formation, structure, and stability. They form suddenly and quite spontaneously, sometimes in regions of preexisting magnetic flux and sometimes in regions of quiet Sun, but always over magnetic neutral lines. As they are cold dense chromospheric plasma surrounded by the hot, low density corona, their structure should both thermalize and collapse soon after formation. However they can be stable for several complete solar rotations. Conditions postulated to explain this stability, must simultaneously allow for the sudden and rapid removal of this stability as a large scale energy release in the form of a coronal mass ejection.

It is clear that magnetism plays a fundamental role in all three stages: it is the nature of magnetism to form linear, sheared structures that allows for their formation; the lack of cross- field drift in the structure shields the filament plasma from the rest of the corona; magnetism can suddenly rearrange its structure with a sudden loss of stability. However this magnetic field is currently only included as an ad-hoc input in our models (and is often ignored altogether). In this session we will address the key elements of what data we can currently input into models, how this could be implemented, and what future data may become available soon .

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First Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion

As part of the CC1 activities and in particular of the objectives of the WG3: Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion, we have the pleasure to announce the first workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion. This is an interdisciplinary meeting with participation from astronomers, educators and disability specialists.

This workshop provides an opportunity to develop new strategies, work toward specific objectives, share experiences, discuss recent applications, and participate in workshops that were developed for audiences with disabilities.

The workshop will be developed as part of the LARIM 2016, on October 8th, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and with the support from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cartagena, Parque Explora y Planetario de Medellín, Idartes – Planetario de Bogotá.

We have also the pleasure to have as chair of the SOC, the help of Wanda Diaz-Merced, a blind astronomer, associated member of the Division C.

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Thomas Metcalf Travel Award for IAU Symposium 327

We are pleased to announce the reception of applications for the Thomas Metcalf Travel Award to support the participation of two early­ career scientists in the next IAU Symposium 327 “Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere” to be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, October 9-14, 2015.

Further information about the IAUS327 can be found at
http://iaus327.unal.edu.co

To be eligible, applicants must be members of the Solar Physics Division (http://spd.aas.org), and have been awarded their PhD within 4 years of the meeting date or be a student within one year of completing their degree.

The criteria for selection will be scientific excellence, potential for future contribution to the field of solar physics, and relevance of the applicants work to the symposium topic.

We can support funding for two Metcalf Lecturers ($1750 grant for travel and expenses). Furthermore, registration fee will be waived. The successful candidates will give invited talks as Metcalf Lecturers.

After the meeting, the granted participants must provide the SPD Metcalf committee with a one-page summary of their work appropriate for public distribution on the Metcalf Award web site (http://spd.aas.org/spd_metcalf_travel.html).

Please send applications, i.e. a cover letter, title and abstract for an oral contribution, a short CV, and name and email address of one reference whom we may contact. Please send the application to svargasd@unal.edu.co, no later than June 10, 2016.

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Second Announcement: IAU Symposium 327, October 9-14,2016, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee, we invite you to Register for the
International Astronomical Union Symposium 327 (IAUS327) on “Fine Scale and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere”, which will be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, October 9-14, 2016.

The scientific goal of this symposium is to discuss recent results on the processes shaping the structure of the solar atmosphere and driving plasma eruptions and explosive events.

The website for registration, abstract submission, hotel and further program details is: http://iaus327.unal.edu.co

For questions, contact: Santiago Vargas Domínguez svargasd@unal.edu.co

We are looking forward to seeing you in Cartagena de Indias !

Agenda:
Session 1: Key fundamental questions and challenges
Session 2: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – I
Session 3: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – II
Session 4: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – I
Session 5: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – II
Session 6: Multi-scale magnetic reconnection: observations and theories
Session 7: Wave phenomena and atmospheric dynamics
Session 8: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – I
Session 9: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – II
Session 10: Magnetic structure and dynamics of coronal holes and solar wind
Session 11: Energy release and explosive events at the finest spatial and temporal scales
Session 12: Role of small-scale structures in the chromosphere-corona heating
Session 13: Fine-structure of solar flares
Session 14: Solar-stellar connections
Session 15: Future directions
Session 16: High energies – fine structure (Radio, X and gamma rays)

Confirmed Speakers:
S. Solanki, A. Asensio, M. Carlsson, J. Martínez-Sykora, J. Qiu, K. Kusano, K. Shibata, T. Pereira, A. Winebarger, F. Rubio da Costa, C. Xia, T. Van Doorsselaere, S. Bale, L. Glesener

Important Dates:
Early Registration Deadline: June 20, 2016
Abstract Deadline: July 20, 2015
Early Registration (before June 20) Fee: Students 200 USD / Others 280 USD

Chair of Scientific Organising Committee:
Santiago Vargas Domínguez (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Alexander Kosovichev (NJIT, USA), Juan Carlos Martínez Oliver’s (SSL, UC Berkeley, USA)., Patrick Antolin (NAOJ, Japan & University of St Andrews UK), Louise Harra (MSSL, UK), Cristina Mandrini (CONICET, Argentina).

International Scientific Organising Committee:
Laura Balmaceda (Argentina), Luis Ramon Bellot Rubio (Spain) , Michele Bianda (Switzerland), Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas (USA), Mark Cheung (USA) Ineke De Moortel (UK), Sirajul Hasan (India), Ryoko Ishikawa (Japan), Lucia Kleint (Switzerland), Valentin Martínez Pillet (USA) Rob Rutten (Netherlands), Natalia Schukina (Ukraine), Brigitte Schmieder (France), Oskar Steiner (Germany), Mike Wheatland (Australia), Jingxiu Wang (China).

Local Organising Committee:
Benjamín Calvo Mozo (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Jose Gregorio Portilla Barbosa (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Juan Manuel Tejeiro Sarmiento (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Cristian Goez Therán (Universidad Libre, Universidad Antonio Nariño), Javier Montoya (Universidad de Cartagena), Jaime Bernal (Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar), Andrés Torres (Instituto Tecnológico de Medellín) José Iván Campos Rozo (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia).

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