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Second Announcement – IAU Symposium 335: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts

Registration is now open for IAUS335, Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts. The symposium will be held at the University of Exeter, UK, from 17 – 21 July 2017.

Space weather is increasingly recognised as an international challenge faced by several communities. The ability to understand, monitor and forecast the space weather of the Earth and the heliosphere is of paramount importance for our high-technology society and for the current rapid developments in knowledge and exploration within our Solar System.

We invite you to register today to discuss this important area of research and to:

*Contribute to scientific sessions and one of two round tables.
*Take part in a poster competition for young scientists as an applicant or as a judge.
*Attend a half-day excursion to the Norman Lockyer Observatory.
*Take part in optional scientific tours, including the UK Met Office.
*Join in with our parallel Education Program, featuring public talks and workshops for schools and teachers.
*Contribute to and receive dedicated Conference Proceedings afterwards.

This is a two-stage registration process. The deadline for the submission of abstracts and for financial support is 27 February 2017. The deadline for early registration is 20 April 2017.

Specific details including the confirmed lists of invited speakers, registration and accommodation, abstract submission, financial support, updated information about location, scientific excursions, social events, and travel can be found on the symposium website.

We look forward to welcoming you in Exeter this year!

On behalf of the IAU Symposium 335 Organising Committees,

The Scientific Organising Committee:
Claire Foullon (Chair), Olga Malandraki (Co-chair), Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Francesco Berrilli, Anil Bhardwaj, Allan Sacha Brun, Norma Bock Crosby, Sergio Dasso, Alina Donea, Hans Haubold, Hermann Opgenoorth, Patricia Reiff, Kazuo Shiokawa, Ilya Usoskin, Jingxiu Wang, David Webb

The Local Organising Committee:
Claire Foullon (Chair), Mitchell Berger (Co-chair), David Jackson (Co-chair), Mark Baldwin, Alice Mills, David Strange

Contact us:
Email: iaus@exeter.ac.uk,
Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335
Twitter: #iaus335 @iaus335

This event is kindly supported by:
Lead sponsor: International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Co-sponsors: RAS, VarSITI, STFC Astronomy, EGU, COSPAR, IAGA, CUP, IoP Plasma Physics, DK Books, AFOSR (tbc).
Further sponsorship opportunities are available.

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2017 UKMHD – Durham University – Registration Open

Durham University will host the 2017 UKMHD meeting on 20-21 April 2017.

Registration is currently open, with an abstract submission deadline of 31 March 2017 and a registration deadline of 10 April 2017. A limited number of accommodation/registration waivers are available for applications from early career scientists, on a first-come-first-served basis.

For further details and registration:
http://bit.ly/ukmhd2017

On behalf of the local organizing committee, we look forward to welcoming you all to Durham.

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ESPM-15, First Announcement

This is the first detailed announcement for the 15th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-15) that will take place in Budapest (Hungary) in the period 04-08 September, 2017. The meeting will be hosted by Eotvos University, which is centrally located in Budapest.

ESPMs are organized by the Board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD, http://solar.epsdivision.org), a joint Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) and the European Astronomical Society (EAS).

ESPMs are held every 3 years with the purpose of bringing together researchers from Europe and beyond, who are active in the theoretical and observational study of solar phenomena.

The scientific programme of ESPM15 include the following sessions:

– Session 1. Solar Interior, Dynamo, Large-Scale Flows and the Solar Cycle
– Session 2. The Solar Atmosphere: Heating, Dynamics and Coupling
– Session 3. Fundamental Plasma Processes in the Solar Atmosphere: Magnetic Reconnection, Waves, Emission, Particle Acceleration
– Session 4. From Radio to Gamma Rays: Near-Sun Manifestations and Triggering of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
– Session 5. Solar-Terrestrial Relations, Solar Wind, Space Weather and Space Climate

Online registration and abstract submission will open in early spring. The ESPM-15 Local and Scientific Organizing Committees are currently working to secure funding that will hopefully provide limited travel and/or local support mainly to young researchers.

Further details related to registration fees, abstract submission, accommodation, financial assistance and relevant deadlines will be circulated in a second announcement and will also be available on the meeting’s website.

The ESPM-15 meeting website can be found at http://astro.elte.hu/espm15

We look forward to welcoming you to Budapest.

Best regards,

Istvan Ballai

on behalf of ESPM-15 Scientific and Local Organizing Committees

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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting Schedule: “Understanding the space environment before the space age”

Dear all,

Please see the attached schedule for our RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on “Understanding the space environment before the space age”.

The meeting will take place on 10th of February 2017, at Burlington House, London.

Here is a link to a webpage with the meeting details and schedule, including the talk abstracts: http://lbarnard.com/ras_sdm.html

Schedule:
10:00 – Arrival and Coffee
10:25 – Welcome and Introduction
10:30 – Mike Hapgood: Building space weather risk scenarios – the importance of proxy and legacy data.
10:57 – Geraint Jones: Comets as Tracers of Solar Wind Activity before the Space Age.
11:19 – Julia Wilkinson: Going with the Floe – the aurora observations of the ill-fated 19th century Arctic explorer USS Jeannette.
11:41 – Comfort break
11:46 – Ilya Usoskin: How crazy can the Sun drive on a multi-millennial time scale: Secular variability and extreme events?
12:13 – Ben Pope: Extreme Solar Events in the Radiocarbon Record.
12:35 – Indrani Roy: Comparing the influence of sunspot activity and geomagnetic activity on winter surface climate.
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Ellen Clarke: The Role of Historical British Geomagnetic Measurements in Quantifying Space Weather and its Impact.
14:27 – David Willis: Historical Observations of Sunspots and Aurorae.
14:51 – Mike Lockwood: Reconstruction of space climate conditions in the past.
15:13 – Discussion
15:30 – Close

Also, please note that shortly after this meeting Ian McCrea will give the EISCAT group achievement award presentation, as part of the RAS Ordinary Meeting at 16:00.

Best wishes,
Luke Barnard

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Call for abstracts: JpGU/AGU session P-EM18: Origin of Earth-affecting CMEs

Abstract submission is open for the joint AGU and Japanese Geophysical Union (JpGU) meeting that will take place near Tokyo (Makuhari Messe) from May 20th to 25th, 2017.
Abstract submission deadline is February 16th at http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/submission.html#submission

Session: P-EM18:
This session investigates the solar, coronal and interplanetary conditions under which fast and strong CMEs form and propagate, as well as the important characteristics to understand the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling and the variations in the radiation belts during the passage of a CME. Abstracts are solicited that focus on the type of active regions and solar conditions resulting in fast and strong CMEs, the interaction of CMEs with solar wind streams and other CMEs that affect their geo-effectiveness, the characteristics of CMEs and shocks that create strong sudden impulses and changes in the flux of energetic particles in Earth’s radiation belts. Contributions that cover integrated investigations combining remote observations, numerical simulations and/or in situ measurements are especially welcome.

The conveners: Noé Lugaz, Kanya Kusano, Neel Savani and Ayumi Asai

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Call for abstracts: Special Session at EWASS-2017

Dear colleagues

At this year’s European Week of Astronomy and Space Science there will be a special session on “Energy release and radiation in partially ionized plasma of solar and stellar atmospheres”. Abstract submission for this session is now open. The abstract submission deadline is 8th March and “very early bird” registration is 10th Feb, followed by “early bird” on 28th April.

EWASS-2017 will be held in Prague from 26-30th June, with this session taking place on 27th June.

Invited talks at this session are:
– Christiane Helling ‘Partially ionized atmospheric gases in cloud-forming, ultra-cool, low-mass stars’
– Hugh Hudson ‘Flare heating in stellar chromospheres’
– Jean-Pierre Raulin and P.Kaufmann ‘Recent results on solar flare emissions at THz frequencies’

Further information about EWASS-2017 is here
http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS/index.jsp

Abstract submission for the session is here
http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS/abstract_submission.jsp

best wishes
Lyndsay Fletcher (session SOC member)

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EGU Session – Space Weather Forecasting

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following “Space Weather and Space Climate” session at the EGU 2017 meeting in Vienna (23-28 April 2017): “The Use of Observations and Models to Improve Space Weather Forecasting Capabilities” (ST4.2) for which the deadline is approaching (January 11th).

Severe space weather events can significantly impact human technology on the ground and in near-Earth space. Huge eruptions of plasma and magnetic field, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), often co-occur with solar flares and can cause problems for a wide variety of industries, such as satellites, radio communications and electricity networks. Solar flares and CMEs also accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs), which in turn can harm electronics and be a significant radiation hazard to humans outside of the protective shield of the atmosphere. There is significant interest from end users in government and industry to improve the current forecasting methods of these events to mitigate against such risks. Spacecraft observations can be used to forecast when a CME might erupt, track the CME through the heliosphere, to predict the solar wind from another location in space, or to directly probe the different structures and their properties via in situ measurements. Alternatively, models can be developed to simulate solar magnetic fields, to predict where a CME might pass through the heliosphere, and to model its shape and its influence on the magnetosphere. We invite abstracts on both observations and modelling of space weather hazards, including CMEs, the solar wind, co-rotating interaction regions, solar flares, and SEPs. Abstracts are also very welcome regarding forecasting the impacts of space weather on the Earth system.

Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 11 January 2017.
Abstract submission link at: http://egu2017.eu/home.html.

Best regards,
The session conveners: Simon Thomas (Reading University, UK), Sophie Murray (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Miho Janvier (IAS, France), Alexis Rouillard (IRAP, France)… continue to the full article

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ST07 ‘The Wave Coupling Between the Lower Solar Atmosphere and Corona: MHD Approach’, AOGS 2017

Dear Colleagues.

I would like to draw your attention to the ST07 session: ‘The Wave Coupling Between the Lower Solar Atmosphere and Corona: MHD Approach’ in the framework of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference.
The 14th Annual AOGS will take place in Singapore, 6-11 August 2017. Further details regarding abstract submission, registration, accommodation and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2017/public.asp?page=home.htm

Important! Abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2017.

ST07 ‘The Wave Coupling Between the Lower Solar Atmosphere and Corona: MHD Approach’

Conveners:
Dr. Viktor Fedun (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), v.fedun@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr. Gary Verth (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), g.verth@sheffield.ac.uk
Prof. Marcel Goossens (KU Leuven, Belgium), marcel.goossens@kuleuven.be
Dr. Sergiy Shelyag (University of Northumbria, United Kingdom), sergiy.shelyag@northumbria.ac.uk

Session Description
The highly dynamic lower part of the solar atmosphere is a rich source of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, which are excited by various plasma processes, such as granular buffeting, vortex motions, plasma jet generation, magnetic reconnection etc. These MHD waves propagate in magnetic flux concentrations which act as waveguides and connect the solar interior with the atmosphere up to the transition region and solar corona. It is now widely accepted that these waves play an important role in energy transfer between the lower and upper solar atmosphere. Nevertheless, the physical mechanisms that lead to conversion of wave energy into heat are still not clarified. Recent high-resolution ground- and space-based solar instruments, such as IBIS/DST, CRISP/SST, ROSA/DST, IRIS, Hinode, SDO, Hi-C, have provided a wealth of high spatial/temporal resolution data tracking wave propagation and damping. This provides theorists with crucial observational evidence for either supporting or refuting the proposed wave-based heating models, through indirect measurements of plasma properties such as magnetic fields, electron and mass density structure and velocity. In this session we will discuss the recently obtained results on multi-scale MHD wave mode propagation, conversion and damping obtained in the theoretical/numerical modelling and high-resolution observations.

With our Best Regards,
Viktor Fedun, Gary Verth, Marcel Goossens and Sergiy Shelyag.

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