Friday, 12 January 2018 – 10:30 – 15:30
Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre

The Royal Astronomical Society will host a Specialist Discussion Meeting on January 12th 2018 on Wave-based heating in the solar atmosphere. We aim to bring together experts in numerical modelling, observational detection and theoretical analysis of wave-based heating mechanisms to shed light on the role of MHD waves in coronal heating.

Information on registration, abstract submission and programme will be announced in due time.

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Announcing an opportunity to submit an abstract to a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting this December.

SH003. Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Retrospective

Long-range predictions of solar activity are essential to our space weather forecast capability. In order to improve predictions it is important to understand why past predictions succeeded or failed. Solar Cycle 24 was a below-average cycle. There were peaks in the sunspot number in the Northern hemisphere in 2011 and in the Southern in 2014. Predictions of the amplitude of Solar Cycle 24 had values ranging from zero to unprecedentedly high levels of solar activity. With the rapid increase in the quality of solar data and the capability of numerical models, we are improving our ability to forecast the amplitude of the next sunspot cycle. Some questions this session would address include: How did predictions of Solar Cycle 24 compare with the actual cycle? How do recent advances constrain future predictions? Papers addressing the success and failure of predictions of Solar Cycle 24 are solicited for this special session.

Follow this link to submit an abstract to this session https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/sa/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=25018

The Early Abstracts Submission deadline is 26 July, 2017, and the Regular Abstracts Submission deadline is 2 August, 2017.

Please join us in New Orleans for a discussion on how to more accurately predict the next solar cycle.

The Conveners of SH03:
William Dean Pesnell, NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Douglas Alan Biesecker, NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) are pleased to announce a workshop to take place in Malaysia on 11-13 September 2017.

During the workshop, UK and Malaysian attendees will scope outline proposals aimed at developing a programme for delivering transferable skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The training would be in the context of some of the biggest and most cutting-edge scientific collaborations in the world e.g. the Large Hadron Collider and astronomical telescopes.

For full details and links to the expression of interest for attending the workshop please go to http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/research-grants/funding-opportunities/funding-calls/stfc-mohe-scoping-workshop/

Regards,

STFC

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Fourth UK-Ukraine-Spain Meeting on Solar Physics and Space Science (UKUS) Kyiv, Ukraine
Monday 28th August – Friday 1st September 2017

Important deadlines
Registration deadline – 15 July 2017
Abstract submission deadline – 20 July 2017

The meeting will cover a broad range of aspects of solar physics, space science and solar-terrestrial relations. We aim to include every side of solar and space research, including observations, theory, and numerical modelling. The main idea behind the meeting is to treat the entire solar-terrestrial domain as one system, rather than each region independently.

The participants of the UKUS usually come from different backgrounds, therefore the meeting will be divided into a number of different topics highlighting a number of areas of expertise.

The most of the oral presentations will be scheduled in the morning sessions, followed by dedicated discussion meetings in the groups relating to the workshop objectives in the afternoon session. For the morning presentations, we foresee one-two invited speaker per topic, who should introduce their expertise to the participants. Contributed talks will be scheduled after the invited lecture. The afternoons are foreseen to have a more open character.

Our aim is to develop new collaborative projects leading to publications and grant applications. Enough discussion time will also be scheduled, to ensure sufficient interaction between the scientists, and allow for the generation of ideas for collaboration.

Tentative Programme:
– Dynamic processes in the Earth ionosphere
– MHD waves – coupling between lower solar atmosphere and corona (observations, theory, numerics)
– Solar energetic processes: dynamics of a small and large scale eruptive events
– Multi-scale plasma waves in the Sun-Earth system

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The registration for Helicity Thinkshop 3 (SEIKEN SYMPOSIUM) is now open at http://science-media.org/conferencePage.php?v=23 .
Helicities (kinetic, magnetic, current, cross, etc.), as well as energies, are fundamental quantities of hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. The dynamic and magnetic activities of the Sun and stars are intimately related to turbulent helicities. In the past, two Helicity Thinkshops, mainly on solar physics, were held in 2009 and 2013 at the National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOC) at Beijing, China (Chair: Hongqi Zhang). They originated from a Chapman Conference on Magnetic Helicity in Space and Laboratory Plasmas held at Boulder, USA, in 1998 (Chair: Alexei Pevtsov). This time we organize a Helicity Thinkshop 3 in Tokyo, Japan.

Topics to be discussed at the meeting are:
– insights on and estimates of helicity in the Sun and solar wind, helical structures on Earth and other astrophysical bodies;
– role of helicities in solar and stellar flares and in coronal mass ejections with an emphasis on space weather phenomena and their coupling with the Earth environment;
– role of helicities in dynamo theories and numerical modelling;
– sources of helicities in astro/geophysical context;
– future directions in helicity studies.
In order to enhance interdisciplinary communication, all speakers in Helicity Thinkshop 3 are expected to present their talks in plain, generic physics language.
Organizing institutions:
Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ)
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Axel Brandenburg (Sweden/USA), Manolis Georgoulis (Greece), Kirill Kuzanyan (Russia), Raffaele Marino (France), Alexei Pevtsov (USA/Finland), Takashi Sakurai (Japan), Dmitry Sokoloff (Russia), Nobumitsu Yokoi (Chair, Japan), Hongqi Zhang (China)
Important dates:
18 May 2017: Start of on-line registration
19 October 2017: Deadline of abstract submission
31 October 2017: Program announcement
19 November 2017: Registration and reception
20-23 November 2017: Scientific talks and discussions
Conference venue:
Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo: Komaba, Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan: Mitaka, Tokyo
We have some limited funds for the travel support. In particular, for students, early career scientists and scientists from less developed countries.
Registration fee is 10,000 yen (approx. 80 Euro or 90 USD) excluding the conference dinner. Registration fee should be paid on-site at the conference reception with Japanese yen
For more information, please visit the website: http://science-media.org/conferencePage.php?v=23
Contact: Nobumitsu Yokoi nobyokoi (at) iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp and Kirill Kuzanyan kuzanyan (at) gmail.com

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