The RAS invites suggestions from Fellows of the RAS who wish to propose (and therefore organise) Specialist Discussion meetings for the academic year beginning October 2018. Meetings are held monthly from October to May, on the second Friday of the month.

To help with assessment, proposals should include the following information:
– Title of meeting and organiser(s), at least one of whom should be an RAS Fellow
– The topics to be covered in the meeting
– Rationale for the meeting, including timeliness,
– Suggestions for invited speakers
– Preferred date for meeting, if any

Proposals should not exceed one A4 page in length.

For information, detailed guidance for meeting organisers may be found at:
http://www.ras.org.uk/events-and-meetings/1747-general-information-about-meetings

Proposals for Astronomy SD meetings (including Exoplanets) should be sent to Mandy Bailey (mandybailey22@gmail.com) and proposals for Geophysics SD meetings (including Solar, Solar Terrestrial and Planetary Physics) should be sent to Mark Lester (mle@leicester.ac.uk). The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1st March 2018.… continue to the full article

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Just a reminder that registration for UKMHD 2018 (on 26 and 27 April) and BAMC 2018 (from 26 to 29 April) closes on Friday 2 March 2018. We have some funding available to support travel and accomodation costs of STFC funded PhD students and postdocs and also Royal Astronomical Society PhD and postdoc fellows. Please pass on this message to anyone you think may be interested in the meeting. The website is at http://www.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bamc2018… continue to the full article

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The European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) solicits proposals by European groups to host the 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16) in the August-September 2020 timeframe.
Interested groups are invited to send a single-page Letter of Intent (LoI) to the ESPD President.

The details of the call are available at ESPD page:
http://www.eps.org/blogpost/739454/294805/Call-for-Proposals-to-Host-the-Next-European-Solar-Physics-Meeting-in-2020

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Giardini Naxos, Italy 11 – 15 June 2018

http://www.oact.inaf.it/est/

The European Solar Telescope (EST), is a 4-metre class aperture telescope designed to investigate our active Sun at very high spatial, temporal resolution and polarimetric sensitivity. Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, it will help scientists understand magnetic coupling throughout the solar atmosphere. EST will be installed in the Canary Islands (Spain) to benefit from unique observing conditions. First light is planned for 2027. The project is promoted by the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST) whose aim is to ensure access of European solar astronomers to world-class high-resolution ground-based observing facilities and keep Europe at the forefront of solar physics. This first EST Science Meeting aims at gathering scientists who wish to present their most recent theoretical and observational research in the field. The meeting will highlight the key science cases that will be addressed by the 4-metre class solar telescopes, and the synergies with both current and future ground-based and space-borne facilities. During the EST Science Meeting the main characteristics and science goals of the EST project will be presented to the scientific community to maximize the sharing of knowledge about the project and provide awareness of the potential telescope capabilities. It will also provide an opportunity to contribute to the definition of the telescope Science Requirements.

A Science Requirements Document, describing how and why the unique capabilities of EST will provide answers to several key science questions, will be presented at the meeting. EST will be the heritage of the entire solar physics community and, for this reason, it is expected that the scientific community and in particular the EST Science Meeting participants, will contribute with science cases that will then be reflected in the Science Requirement Document.

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Abstract and IAU grant submission deadline: February 28, 2018

Registration and abstract submission:
http://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/registration/

Division E (Sun and Heliosphere), as all other IAU Divisions, will have a dedicated Division Meeting in Vienna. Division Meeting is a scientific mini-symposium on “Solar and Heliospheric Physics” covering all research areas relevant for Division E: Solar Interior and Dynamo, Solar Atmospheres, Flares and CMEs, Solar Wind, Heliospheric Transients and Space Weather, and Solar Instrumentation.

The Meeting is scheduled for Friday, August 24 and Monday, August 27. All Division Meetings will run in parallel, but no other meetings (scientific or business) will be scheduled for these time slots. PhD. Prize talks and Poster Session will be on August 27 2018.

The joint Business Meeting of Division E, its Commissions and Working Groups is on the same day between 15:30-17:00.

The SOC of the Division Meeting consists of the members of the Division
Steering Committee: Yihua Yan (chair), Sarah Gibson, Marc L DeRosa,
Lyndsay Fletcher, Natalie Krivova, Ingrid Mann, Lidia van
Driel-Gesztelyi, Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Eduard P. Kontar, Toshifumi
Shimizu, Nandita Srivastava, Rudolf von Steiger.

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Call for Abstracts: 42nd COSPAR SA (Pasadena, California)
Session D2.2/E3.2 “Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona and Non-solar Analogs”
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Dear Colleagues,

As the abstract deadline rapidly approaches (February 9, Friday, at 22:59 UTC), I’d like to bring to your attention a cross-disciplinary session on Prominences & Coronal Rain at the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, hosted by Caltech/JPL in beautiful Pasadena, California, USA, 14-22 July, 2018. This session brings together solar, astrophysical, space and laboratory plasma physicists to explore these fascinating phenomena, with the celebration of the 60th anniversary of COSPAR’s inception (http://cospar2018.org).

We have a full day (total 6 hours) allocated to this session and expect to accommodate many (if not all) oral requests, yet leaving some time to allow for in-depth discussions. We are in the process of putting together an exciting program with a group of excellent (potential) speakers (such as yourself). We encourage you or your colleagues to submit an abstract at your earliest convenience.

To do so, please follow this link to login:
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/user/mypapers.php?log=1

Our session is titled “Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences and Coronal Rain) and Non-solar Analogs” and is cross-listed as Scientific Event D2.2 or E3.2 under Scientific Commission D (Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres) or Commission E (Research in Astrophysics from Space), which also has several other interesting solar sessions.

Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Pasadena.

Best,
Wei Liu and Patrick Antolin
on behalf of SOC

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Session ID/Title:
D2.2/E3.2, “Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences & Coronal Rain) and Non-solar Analogs”
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=714

Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Magnus Haw (Caltech, USA; lab plasma)
Takafumi Kaneko (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Judy Karpen (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Sara Martin (Helio Research, USA)
Tom Schad (NSO, USA)
Prateek Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India; astrophysical)
Jaume Terradas (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)
Erwin Verwichte (Univ. Warwick, UK)

Scientific Organizers:
Wei Liu (LMSAL/BAERI, USA)
Patrick Antolin (Univ. of St Andrews, UK)

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Paul Bellan (Caltech, USA)
Thomas Berger (Univ. of Colorado, USA)
P. F. Chen (Nanjing Univ., China)
Oddbjorn Engvold (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)
Holly Gilbert (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Olga Panasenco (Advanced Heliophysics, USA)
Jean-Claude Vial (Institut d’astrophysique Spatiale, France)

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