THE MULTIPLE APPROACHES TO PLASMA PHYSICS FROM LABORATORY TO ASTROPHYSICS

Dates and location: May 13-24 2019, Les Houches, France.

Overview and objectives:

The two-week school held in the French Alps focuses on plasma physics and its manifestations in laboratory experiments, space environment and in astrophysics. It targets an international audience primarily composed of PhD students and junior postdoctoral researchers. The objective is to introduce the participants to a wide range of fundamental aspects of plasma physics, as well as on the state-of-the-art in many of the sub-disciplines. It will provide blackboard-style lectures, hands-on activities, talks on latest research, presentation by students, as well as group work such as journal clubs and social activities. This school follows up on four previous sessions held every two years since 2011 in Les Houches (France) on similar topics (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017).

The conference center in Les Houches can accommodate up to 46 participants. Pre-registration will open on November 1st, 2018 on the school website and will close on February 15th, 2019. Applicants will be notified at the beginning of March, 2019.

For more information about the program and updates see: https://plasmas2019.sciencesconf.org/

Confirmed Lecturers:

Troy Carter (UCLA, USA)

Benoît Cerutti (CNRS & Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Christopher Chen (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Andrea Ciardi (Sorbonne Université, France)
Mickaël Grech (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Thomas Grismayer (IPFN Portugal)
Per Helander (IPP, Germany)
Emmanuel d’Humières (Université de Bordeaux, France)
Karine Issautier (CNRS & Observatoire de Paris, France)
Miho Janvier (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Kumiko Kotera (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France)
Matthew Kunz (Princeton University, USA)
Henrik Latter (University of Cambridge, UK)
Sergei Lebedev (Imperial College London, UK)
Nuno Loureiro (MIT, USA)
Andrea Mignone (University of Torino, Italy)
Paolo Ricci (EPFL, Switzerland)
François Rincon (CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France)
Alexander Schekochihin (University of Oxford, UK)
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University, USA)
Hendrik Spruit (MPIA Garching, Germany)
Tommaso Vinci (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Philippe Zarka (CNRS & Observatoire de Paris, France)
Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Scientific and local organising committee:

Benoît Cerutti (CNRS & Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Andrea Ciardi (Sorbonne Université, France)
Emmanuel d’Humières (Université de Bordeaux, France)
Miho Janvier (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Nuno Loureiro (MIT, USA)

Contact: plasmas2019@sciencesconf.org

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Summer school/Workshop “Waves, Instabilities and Turbulences in Geophysical and Astrophysical Flows”
July 8 – July 19, 2019
IESC Cargese, Corsica, France
https://witgaf2019.sciencesconf.org/

Scientific scope: Understanding the dynamics of geophysical and astrophysical systems, such as oceans, atmospheres, planetary cores, stellar interiors, accretion disks, remains a tremendous interdisciplinary task. Beyond the challenge in fundamental fluid mechanics to understand these extraordinary flows involving rotation, buoyancy, magnetic fields, at typical scales well beyond our day-to-day experience, a global knowledge of the involved processes is fundamental to a better understanding of the dynamics of these systems.
Much research efforts have been devoted to understanding geophysical and astrophysical  flows, within and between the various communities of Mechanics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Planetary and Earth Sciences, Astrophysics… While open questions from the various application domains actually rely on the same fundamental concepts and phenomena, lots of progresses have been made within each enclosed domain, with only marginal cross-fertilisations. The objective of the workshop is to go beyond this state. Our goal is to bring together researchers interested in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, and to provide for students and confirmed researchers, the fundamental fluid mechanics background as well as the last research developments on waves, instabilities and turbulence in the contexts of oceans, atmospheres, planetary cores, stellar interiors and accretion disks.

Venue: The Center for Scientific Studies in Cargese, Corsica, France (IESC) (http://www.iesc.univ-corse.fr/) .

Program: One week of school including five 4h courses, five 1h invited lectures and a poster session (8-13 july)
One week of workshop including six 1h invited lectures and 60 contributed talks (14-19 july)

Important dates:
*   February 1, 2019:      deadline for the pre-registration and abstract submission
*   February 15, 2019:    notification of acceptance
*   March 15, 2019:        final registration and payment

Topics:
Fluid mechanics topics such as
–    Inertial waves and internal waves (attractors, internal shear layers, nonlinear interactions)
–    Instabilities (MRI, SRI, ZVI, …)
–    MHD waves and Dynamo (Geodynamos, Experiments)
–    Turbulences (wave turbulence, rotating/stratified/MHD turbulence)
applied to
–    Oceans
–    Atmospheres
–    Planetary cores
–    Stellar interiors
–    Accretion disks.

Invited speakers

For the courses (4h)

*   C. Staquet (Grenoble, France). Waves, instabilities. Oceans and atmospheres.
*   J. Noir (Zurich, Switzerland). Inertial waves. Planets.
*   T. Rogers (Newcastle, UK). Waves. Instabilities. Stars.
*   S. Fauve (Paris, France). Dynamo. Turbulence.
*   H. Latter (Cambridge, UK). Instabilities. Accretion Disks.

For the lectures (1h)

*   T. Akylas (Boston, USA). Waves, instabilities. Oceans
*   S. Legg (Princeton, USA). Waves. Mixing. Oceans
*   J. Alexander (Boulder, USA). Atmospheres.
*   P. Read (Oxford, UK). Instabilities. Atmospheres.
*   K. Zhang (Exeter, UK). Waves, instabilities. Planets.
*   K. Julien (Boulder, USA). Waves, instabilities. Planets.
*   D. Lecoanet (Princeton, USA). Waves, instabilities. Stars.
*   S. Tobias (Leeds, UK). Turbulence. MHD. Planets and Stars.
*   S. Galtier (Palaiseau, France). Wave turbulence.  Cosmology.
*   R. Kerswell (Cambridge, UK). Instabilities, Turbulence.  Oceans and Accretion disks.
*   P. Armitage (Boulder, USA). Accretion disks.

Scientific committee: Jon Aurnou (Los Angeles, USA), Phil Marcus (Berkeley, USA), Gordon Ogilvie (Cambridge, UK),  Andrew Soward (Newcastle, UK), Chantal Staquet (Grenoble, France), Bruce Sutherland (Edmonton, Canada)

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The early registration deadline for the SDO 2018 Science Workshop: Catalyzing Solar Connections, has been extended to September 20, 2018. The registration fee is 350 EUR until the deadline and 450 EUR after.

Hope to see you at the workshop!

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The early registration deadline for the SDO 2018 Science Workshop is September 15 at 23:59 UTC. The early registration fee is 350 EUR. After September 15 the registration fee increases to 450 EUR.

Please register by the deadline!

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Dear colleagues,

the University of Calabria will host this international workshop on November 12-16, 2018.

Abstract submission/Early bird registration deadlines:

Abstract submission: September 16th, 2018
Early bird registration (250 euros): September 16th, 2018
Normal registration (300 euros): September 17th – October 28th, 2018

Submission/registration: http://astroplasmas.unical.it/workshop2018/

Review speakers:
Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA-INAF, Bologna, Italy)
Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago, USA) -TBC
Eduard Kontar (University of Glasgow, UK)
Sean Oughton (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Invited:
Aya Bamba (University of Tokyo, Japan), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI, Italy) -TBC, Philippa Browning (University of Manchester, UK),
David Burgess (Queen Mary, UK), Vincenzo Carbone (Università della Calabria, Italy), Sabrina Casanova (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland), Alexandros Chasapis (University of Delaware, USA), James Drake (University of Maryland, USA), Nina Dresing (University of Kiel, Germany), Wolfgang Dröge (University of Wuerzburg, Germany), Frederic Effenberger (GFZ Potsdam, Germany), Gregory Fleishman (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Joe Giacalone (University of Arizona, USA), Dimitrios Giannios (Purdue University, USA), Martin Hardcastle (University Hertfordshire, UK), Thomas Jones (University of Minnesota, USA),
Hyesung Kang (Pusan National University, Korea), Timo Laitinen (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Gianni Lapenta (University of Leuven, Belgium), Monica Laurenza (IAPS Roma, Italy), Alex Lazarian (University of Wisconsin, USA), Martin Lemoine (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Maxim L. Markevitch (NASA/GSFC, USA), James Matthews (University of Oxford, UK), Igor Moskalenko (Stanford, USA), Salvatore Orlando (Università di Palermo, Italy), Denise Perrone (Imperial College, UK), Alessandro Retinò (École Polytechnique, France), Samar Safi-Harb (University of Manitoba, CA),
Sergio Servidio (Università della Calabria, Italy), Timothy Shimwell (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands), Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia University, USA), Marco Tavani (IAPS Roma, Italy), Nicole Vilmer (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France), Loukas Vlahos (University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Joshua Wiener (University of Wisconsin, USA), Gary Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

Scientific rationale:
The workshop aims at presenting recent research on the longstanding problems of particle acceleration/transport in astrophysical environments (Sun, heliosphere, galactic/extragalactic sources). We bring together experts in the fields of:
-Observations of energetic particles
-Properties of cosmic ray transport/acceleration
-Flaring phenomena in astrophysics (Solar flares, Crab flares)
-Shock acceleration
-Particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection
-Particle acceleration in accretion flows and relativistic jets
-Transport/acceleration in non-linear regimes
-Magnetic turbulence in astrophysical plasmas
-Theoretical models, numerical simulations of particle transport/acceleration.

SOC:
Silvia Perri (Chair, Università della Calabria, Italy)
Elena Amato (co-chair, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)
Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA-INAF, Bologna, Italy)
Andrei Bykov (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
Silvia Dalla (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Horst Fichtner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Natasha Jeffrey (University of Glasgow, UK)
William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)
Reinout J. van Weeren (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Gaetano Zimbardo (Università della Calabria, Italy)

LOC:
Silvia Perri, Gianfranco Brunetti, Filomena Catapano, Federica Chiappetta, Antonella Greco, Fabio Lepreti, Francesco Malara, Giusy Nigro, Francesco Pecora, Oreste Pezzi, Leonardo Primavera, Sandra Savaglio, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Sara Stabile, Francesco Valentini, Pierluigi Veltri, Gaetano Zimbardo

For info visit http://astroplasmas.unical.it/workshop2018/

We look forward to welcoming you in Calabria!
Silvia Perri (workshopunical2018@gmail.com) on behalf of the SOC

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This is a gentle reminder about the upcoming deadline, Sept 6, to submit session proposals for EGU 2019.

EGU 2019 will be held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 07 to 12 April 2019. We hereby invite you to take an active part in organizing the scientific programme of the conference. You can submit proposals at meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/provisionalprogramme or directly for the Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division under meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/provisionalprogramme/ST

More details can be found at: www.egu2019.eu/guidelines/

We look forward to receiving your session proposals.

In case any questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,
Margit Haberreiter
EGU ST Division President
st@egu.eu

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Dates: 30 June – 6 July, 2019
Place: Copiapo, Chile

Contact: IAUSymposium354@gmail.com
Website: iaus354.aip.de

Early-bird registration and hotel reservation deadline: 30 November, 2018
Regular registration and abstract deadline:  28 February, 2019

Topics

1. New observational diagnostics of magnetic fields
2. Progress in understanding the solar/stellar interior dynamics and dynamo
3. Stellar rotation and activity cycles
4. Role of magnetic fields in solar and stellar variability
5. Star-planet relations
6. Formation, structure and dynamics of solar and stellar coronae and winds
7. Mechanisms of flaring and CME activity on the Sun and stars
8. Magnetic fields of the solar analogs
9. Advances in instrumentation
10. Observations of solar eclipses and exoplanetary transits

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