VarSITI Closing Symposium
June 10-14, 2019
Sofia, Bulgaria
http://newserver.stil.bas.bg/VarSITI2019/

VarSITI, the scientific program of SCOSTEP focuses on the recent and expected future solar activity and its consequences for the Earth, over various time scales from thousands of years to milliseconds, and at various locations from the solar interior to the Earth’s atmosphere. In particular, VarSITI focuses on the interconnections in the Sun-Earth system, and encourages the interaction among scientists working on different aspects of this complex system. The VarSITI program is coming to an end. For five years, more than 1,100 scientists from 71 countries have been working on its four scientific projects:

SEE (Solar Evolution and Extrema),
MiniMax24/ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients),
SPeCIMEN (Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment), and
ROSMIC (Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere In Climate)

The purpose of this Closing Symposium is to summarize the results of the program, discuss what progress has been made, what new scientific questions have emerged and what should be the focus of the next scientific program. The community is invited to participate in this closing meeting. Further details are available at the conference web page.

Scientific Organizing Committee

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UK Solar Orbiter Workshop – Second announcement
Date : 3rd-4th June 2019
Venue : UCL Gordon Square 25, London

Registration now open at https://sites.google.com/view/ukso-19/registration

Solar Orbiter is an ESA/NASA mission designed to answer some of the key questions in heliophysics, from the origin and variability of the solar wind to the link between solar eruptions, magnetic fields and energetic particles. Solar Orbiter will have a unique combination of in-situ and remote-sensing instruments, probing the atmosphere close to the Sun in and out of the ecliptic plane. The modeling of the magnetic environment that will be experienced by the satellite and its connection to the Sun will be key to the success of both the in-flight operations as well as to the mission’s scientific goals.

With the launch of Solar orbiter scheduled for February 2020, the UK solar Orbiter Workshop aims to bring together the expertise of the UK solar community in magnetic modeling and model validation, to increase the UK impact on the international efforts in preparation for Solar Orbiter operations, and to coordinate the UK efforts for the exploitation of the satellite observations.

All members of the UK solar physics community interested in the Solar Orbiter mission goals are encouraged to attend.

Registration is now open and will close on May 15th. Due to venue limitations the number of participant is capped, and early registration is encouraged.

For information please email uk-solo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk

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Dear Colleagues.

Following our save-the-date announcement a few months ago, we would like to provide you with the official first announcement for our upcoming “Scintillating Science: Cutting-Edge Science Achieved Through the Observations of Radio Scintillation” focussed/specialist workshop which will be held in Hermanus (near Cape Town), South Africa, the week of 15th July 2019.

The workshop will cover all aspects of scintillation from the science (including all the domains in which it can be applied, e.g. ionosphere, heliosphere, interstellar) through to engineering concepts/requirements including all aspects of its theory/modelling. We are in the process of putting together more-detailed themes and these will appear on the workshop website before the end of March 2019. In addition, we are in the process of setting out invited speakers and scene-setting speakers.

Early registration and abstract submission opens very soon on 25th March 2019. The full list of deadlines can be found on the workshop website here: https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/SSCESATORS/ along with further information about the scope of the workshop and local information.

Best wishes on behalf of the workshop SOC and LOC,

Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space – SOC Co-Chair)
Mike Kosch (SANSA/Lancaster University – SOC Co-Chair/LOC Chair)

Science Organising Committee (SOC):
Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space, UK) (Co-Chair)
Michael Kosch (SANSA, South Africa/Lancaster University, UK) (Co-Chair)
Richard A. Fallows (ASTRON, NL)
Daniel Stinebring (Oberlin College and Conservatory, OH, USA)
Anna Bilous (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Ue-Li Pen (University of Toronto, ON, Canada)
Lucilla Alfonsi (INGV, Italy)
Joseph Olwendo (Pwani University, Kenya)
Biagio Forte (University of Bath, UK)
Tshimangadzo Matamba (SANSA, South Africa)
Oyuki Chang (UKRI STFC RAL Space, UK)

Local Organising Committee (LOC):
Michael Kosch (SANSA, South Africa/Lancaster University, UK)
Lee-Anne McKinnell (SANSA, South Africa)
Tshimangadzo Matamba (SANSA, South Africa)

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The 9th Coronal Loops Workshop will be held at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews from 11th-14th June 2019.

Registration and abstract submission are now open. Please visit https://loops9.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

for information on registration, abstract submission, accommodation and travel.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Boris Gudiksen (Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo)
Amy Winebarger (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Will Barnes (Rice University)
Inigo Arregui (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
David Pontin (University of Dundee)
Moira Jardine (University of St Andrews)
Vanessa Polito (CfA, Harvard)

Important Dates:

Deadline early-career financial support: 29 March 2019
Deadline abstract submission: 29 March 2019
Deadline Early bird registration: 3 May 2019
Final registration date: 17 May 2019

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce registration/abstract submission for the next CESRA Workshop, “CESRA2019: The Sun and the inner heliosphere” which will be held on July 8th – 12th, 2019, at Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany.

http://meetings.aip.de/cesra2019/cms/

CESRA, the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers, organizes triennial workshops on investigations of the solar atmosphere using radio and other observations. Although special emphasis is given to radio diagnostics, the workshop topics are of interest to a large community of solar physicists. The format of the workshop will combine plenary sessions and working group sessions, with invited review talks, oral contributions, and posters.

To register and to submit the abstract please follow the link: http://meetings.aip.de/cesra2019/registration/

The CESRA 2019 workshop will place an emphasis on linking the Sun with the heliosphere, motivated by the launch of Parker Solar Probe in 2018 and the upcoming launch of Solar Orbiter in 2020. It will provide the community with a forum for discussing the first relevant science results and future science opportunities, as well as on opportunity for evaluating how to maximize science return by combining space-borne observations with the wealth of data provided by new and future ground-based radio instruments, such as ALMA, E-OVSA, EVLA, LOFAR, MUSER, MWA, and SKA, and by the large number of well-established radio observatories.

On behalf of the CESRA Board and the local SOC representatives,
Eduard Kontar, Gottfried Mann, Alexander Warmuth

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It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics (PIPA2019) conference, to be held in Mallorca in June 3-7, 2019. The meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between participants from all areas of Astrophysics in which partially ionised plasmas play a capital role, from the Earth’s ionosphere to partially ionised regions in galaxies, which also includes solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, stellar formation, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc.

Information about the venue, accommodation, preliminary invited speakers and talks, etc. is available at:  http://solar1.uib.es/pipa2019/

Registration and Abstract submission deadline — April 1, 2019
Hotel reservation deadline — April 1, 2019

The LOC of the PIPA2019 meeting is looking forward to welcome you to Mallorca,

Ramón Oliver, Elena Khomenko, Istvan Ballai

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Abstract submission deadline extended to 19th March 2019
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/cfsa/people/broomhall/ras_flares/

Organisers: Anne-Marie Broomhall (Univ. of Warwick), James McLaughlin (Northumbria Univ.), Valery Nakariakov (Univ. of Warwick), Aaron Reid (Queen’s University, Belfast)
For queries e-mail: a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk

Friday, 12th April 2019
Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly

Flares that are far more energetic than typical solar flares have been observed on solar-like stars, leading to predictions that the average occurrence rate of these so-called “superflares” on “stars with similar rotation periods to the Sun is about once in 500 to 600 years” (Maehara et al., 2015). However, given that these flares are far more energetic than typical solar flares, and that the data upon which these predictions are made consist of unresolved white light observations of the star in question’s brightness, it is reasonable to ask whether these predictions are justified. This specialist discussion meeting will focus on the synergies and differences between solar and stellar flares, from the impact of observational constraints to the presence of analogous features (e.g. flare shape and quasi-periodic pulsations) and from models that can account for the vastly differing energies observed in solar and stellar flares to explanations for recent observations of flares in massive A stars that do not have outer convection zones. We will also discuss the exciting series of solar flares observed from active region AR12763 in September 2017, which included the largest flare of Solar Cycle 24, and particularly encourage the community to consider the unique Swedish solar telescope observations of this event, obtained on behalf of the UK solar physics community. Talks and posters will be accepted.

Confirmed invited speakers: Petr Heinzel (Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic), Paolo Romano (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

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The 9th Coronal Loops Workshop will be held at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews from 11th – 14th June 2019.

Registration and abstract submission are now open. Please visit loops9.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ for information on registration, abstract submission, accommodation and travel.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Boris Gudiksen (Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo)
Amy Winebarger (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Will Barnes (Rice University)
Inigo Arregui (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
David Pontin (University of Dundee)
Moira Jardine (University of St Andrews)
Vanessa Polito (CfA, Harvard)

Important Dates:

Deadline early-career financial support: 29 March 2019
Deadline abstract submission: 29 March 2019
Deadline Early bird registration: 3 May 2019
Final registration date: 17 May 2019

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1st NCSP Data Training Workshop: Preparing for DKIST: An Introduction to ground-based data

In preparation for DKIST operation, and continuing the community involvement initiated with the Critical Science Plan activities, NSO is organizing a series of “Data Training Workshops”, to be held in the 2019 – 20 timeframe. The main goal of the workshops is to expose the community, especially PhD students and early career researchers, to the type of data that will be acquired with the DKIST, and to the most common data reduction and analysis techniques.

The first NSO Data Training Workshop will be held in Boulder, CO, June 4 – 7, 2019. Over the course of 3.5 days, this workshop will provide a first introduction to ground-based data types, issues, reduction and analysis techniques. Subsequent workshops will focus on more specific topics, including image reconstruction, polarimetric analysis, spectral inversions, and coronal physics.

Full support is envisioned for US students and early career participants; additional funds might be available for partial support of other participants.

This activity is part of a larger NSF-funded program, the NSO Community Science Program (NCSP), that encompasses the creation of tools for level-2 data production; help to the Solar Community in understanding the use of these tools; and actual production of level-2 data from limited sets of observations from the DKIST.

Further information on the workshop and NCSP is available, respectively, at www.nso.edu/ncsp/ncsp-workshop/intro-to-dkist/ and www.nso.edu/ncsp/

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