Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

AGU 2019 Fall Meeting: Session SH005 – Combining Observations and Data-driven Modelling of Coronal Mass Ejections

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in, and submit abstracts to, Session SH005 “Combining Observations and Data-driven Modelling of Coronal Mass Ejections” at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting (9-13 December, San Francisco, CA). The session is focused on attempts to further our understanding of CMEs through the combination of observations and data-driven modelling. Key questions we aim to address include:

1) What is the eruption mechanism for CMEs?
2) How does the observed initial structure affect CME evolution beyond the corona?

We invite contributions that bring observations and modelling together to present a unified picture of CMEs, focusing in particular on their dynamics, structure, and evolution.

For abstract submission, and full session description, please see: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/72867

The submission deadline is Wednesday, 31 July at 23:59 EDT.

Regards,
Daniel Price, Diana Morosan, and Ben Lynch… continue to the full article

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Interact 2019 – An Engagement Symposium

Interact 2019 – An Engagement Symposium
4th September 2019. 10am-4:45pm. University of Central Lancashire, Preston. UK.

The Interact Symposium is a free one day event and over 120 delegates have already registered. We have over 20 exciting workshops planned that will appeal to people at all stages of their careers and especially early career researchers.

If you are looking for taster sessions on how to start your engagement work, or looking to improve your evaluation skills, this is the symposium for you!. Most of the day is devoted to workshops ranging from how to get started, breaking barriers, developing community partnerships, exploring barriers to engagement to creating conversations. The Market place offers a wide range of interactive to show and tell sessions on engagement in practice plus lots and lots of free resources and professional advice to help you in your work.

There will also be plenty of time to network and share practice. The University of Central Lancashire is also hosting a free reception from 6-8pm on the 3rd September and this is your chance to try local delicacies and meet colleagues and engagement experts in an informal environment.

We are also pleased to offer travel and subsistence bursaries of up to £100 for PhD, postdoctoral researchers, fellows and those within 10 years of their first academic appointment to attend. All you have to do is send an email with a short paragraph justifying your case with “Why do I want to go to Interact 2019? ”to Nicky.Bladen-Hovell@stfc.ukri.org.

Applications will be treated on a first come first served basis and the final closing date is 5pm July 31 2019.

The draft programme will be available soon, please check the registration site for details.

Please can you share this announcement with colleagues and anyone else who might be interested in attending.

We really look forward to seeing you there

Interact Planning Team

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AGU 2019 Fall Meeting – Session SH010 Innovative approaches in solar flare forecasting. San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2019

You are cordially invited to participate and submit an abstract to Session SH010 Innovative approaches in solar flare forecasting of the AGU 2019 Fall Meeting held on 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco, CA.

Contributions on any aspects about solar flare forecasting or solar flares are welcome. For submission to this session please follow:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/79145

Submission Opens: 12 June 2019
Submission Closes: 31 July 2019

Session Description:

Solar flares are one of the major sources of space weather disturbances. The monitoring and forecasting of solar flares (and CME) are crucial to reduce space weather risks for our modern society on the Earth as well as for human exploration in space. In recent years, solar observations have made great progress thanks to the very high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions available. Various new approaches for solar flare forecasting have also emerged. Prominent progresses include the emergence of artificial intelligence methods in parallel to the advanced numerical modelling approaches in solar physics. In this session, we invite contributions on any kinds of innovative approaches relevant for solar flare forecasting, which include but are not limited to the empirical, statistical, big-data, artificial intelligence, physical measures, and numerical modelling methodologies. The scope of discussions covers from preliminary ideas, experimental techniques to mature operational schemes advancing solar flare forecasting. Other related topics about solar flares are also welcome.

Session Conveners:
Han He, NAOC (hehan@nao.cas.cn)
Robertus Erdelyi, SP2RC, U of Sheffield (robertus@sheffield.ac.uk)

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AGU 2019 SH001 Acceleration and Transport Processes of Energetic Electrons in Solar Flares and Interplanetary Space – abstract submission now open.

The abstract submission for the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 session SH001 — Acceleration and Transport Processes of Energetic Electrons in Solar Flares and Interplanetary Space is now open.

We welcome contributions from a broad range of topics that aim to address common challenges involved in understanding particle acceleration and transport at the Sun and in the heliosphere, from observations, theory and modelling.

Meeting date: AGU Fall Meeting 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, CA.

Session organisers: Frederic Effenberger (Helmholtz Center, Potsdam), Sophie Musset (UMN), Nina Dresing (Kiel) & Natasha Jeffrey (U. of Glasgow).

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT

Session abstract:
The relation between energetic particle populations accelerated at the Sun, as seen in radiative signatures, and particles measured in-situ, is a fundamental subject in Heliophysics. Observations during the RHESSI era demonstrated the still poorly understood existence of a connection between solar flare signatures of accelerated electrons at the Sun and the corresponding solar energetic particles detected at 1AU. A key question is thus: Can these distinctly observed electron populations originate from the same flare-acceleration region? Different acceleration and transport processes in the solar atmosphere and in interplanetary space can contribute to the observed non-thermal temporal, spatial, and spectral particle signatures. We encourage contributions from observational, theoretical and simulation studies addressing this topic. Cross-community, joined efforts hold the potential to lead to a greater understanding of the important physical processes involved in electron acceleration and will enable new approaches to interpret the near-Sun observations from Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.… continue to the full article

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Registration Open: STFC Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas (2019)

STFC Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas (2019)

Department of Physics, Lancaster University

Sunday 1st September – Friday 6th September 2019

 

Registration is now open.

 

The 2019 STFC-funded Advanced Summer School will be hosted by the Space and Planetary Physics Group in the Department of Physics at Lancaster University. The programme consists of core lectures in Space Plasma Physics and Solar Physics alongside more specialised topics and is aimed at second- and third-year PhD students. The advanced summer school is designed to consolidate understanding gained in the STFC Introductory Summer School, and to place research in a broader thematic context, as well as providing an opportunity for PhD students to network with their peers and share experiences. Full funding will be available for up to 27 STFC-supported and self-funded PhD students; priority is given to STFC-supported students and free self-funded places are only confirmed after the close of registration. Non-STFC-funded students and PDRAs are welcome to attend subject to a registration fee.

 

A link to the registration page, and further details, are available on the summer school website (http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/solar-system-plasmas-2019/) and please also feel free to connect with the summer school Facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/2208042325884303/). In the meantime, please feel free to email us at stfcadvsummerschool2019@lancaster.ac.uk if you have any questions. Registration closes on Friday 9 August 2019.

 

We look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster in September.

Local Organising Committee: Chris Arridge, Licia Ray, Maria Walach, Joe Kinrade… continue to the full article

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SHINE Session #18 – Data Analysis Tools and Methods for Observations of the Solar Corona

In preparation of Parker Solar Probe (PSP), Solar Orbiter (SO) and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), it is important to discuss the plethora of analysis tools and processing techniques currently available. The current applicability of these techniques to EUV and coronagraph data (e.g. SDO/AIA, SOHO/LASCO) will prove to be invaluable in interpreting measurements from PSP, SO and DKIST. It is therefore essential to understand these techniques and set the stage for the development of new ones.

The main purpose of this session is to foster discussions between researchers focused on developing solar data analysis and processing tools (including machine learning methods) and the solar wind/heliosphere community.

Please see a full description of our session at https://shinecon.org/shine2019/session2019.php#session18

We encourage speakers and participants to discuss the different types of information that can be gained from applying various techniques to solar data.

Organizers: Nathalia Alzate (NASA GSFC), Dan Seaton (NOAA) and Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth University)

Invited Scene-Setting Speakers: Craig DeForest (SwRI) and Barbara Thompson (NASA GSFC)

Late registration begins: June 2, 2019
Abstract deadline: June 15, 2019

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Preparing for When the Sun Wakes Up: Workshop on Deep-Space Sun-Earth L5/L1 Space-Weather Missions

Dear Colleagues.

Apologies for the late notification. We are holding the next L5/L1 Workshop in London 27-28 June 2019 at the BEIS Conference Centre. Details of the scope and aims of the workshop are at the Workshop Web Page.

Tickets (if you have not already received an invitation) are on a first-come, first-serve basis – please ONLY use the “General Community” tickets or your registration will be removed. If none are available, please check back regularly as they will be adjusted through to the deadline of 00:00h UK time on 15th June 2019. You can see further information from the registration site here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preparing-for-when-the-sun-wakes-up-workshop-on-deep-space-sun-earth-l5l1-space-weather-missions-tickets-59374730417

The password to access the site is: L5L1London2019

Best wishes on behalf of the Organising Committee,

Mario
OC CO-Chair

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