Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) Kick-Off meeting

SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) is a £20 million, four-year programme that will improve the UK’s capabilities for space weather monitoring and prediction. There will be an emphasis on space radiation, which can affect aircraft systems, changes in the upper atmosphere, affecting communications, and surges in the current in power grids and other ground-level systems. These are significant risks to the infrastructures we rely on in daily life and are recorded in the UK’s National Risk Register.

SWIMMR will develop and deploy new instruments, models and services to support the UK space weather community and the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre. This programme will significantly add to the UK’s capability to predict and mitigate the hazards of space weather, as well as providing a basis for wider international collaboration over the four year lifetime of the proposal and beyond.

The funding forms part of the Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF), delivered by the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) to drive an increase in high quality multi- and interdisciplinary research and innovation. It will ensure that UKRI’s investment links up effectively with government research priorities and opportunities. The programme is a collaboration led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) with NERC and supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Department for Transport and the Ministry of Defence. The programme has been outlined in close association with the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC).

The programme will be delivered through a series of activities managed by either STFC or NERC. The STFC funding component will be delivered via a mixture of open calls for research projects and commissioned work under standard public sector procurement rules. Both types of activity will directly help improve the ability of the Met Office to predict space weather events so as to reduce their potential impact.

Programme News
The SWIMMR kick off meeting will be held on 26th November 2019 in the Wolfson Library of the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, starting at 11:00 am (coffee available from 10:30 am).

Pre-registration for the event is required, as capacity is limited. To register, please use go to the Eventbrite registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swimmr-project-kick-off-meeting-tickets-78980315249

Some more information about this programme, which will run until March 2023, is now available through the web sites of NERC (https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/sfp-swimmr/) and STFC RAL Space (https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/SWIMMR.aspx).

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Call for Splinter Sessions for Cool Stars 21

Dear all,

The 21st edition of the “Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” (Cool Stars 21) will be held 22-26 June 2020 in Toulouse, France.

Note to the community: Cool Stars Workshops covers, among many subjects, the science of the Sun (more information here: https://coolstars21.github.io/index.html).

The CS21 SOC invites the community to propose splinter sessions on current hot topics. Proposals for splinter sessions can be made by individuals or groups of individuals. At this time, we are planning on 9 splinter sessions of 180 minutes each to be accommodated in our schedule. The splinter organizers will have access to abstracts of potential contributions submitted on the abstract form.

Splinter organizers should be prepared to produce and maintain a website that includes the schedule and speakers, and describes opportunities for people to participate in the session. The splinter websites will be linked from the main CS21 website, so all meeting participants are aware of the splinter sessions and can make informed choices about which sessions they wish to attend. A complete program for each splinter should be online six weeks prior to the meeting, that is by May 8th, 2020 – and hopefully earlier.

Any splinter session proposal should include the following:

1 Title
2 Names of the session organizers with primary contact information; names of co-organizers if appropriate
3 Two page summary of the goal of the session, including discussion on why this is a timely and relevant topic for CS21
4 List of potential speakers, and a plan for how additional speakers will be solicited (Note that CS21 follows a “one person – one talk” rule. Plenary speakers cannot give a talk in a splinter session, nor can one person talk in more than one splinters session.)
5 Proposed Splinter format that includes a description on how the audience will be involved
6 Commitment to set up a website in support of the splinter, with a complete program online by May 8th, 2020
7 Commitment to contribute a summary of the session for the proceedings

Deadline for splinter session proposals is December 9, 2019. Please submit proposals by mailing a plain text file to cs21@irap.omp.eu with the subject line ‘Splinter Session Proposal’.
We plan to announce accepted splinter sessions by January, 10th 2020, and will provide links to your splinter session website for attendees to submit contributions to your splinter as soon as possible.
Please do not propose splinters that are too similar to the 5 main morning sessions (see the conference program) if you wish to maximise your chances of success.

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SCUBA-do: in memory of Wayne Holland

The Royal Observatory Edinburgh is proud to host a symposium of remembrance for UK ATC scientist Professor Wayne Holland, who sadly died of cancer on May 22nd of this year.

This will be a one-day event with talks from friends and colleagues remembering the life and work of Wayne. It will be held in the Higgs Centre for Innovation conference room at the ROE on Thursday February 13th 2020.

It is anticipated that the day will commence at 10:30 and finish by 18:00 followed by an evening dinner for those interested.

Further details, registration and talk contributions can found at https://www.roe.ac.uk/roe/staff/wsh/symposium-wsh.html.

Ian Robson, Walter Gear, Jane Greaves, Gillian Wright and Jim Dunlop

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ESWW16 Topical Discussion Meeting on big-data and modelling of solar activities and space weather forecasting

There will be a topical discussion meeting on big-data and modelling of solar activities and space weather forecasting during the European Space Weather Week 2019 on 21 November (Thursday) in Liege, Belgium. We welcome all interested researchers and students to join the discussions, exchange ideas and initiate new or strengthen existing collaborations. An abstract could be found below:

Solar activities, especially eruptive events including flares, coronal mass ejections or fast changes in solar wind conditions could induce severe disturbances in the geospace environment. These interruptions could interfere with our communication systems, affect the precision of GPS services, obstruct the smooth operation of satellites and endanger the safety of astronauts. Therefore, the accurate and reliable forecasting of the eruptive solar activities is paramount important to minimize potential risk to our socio-economics.

Up to now, thanks to the fast-growing data acquisition in solar and inter-planetary space observations, large amount of observational solar data are now available. Data mining, machine learning (including artificial intelligence, AI) technologies can help researchers to i) cope with the very rapidly growing amount of observational solar data and ii) discover potential new knowledge from the big data. Furthermore, the enormous amount of solar data enables us to build new and more reliable forecasting models for solar activity prediction. This TDM is dedicated to explore the underlying data processing and modelling technics of predicting solar activities, including, but not limited to, solar data retrieval, automated detection and tracking of solar activities and the construction of solar activity prediction models.

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1st Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis (AIDA) School for Heliophysicists

1st Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis (AIDA) School for Heliophysicists

When: MONDAY, 20 JANUARY 2020 (ALL DAY) TO WEDNESDAY, 22 JANUARY 2020 (ALL DAY)

Where: CINECA – BOLOGNA OFFICES

Registration: OPEN at https://eventi.cineca.it/en/node/1645/register
Deadline for registration is NOVEMBER 29TH 2019.

The number of participants for each edition is limited. Applicants will be selected according to their experience, qualifications and scientific interest BASED ON WHAT WRITTEN IN THE REGISTRATION FORM.

Attendance is free.

This course will be held in ENGLISH.

Coordinators: G.Lapenta, F. Delli Ponti, J.Amaya
Teachers: Morris Reidl (Jülich Supercomputer Center/ University of Iceland), Geert Jan Bex (Flanders Supercomputer Center), Peter Wintoft (Swedish Institute of Space Physics), AIDA consortium members.

Description:
AIDA (http://aida-space.eu/) is an European Commission Horizon 2020 project. Its goal is to encourage the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning for the analysis of heliophysics data. We bring together the best european space scientists working in spacecraft observations, simulations, High Performance Computing and machine learning.
The main objective of this school is to introduce the european heliophysics community to the domain of machine learning and data analysis.

Skills:
By the end of the course each student should learn:
Basics of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised learning, neural networks
Space data gathering, handling and processing
What modern techniques are used in the domain of space physics
What modern techniques are used in other applications outside physics

Target Audience:
The school is oriented towards established scientists, postdoctoral researchers, phd students and master students in space physics, with an interest in data analysis, who want to learn the basics of machine learning, and find inspiration to apply such techniques to their own research.

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UK Solar Orbiter Workshop – 13-14th January 2020

UK Solar Orbiter Workshop

13-14th January 2020
University of St Andrews

We are pleased to announce that the 3rd UK Solar Orbiter Workshop will take place at the University of St Andrews between the 13-14th January 2020. The meeting will occur just before the launch of Solar Orbiter in February 2020.

Abstract submission is open and details of how to submit an abstract can be found on the meeting webpage at:
https://solarorbiter2020.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ .

Registration for the meeting will open shortly, further details to follow.

Information on travel to St Andrews and possible options for accommodation in both hotels and B&B’s can be found at:
https://solarorbiter2020.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/local-info/ .

We recommend booking of accommodation as early as possible as St Andrews is a tourist town.

Please note the key dates below:
• Abstract submission closes : 5th December 2019
• Scientific Program announced: 15th December 2019
• Registration and payment closes: 6th January 2020
• Workshop begins: Monday 13th January 10:30am
• Workshop closes: Tuesday 14th January 4:30pm

Duncan Mackay
Chair LOC

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Announcing the SDO 2020 Science Workshop: A Decade of Discovery

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) 2020 Science Workshop: A Decade of Discovery, will be held October 12-16, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The ten years since the launch of SDO has seen many papers in wide ranges of science results from this mission. As Solar Cycle 25 begins its rise to maximum, we will get together to discuss what we learned about the Sun and anticipate what the new cycle will look like.

This workshop will include invited and contributed oral and poster presentations in 8 themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics and one day of parallel mini-workshops. We encourage your participation and ask that you will share this announcement with colleagues.

Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2020 will be made available at http://sdo2018.lws-sdo-workshops.org/. We anticipate that a topical issue in Soalr Physics will be built around this workshop.

Dean Pesnell
Chair, SDO 2020 Science Organizing Committee

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