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UK Solar Orbiter Workshop 2020: Final Announcement and Invited Speakers

UK Solar Orbiter Workshop 2020: Final Announcement and Invited Speakers

This is the final call for abstracts for the UK Solar Orbiter Workshop which will take place on the 13-14th January 2020 at the University of St Andrews. To submit an abstract or to register please go to the meeting webpage at:

https://solarorbiter2020.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Key deadlines are:

• Abstract submission closes: 10th December 2019
• Scientific Program announced: 15th December 2019
• Registration closes: 6th January 2020.

Due to the imminent launch of Solar Orbiter in February 2020 we have a range of invited speakers on both mission and science related topics, including

Frédéric Auchère: Overview of the Solar Orbiter remote sensing payload:
development and operations

Prantika Bhowmik: Formation and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes During Solar Minimum

Chris Chen: Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere and its role in Driving the Solar Wind

Silvia Dalla : Solar Energetic Particles: outstanding questions and Solar Orbiter

Alessandra Giunta : Science with SPICE: synergy between small and wide FOV remote sensing instruments on Solar Orbiter

Rachel Howe: Helioseismology of subsurface flows and their relation to the solar dynamo

Allan Macneill: Observational Studies of Solar Wind Origins and the Sun-Heliosphere Connection Ahead of Solar Orbiter

Huw Morgan: Connecting the Sun to the Solar Wind: open questions, recent advances, and the role of Solar Orbiter

Richard Morton : The role of Alfvenic waves in driving the solar wind

Hamish Reid TBC

David Stansby : Directly comparing coronal and solar wind composition

David Williams : Solar Orbiter operations

Duncan Mackay (LOC) and Gherardo Valori (SOC)

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Annual Computing and STFC Town Meeting – Friday 17 January 2020 – Registration now open

The STFC Computing Advisory Panel has reinstated the Annual Computing and STFC Town Meeting, which I can announce will take place on Friday 17 January at Imperial College London, with a capacity for ~100. This is a community-driven event with attendance by STFC and registration is now open, please REGISTER HERE – https://indico.cern.ch/event/867670/. Further information regarding the agenda and logistics will also be uploaded in due course.

As CAP Chair, I would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to two items of interest. Firstly, the recent appointment of James Hetherington as the inaugural UKRI Director of e-Infrastructure – https://www.ukri.org/news/new-ukri-director-for-e-infrastructure-appointed/ , and secondly, the publication of the two reports that constitute the UKRI ‘Infrastructure Roadmap’ – https://www.ukri.org/research/infrastructure/.

At such key junctures, and as we as a community develop to meet the scientific computing challenges of the 2020s and beyond, it is essential that such fora exist in order that we may build cross-community engagement with cross-community challenges, and of course, solutions! With this in mind, I look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible for what will be a diverse day of activity.

Many thanks,
Prof David Colling, Imperial College London
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Python in Astronomy 2020

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that applications are now open for Python in Astronomy 2020, to be held 20 – 24 April 2020 at Trinity College, Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.

Though the application form will be open until 23:59 UTC on 6 January 2020, I encourage you to complete the form soon to make sure you don’t miss the deadline.

The application form is at: https://forms.gle/mtdm6QKENdY8Y1Ph9

More information about the conference, including links to past years, is available at: http://openastronomy.org/pyastro/2020/

Finally, a brief excerpt from the description of the conference:

In addition to sharing information about state-of-the art Python Astronomy packages, the workshop will focus on improving interoperability between astronomical Python packages, mentoring current open-source contributors, and developing educational materials for Python in Astronomy. The meeting is therefore not only aimed at current developers, but also educators and research group leaders who are interested in being involved in these efforts.

Participant selection will be made with the goal of enhancing the Python in Astronomy community and we encourage requests to attend from all career levels. Effort will also be made to select participants who have contributed meaningfully to the Python in Astronomy ecosystem via providing educational materials, documentation, and/or code contributions. This conference is neither intended to be an introduction to Python nor only for expert-level Python developers.

Thanks,

Will Barnes

On behalf of the SOC: Monica Bobra (co-chair), Andrew Leonard (co-chair), Will Barnes, Clara Brasseur, Juan Luis Cano, Rebecca Lange, Sophie Murray

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ST22 ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’, AOGS 2020

We would like to draw your attention to the ST22 session: ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’ in the framework of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference.

The 17th Annual AOGS will take place in Sono Belle Vivaldi Park, Hongcheon, South Korea, 28 Jun to 4 Jul 2020. Further details regarding abstract submission, registration, accommodation and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2020/public.asp?page=abstract.asp

Important!
Abstract submission deadline is 21 January 2020.

ST22 ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’

Conveners:
Dr Viktor Fedun (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), v.fedun@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Gary Verth (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), g.verth@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Sergiy Shelyag (Deakin University, Australia), shelyag@gmail.com

Session Description
A wide and complex variety of solar magnetic configurations support the propagation of a wide range of MHD waves at different spatio-temporal scales. Thankfully, due to current (and near future) high resolution instruments (SST, DST, DIKIST, EST, COSMO, Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe) we have observational data with a quality newer achieved before. For a better understanding of observable signatures of MHD waves, associated plasma processes and to fully utilise the diagnostic capabilities of such high resolution observational instruments, the development of advanced mathematical models (analytical and numerical) is crucial. This session will provide a timely platform for joint discussions between world-leading experts, early career researchers and PhD students in the fields of solar observational analysis and numerical analytical / modelling, in order to exploit different approaches in the investigation of MHD plasma wave processes in the solar atmosphere. This session will cover the following research topics: Multi-scale (non-)linear MHD wave excitation and propagation; wave mode conversion; resonant absorption, turbulence and magnetic reconnection; coherent plasma motions (e.g. e.g., vortex, source/sink type motions and laminar flows); energy transport.

With our Best Regards,
Viktor Fedun, Sergiy Shelyag and Gary Verth

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47th IOP Plasma Physics Conference, 21-24 April 2020, Institute of Physics, London, UK

The annual Institute of Physics (IOP) Plasma Physics Conference is organised by the IOP Plasma Physics Group and covers all aspects of plasma physics, including magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, astrophysical, solar and space plasmas, low density and technological/industrial plasmas, low temperature plasmas, high energy density and laser plasmas, dusty and complex plasmas, plasma surface interactions, plasma applications including medical applications and plasma diagnostics.

Submissions for oral and poster presentations are now being accepted. Abstract should be a maximum of 500 words including figures and references. The link for abstract submission is the following:

http://plasma2020.iopconfs.org/abstracts

Key dates

Abstract submission deadline 24 January 2020
Early registration deadline 6 March 2020
Registration deadline 10 April 2020

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COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting: Second Announcement

10-14 February 2020

The inaugural working meeting of the COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT) will be held on 10-14 February 2020 at the Radisson Resort, Port Canaveral, Florida, USA. The ISWAT initiative is a global hub addressing challenges across the field of space weather. Information about the ISWAT initiative is available at: https://iswat-cospar.org/.

This meeting also comes inside the launch window of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft from nearby Cape Canaveral.

Go to https://www.iswat-cospar.org/wm2020_registration to register for the meeting now. Submission deadline is 13 December 2019.

ISWAT consists of Teams that focus on a variety of key problems and topics in space weather research and forecasting. The Teams are organised into Clusters (by domain, phenomena, impact, or overarching activities), to facilitate collaboration and ensure complementarity. On the ISWAT website you can register a new Team and request to join registered teams.
Go to “Join ISWAT” tab at the ISWAT website https://iswat-cospar.org to register a Team and/or to join an existing Team(s).

The COSPAR ISWAT initiative is built upon its precursor – the International Forum on Space Weather Capabilities Assessment (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/) initiated during the 2017 International CCMC – LWS Working Meeting: “Assessing Space Weather Understanding and Applications” (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/CCMC-LWS_Meeting/). The progress of Forum working teams is highlighted in the AGU Space Weather Journal special issue: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1542-7390.SW_CASS.

Active Forum Teams are anticipated to register into ISWAT and to participate in the February 2020 ISWAT Meeting.

The 10-14 February 2020 ISWAT meeting will:

-Bring together experts in space weather phenomena across all domains and experts in space environment impacts.
-Improve understanding of user community needs and set targets for Teams to address.
-Expand on-going community-wide research projects and jump-start new campaigns.
-Set the stage for ISWAT’s future, understand how Teams and Clusters must interact in order to achieve long-term objectives.
-Develop approach on how ISWAT can feed into national space weather programs.
-Facilitate establishment of multi-disciplinary global space weather community.
-Develop approach to updating the COSPAR global space weather roadmap into a living document.

We envisage around 100-150 participants and have 10 breakout rooms available at the venue.

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ESPM-16 first announcement: 7-11 Sept 2020, Turin Italy

Dear colleague,

this is the first announcement for the 16th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-16) that will take place in Turin (Italy) in the period 07-11 September, 2020. The meeting will be hosted in the Aula Magna of Turin University, located in the centre of Turin.

ESPMs are organized by the Board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD), a joint Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) and the European Astronomical Society (EAS).

ESPMs are held every 3 years with the purpose of bringing together researchers from Europe and beyond, who are active in the theoretical and observational study of solar and solar-terrestrial phenomena.

The tentative scientific programme of ESPM-16 includes the following sessions:

Session 1: Solar Interior, Dynamo, Large-Scale Flows and the Solar Cycle
Session 2: The Solar Atmosphere: Heating, Dynamics and Coupling
Session 3: Fundamental Plasma Processes in the Solar Atmosphere: Magnetic Reconnection, Waves, Emission, Particle Acceleration
Session 4: From Radio to Gamma Rays: Near-Sun Manifestations and Triggering of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
Session 5: Solar-Terrestrial Relations, Solar Wind, Space Weather and Space Climate

The online registration and abstract submission platforms will open on 10th February, with a deadline on 13th April 2020. The ESPM-16 Local (espm16.loc.oato@inaf.it) and Scientific Organizing Committees are currently working to secure funding that will hopefully provide limited travel and/or local support mainly to young researchers and participants from less privileged regions.

Further details related to registration fees, abstract submission, accommodation, financial support and relevant deadlines will be circulated in a second announcement and will also be posted on the meeting’s website: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/ESPM-16 .

We look forward to welcoming you to Turin,

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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on MHD Wave and Oscillations

Dear colleague,

There will be a Royal Astronomical Society specialist discussion meeting on Friday, 22 May 2020.

The topic will be “MHD oscillations and waves from the photosphere to the corona”.

Discussions will take place around topics including but not limited to: ubiquitous intensity swirls in the lower solar atmosphere; transverse oscillations in magnetic loops – both in terms of solar magneto-seismology and dissipation mechanisms; Alfvén waves in the outer atmosphere; slow-mode MHD waves within coronal structures; and waves in light-walls. Talks and posters are both accepted. We also encourage speakers to highlight one or two interesting SUCs or specific observing sequences that would help to achieve your science with the upcoming 4-m class solar telescopes.

Abstract submissions will be open in January 2020.

More information at :

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UK Solar Orbiter Workshop 2020 Registration Open

UK Solar Orbiter Workshop 2020 Registration Open

13-14th January 2020
University of St Andrews

Registration for the meeting is now open and details of how to register and submit an abstract can be found on the meeting webpage at:

https://solarorbiter2020.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/.

Please note the key dates:
• 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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