Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

Fall AGU – Space Weather Research and Forecasting: End-User Requirements and Future Modelling Capabilities – FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear All.

This is our first call for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH and SM (and SA, NH, and P cross-listed) SWIRLS Extreme Events & Hazards session “Space Weather Research and Forecasting: End-User Requirements and Future Modelling Capabilities” at the upcoming ‘mostly virtual’ Fall AGU with some on-site attendance in San Francisco, CA, 07-11 December 2020 (https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting).

The FINAL abstract-submission deadline is 29 July 2019 2020 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 30 July 2020 at 03:59UT (see: https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/2020/Present/Abstracts) for full details on abstract submissions).

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/103517.

The full session details are below. To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member. First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions. You can also submit one abstract to certain exempt sessions separately without counting towards this quota. You can also be presenting author on multiple abstracts.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the alternate-format sessions which will likely include oral talks, panelists, and posters (depending on the final Fall AGU Virtual setup).

This is further a follow-on from previous years which have included very-active poster sessions, good interactions at talks, and excellent audience participation at the panel session.

Best wishes, and thanks,

Mario (on behalf of all the session Convenors).

Session ID#: 103517

Session Description:
Society’s growing reliance on advanced technology means an increasing vulnerability to space weather impacts. To effectively mitigate the effects of space weather on critical infrastructure, we must evaluate developing models, instruments, and data-products in terms of: (i) Current requirements, and (ii) Advancements above the status quo that blue-sky investigations can provide.

In this year’s session, the sixth incarnation since 2015, the panel will focus on addressing end-users’ requirements. Fully engaging the end-user in the Research to Operations and Operations to Research (R2O2R) process is critical in achieving capabilities and end-products that best suit users’ needs. Example panel questions are: what advancements are required to develop reliable physics-based predictions of major solar eruptions at least 24 hours in advance? How can we best address power-grid operator requirements for CME forecasts five days in advance?

For this session, we welcome contributions on all aspects of space weather, including novel physics-based modelling concepts.

Primary Convener: Mario M. Bisi, UKRI STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom.
Co-Conveners: Antti A. Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Michele D. Cash, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States; and Suzy Bingham, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom.

Co-Organized between:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Cross-Listed:
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
NH – Natural Hazards
P – Planetary Sciences

SWIRL Themes:
Extreme Events & Hazards

Index Numbers:
4323 – Natural Hazards: Human impact
7934 – Space Weather: Impacts on technological systems
7959 – Space Weather: Models
7999 – Space Weather: General or miscellaneous

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ESWW2021 Poster/Logo Competition is now OPEN!

Dear Colleagues.

This is an invitation to design and create a logo/poster for the for the 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2021) Poster Competition.

Although, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed the ESWW from November 2020 to October 2021, we feel that it is still appropriate and important to keep some of the normal ESWW activity going to ensure that ESWW2021 remains a key focus for the global Space Weather community. Of course, the additional benefit of going ahead with the Logo/Poster competition is that the winning design will have a much longer exposure period on the website and on social media platforms and therefore may be of even greater benefit to the winning designer this time around.

Our design theme this year is: “Global Partnership for the Space Weather Sector”, and our panellists will be announced in due course on the competition website: http://esww17.iopconfs.org/competition – where the full details of how to enter and what is expected and required for your entry.

The deadline for submissions through the website is 16th August 2020 – no other methods of entry will be accepted.

The selected image will be used on the following conference material:

• Website, programme, on site posters and banners, presentations and other ESWW branded items where possible.
• Additionally, the designer wins the D4T medal which gives free access to ESWW2022 (ESWW18)

Full terms and conditions of the entry can be found at the website noted above.

Thanks in advance for your entries, and we look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow in October 2021.

Best wishes,

Mario (sent on behalf of Barbara-Ann Curran, ESWW2021 LOC Chair)

Dr Mario M. Bisi
ESWW2021 PC Chair
ESWW2021 LOC Vice Chair

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European Space Weather Symposium 2020 (ESWS2020) – Save The Date Announcement

Dear Colleagues.

We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming online meeting, the first European Space Weather Symposium (ESWS) which will take place the same week as ESWW2020 would have occurred, 02-06 November 2020. The meeting, known as ESWS2020, will be entirely virtual to the space weather community around the globe and will be run over the Zoom platform. Further details will follow in due course.

For now, please save the date in your calendars and look out for further announcements and updates throughout early northern-hemisphere Summer 2020.

We are looking forward to seeing you, virtually, 02-06 November 2020 on Zoom.

Best wishes,

Mario.

Dr Mario M. Bisi
ESWS2020 PC Chair
ESWS2020 OOC Vice Chair
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STFC-funded summer school on Solar-Stellar Connection

Registration is now open for an STFC-funded summer school on the Solar-Stellar Connection.

The summer school will run online between 14th-18th September 2020. Registration is free and the deadline to register is 31st August 2020.

More details can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/stellar_school

Our summer school aims to cover topics from solar and stellar interiors, through solar/stellar atmospheres, and out into interplanetary space and the interactions between stars and planets.

The schedule can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/stellar_school/schedule

For more information contact Anne-Marie Broomhall: a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk

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2020 AGU – Preparing for Solar Cycle 25: Recent Successes, Current Challenges and Next Steps in Solar Flare Modelling

The 2020 AGU Fall Meeting is going to be mostly virtual (https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting).

A session relevant to the UKSP community, on the topic of solar flare modelling (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/104016), is described below.

Abstracts are solicited that discuss any aspect of flare modelling, model-data comparisons, or observations that present challenges to models.

The meeting will take place 7-11th December 2020. Abstract submission is now open, and will close on 29th July 2020.

Any questions about this session can be directed to graham.s.kerr@nasa.gov.

Title: “Preparing for Solar Cycle 25: Recent Successes, Current Challenges and Next Steps in Solar Flare Modelling”

Summary: “Solar flare models have improved significantly in recent years, and have been used to investigate all aspects of the flare process, from reconnection and energy release, to energy transport, and the formation of the radiation that characterizes flares. Despite these advances, achieving consistency with certain observables is still beyond our current capabilities. As we approach solar cycle 25, and in anticipation of high-quality flare observations from the DKIST, BBSO, Solar Orbiter, and other sources, it is vital that we make concerted efforts to identify the major limitations in models and work towards improvements. We invite contributions that discuss flare modelling, including: recent advances, the innovative use of existing models, bridging the gap from 1D to 3D, specific challenges, model-model and model-data comparisons, and future development. Contributions can focus on both loop or global modelling, and can cover different aspects of energy release, and energy, radiation or mass transport in flares.… continue to the full article

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ESWW2021 New Dates!

Dear Colleagues.

Having re-arranged the dates for the 17th European Space Weather Week in Glasgow twice already, firstly because of the COP 26 Climate Change Meeting and then as a result of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, we have to change the dates again because of the re-arranged COP 26 Climate Change Meeting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52814996.

Therefore, the 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2021) is now scheduled for 25th-29th October 2021: http://esww17.iopconfs.org/

We continue to look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow in 2021 for ESWW2021.

All the best,

Mario
ESWW PC Chair
ESWW LOC Vice Chair

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UKSP Specialist Discussion Day 30th July: First announcement and call for abstracts

With the absence of NAM this year, the UKSP council will hold a one-day online meeting covering all aspects of solar physics, but with particular emphasis on promoting the work of early career researchers and PhD students.

The meeting will be held on the 30th July and it will cover three sessions:

  1.  Open session on solar physics

In this session we welcome all contributions describing advances relating to physical processes occurring from the interior to the outer atmosphere, based on space- or ground-based observations, simulations or theory.

2.   Sun-Heliosphere session

This session will discuss the connections between the Sun and the heliosphere: in-situ and remote-sensing observations, and related theory and modelling work, including contributions that discuss results from Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.

3.   Online poster session covering all solar/heliosphere topics.

Each oral session will be led by an invited talk from an early career researcher, followed by contributed talks with contributions from early career researchers and PhD students from across the UK given priority. While preference will be given to early career researchers/PhD students for oral presentations, no such restriction is applied to our online poster session.

If you would like to present your work at the meeting please send your abstract to A.S.Hillier@exeter.ac.uk by 7th July using the following form:

Name:
Affiliation:
Career Stage:
Title:
Abstract:
Collaborators:
Preferred Session (1, 2 or 3):

More details regarding the meeting website and online platform will be announced soon.

We look forward to seeing you online on the 30th July!

UKSP council on behalf of the meeting SOC.

SOC:
Mykola Gordovskyy (Manchester)
David Long (UCL)
Karen Meyer (Dundee)
Huw Morgan (Aberystwyth)
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School 2020

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/physics/astronomy/stfc-intro-2020/index.aspx

Registration for this year’s introductory School, which will be delivered online, is now open. To register, please visit:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/physics/astronomy/stfc-intro-2020/registration.aspx

Registration is free for all delegates.

The School will provide young researchers with introductory lectures covering the key areas and latest results from across the discipline, with core content agreed by the UK Solar Physics (UKSP) and Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) communities. Additional material and added-value content beyond the core subjects will this year focus on two areas: first, the new opportunities afforded by the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and advanced statistical analysis techniques; and second, a session on the “solar-stellar connection” and the importance of solar-system studies in a wider context (e.g. for the characterisation and study of exoplanets).

Details of the programme may be found at:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/physics/astronomy/stfc-intro-2020/programme.aspx

Contact information is at:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/physics/astronomy/stfc-intro-2020/contact.aspx

Bill Chaplin, on behalf of the LOC
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