Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

Announcing the Rescheduled SDO 2021 Science Workshop: A Cycle of Discovery

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) invites you to the SDO 2021 Science Workshop: A Cycle of Discovery, to be held June 28-July 2, 2021, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, BC, Canada. All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend.

A wide range of science results have been produced by SDO during the almost complete sunspot cycle since its launch. 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.

The invited speakers who will introduce themed sessions spanning SDO‘s wide range of research topics are:
Junwei Zhao: Subsurface Flows, the Dynamo, and the Solar Cycle
Stan Solomon: Phun with Photons: Response of atmospheres to EUV variability
Paulo Simoes: Short-term Solar Variability
Aimee Norton: Magnetic Flux in the SDO Era: From Emergence to Eruption
KD Leka: SDO for Space Weather: Science and Applications
Dan Seaton: The SDO Corona and Beyond
Patrick Antolin: Energy and Mass Transfer Between the Corona and the Chromosphere
Xudong Sun: Vector Magnetic Field: Progress and Prospects

There will also be one day of parallel mini-workshops and an EUV calibration workshop.

Registration, abstract submission, and other information about SDO 2021 will be made available at http://sdo2020.lws-sdo-workshops.org/.

The Hyatt Regency can be explored at https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/canada/hyatt-regency-vancouver/yvrrv

We are assessing the need for childcare during this workshop. Please send your care requirements to William.D.Pesnell (at) NASA.gov. If you need for a visa to travel to Canada for this workshop you should apply by the end of January 2021.

Dean Pesnell
Chair, SDO 2021 Science Organizing Committee

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UK Space Safety Community Meeting – Registration is Open!

Dear Colleagues.

This is just a reminder that the registration for the UK Space Safety Community Meeting will close on 17th August 2020: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-space-safety-community-meeting-tickets-114867686342 – if you wish to participate in the online meeting you must register ahead of the deadline please.

An updated agenda is given below as well as the original announcement.

Best wishes, and we hope to see you “virtually” on 20th August 2020.

Mario (on behalf of the organisers)
Mike Willis (UKSA), Barbara-Ann Curran (Met Office), Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space), Claire Garland (IOP), and Marie Tilbee (UKSA).

Morning Session 09:00h-13:00h

09:00h – Online Participation Guidance & System Testing (Mario Bisi – UKRI STFC RAL Space) 15 mins
09:15h – Opening Remarks (Mike Willis – UKSA) 5 mins

Chair: Mike Willis

09:20h – Keynote: UK interests in the ESA Space Safety Programme – (Maria Codey – UKSA) 25 mins (inc Q&A)

Focus Area 1: Space Weather
· 09:45h – MOSWOC – Requirements & Reasonable Worst Case (Mark Gibbs – Met Office) 15 mins
· 10:00h – Space Weather Core Activities (Mike Willis – UKSAs) 15 mins

10:15h – Short break – 5 mins

• The Lagrange L5 Mission
o 10:20h – Overview & status – (Mike Willis – UKSA) 15 mins

o 10:35h – Mission design/status Airbus (Tim Harris – Airbus) 15 mins (inc Q&A)

o 10:50h – Remote Sensing Instruments (Jackie Davies – RAL) 15 mins (inc Q&A)

o 11:05h – In-situ instruments (Dhiren Kataria – UCL) 15 mins (inc Q&A)

11:20h – Break 15 mins – restart 11.35h

Chair: Mario Bisi

• Space Weather Infrastructure & International opportunities
o 11:35h – New SSCC/ESC ITT (Chris Perry – RAL) 10 mins

o 11:45h – UNCOPUOS (Mike Hapgood – RAL) 10 mins

o 11:55h – National Academy of Sciences & Bilateral Opportunities (Mark Gibbs) 15 mins

o 12:10h – SWIMMR – progress in NERC and STFC calls and next steps including plans for S6 – Ian McCrea 20 mins

o 12:30h – Discussion – Next steps for Space Weather in the UK (Lead by Mario) 30 mins

13:00h – Lunch (30 mins)

Afternoon Session 14:00h – 17:30h

14:00h – Keynote: ESA Space Safety Programme – Wider Developments (Holger Krag – ESA) 30 Mins (inc Q&A)

Focus Area 2: SST, Debris & Cleanspace

Chair: Marie Tilbee

• Debris & Cleanspace
o 14:30 – 15:00 Core Activities and missions (Mike Willis – UKSA, Tim Flohrer – ESA) 30 mins (inc Q&A)

15:00h – Short break – 15 mins

Chair: Marie Tilbee

• SST
o 15:15 – 15:45 – SST Core Activities (Tim Flohrer – ESA) 30 mins (inc Q&A)

o 15:45 – 16:15 – UK National SST Development (Jacob Geer – UKSA) 30 mins (inc Q&A)

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Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and Beyond

We are going to organize the Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and Beyond.

We aim for not just an online replacement of another Helicity Thinkshop but more flexible communication involving rather broader community, by scientific interests, age, geographic coverage and experience in science, which would never physically gather for a traditional off-line focus event. The format of this activity is seen as a flexible communication platform rather than just a handful of meetings, so a wide bunch of scientists and students can optionally attend, participate and communicate with each other.

The proposed schedule of the Program will be spread over approximately 8 weeks between September through November/December 2020 with one or two sessions per week. Each session can be formed of either one 60+ minute talk, or two 30-40 minute talks with complementary discussion. We expect at least 15-20 presentations of various formats over the Program. The timing of each session can be arranged by convenience of the speaker and the community with account of their time zones. Afterwards, the lecture materials, such as podcasts, presentations files (at least brief) may be published fully or partly online. If you would like to give a talk, please contact the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) by email helicityprogram@gmail.com.

The preliminary announcement is here: https://www.izmiran.ru/helicity2020/ . More detailed information will be available closer to the dates of the Program.

Kirill Kuzanyan (IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia),on behalf of Online Organization Committee

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