Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

Solar Sessions at the 2020 Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Section of the APS

You may be interested in the invited solar talks scheduled for the 2020 Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Physical Society. The virtual meeting solar sessions are scheduled for Friday-Saturday (Dec. 4-5). Registration for the meeting is here: https://engage.aps.org/mas/meetings/annual.

The 30-minute invited talks are listed below.

Session 1 – Solar Eruptions – Friday, Dec. 4 16:30-18:30
– Understanding and Predicting Solar Eruptions with High Resolution Observations and Machine Learning (H. Wang)
– Trigger Shy? A “Rosetta-Stone” Solar Eruption (E. Mason)
– Exploring Electron Energy Distribution in the SEP-associated Radio CME of 2012 July 17 (S. Tun-Beltran)

Session 2 – Solar Flares and Related Phenomena – Saturday, Dec. 5 09:00-11:00
– Radio-based Studies of Solar Flares: Looking Ahead to the Next Solar Maximum in 2025 (D. Gary)
– Solar Flare Energetic Electron Diagnostics: Beyond Hard X-Ray Power-Law Spectra (M. Alaoui)
– Dynamic Imaging Spectroscopy at Radio Wavelengths: New Insight into Energetic Processes on the Sun (S. Yu)

Session 3 – Solar Atmosphere – Saturday, Dec. 5 11:30-13:30
– Answering the Outstanding Questions of Solar Wind Physics (N. Viall)
– Pulsations and Oscillatory Signatures in Solar Flares — A Unique Probe of Fundamental Flare Processes (L. Hayes)
– Understanding the Flaring Solar Atmosphere (G. Kerr)

Session 4 – Saturday, Dec. 5 14:00-16:00
– Solar EUV Emission from the Transition Region and Corona in the Context of Coronal Heating (S. Schonfeld)… continue to the full article

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Upcoming Deadlines! RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting – 08 January 2021

We would like to remind the community of upcoming deadlines for an RAS Speciallist Discussion Meeting on “Space Weather Energy Pathways and Implications for Impacts” to be held remotely on Friday 08 January 2021. Deadlines for abstracts and discussion session contributions is ***this week on Friday 13 November***. Full details and links for submission are included below…

Keynote Speakers:
Prof Emilia Kilpua (University of Helsinki) – Title TBA
Dr Andrew Dimmock (Swedish Institute of Space Physics) – The geomagnetic response in Fennoscandia to the September 2017 storm: observations and modelling

Meeting format:
The meeting abstract can be found on the RAS meeting page: https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/ras-meetings/space-weather-energy-pathways-and-implications-impacts .

The meeting will run from 10:30 – 15:30 on Friday 08 January 2021. The programme will include:
(a) Contributed talks.
(b) A collection of contributed posters, including a poster session.
(c) An open discussion on the September 2017 storm, accompanied by contributed 1-slide lightning talks to aid the discussion.

Further information on talk and poster requirements and a detailed programme will be circulated closer to the time. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact me at jasmine.k.sandhu@northumbria.ac.uk.

Abstract submission:
Abstracts should be submitted via the following Google Form by the end of Friday 13 November: https://forms.gle/BPEuj3WuibUqet5v7.

Contributions to the September 2017 open discussion:
We also invite contributions for the open discussion centred on the energy partitioning and Space Weather impacts of the September 2017 geomagnetic storm, in the format of short 1-slide lightning talks. The lightning talks could feature a particular set of observations, simulations, or modelling results for this event, or highlight a particular question or topic for discussion. If you would like to contribute a slide, please complete the following Google form by the end of Friday 13 November: https://forms.gle/aX1JVqLrmiPkzzCC7.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us!

Many thanks,

Jasmine Kaur Sandhu
Andy Smith, Mullard Space Science Laboratory UCL
Mervyn Freeman, British Antarctic Survey… continue to the full article

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COSPAR cross-disciplinary workshops

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring your attention to the following cross-disciplinary workshops at COSPAR 2021.

Machine Learning for Space Sciences https://cospar2021.gitlab.io/ml4ss/

The widespread availability of machine learning (ML) technologies promises to disrupt scientific disciplines. Popular open source ML frameworks are not only useful for data-driven model fitting, but also for efficient computation of physics-based models. This cross-disciplinary workshop is dedicated to showcasing use cases of ML technologies to observational and simulation data. This includes applications to:

– satellite imagery classification and image restoration (including super-resolution),
– space weather prediction,
– exoplanet detection and characterization,
– astrophysical simulations,
– data augmentation, and
– compressed sensing and inverse problems.

Autonomy for Future Space Science Missions https://cospar2021.gitlab.io/autonomy/

The rise of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques is creating opportunities for space science missions with unprecedented capabilities. By augmenting traditional rule-based decision making with AI techniques (such as decision policies in deep reinforcement learning), robotic missions may become highly autonomous. Furthermore, ML advances will augment the capabilities of crews serving in extended space missions. Questions to be explored in this cross-disciplinary workshop include:

– Across the many disciplines in space sciences, what are the mission requirements that drive the need for autonomy?
– How will ML/AI enable autonomous capabilities?
– What platforms are available for low-power, high-throughput compute in space?
– How can advances in ML augment human capabilities in crewed missions?

Cloud Computing for Space Science https://cospar2021.gitlab.io/cloudcomputing/

This cross-disciplinary workshop will include tutorials and case studies addressing the following questions:

– What cloud compute offerings are available for space researchers to develop workflows?
– How can we use open source software and cloud compute to massively scale scientific data processing?
– How can scientists equip ourselves with the skills to take advantage of these technologies?
– How can cloud compute and web technologies be used to engage the public in citizen science, and for enhancing STEAM* education?

The aim of these workshops is to let researchers share techniques / case studies / solutions / visions of interest to a broad audience beyond target audiences of individual COSPAR scientific commissions.

The abstract submission deadline for the workshops has been extended to Nov 10th. Note: abstracts for these workshops are processed separately than abstracts for COSPAR scientific sessions. We look forward to your contribution.

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AGU-COFFIES Networking Event

Calling all undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs attending AGU in 2020! You are cordially invited to join COFFIES researchers, educators, and other leaders for an informal, wide-ranging discussion on current and future solar physics research topics, as well as the many possible education and career paths in this field.

As one of nine NASA-funded Heliophysics Phase I DRIVE Science Centers (DSCs), COFFIES (Consequences of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun) is working to establish a multi institution DSC to develop the most reliable data driven physical model of solar activity possible.

This session will be taking place on December 7, 2020 at 4:00 PM PT. For more information, please fill out the interest form at www.bit.ly/coffies. For more information about COFFIES, visit out webpage at www.coffies.stanford.edu

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