Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

EGU Session “Theory and Simulation of solar plasmas” – Abstact Submission deadline January 13th

Dear Colleague
We would like to bring your attention to our session

Theory and Simulation of Solar System Plasmas
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/session/40159

At the EGU 2021 annual meeting (virtual of course)

Abstract submission deadline: 13 January 2021, 13:00 CET
Link for abstract submission: https://egu21.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html

Session Description:

The “Theory and Simulation of Solar System Plasmas” session solicits presentations of the latest results from theoretical investigations and numerical simulations in space plasma-physics from microscopic to global scales, in comparison with experiments and observations in the heliosphere: at the Sun, in the solar corona, in interplanetary space and in planetary magnetospheres. There are challenging questions in fundamental solar system plasma physics which require the analyses of huge amounts of data, in particular of the particle kinetics. Machine learning techniques have to be used. We further encourage presentations of theory and simulation results relevant to current, forthcoming and proposed space missions. Each year a topic of special interest is chosen as a focus of the session. For 2021 this focus will be on synergies between observations in the solar wind made by Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe with theory and simulation.

With the occasion, happy and healthy 2021.

Joerg Buechner
Shangbin Yang
Philippa Browning
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Second announcement of the Solar Orbiter school at Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for the Solar Orbiter school at Ecole de Physique des Houches (April 6th-9th 2021) is now open at https://solarorbiter.sciencesconf.org .

While we are still facing an on-going worldwide pandemic, the conference center may open but only to a very limited amount of participants. Furthermore, different situations from different locations in the world may mean that international travels will not be possible at the time the school will be held. Therefore, we will provide a live access to the online lectures/hands-on sessions/presentations as well. We therefore request interested participants (for both on-site and remote participants) to register online, to assess the interest in the community (note that registration for remote participation will be capped to allow proper online interactions).

While we monitor the situation, the current calendar is as follows: pre-registration on the website will close on January 31st, 2021. Applicants will be notified early March, 2021 at the latest.

For more information about the program and updates, please see the website.

Contact: solarorbiter@sciencesconf.org

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Announcement for CoolStars20.5 and CoolStars21 meetings

Dear colleagues,

We hope that this message finds you well. With the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemics it is now clear that it is best to postpone once more the organization of CS21. The SOC took the difficult decision to postpone until 2022 the conference. We now have a new date and will be delighted to welcome you for CoolStars21 in Toulouse in 2022, from the 4th to the 9th of July! (https://coolstars21.github.io)
Please pre-register if you wish to have news and updates about the conference (the pre-registration form will soon be available).

The CoolStars21 SOC also decided, due to the long gap between CS20 and CS21, to organize a 3-day remote conference, named CoolStars20.5, because so much exciting science has emerged since CS20. The CS20.5 virtual conference (http://coolstars20.cfa.harvard.edu/cs20half/index.html) will be our next meeting point on March 2-4 2021, until we meet (in-person) at CS21 in Toulouse in 2022. Abstract submission for CS20.5 is now open, please visit the web site!

Best regards,
A.S. Brun, J. Bouvier and P. Petit, for the SOC and LOC

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NAM2021 call for session proposals – deadline extended to 8th January

Dear all

We would like to inform you that the deadline for session proposal submissions for NAM 2021 has been extended to Friday 8th January at 17:30UTC in order to allow more time for submission after the Christmas period. You can find more details on our NAM2021 webpages:

https://nam2021.org/

In the meantime, we wish you a safe and enjoyable Christmas break,

Patricia Schady
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First announcement of the Solar Orbiter school at Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

First announcement of the Solar Orbiter school at Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

We are pleased to announce that we are organising a school dedicated to Solar Orbiter, to be held at the Ecole de Physique des Houches, April 6th-9th (2021).

Overview and objectives:

The exploitation of the ESA Solar Orbiter mission will shape the activity of the international heliophysics community for the years to come. Its success will depend on our ability to combine in situ and remote sensing data. This school held in the French Alps, will provide training to young scientists in using the extremely various datasets and the tools specifically developed to analyze them. It targets an international audience primarily composed of PhD students and junior postdoctoral researchers.

It will provide short presentations of the mission instruments and first results, hands-on activities for data analyses, as well as sessions for presentation by students. The school is organised by the French community, but is open to everyone.

While we are still facing an on-going worldwide pandemic, the conference center may open but only to a very limited amount of participants. Furthermore, different situations from different locations in the world may mean that international travels will not be possible at the time the school will be held. Therefore, we will provide a live access to the online lectures/hands-on sessions/presentations as well. We will need interested participants (for both on-site and remote participants) to register online, to assess the interest in the community (note that registration for remote participation will be capped to allow proper online interactions).

While we monitor the situation, the current calendar is as follows: pre-registrations will open on December 15th, 2020 on the school website and will close on January 31st, 2021. Applicants will be notified early March, 2021 at the latest.

For more information about the program and updates see:
https://solarorbiter.sciencesconf.org

Scientific and local organising committee:

Miho Janvier (IAS)

Matthieu Kretzschmar (LPC2E)

Nicolas André (IRAP)

Frédéric Auchère (IAS)

Éric Buchlin (IAS)

Vincent Génot (IRAP)

Alexis Rouillard (IRAP)

Contact: solarorbiter@sciencesconf.org

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Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and Beyond: Final sessions of 2020 and plans for 2021

We have organized the Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and Beyond, see earlier announcement https://www.uksolphys.org/conference/online-advanced-study-program-on-helicities-in-astrophysics-and-beyond-2/ . The aim of the Program for is not just an online replacement of traditional off-line meetings such as Helicity Thinkshops 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 initial schedule of the Program is for approximately 8 weeks and we already had five session completed between September through November 2020. Now we are going to arrange three more sessions in December. Each session is usually formed by one 60 minute talk, and one shorter 30 minute talk which includes questions and complementary discussion. The timing of each session is arranged by convenience of the speaker and the community with account of their time zones. Afterwards, the lecture materials, such as podcasts, presentations slides (at least brief) are published fully or partly online. The information about the Program, downloads and updates are available on https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru, see also the announcement on https://www.izmiran.ru/helicity2020/.

If you are interested please register at https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru. The information about the forthcoming events and access details are available there and they are sent around to registered participants.

The next two sessions are as follows:
Session 6 on Thursday, December 3:
13:00-13:30 UTC Shin Toriumi (JAXA/ISAS, Tokyo, Japan) “Convective Flux Emergence Simulations of the Generation of Flare-prolific Active Regions”
13:30-14:30 UTC Olga Khabarova (IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia) “Polar magnetic tornadoes – the structures that connect the Sun and the heliosphere”
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Session 7 on Friday, December 11:
1300-1330 Sung-Hong Park (ISEE Nagoya, Japan) “Magnetic Helicity Flux across Solar Active Region Photospheres: Hemispheric Sign Preference in Solar Cycle 24”
1330-1430 Avishek Ranjan (IIT Bombay, India) “On the generation and segregation of kinetic helicity in geodynamo simulations”
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Session 8 is tentatively planned for the following week before December 18. The Program supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant 20-02-22008 will be over in December this year but we consider extending it and volunteering for further session after the New Year 2021. If you would like to give a talk at the future sessions, please use the submission function in your account on https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru. Have you further questions, please contact the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) by email helicityprogram@gmail.com and helicity2020@izmiran.ru.

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