Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

UK SKA Science Committee Town Hall Meeting – Update

Dear All,

With the UK SKA Town Hall Meeting fast approaching, please find below additional information ahead of the day. If you are yet to register, registration is still open and you can register for free here. Registration will close at midnight on the 28th February.

The meeting will be split into two sections. The first Overview Session (13:30 to 15:00) will be a webinar during which we will receive presentations from Robert Braun (SKAO), Anna Bonaldi (SKAO) and Matt Jarvis (Oxford). The webinar login details will be distributed to registered participants on the afternoon of 1st March. Please dial into the webinar just before 13:30 (GMT).

During the Coffee Break at 15:00, we will transfer over to wonder.me to begin the second session. Login details to wonder.me will also be distributed to registered participants on the 1st March. Prior to the Town Hall Meeting, please follow the links for a Tutorial on using wonder.me and its System Requirements. Especially for those who have never used wonder.me, it is important to test the platform out beforehand in case there are any technical issues.

For the Science Working Group Introduction session, a virtual table will be created within wonder.me for each of the Science Working Groups. Discussions at each table will last for 15 minutes before attendees will be asked to rotate to another virtual table. Attendees will be advised on Monday 1st March of the virtual tables they should attend, in line with their interests identified when registering. Please find below the list of Science Working Groups and Discussion Leads. Please note that the discussion times may be subject to change depending on the level of interest in each Science Working Group.

Science Working Group – Discussion Leads
Cosmology – Laura Wolz (University of Manchester)
Gravitational Waves – Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam, GRAPPA)
Cradle of Life – Josep Miquel Girart (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE)
Epoch of Reionization – Andrei Mesinger (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Abhirup Datta (IIT Indore)
Extragalactic Continuum – Beatriz Mingo (The Open University)
Mark Sargent (University of Sussex)
Extragalactic Spectral Lines – Sebastien Muller (Chalmers)
HI Galaxy Science – Anastasia Ponomareva (University of Oxford)
Magnetism – Valentina Vacca (INAF)
Our Galaxy – Jan Forbrich (University of Hertfordshire)
Pulsars – Lina Preston (University of Manchester)
Solar, Heliospheric and Ionospheric Physics – Hamish Reid (Glasgow University)
Transients – David Williams (University of Manchester)
VLBI – Alasdair Thomson (University of Manchester)

Further details of the Town Hall Meeting can be found at: https://ska.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/. Please contact Simon Haynes and Hugh Alabaster if you have any questions.

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UK Space Safety Engagement Meetings: A short series of UK Space weather and space safety engagement meetings – First Announcement

Dear Colleagues.

We would like to draw your attention to the above mini-series of UK-focussed space-weather (and space safety) meetings that are of interest to the international space-weather and space-safety communities and are not restricted to UK-only participants. The mini-series runs during the afternoons (UK time) 24-26 March 2021 (inclusive) thus making them as widely accessible as possible. We are also looking at options of hosting at least some of the recordings online following the mini-series.

To find out further information and to register, please visit the website: http://uksem.iopconfs.org/ – registration is free (please see the registration page from the menu and select which of the days you would like to register for) and the meetings will take place over the Zoom platform – you must register in order to receive the Zoom link – and this link will be E-Mailed out to registrants on Monday 22nd March 2021. The deadline for registration is: 19 March 2021 (12:00 UT) – this will not be extended.

This three-day mini-series starts on Wednesday 24 March 2021 with an overview of the UK’s Space Environment Impact Experts Group (SEIEG) work on a set of Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios (RWCS) for space weather that produced both a technical document (Hapgood et al., 2020) and a full descriptive peer-reviewed article (Hapgood et al., 2021). This is followed by an afternoon of the Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk (SWIMMR) ~£20M project including its progress to date and plans/opportunities for the future on Thursday 25 March 2021. We conclude on Friday 26 March 2021 with a full day follow-on UK Space Safety Meeting picking up where we left off on 20 August 2020 and providing relevant updates, progress on “actions”, etc… This last day holds the strongest UK focus and is more specific to the UK’s interest in UK and ESA Space Safety Programmes.

We look forward to seeing you virtually towards the end of March 2021!

Best wishes,
Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space)

On behalf of the full Online Organising Committee:
Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
Clare Garland (IOP)
Mike Hapgood (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
Ian McCrea (UKRI STFC RAL Space)
Mike Willis (UKSA)
Derek Smale (UKSA)
Marie Tilbee (UKSA)

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EAS2021 Special Session “Science with WEAVE” on 1 July 2021

Dear colleagues

We are happy to announce our Special Session 17 “Science with WEAVE, the WHT’s next-generation spectroscopic survey facility” on 1st of July as part of EAS2021.

At the start of the eight community-led surveys with WEAVE, this timely session will focus on

 WEAVE’s design and capabilities
 WEAVE’s surveys
 First results from WEAVE’s commissioning
 Proposing for WEAVE’s open time
 Accessing WEAVE data

and is designed for all future WEAVE users inside and outside the collaboration. We therefore appreciate if you could circulate this announcement widely among your colleagues.

Details can be found on the conference website: https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2021/session.jsp?id=SS17 and registration and abstract submissions for contributed talks are possible and welcome until March 2.

We actively encourage open-time proposals, synergies with other existing and future instruments and archive use for a variety of science cases that can be realised with WEAVE, so please join us on the 1st of July to discuss scientific possibilities with WEAVE, review first results and share experiences!

With best wishes,
Ulrike Kuchner, Gavin Dalton, Shoko Jin, Maria Monguió Montells and Scott Trager
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ST04 ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’, AOGS 2021 (Virtual meeting). Final reminder.

We would like to draw your attention to the ST04 session: ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’ in the framework of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference.

The 18th Annual AOGS will be a virtual event: 01 – 06 August 2021. The further details regarding abstract submission, registration and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:
https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2021/public.asp?page=abstract_submission.asp

Important!
Abstract submission deadline is 23 February 2021.

ST04 ‘MHD Wave Processes in the Solar Atmosphere’
Conveners:
Dr Viktor Fedun (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), v.fedun@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Sergiy Shelyag (Deakin University, Australia), shelyag@gmail.com
Dr Gary Verth (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), g.verth@sheffield.ac.uk

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. The 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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UK SKA Science Committee Town Hall Meeting – Agenda

Following on from the announcement of the 28th January, we are pleased to advise the agenda for this meeting has now been confirmed.

Registration is still open and you can register for free here https://ska.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/?page_id=40

UK SKA Science Committee Town Hall Meeting – Agenda

Overview Session (1:30 – 3:00)
Presentations from the SKA Observatory and community on the SKA Project and its science

1:30 – 2:00 SKA Project Overview – Robert Braun (SKAO)
Including 15 minutes for Q&A

2:00 – 2:20 SKA Science Goals – Anna Bonaldi (SKAO)

2:20 – 2:40 Pathfinder Introduction – Matt Jarvis (Oxford)

2:40 – 3:00 How do I get involved?
Flipgrid video from Working Group Chairs

Coffee Break (3:00 – 3:20)
Transfer over to wonder.me

Science Working Group Introductions (3:20 – 4:20)
Use of virtual tables through wonder.me to discuss Science Working Groups. Discussion topics may include:

– Activities in the area
– Input from other specialisms and its benefits
– How to get involved
– Any issues to capture

Cream Tea (4:20 – 5:00)
Informal discussions

Please note that this event will be held virtually and participants are asked to abide by the Town Hall Meeting Code of Conduct.

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National Astronomy Meeting to be a Virtual Conference

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the University of Bath have decided to hold the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021) as a virtual conference from 19-23 July.

We are all in an unprecedented and rapidly evolving situation, with governments around the world revising their official guidelines on travel and social contact on a daily basis. We therefore feel that the most responsible and secure way to move forward is to host the conference as an online event.

Apart from running online, we expect to produce an exciting and innovative programme of scientific and other sessions at NAM 2021. We will publish the programme in the near future, and will invite scientists to submit abstracts in the normal way. We look forward to seeing everyone at the conference in July.

Best wishes,
Patricia Schady
On behalf of the LOC

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MIST Online Seminar on Researchers and Public Engagement

We would like to highlight the next seminar in the MIST Online Seminar Series, which is likely to also be of interest to the UKSP community.
The seminar will take place on Tuesday 02 March at 11:00 – 12:00 GMT. Details are included below and full details on the MIST Online seminar series can be found on the website: https://www.mist.ac.uk/meetings/mist-online-seminars. To keep updated on all MIST Online Seminars, please subscribe to the MIST mailing list.


Martin Archer (Imperial College London)
Researchers and public engagement: What role should I play to make a real difference?

Abstract:
A major focus in STEM public/societal engagement concerns engaging with young people, often through schools, in order to positively affect their attitudes or aspirations towards STEM education. However, the ‘science capital’ research has shown that these aspects are complex and resilient, being highly tied to identity and wider experience with school, home, and societal factors. Given these influences, it is not surprising that typical one-off or even short-series approaches to schools engagement, while able to have various positive outcomes, are limited in the extent to which they can have lasting impact. This seminar explores the potential role that physics researchers can play when considering the bigger picture, drawing examples from space plasma physics engagement projects I have pioneered. These include online videos, international art-science collaborations, and a programme of mentored research projects for schools. I will discuss the impacts and mutual benefits, including research results, that have arisen from these novel approaches to engagement.

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/91102553593
Meeting ID: 911 0255 3593
The zoom link is supported by Aberystwyth University and Queen’s University Green Fund.

Many thanks,
Jasmine Kaur Sandhu
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First Announcement – Online Radio Heliophysics Catch-up – 27-30 April 2021 – Zoom!

Dear Colleagues.

Due to pandemic situation with COVID-19 larger gatherings are still very much discouraged (or not possible) and recommended to be moved to online meetings.

The radio heliophysics catch-up meeting (please see: http://orhc.cbk.waw.pl/wp/) aims to gather online a worldwide community from wide radio heliophysics domains and make a room for light, informal meeting where scientific and technical discussions can take place together with an updates on activities and progress made by individual groups around the world. This can cover work from relevant COSPAR ISWAT teams (see: https://iswat-cospar.org/) as well as those just working within our community. The meeting will address the variety of topics including: IPS data analyses, their assimilation in 3-D Heliospheric tomographic and MHD models, Heliospheric Faraday rotation (FR) investigations, ionospheric scintillation studies, and act as a follow-up for current and upcoming space missions like Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter. The planned four-day virtual meeting on Zoom will give opportunity to establish closer working relations and share experience across different methods of radio data analysis as well as better plan and coordinate our fit into the COSPAR ISWAT structure.

The meeting will be held 27-30 April 2021 (across four days), and the core sessions each day will be three hours in duration running 13:00UT-16:00UT where additional discussion sessions are held earlier and later on some of the days as needed during the meeting. The meeting is aimed to take on the flavour of an informal workshop with plenty of time for discussion, hands-on collaborations, and planning going forward.

For more information as it becomes available and to register (there is NO REGISTRATION FEE), please go to: http://orhc.cbk.waw.pl/wp/ – the closing deadline for both registration and abstract submission is: 31 March 2021.

Very many thanks, and we look forward to “virtually” seeing you at the end of April…

Mario.

On behalf of the Online Organising Committee (OOC):
Mario M. Bisi, UKRI STFC RAL Space
Barbara Matyjasiak, CBK PAN
Richard Fallows, ASTRON
Hanna Rothkaehl, CBK PAN

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