PHD STUDENTSHIP IN SOLAR SYSTEM PHYSICS
The Solar System Physics Group at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Physics invites applications for a two 3-year STFC-funded PhD studentships, commencing in October 2010.
Energy and matter emerge from the Sun and flow through our heliosphere, interacting with planetary atmospheres and surfaces, powering …
There is a new online popular magazine on Solar Astronomy, written by amateurs and professionals. See http://solar-observer.com/ for the web page. We’d like to encourage UKSP members to support the magazine by suggesting and writing articles.
Two tenured academic posts at the Lecturer level, or exceptionally at a higher level, are available at the University of Birmingham as part of the second phase of the Midlands Physics Alliance, a HEFCE-funded initiative which supports collaborative research and graduate teaching across the neighbouring universities of Birmingham, Nottingham and Warwick.
These appointments will build …
At the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, we presently have available the following two positions in solar physics (please inform any good candidates you know!):
1) A fellowship for a Ph.D. student for 4 years in solar physics. The selected candidate is required to spend 25% of her/his time …
From: James McLaughlin
Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant (3-year position) [reference :CEI09/07 ]
Applications are invited for an internally–funded, Postdoctoral Research Assistant / Senior Research Assistant to undertake research in Solar Physics with Dr James McLaughlin. This postdoctoral position is fixed term for a period of 3 years from September 2010 …
Job Advert
http://work4.northumbria.ac.uk/hrvacs/cei0906
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Mathematics & Statistics
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University (at Newcastle)
Ref: CEI09/06
Salary: SL: £36,715 – £45,155; L: £31,671 – £35,646
You will be required to develop and deliver modules in Statistics and related areas of Mathematics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also initiate and …
This is to announce a new RHESSI Science Nugget, “Cycle 24 has begun,” by Hugh Hudson.
Activity has increased sufficiently to state that we have left the doldrums at last.
Please see this Nugget at http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Cycle_24_has_begun.
Older Nuggets are available at http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets (new series), and http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ (first series).
We …
RAS THESIS PRIZES
The RAS awards 2 prizes annually: the Michael Penston and Keith Runcorn Prizes respectively for the best doctoral theses in astronomy/astrophysics and solar-system sciences/geophysics. Each prize, of £1000, is sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell and is administered by the RAS Higher Education Committee. Where appropriate, runners up are also recognized.
For more information see:
Michael Penston …
This is to announce a new RHESSI Science Nugget, “Relative and (maybe)
Absolute RHESSI Detector Efficiency: 2002-2008″, by Jim McTiernan.
The thousands of flares observed by RHESSI are used to intercalibrate its nine detectors, and we also use the standard GOES soft X-ray data as an external reference.
Please see
We publish these at roughly …
This is to announce a new RHESSI Science Nugget, “A Tiny White-Light Flare”, by Hugh Hudson.
A faint white-light flare serves as a model for …
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