New RHESSI Science Nugget

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Waiting_Times_of_Solar_Hard_X-Ray_Flares

“Waiting Times of Solar Hard X-Ray Flares” by Markus Aschwanden and Jim McTiernan

CLASP Challenge Led Knowledge Exchange call to meet Challenges in the Medical Sector

STFC is building on Challenge-led activities to maximize Knowledge Exchange (KE) and Impact.

The concept of developing technology demonstrators and industry-ready prototype systems is at the heart of this scheme and is aimed at de-risking the R&D process for industry. It is intended that industry representatives will be involved in all aspects of the scheme from proposal selection to product decision making.

Outline proposals are invited through JeS, from within STFC research community which can provide a solution to one of the many challenges associated with the Medical Sector and for which there would be a demonstrable potential market. It would be expected that any IP generated would reside with the host institution.

The closing date for Outline proposals is 16:00 on 27th April 2010.

This should be two pages maximum and contain:

* Technical outline – explain the technical background to the proposal and its link with STFC funded research.

* Impact to Medical Sector – describe the ultimate goal of the project and detail the way in which development of this technology will address the sectorial challenge identified as relevant to your proposal.

* Timescale and outline work plan – Use this section to describe briefly the steps that will be taken to develop the technology in the course of the project. Include in this the justification for any collaborations (with experts external to the main proposers) that you will develop in the course of the project to support the work.

Proposals should aim to take advantage of the existing effort and skills within the STFC research community, but may include collaborations with other research groups, industry or end users. They will be assessed, in confidence, by a Steering Group with representatives from industry, academia and other stakeholder organizations for relevance to the sectors identified, technological feasibility and the potential for Knowledge Exchange.

Following the assessment of Outline proposals, shortlisted applicants will be invited to develop full proposals with assistance and advice from STFC Innovations staff and panel members. The closing date for full applications will be 16:00 on 8th July 2010. Applicants will be invited to present their final proposals to the Steering Group for consideration in early September. The anticipated start date for successful proposals will be October 2010.

The total funds available for this call will be approximately ?1.5M. It is expected that this will fund a small number of projects ranging from short feasibility studies to larger developmental projects against key milestones, in the case of the latter this may lead to funding being awarded against initial stages only in the first instance.

Membership

All CLASP Panel members have signed standard STFC Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). If applicants require a higher level of confidentiality then please clearly indicate this when you submit your Outline Application.

Chair

* Prof Jenny Thomas – STFC Science Board

Panel

* Dr Tim Bestwick – STFC Director of Innovations
* Dr Trevor Cross – e2v
* Mr. Chris Dorn – QinetiQ
* Dr Bryan Edwards ? STFC Futures Security Champion
* Dr Catherine Ewart- STFC Head of Futures Programme
* Dr Dick Lacey – Home Office
* Prof Dewi Lewis – GE Healthcare
* Dr Val O’Shea – University of Glasgow

Secretary

* Mrs Penny Woodman – Head of External Programmes, STFC

The meeting will begin at 10 am with talks from 10:30 am. The morning session will begin with an invited talk, followed by contributed talks lasting 20 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions.

Following on from last year, a poster session will take place in the afternoon. Please indicate if you wish to submit an abstract to this session.

Please send abstracts, in the following format, to cfo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk before FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER:

TITLE:

AUTHORS:

PRESENTING AUTHOR (IF NOT LEAD AUTHOR):

LEVEL (e.g. PhD, PDRA, Research Fellow…):

ABSTRACT:

POSTER: YES/NO

We look forward to receiving your titles and abstracts.

Best regards,

MIST Council

Mike Hapgood [M.A.Hapgood@rl.ac.uk]

Colin Forsyth [cfo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk]

Andrew Kavanagh [a.j.kavanagh@lancaster.ac.uk]

Betty Lanchester [bsl@phys.soton.ac.uk]

Gabby Provan [gp3@ion.le.ac.uk]

********************Autumn MIST Meeting 2009************************

Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly

27th November 2009

SESSIONS:

Ionospheric Science: Present and Future

Convenor: MIST Committee

The ionosphere is the interface between the neutral atmosphere and the surrounding plasma environment. It is key to providing global communications, connections with orbiting spacecraft and is strongly affected by space weather. Through observations with ground-based instrumentation and spacecraft, we have probed both the ionosphere at Earth and other planets and moons in the solar system. For many years the UK has been at the forefront of ionospheric research. In this session we review present work in ionospheric science and consider new ways the UK can continue to study the ionosphere in the future through projects such as EISCAT 3D, SWARM and LOFAR.

We invite submissions from all areas of ionospheric research (ground-based, space-based, M-I coupling, planetary ionospheres) to be presented during the morning session of the Autumn MIST meeting.

MIST Science

Convenor: Chris Owen

The UK MIST community continues to investigate a wide range of physical processes within our solar system using combinations of ground or space based instrumentation and modelling. We invite contributions on any area of MIST science to be presented during the afternoon session of the Autumn MIST meeting.

From: Colin Forsyth <cfo@MSSL.UCL.AC.UK>

Autumn MIST meeting, 27th November 2009 at Burlington House, Piccadilly

Dear all,

This years Autumn MIST meeting will be held on 27th November in the lecture theatre at the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House,Piccadilly. The meeting will begin at 10 am with talks from 10.30 am.

There will be two sessions; one themed session entitled ?Ionospheric Science: present and future? and one general session (details given below).  We plan to continue with the format of the previous two
years with talks of twenty minutes, including 5 minutes for questions. A poster session will also be available. Abstract submission is not yet open and will be announced shortly

We strongly encourage members of the community to submit abstracts and attend this community meeting. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,
MIST Committee

Mike Hapgood [M.A.Hapgood@rl.ac.uk]
Colin Forsyth [cfo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk]
Andrew Kavanagh [a.j.kavanagh@lancaster.ac.uk]
Betty Lanchester [bsl@phys.soton.ac.uk]
Gabby Provan [gp3@ion.le.ac.uk]

SESSIONS:
Ionospheric Science: Present and Future
Convenor: MIST Committee
The ionosphere is the interface between the neutral atmosphere and the surrounding plasma environment. It  is key to providing global communications, connections with orbiting spacecraft and is strongly affected by space weather. Through observations with ground-based instrumentation and spacecraft, we have probed both the ionosphere
at Earth and other planets and moons in the solar system. For many years the UK has been at the forefront of ionospheric research. In this session we review present work in ionospheric science and consider new ways the UK can continue to study the ionosphere in the future through projects such as EISCAT 3D, SWARM and LOFAR.

We invite submissions from all areas of ionospheric research (ground-based, space-based, M-I coupling, planetary ionospheres) to be presented during the morning session of the Autumn MIST meeting.

MIST General Session
Convenor: Chris Owen
The UK MIST community continues to investigate a wide range of physical processes within our solar system. We invite contributions on any area of MIST science to be presented during the afternoon session of the
Autumn MIST meeting.

To send a message to the list, email mist@jiscmail.ac.uk or visit
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?P1&L=mist
MIST Web page is http://www.mist.ac.uk/

Congratulations to Philippa Browning of Manchester University on promotion to Professor. Well done Philippa!