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Dear colleague,
I would like to draw your attention to the recent opening of the call for IAU membership applications for 2020.
We would like to encourage applications of Individual and Junior membership to the Union, and therefore I ask for your help in spreading the word to colleagues and students who may be interested.… continue to the full article
Please can I encourage you all to consider nominations for COSPAR awards. Anyone can make nominations for most awards and the usual process is for the UK National COSPAR Committee (c/o richard.harrison@stfc.ac.uk) to endorse nominations and make the formal submission.… continue to the full article
SOLARNET is pleased to announce its 2nd call for mobility programme for young and experienced researchers. Applications are invited.
Early stage researchers will be supported with a minimum of 1 month to a maximum of 3 months research-stays, while for experienced researchers a maximum of 2-3 weeks stay will be granted.… continue to the full article
The PhD Research Award of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS), which has been created in 2005, will again be awarded in 2020.
As an active researcher in plasma physics, you might be aware of PhD work of exceptional quality in plasma physics in an EPS member state.… continue to the full article
Topical Collection of Solar Physics Journal “Towards Future Research on the Drivers of Space Weather”
We remind you that the deadline for submission of statements of interest (SOI) for including manuscripts in this Topical Collection of the Solar Physics Journal is 30 September 2019.… continue to the full article
The Global Network for the Sustainability In Space (GNOSIS) is an STFC Network+ with the goal of helping researchers within the Particle, Nuclear and Astrophysics areas to engage with researchers from other research councils and industry to study the near Earth space environment.… continue to the full article
On 30 September STFC and EPSRC will open a research call for the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics (QTFP) programme. This is a new programme which, building on the investments of the National Quantum Technology Programme, aims to demonstrate how the application of quantum technologies will advance the understanding of fundamental physics questions.… continue to the full article
The PROBA2 team welcomes research proposals for the ninth round of its Guest Investigator program for research based on SWAP and LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the SWAP and LYRA PI-teams. In this round we anticipate funding for around five guest investigators or teams who will visit the PROBA2 Science Center at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, in Brussels, between January 2020 and January 2021.… continue to the full article
Dear Colleague,
As you know the IAU has created in 2016 a new prize – the IAU PhD Prize. Each IAU Division has, once a year, the opportunity to award its own prize to the candidate it feels has carried out the most remarkable work in the previous year (i.e.… continue to the full article
Following the recent elections the following members of our community have been elected to the UKSP Council:
Chairperson: Professor Sarah Matthews, MSSL/UCL
Deputy Chairperson: Dr Natasha Jeffrey, Northumbria University
Staff member: Dr Eamon Scullion, Northumbria University
Staff member: Dr Anne-Marie Broomhall, University of Warwick
Staff member: Dr Andrew Hillier, University of Exeter
PDRA member: Dr Marianna Korsos, Aberystwyth University
PDRA member: Dr Jiajia Liu, University of Sheffield
PhD student member: Mr Ryan Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast
We would like to congratulate the members of the new Council and wish them a very successful term.… continue to the full article