Please note that the call for Sessions for NAM2014 is now out, with deadline January 5th 2015 – see below. The 2015 UK Solar Physics meeting will be held as part of NAM at Llandudno, similarly to recent years. We anticipate a full porgramme of Solar Physics parallel sessions throughout the meeting.
UKSP Council strongly encourage the Solar Physics community to propose sessions, including, where relevant, sessions which are joint with colleagues in MIST (Magnetospheric, Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial) and with other areas of astronomy.
If you are considering submission of a session proposal, we encourage you to inform UKSP President (p.browning@manchester.ac.uk). We would appreciate being informed early in the process, we do not need to see fully formed proposals! We will then try to avoid overlaps by encouraging people submitting similar proposals to collaborate, and also we can identify significant gaps in the programme and take action.
Philippa Browning and David Williams (on behalf of UKSP Council)
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NAM2015 will be held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno 05-09 July 2015 and will incorporate both the UK Solar Physics (UKSP) and Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) meetings. The NAM2015 programme will include 7 or 8 plenary lectures and two public lectures covering a range of topics.
The NAM2015 programme will include slots for several dozen parallel sessions, of adjustable duration and format, with further sessions in the programme dedicated for poster viewing.
On behalf of the NAM2015 SOC we would like to invite from the community nominations for parallel session themes for the 2015 meeting. Nominations are welcomed for any topic of research area considered relevant to the NAM. Particularly welcomed are nominations likely to have broad cross-community appeal.
At this stage nominees for parallel sessions are requested to submit to the SOC the following information by e-mail:
1. Theme and provisional title of parallel session
2. Brief (i.e. a few sentences) rationale for its nomination
3. Name(s) and e-mail address(es) of the session organiser(s)
4. Proposed duration (how many 1.5-hour blocks?) and justification.
5. Size of the anticipated audience
6. Any special requirements
The SOC will be pleased to consider nominations for multiple parallel sessions, i.e., 2 or more sessions with a linked theme that could run across several days of the NAM programme. The SOC also particularly welcomes nominations for themes that are regarded as timely, e.g. relating to current or upcoming missions.
Session nominations can be submitted from today via email to soc@nam2015.org up until 5pm UK time on 5 January 2015.
The NAM 2015 SOC will meet shortly thereafter to review the nominations received. It is expected that the programme of parallel sessions will be announced in mid-Feb 2015.
Details about the forthcoming programme will be posted in months to come at www.nam2015.org and via the usual RAS newsletter.
For any general questions and queries please contact loc@nam2014.org
With Best Wishes, and in anticipation of an adventurous programme.
Mike Edmunds,
SOC Chair,
School of Physics and Astronomy
Cardiff University