Last 15 days
- STFC funding scheme for Public Engagement projects
from Melanie Kidd [February 15, 2012] - Diary of Forthcoming Events
from Melanie Kidd [February 14, 2012] - ESPD News: Call for Proposals to Host the Next European Solar Physics meeting in 2014 (ESPM-14)
from Tom Van Doorsselaere [February 14, 2012] - British Science Association 2012 Media Fellowships
from Melanie Kidd [February 14, 2012]
- RHESSI Science Nugget No. 169
from Hugh Hudson [February 15, 2012]
- UKSP/MIST Missions Forum 2012 at NAM
from Dave Williams [February 13, 2012] - Call for Papers for the 2012 AOGS-AGU(WPGM) Joint Assembly: Session ST29: Solar Wind Turbulence: Theory, Modeling, and Observations
from Bo Li [February 9, 2012]
- STFC-funded PhD studentship at Department of Mathematics, University of Bradford– deadline 15 March 2012
from Valentina Zharkova [February 17, 2012] - PhD Studentships in Solar Physics, University of Central Lancashire.
from Danielle Bewsher [February 14, 2012]
General News/UKSP Business:
STFC funding scheme for Public Engagement projects
from Melanie Kidd [February 15, 2012]
STFC are pleased to announce the following Public Engagement funding scheme.
Small Awards Scheme – A scheme which offers funding for small, local or ‘pilot’ projects that aim to engage and inspire a wider audience with STFC science and technology. Up to £10,000 can be applied for under this scheme.
Closing date for applications – 12 April 2012 at 16:00.
All applications must be submitted through the RCUK Joint electronic Submission (Je-S) system. E mailed or hard copy applications will not be accepted.
For full details please go to the STFC website or contact Chris Woolford on 01793 442098.
Diary of Forthcoming Events
from Melanie Kidd [February 14, 2012]
Dear All
Please note that diary entries for February, March and April have been added to the calendar of events on STFC home page. This can be viewed at www.stfc.ac.uk
Best regards
Melanie
ESPD News: Call for Proposals to Host the Next European Solar Physics meeting in 2014 (ESPM-14)
from Tom Van Doorsselaere [February 14, 2012]
Letter of Intent submission deadline: April 13, 2012
Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2012
The European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) solicits proposals by European groups to host the 14th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-14) in the August-September 2014 timeframe. ESPMs include all aspects of heliophysics with an emphasis on solar physics and solar-terrestrial relations and typically attract more than 200 participants. ESPMs are organized every three years, each time in a different European location, attracting significant visibility for the places and/or the group(s) that host them. The last ESPMs took place in Rhodes, Greece (2011); Freiburg, Germany (2008); Leuven, Belgium (2005); and Prague, The Czech Republic (2002). The Scientific Organizing Committee of ESPMs is the ESPD Board, elected every three years. More information about ESPD can be found at http://solar.epsdivisions.org/.
Interested groups are invited to send a single-page Letter of Intent (LoI) to submit a proposal to the ESPD President, Valery Nakariakov, at v.nakariakov@warwick.ac.uk. The deadline of the LoI submission is April 13th, 2012, while proposals (with typical size of the order 2-3 pages) should be submitted by June 1st, 2012, for evaluation by the ESPD Board. The final selection will be made in the course of summer or early fall of 2012, thus allowing the selected organizers group two full years of preparation.
The successful proposal should state the envisioned meeting location with a brief cultural history of the area and emphasize on (1) ease of accessibility, (2) availability of different lodging options at close proximity to the meeting location or convenient ground transportation to the meeting location, and (3) suggested registration fee, with stated inclusions. Proposed initiatives or references to the likelihood of obtaining funding support for students, young post-docs, and/or colleagues from less privileged countries is strongly encouraged and will be taken into account during selection. The ESPD Board is also committed to assisting the Local Organizing Committee in gathering support funds. As the last few ESPMs took place in Greece, Germany, Belgium, and The Czech Republic, proposals from groups originating elsewhere in Europe will be given higher consideration.
For more information and questions/clarifications, please contact the ESPD President and Chair of the Conference Committee, Valery Nakariakov (v.nakariakov@warwick.ac.uk) or the Vice-President Manolis Georgoulis (manolis.georgoulis@academyofathens.gr)
British Science Association 2012 Media Fellowships
from Melanie Kidd [February 14, 2012]
Be behind the headlines!
Scientists, social scientists, engineers and clinicians can experience life in the heart of the newsroom by applying for a British Science Association 2012 Media Fellowship.
Spend 3-8 weeks this summer working with hosts including the BBC, Guardian and Nature to produce accurate, well-informed news about developments in science, and work alongside the UK’s top science editors in the British Science Festival Press Centre.
Return to work with media confidence, contacts, and first-class communication skills.
“My greater understanding of how the press works means I will now be able to pitch my research in a more accessible way to journalists so we both get the story we want.” Media Fellow
Apply online from 16 January – 11 March 2012
For eligibility criteria, experiences from past Media Fellows, and the application form go to www.britishscienceassociation.org/mediafellows
Sponsored by STFC, RCUK, BBRSC, IET and the Wellcome Trust
Nuggets:
RHESSI Science Nugget No. 169
from Hugh Hudson [February 15, 2012]
RHESSI’s Tenth Anniversary, by Brian Dennis and Bob Lin: top-ten list of major RHESSI accomplishments in flare physics, plus a mention of three serendipitous non-flare items.
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI%27s_Tenth_Anniversary
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
UKSP/MIST Missions Forum 2012 at NAM
from Dave Williams [February 13, 2012]
Wednesday 28th March
This is a very exciting time for the future of the heliophysics community. Solar Orbiter has just been adopted by ESA (and has another, dedicated session, and we have the opportunity to discuss where we want to go beyond this, scientifically and literally. Another ESA M-class mission call is anticipated in the next two years, multilateral opportunities are also emerging, and we’d like our heliospheric community to be ready to capitalise on them and bring ideas that they, themselves, would like to discuss. The session is one of our main channels for informing young and experienced researchers in the community of the upcoming opportunities on the sort of timescales that they need to plan the next phase of their careers.
As in the previous two years’ Mission Forums, we have invited some experienced figures to talk about their perspectives on the the future opportunities that can benefit us all. The submission of abstracts has now closed, but the forum thrives on the involvement of the audience, so we encourage you to come along and bring your ideas and questions so we can discuss how we might exploit these exciting frontiers and answer some of the key scientific questions in our fields!
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/schedule.html
Call for Papers for the 2012 AOGS-AGU(WPGM) Joint Assembly: Session ST29: Solar Wind Turbulence: Theory, Modeling, and Observations
from Bo Li [February 9, 2012]
This session is devoted to studies of the solar wind turbulence from theoretical, observational, and modeling perspectives, and is most likely to be structured around these perspectives. Jointly held by AOGS and AGU-WPGM, this year’s gathering in Singapore will provide an ideal occasion for people working in this field to exchange ideas, information, and much more.
As is well-known, turbulence prevails in the solar wind, and is widely believed to play an essential role in driving and heating the solar wind. However, while observations abound, there remain considerable debates as to the origin and nature of the turbulence, anisotropy and intermittency in the spectral transfer of the turbulence, how to properly model the turbulent cascade in the transition regime from the inertial into dissipation range, and the microphysics of the dissipation, namely the interaction between the turbulence and solar wind particles. In addition, the solar wind turbulence is also a natural laboratory for understanding many turbulent phenomena in extra-solar astrophysical plasma environments, such as those in stellar winds, supernova remnants, and interstellar medium. This session solicits papers in the lively field of solar wind turbulence, with emphasis on the exciting new results from theory, numerical simulations, in situ and remote sensing measurements, as well as fluid models of the solar wind for which turbulence descriptions are an essential ingredient.
Please note that abstract submission closes on 12 March 2012.
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Dr. Jungyeon Cho, Chungnam National University, Korea
Dr. Tohru Hada, Kyushu University, Japan
Dr. Jian-Sen He, Peking University, China
Dr. Xing Li, Aberystwyth University, UK
Dr. Qing-Yu Luo, Purple Mountain Observatory, China
Dr. Yuriy Voitenko, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium
Dr. Robert Wicks, Imperial College London, UK
Conveners:
Dr. De-Jin Wu (Purple Mountain Observatory, China), djwu@pmo.ac.cn
Dr. Bo Li (Shandong University at Weihai, China), bbl@sdu.edu.cn
Dr. Gang Li (University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States), gang.li@uah.edu
For more information, please contact De-Jin Wu at djwu@pmo.ac.cn .
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=home.htm
Jobs/Studentships:
STFC-funded PhD studentship at Department of Mathematics, University of Bradford– deadline 15 March 2012
from Valentina Zharkova [February 17, 2012]
We are looking for a suitable graduate in Physics or Applied Mathematics with good knowledge of Solar and Solar-Terrestrial physics and the ability to work with programming languages C, C++ or Matlab to carry out PhD studies in particle acceleration and transport in flaring atmospheres. This will include the simulation on the HPC cluster of particle acceleration in reconnecting current sheets occurring under different conditions by using the Particle-in-Cell (PIC) approach with the 3D code available at Bradford.
http://www.findaphd.com/searc/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=33236
The studentship is available to UK and EU students to start from April 2012 or on any mutually agreed date before October 2012.
For any inquiries please, contact the future supervisor Prof. Valentina Zharkova by 15 March 2012 by emails: v.v.zharkova@brad.ac.uk and valja46@gmail.com with your CV, resume of achievements/grades and the recommendation letters from two referees. You can also call on 01274 234 030 to discuss the conditions and to arrange a meeting.
http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=33236
PhD Studentships in Solar Physics, University of Central Lancashire.
from Danielle Bewsher [February 14, 2012]
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at the University of Central Lancashire is able to offer several full time PhD studentships to commence in October 2012. These will be either in Astrophysics or Solar Physics. Applicants may submit a general application or indicate a preference for a specific project. To ensure that you are considered in the first selection round, please apply by 15th March 2012.
The solar physics projects are:
1. Using Coronal Dimming to Study CME Initiation. Supervisor: Dr. Danielle Bewsher.
The aim of this project is to study the initiation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Coronal dimming has been identified as an observable tool which can be the first detection of a CME hours before they are observed in coronagraph observations. The identification of coronal dimming also leads directly to the source regions and studies of the initiation process.
2. Investigating the rotation of sunspots with the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Brown.
The aim of this project is to investigate the torsional rotation of sunspots. These rotations are a consequence of magnetic fields emerging from the solar interior into the atmosphere and can provide information about sub-surface magnetic processes. Data from SDO will be used to identify sunspot rotation, determine the rotation profile and the response in the solar atmosphere (e.g., flares, eruptions).
For further details visit http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk or contact Prof. Gordon Bromage (gebromage@uclan.ac.uk) or Dr. Tim Cawthorne (tvcawthorne@uclan.ac.uk).
