Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools
SolFER DRIVE Science Center Online Science Meeting on Solar Flare Energy Release – May 24-26, 2021
The SolFER DRIVE Science Center is hosting a web-based science meeting on Solar Flare Energy Release. The meeting is open to all scientists working on the topic.
Abstract submission is open: https://agenda.infn.it/event/26094/
We would like to bring it to your attention that Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, is hosting a virtual conference on “Applications of Statistical Methods and Machine Learning in the Space Sciences” during 17-21 May 2021. The goal of this conference is to bring together academia and industry to leverage the advancements in statistics, data science, methods of artificial intelligence (AI) such as machine learning and deep learning, and information theory to improve the analytic models and their predictive capabilities making use of the enormous data in the field of space sciences.
Conceived as a multidisciplinary gathering, this conference welcomes researchers from all disciplines of space science: (solar physics, planetary sciences, geology, exoplanet and astrobiology, galaxies), from the fields of AI, statistics, data science and from industry who make use of statistical analysis and methods of AI. We encourage contributions from a wide range of topics including but not limited to: advanced statistical methods, deep learning and neural networks, times series analysis, Bayesian methods, feature identification and feature extraction, physics-based models combined with machine learning techniques and surrogate models, model validation and uncertainty quantification, turbulence and non-linear dynamics in space plasma, physics informed neural networks, information theory and data reconstruction and data assimilation.
The conference will be fully virtual, given the pandemic, and will consist of invited and contributed talks, and designated discussion sessions. The conference will be an opportunity for students, young researchers and seniors to enhance their knowledge in the emerging techniques of AI and statistical studies and a platform for future collaborations.
There will be limited funds for waiving the registration fee for students and early careers. Please indicate if you are requesting registration fee waiver when you submit your abstracts.
Abstract submission opens: 15 February 2021
Abstract submission closes: 31 March 2021
Registration Opens: 15 February 2021
Registration closes: 30 April 2021
Further details of the conference can be found at: http://spacescience.org/workshops/mlconference2021.php.
For questions, please email: bpoduval@spacescience.org or reach out to any member on the SOC.
Bala Poduval
On Behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee: M. Balikhin, J. Borovsky, R. D’Amicis, M. Dainotti, M. Georgoulis, J. Johnson, K. Pitman, B. Poduval, R. Shuping, O. Verkhoglyadova, S. Wing, P. Wintoft.
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We are pleased to announce a CTA-UK Science Meeting to be held on the 24th and 25th June 2021. Postponed from April 2020, this will be a virtual meeting.
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major global observatory for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. Covering a photon energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, CTA will have a wider field-of-view, higher sensitivity, and better angular resolution than any instrument that has gone before. Its two arrays will have unprecedented capability for surveys, imaging of gamma-ray sources and time-domain astrophysics.
CTA’s science remit is wide. While the early science will come from the Key Science Projects, the observatory will be operated as an open, proposal-driven observatory, with all data available on a public archive after a proprietary period. In addition, data will be taken regularly as part of multiwavelength/multimessenger ToO campaigns. UK scientists are not only helping to build CTA but also helping to define its scientific programme: come to the CTA-UK Science Meeting and find out what CTA can do for you!
To find out more, and to register for the meeting, please go to http://cta2021.iopconfs.org/home The registration deadline is June 18th 2021. There will be a virtual poster session at the meeting, and students in particular are encouraged to submit posters.
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First Announcement: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Astronomy 2
RAS Specialist Discussion meeting 14 May 2021
This meeting follows a successful meeting we ran in March 2019.
Data sets in astronomy are becoming extremely large and complex. The research questions that are being asked of these data are also becoming complex and in many cases the richness of the data surpasses the level of sophistication of the theoretical models. Machine learning and AI can thus be used to augment physical models for practical applications (e.g. photometric redshifts) or physical understanding (e.g. galaxy classification, model fitting).
The extreme data challenges arising from astronomy research could provide a very valuable environment for developing the skills and techniques need outside astronomy. They thus provide a potential route to socio-economic impact, important for the sustainability of the discipline.
This meeting provides us with an opportunity to share expertise and develop our skills in these important areas and explore where Astronomy pushes the boundaries of these techniques.
The meeting is open for registration and we welcome applications for talks from everyone.
Please register to attend or talk here https://forms.gle/35SZakXnM5x3CWhu9
Seb Oliver (University of Sussex) and Stephen Serjeant (Open University)
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Dear Colleague,
There will be a Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion Meeting on Friday, 14 May 2021 (https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/ras-meetings/mhd-oscillations-and-waves-photosphere-corona). The topic is “MHD oscillations and waves from the photosphere to the corona”. The deadline for registration is 25 March 2021.
The vast presence of MHD waves and oscillations in the solar atmosphere is now unquestionable. However, it is still an open question as to how these waves and oscillations contribute to the heating of the solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the solar wind. A range of new instrumentation including e.g. the PSP, DKIST and Solar Orbiter, have recently become available providing us data with unprecedented resolution observed from close to the Sun to the Earth for studying MHD oscillations and waves.
Discussions will take place around topics including but not limited to: the propagation of waves from the lower to the upper solar atmosphere; the application of solar magneto-seismology (SMS) to structuring in the atmosphere of the Sun; the detection of MHD waves and oscillations in the solar atmosphere and interplanetary space; and the prospects for major advances using the next generation of solar instrumentation.
Hereby, we cordially invite colleagues to contribute to and participate in the discussions. We also encourage all those interested to present their related SUCs or specific observing sequences that would help to achieve the wave-related science goals with the upcoming 4-m class solar telescopes.
The meeting will be hosted online. It will consist of a series of invited and contributed talks together with discussions. Invited speakers include Dr. Anne-Marie Broomhall (Warwick), Prof. Hui Tian (PKU), and Prof. Manuel Collados (IAC, TBC). Depending on the number of contributions we may hold a virtual poster discussion.
Online registration is now open until 25 March 2020 via
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We, a group of European space weather actors, believe that now is the right time to frame the Space Weather and Space Climate discipline in Europe for the coming years. The series of reasons for this have been formulated in an article that has been submitted to the JSWSC. Based on this reflexion, we open a discussion on the organisation and sustainability of the European Space Weather community and its assets in the (near) future. More specifically, we identify that the European Space Weather community lacks a uniting organisation to help the community to sustain and further develop the successful efforts made thus far. Our aim is to question our practices and organisation in front of several changes that have occurred in the recent years and to set the ground to make coordinated answers to these questions being posed in Europe, and to discuss them.
This discussion will be organized as:
– A virtual kick off zoom meeting, on March 17th, 12 UT (13 CET) to present our findings, to make propositions to the European Space Weather community at large (scientists, engineers, forecasters, users, educators …) for a future organization. A Q&A chat will be open during the presentations.
– A follow-on two months discussion involving the European actors of space weather in order to take concrete actions in the near future.
To participate to the virtual kick off meeting, please register at http://quo-vadis.iopconfs.org/home
To download freely the paper:
https://www.swsc-journal.org/articles/swsc/pdf/forth/swsc200098.pdf
Jean Lilensten, Mateja Dumbović, Luca Spogli, Anna Belehaki, Ronald Van der Linden, Stefaan Poedts, Teresa Barata, Mario M. Bisi, Gae ̈l Cessateur, Erwin De Donder, Antonio Guerrero, Emilia Kilpua, Marianna B. Korsos, Rui F. Pinto, Manuela Temmer, Ioanna Tsagouri, Jaroslav Urbāř, and Francesca Zuccarello.… continue to the full article