Dear Colleagues
In January Jim Dungey will have his 90th birthday. It is particularly pleasing that January is also when the first Royal Astronomical Society annual James Dungey lecture will take place.
The first Dungey lecture (by Peter Cargill) will be at the ordinary RAS meeting on January 11th 2013. The preceding day, on Thursday January 10th, there will be a meeting in the GeolSoc lecture theatre at Burlington House jointly sponsored by RAS and Imperial which will celebrate Jim’s contribution to solar-terrestrial science.
I attach a first announcement [COPIED BELOW]. I do hope to see you there.
With best regards
David
MIST Council Member and President, RAS
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Scientific Meeting to mark Jim Dungey’s 90th Birthday
On Thursday January 10th 2013, there will be a scientific celebration sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society and Imperial College to mark the 90th birthday of Jim Dungey.
Speakers will include Stanley Cowley (Leicester University), Mick Denton (Lancaster University) Jonathan Eastwood (Imperial College), Jeffrey Hughes (Boston University), Margaret Kivelson (UCLA/Michigan), Nigel Meredith (British Antarctic Survey), Steve Milan (Leicester University), David Nunn (Southampton University), Robert Strangeway (IGPP, UCLA), Matt Taylor (Cluster Project, ESTEC), Maha Abdalla (Physics, UCLA) (tbc), and other UK solar terrestrial researchers.
The scientific sessions during the day on January 10th will be in the Geological Society Lecture Theatre in Burlington House, Piccadilly. In the evening there will be a talk by myself about the history of solar terrestrial physics and Jim’s part in the controversies and their resolution. This will be in the Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, and will be followed by an early evening social event.
Jim’s work in the 1950’s and 60’s presaged much of our current understanding of present solar terrestrial physics. His work on magnetic neutral points produced the first theoretical modelling of reconnection and his open model of the magnetosphere, very controversial when proposed, is now standard. In addition, amongst other pioneering work, he first proposed that geomagnetic pulsations were standing hydromagnetic waves (in what was later identified as the magnetosphere), that ULF waves could be stimulated by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, that the radiation belt particles originated primarily from the Sun, that VLF waves would control radiation belt fluxes (later systematised by Kennel and Petschek), that VLF emissions could be stimulated by non-linear stirring, and that bounce and drift resonance with radiation belt particles would be a source of ULF waves.
On the following day, January 11th 2013, the first RAS annual Jim Dungey lecture will be given during the January ordinary meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in the Geological Society Lecture Theatre at Burlington House, Piccadilly London.
The first RAS Dungey lecturer is Peter Cargill of Imperial College and St Andrews University who will talk on Magnetic Reconnection; a Modern Perspective.
Before the ordinary RAS meeting on January 11th there will be a specialist RAS “G” meeting organised by Mark Lester, Tracy Moffat-Griffin, and Mervyn Freeman, “Integrated Atmospheric and Space Science”.
Accommodation in the Geological Society Lecture Theatre is limited to 170 and accordingly there are limits on attendance.
We ask that if you wish to attend and receive further information please email:
space.sec@imperial.ac.uk
indicating:
1. If you wish to attend the day session at GeolSoc
2. If you will attend the evening talk and social event at Imperial.
David Southwood