Heliosphere News  Feb 2, 2016 

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** Announcements

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1. 15th AIAC Meeting: The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday

2. ISSI Call for Team Proposals

3. COSPAR 2016 

4. AOGS 2016

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** New Papers

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5. Zirnstein, E. J. et al., Effects of solar wind speed on the secondary energetic neutral source of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer ribbon 

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1*) 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday, April 4 – 8, 2016, Cape Coral, Florida, USA

** IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

- Westin Cape Coral Resort room booking deadline is March 9 OR until sold out whichever comes first.

- Online abstract submission deadline is March 15.

- Registration fee is $475.00 USD until March 31.

- Late Registration and Onsite Registration fee is $500.00 USD beginning April 1.

From: Gary P. Zank: garyp.zank@gmail.com 

The 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference will be held at the Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village, Cape Coral, Florida, USA, from April 4 to April 8, 2015. (Welcome Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, April 3).

The conference website is now up and registration and abstract submission is available.

15th AIAC website: https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/15thannual/index.html

Please mark your calendar and contact us regarding your interest in attending. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/15thannual/contact.html.

The meeting is entitled, “The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday”, and will follow the same format as before with 25-minute presentations punctuated by selected 40-minute invited talks that will explore various themes in greater detail.

 Ed Stone has made foundational contributions to our understanding of all facets of the physics of energetic particles in the solar wind and the interstellar medium. Much of our current understanding of the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium is derived from the Voyager Interstellar Mission under Ed’s leadership. His remarkable career has spanned the space age, contributing not only to science but to the leadership of our community. The 15th Annual International Astrophysics Conference will celebrate the science and scientific achievements of Ed Stone.

PLEASE DO NOT WAIT TO BOOK YOUR ROOM. Our turnout is larger than anticipated and unfortunately we have blocked only a very limited amount of rooms

Please go to the conference website for more details: www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/15thannual/accommodations.html

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2*) ISSI Call for Team Proposals

The  International  Space  Science  Institute  (ISSI)  in  Bern, Switzerland,

and ISSI-BJ in Beijing, China, invite  proposals  for  establishing  International  

Teams to conduct on its premises research activities in Space Sciences, based on the

interdisciplinary  analysis  and  evaluation  of  data  from  spacecraft  and

possible integration with ground data and theoretical models. For the purpose

of  this  Call,  Space  Sciences  include the Solar and Heliospheric Physics,

Solar-Terrestrial   Sciences,   Space   Plasma  and  Magnetospheric  Physics,

Planetary   Sciences,   Astrobiology,  Cosmology,  Astrophysics,  Fundamental

Physics in Space, and Earth Sciences using Space data.

Letter of Intent:                 February 18, 2016

Deadline for proposals:     March 31, 2016

The Call for International Teams proposal is available on the ISSI web site:       

Bern, January 20, 2016

Maurizio Falanga

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3*) COSPAR 2016 

** ABSTRACTS DUE FEBRUARY 12

COSPAR 2016: General Information

COSPAR 41st Scientific Assembly

July 30 - August 7, 2016

Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Turkey

Websites:

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016 at 23:59 UTC14

Please visit http://www.cospar-assembly.org for online abstract submission system

Heliosphere-related sessions from Commission D Sessions:

D1.1 Large Scale Heliospheric Structure: Theory, Modelling and Data

Organizers: Jens Kleimann, John Richardson

D1.2 Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays

Organizers: Marius Potgeiter, Ming Zhang

D1.3 Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and beyond: Pickup Ions and Anomalous Cosmic Rays

Organizers: Vladimir Florinski

D1.4 Anomalous Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Galaxy

Organizers: Gaetano Zimbardo, Frederic Effenberger

D1.5 Anisotropy of Energetic Particles from keV to TeV

Organizers: Du Toit Strauss, Jakobus Le Roux

D2.1 Solar Transients: from Solar Origin to Earth Impact and the Outer Heliosphere

Organizers: Jie Zhang, Sergio Dasso

D2.2 Solar and Heliospheric Science with Future Space Missions

Organizers: Alessandro Bemporad, Christopher Owen

D2.3 Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere

Organizers: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber, Nicole Vilmer

D2.4 Reconnection and Turbulence from the Sun through the Heliosphere to Galaxies

Organizers: Jörg Büchner

D2.5 Space Climate

Organizers: Ilya Usoskin, Kalevi Mursula, Dibyendu Nandi

D3.6 Role of Non-Thermal Distributions in Wave Generation, Particle Heating Acceleration in Space Plasmas

Organizers: Gurbax Singh Lakhina, Mouloud Tribeche

D4.1 Active Space Experiments

Organizers: James Sheerin, Robert Moore

D4.2 Dusty Plasmas and Dust-Plasma Processes in Space

Organizers: Jiri Pavlu, Ingrid Mann

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AOGS 2016: General Information

AOGS 13th Annual Meeting

31 Jul to 5 Aug, 2016

Beijing, China

Meeting website:

Abstract submission deadline: February 19, 2016

Please visit http://asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm for detailed instructions of online abstract submission. Each submitting author cannot submit more than two abstracts.

Below are the SPA-related sessions at AOGS 2016 that are open for abstract submissions. Because of the large number of sessions, we urge readers to find detailed session descriptions online by following the web link at the end of each list.

Solar & Terrestrial (ST) Sciences Sessions Related to the Heliosphere

ST01. Energetic Particle Acceleration And Transport In The Geospace And Interplanetary Space

Conveners: Linghua Wang, Gang Li, Yoshizumi Miyoshi

ST04. Turbulence And Particle Energization

Conveners: Gary Zank, Linghua Wang

ST05. Particle Acceleration And Transport Associated With Gradual And Impulsive Solar Energetic Particle Events

Conveners: Gary Zank, Gang Li, Gang Qin

ST20. Sun and Heliosphere General Session Including Solar Diagnostic Techniques and Variabilty, and Helioseismology

Conveners: Mario Bisi, Alessandra Giunta

ST22. Observations And Models Of Shocks In Collisionless Space Plasmas

Conveners: George Parks, Suiyan Fu

ST33. Kinetic Alfven Waves In Solar And Heliospheric Plasmas

Conveners: De-Jin Wu, Bo Li, Jiansen He

ST42. History And Development Of Solar Terrestrial Sciences

Conveners: Nanan Balan, Yohsuke Kamide, Leif Svalgaard

ST Sessions website:

(and click the link for ST Section)

 

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Zirnstein, E. J., Funsten, H. O., Heerikhuisen, J., & McComas, D. J. 2016, A&A, 586, A31

 

“Effects of solar wind speed on the secondary energetic neutral source of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer ribbon”

 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527437

 

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