Heliosphere News Mar 22, 2016

Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron@unh.edu)

Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai@swri.edu)

Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ezirnstein@swri.edu)

Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher@bu.edu)

Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings@gmail.com)

Co-Editor: Nikolai Pogorelov (np0002@uah.edu)

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** Announcements

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1. ISSI Post-doc positions

2. AGU Fall Meeting 2016 Session Proposals due April 20

3. 15th AIAC Meeting: The Science of Ed Stone: Celebrating his 80th Birthday

4. ASTRONUM-2016

5. SHINE 2016 - Session: “Heliosphere as Revealed from IBEX and Voyager Measurements”

6. ISSI Call for Team Proposals - Proposal Deadline March 31, 2016

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1) ISSI Post-doc positions

ISSI invites applications for Two Post-Doctoral Positions for a two-year period starting in October 2016 or by agreement. One of the two positions is in Space Sciences, the other is in Earth Sciences. The successful candidates should have received a Ph.D. within the last five years in a field relating to either Space or Earth Sciences in general. All applications must be received by ISSI no later than July 31st, 2016.

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2) AGU Fall Meeting 2016 - Session proposals are now being accepted

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 APRIL, 11:59 P.M. EDT

The session proposal site is now open!

Before submitting a session proposal, remember to:

1. Read the guidelines to ensure that you have not missed important information that may hinder your submission

2. Make sure that your 2016 AGU membership dues are up to date

3. Search and view session proposals submitted by your colleagues

Letters of notification will be distributed in June 2016.

http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/session-proposals/

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3) 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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4) ASTRONUM-2016

Monterey, California, USA, 6-10 June, 2016

Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize ASTRONUM 2016 - the 11th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in Monterey, California, USA, on 6-10 June, 2016. The conference web site is

https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/astronum2016/index.html

The conference will cover the following topics:

(1) Advanced numerical methods for space, astrophysical and geophysical flows; (2) Large-scale fluid-based, kinetic, and hybrid simulations;

(3) Turbulence and cosmic ray transport; (4) Magnetohydrodynamics

(5) Software packages for modeling and analyzing plasma flows / Visualisation

with the application to

(1) Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetosphere;

(2) Interstellar medium and star formation;

(3) Cosmology and galaxy formation;

(4) Dynamo effect;

(5) Stellar Physics.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading experts in applied mathematics, space physics, astrophysics, and geophysics to discuss the application of novel numerical algorithms and petascale parallelization strategies to computationally challenging problems.

The conference will be structured around invited, 40-minute keynote and 25-minute regular talks, and a limited number of contributed talks, with the attempt to have no parallel sessions. The conference web site icnsmeetings.com will provide the information about the conference venue, registration, and means of transportation. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov at uah.edu and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr.

Program Committee: Tahar Amari (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique), Edouard Audit (CEA, Maison de la Simulation, co-chair), Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Ewald Mu?ller (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching), Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, chair), Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University), James Stone (Princeton University), Jon Linker (Predictive Science Inc.), and Gary P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville).

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5) SHINE 2016 - Session: “Heliosphere as Revealed from IBEX and Voyager Measurements”

Session 13. Heliosphere as Revealed from IBEX and Voyager Measurements

Nikolai Pogorelov, Merav Opher, and George Gloeckler

Session Description:

In situ observations by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, combined with the heliosheath tomography using energetic neutral hydrogen fluxes measured by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in different energy bands gives the space physics community a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental physical processes accompanying the solar wind (SW) interaction with the local interstellar medium (LISM). The proposed session will address microscopic and macroscopic phenomena derived from IBEX and Voyager observations, and especially their combination. It will particularly focus on the following scientific questions:

1. What is the effect of the coupling of the heliospheric and interstellar magnetic fields at the heliopause? What is the correlation between observations and model predictions for the magnetic field and plasma quantities? What do space-time variations in the magnetic structure tell us about the physics of the heliosphere and termination shock?

2. What are the physical mechanisms of the IBEX ribbon and distributed ENA fluxes?

3. What are the ion acceleration mechanisms in the inner heliosheath? How do anomalous cosmic rays affect the structure of the heliosphere? What are the reasons of the variation in the galactic and anomalous cosmic ray fluxes observed by Voyager 1?

Scene-setting presentations will be given by David McComas and John Richardson on behalf of the IBEX and Voyager mission teams, respectively, and followed by a discussion on the themes of the session.

SHINE 2016 Conference Info:

Workshop Dates: July 11th-15th, 2016

(Student Day July 10th)

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Registration Fee: $475

Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 20th

Late Registration: $525

Deadline for student support: April 29th

Deadline for abstract submission: June 9th (extra poster $50)

Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 9^th

Website: http://shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php

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6) ISSI Call for Team Proposals - Proposal Deadline March 31, 2016

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:

http://www.issibern.ch/spotlight/ISSI_ISSI-BJ_annual_call2016.pdf

Bern, January 20, 2016

Maurizio Falanga

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Eric J. Zirnstein, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Space Research

Southwest Research Institute

6220 Culebra Road

San Antonio, TX 78238-5166

ezirnstein@swri.edu

(210) 522-2688