Heliosphere News
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January 4, 2017
A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.
Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu) Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai at swri.edu) Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher at bu.edu) Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings at gmail.com) Co-Editor: Nikolai Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu)
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Announcements
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1. SESSION: EGU 2017 Session ST1.3: Solving Outstanding Problems in
Heliospheric Physics Through NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and
Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The deadline for submitting abstracts is 11
Jan 2017.
2. Roses 16: Amendment No. 47 to MMS GI Program (as a part of H-GI)
3. POLONEZ Funding Program
4. MEETING: 16th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March
6-10, 2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
5. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts
IAU Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK
6. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA
7. MEETING: 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop: Exploring the Solar Environs,
April 3-6, 2017, Granada, Spain
8. MEETING: 12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2017), Saint Malo, France, 26–30 June, 2017
9. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early
Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino
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1. EGU - IMAP Session ST1.3 Solving Outstanding Problems in
Heliospheric Physics Through NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and
Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The deadline for submitting abstracts is 11
Jan 2017.
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following special session at the 2017
EGU meeting to be held in Vienna, Austria 23-28 April, 2017. The abstract submission deadline is
11 Jan 2017, 13:00 CET. Both hyperlinks below will take you directly to the Abstract
Submission page for the session.
ST1.3 Solving Outstanding Problems in Heliospheric Physics Through NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)
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Convener: Mihir Desai Co-Conveners: Hans-Jörg Fahr , Merav Opher , Harald Kucharek , Joachim Saur
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Over the last decade measurements from Voyager, IBEX, and Cassini have revolutionized our
understanding of the heliosphere’s boundaries and their interactions with the interstellar neighborhood.
At the same time, ACE, Wind, SoHO, and STEREO have provided new insights into (1) the acceleration
and transport of solar and heliospheric particle populations, and (2) the properties of the solar wind and
the embedded magnetic field and interplanetary disturbances that impact geospace. Simultaneously,
TWINS used ENAs to uniquely probe the global responses of the Earth’s magnetosphere to solar and
interplanetary disturbances. In view of theses successes, the US National Research Council’s 2012
Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey recognized the critical need to urgently make progress in
all three areas simultaneously, and recommended that NASA implement the Interstellar Mapping and
Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission as the next and highest priority science target for the Solar Terrestrial
Probes (STP) mission line. This session solicits relevant theoretical considerations, numerical simulations,
observational results from IBEX, Voyager, near-Earth satellites, and TWINS that have led to tremendous
breakthroughs, and related theoretical efforts that make specific testable predictions for developing a more
complete picture in all three science areas targeted by IMAP.
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2. MMS GI Program (as a part of H-GI): ROSES-16 Amendment 47: Data
requirements and due date change for MMS GI
Subject: ROSES-16 Amendment #: Data requirements and due date change for
MMS GI
ROSES-16 Amendment #: This amendment changes the Data requirements and
resets the due date for program element B.8 Magnetospheric Multiscale
Guest Investigators (MMS GI).
The Heliophysics Guest Investigators (H-GI) program is a component of
the Heliophysics Research Program. This particular element of the Guest
Investigator program is offered only for investigations that primarily
use data from the recently launched Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
Mission.
This particular ROSES element supports investigations whose primary
focus is the analysis of MMS data. Proposals should use primarily MMS
data to address (1) the goals of the MMS mission (found at
goals of the Heliophysics Decadal survey (Solar and Space Physics: A
Science for a Technological Society
Determine the origins of the Sun’s activity and predict the
variations in the space environment;
Determine the dynamics and coupling of Earth’s magnetosphere,
ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial
inputs;
Determine the interaction of the Sun with the solar system and the
interstellar medium;
Discover and characterize fundamental processes that occur both
within the heliosphere and throughout the universe.
This program is intended to maximize the scientific return from this
recently launched mission by providing support for research of a breadth
and complexity beyond presently funded investigations. As for any H-GI
proposal, investigations may employ theory, models, and data from other
sources, as needed, to interpret and analyze NASA’s MMS data, but only
as a secondary emphasis.
This amendment changes Section 1.3 on Data Availability. Whereas
previously one could propose to use MMS data that had not yet been
collected if the data product was in place, the new language requires
that all data must be archived 30 days prior to the Step-2 deadline.
Because of this change this call for proposals has been reopened, and
the Step-1 and Step-2 due dates have been reset to January 9, 2017 and
March 6, 2017, respectively. Proposers who want or need to change their
proposed project as a result of this amendment may withdraw their
previously submitted Step-1 proposal and submit a new one by January 9,
2017. Proposals unaffected by the change to Section 1.3 need not be
resubmitted, no action is needed.
The NASA point of contact for this program element is Errol J. Summerlin
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3. POLONEZ is a funding program addressed to incoming researchers who
may apply for 12- or 24-month fellowships in host institutions in
Poland.
Applicant: a researcher with a PhD degree or at least four years of
full-time equivalent research experience who has not resided or carried
out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Poland for more than 12
months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call announcement
Fellowship duration: 12 or 24 months
Researcher receives:
1. Salary (incl. mobility allowance): $ 4,350 gross/month (full time
contract),
2. Family allowance: $ 300 gross/month (for fellows whose families stay
in Poland for at least 3 months),
3. Research grant,
4. Opportunity to participate in research and non-research training
programmes organised by the NCN.
Host Institution receives overheads at a rate of 20%.
Proposals must be submitted in English via OSF submission system.
More information on the website
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4. MEETING: 16th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March
6-10, 2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - **Fourth Announcement -
Deadlines**
FOURTH ANNOUNCEMENT: The 16th Annual International Astrophysics
Conference will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the La Posada de
Santa Fe Hotel from March 6–10, 2017. (Welcome Reception and Evening
Registration begins Sunday, March 5).
REGISTRATION DEADLINES:
Early Registration fee: $450 ends Dec 31, 2016
Standard Registration fee: $475 USD beginning Jan 1, 2017
Late and Onsite registration is $500 USD beginning March 1, 2017.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE:
Abstract Submission Deadline is February 15.
HOTEL INFORMATION:
PLEASE DO NOT WAIT TO BOOK YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION! The La Posada has
already informed us that they will sell out during the conference
period. This means once our group block is full, there will be no more
group rate rooms available and you will need to seek a room on your own
elsewhere.
Deadline to book hotel rooms is February 5th OR until sold out,
WHICHEVER COMES FIRST and is on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis. No
payment is due now and you will have 3 days prior to your arrival date
to cancel your reservations without penalty so you have nothing to lose!
The meeting entitled, “Turbulence, Structures, and Particle Acceleration
throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond”, 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.
The remarkable ability of nature to accelerate charged particles to
extraordinarily high energies remains, after 100 years, one of the
outstanding puzzles of solar and astrophysical plasmas. Diffusive shock
acceleration (DSA) is thought to energize charged particles at shock
waves. Steady state DSA predictions include the particle intensity
peaking at the shock, after which it is constant, and that the
accelerated particle distribution is a power law with an index depending
only on the shock compression ratio. DSA predictions are often but not
always met. The anomalous cosmic ray spectrum was observed to peak
behind the heliospheric termination shock and to possess a spectrum far
harder than predicted by classical DSA theory. This is frequently true
of shocks in the inner heliosphere and in astrophysical settings. Shocks
are effective in generating magnetic turbulence and structures
downstream and amplifying pre-existing turbulence, all factors in the
further energization of charged particles. Furthermore, certain regions
such as the heliospheric current sheet naturally produce complex
turbulent environments in which numerous structures are present. Not
surprisingly, in these regions observed energetic particle events,
sometimes called anomalous solar energetic particle events, have
characteristics quite unlike those predicted of typical impulsive or
gradual solar energetic particle events. The purpose of this meeting is
to explore the role of turbulence and structures (including magnetic
reconnection-related processes, shock waves, etc), in the acceleration
of particles throughout the heliosphere and beyond. The meeting will
include current and past observations from spacecraft in the inner
heliosphere, the distant heliosphere and very local interstellar medium,
expectations and predictions for missions such as Solar Orbiter and
Solar Probe Plus, and of course remote observations.
Please go to the conference website for more information.
E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at
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5. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts
IAU Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK
Space weather is increasingly recognised as an international challenge
faced by several communities. The ability to understand, monitor and
forecast the space weather of the Earth and the heliosphere is of
paramount importance for our high-technology society and for the current
rapid developments in knowledge and exploration within our Solar System.
The symposium is planned over 5 days from Monday through Friday
(including half-day excursion on the Wednesday afternoon). Key Topics of
the scientific program are the following:
Solar drivers and activity levels; Solar wind and heliosphere; Impact of
solar wind, structures and radiation on and within terrestrial and
planetary environments (including magnetospheres, ionospheres and
atmospheres); Long-term trends and predictions for space weather;
Challenges and strategy plans for Earth and the heliosphere; Forecasting
models; Space weather monitoring, instrumentation, data and services.
The Symposium aims to further knowledge on space weather by linking
various aspects of research in solar, heliospheric and planetary
physics, and by putting great emphasis on cross-disciplinary
developments, merging different communities, learning from
interplanetary comparisons and linking to atmospheric and meteorological
research for the first time at the international level.
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6. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA
The Local Organizing Committee is thrilled to welcome you to the 2017
Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. The Joint
Assembly, endorsed by the University of Cape Town and the South African
Department of Science and Technology, will take place from 27 August to
1 September 2017 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre
(CTICC).
IAGA Lead Sessions
JA 1
SPACE WEATHER FROM SUN TO EARTH: BRINGING DATA AND MODELS TOGETHER
(IAGA, IAMAS)
Convenor - Sarah Gibson
JA 2
THE REFERENCING OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PRODUCTS: THE ROLE OF DOIs (IAGA,
IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convenor - Masahito Nose
JA 3
FRONTIER CHALLENGES IN DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTING FOR
THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND SOLID EARTH. (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convenor - Weijia Kuang, Craig Bishop
JA 4
SOLAR RELATED VARIABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE (IAGA, IAMAS)
Convenor - Christoph Jacobi
Call for Registration: 15 September 2016
Early Bird Deadline: 5 May 2017
Online Registration Closes: 22 August 2017
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7. MEETING: 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop: Exploring the Solar Environs,
April 3-6, 2017, Granada, Spain
EXPLORING THE SOLAR ENVIRONS
Rationale:The Solar Orbiter mission will bring the community an
excellent opportunity for doing unique science that embraces most solar
topics from the interior up to the heliosphere employing novel vantage
points. The combined use of results from its four in-situ and six
remote-sensing instruments will provide an unprecedented view of the Sun
and the interplanetary medium. Aimed at discussing most of these topics,
the 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop entitled “Exploring the solar environs”
will be held in Granada, Spain, from the 3rd through the 6th of April,
2017. Overviews, prospects, and new science about the solar interior,
the photospheric structure, dynamics, and magnetic fields, the
chromosphere, the corona, the solar wind, and the heliospheric magnetic
fields and particles are scheduled. Synergies with other missions and
ground-based observatories will also be covered. Theoreticians,
observers, and instrumentalist astronomers are encouraged to attend.
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8. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2017 - the 12th International Conference on
Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Saint Malo, France, 26–30
June, 2017.
Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville and Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ),
France will organize ASTRONUM-2017. 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 will
be established in a few days and provide the information about the
conference venue, registration, and means of transportation. E-mail
inquiries about the meeting should be directed to
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), 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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9. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early
Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino.
Applications are invited for two PhD positions ("Early Stage
Researchers", ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino, funded by the
Marie-Sklodowska- Curie Innovative Training Network COMPLETE -
Cloud-MicroPhysics-Turbulence-Telemetry: an inter-multidisciplinary
training network for enhancing the understanding and modeling of
atmospheric clouds within the Horizon 2020 Program of the European
Commission. The objectives are the numerical analysis of the transport
of energy, water vapor and droplets across the warm cloud/clear air
interface, the Lagrangian analysis of water droplets (1 - 100
micrometre) in suspension, the analysis of the data produced by
innovative expendable radio-probes released in warm clouds and their
comparison with numerical simulations.
Contact persons:
Prof. Daniela Tordella, Department of Applied Science and Technology |
Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy, Tel (+39) 011 090 6812|,
Dr. Michele Iovieno, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering |
Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy Tel (+39) 011 090 6853,|
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