[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - November 15, 2016

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Heliosphere News

November 15, 2016

http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/

A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.

Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu)
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Announcements

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1. MMS GI Program (as a part of H-GI)

2. POLONEZ Funding Program

3. MEETING: 16th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 6-10,
2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA – Third Announcement

4. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts IAU
Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK

5. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA

6. MEETING: 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop: Exploring the Solar Environs, April
3-6, 2017, Granada, Spain

7. MEETING: 12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2017)

8. JOB OPENING: Permanent Research Position in Heliophysics, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

9. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early Stage
Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino.

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1.  MMS GI Program (as a part of H-GI)



This message is to inform you that the final text for program element B.8
Magnetospheric Multiscale Guest Investigators (MMS GI) has been released
and is now available on NSPIRES.

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
http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/about_mms.html) or
(2) any of the relevant goals of the Heliophysics Decadal survey (Solar and
Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13060):

  1. Determine the origins of the Sun's activity and predict the variations
in the space environment;
  2. Determine the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere,
ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial
inputs;
  3. Determine the interaction of the Sun with the solar system and the
interstellar medium;
  4. 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.

Step-1 proposals are due November 18, 2016, and Step-2 proposals are due
January 13, 2017.

The solicitation can presently be found in the NASA Research Announcement
"Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2016"
(NNH16ZDA001N). It is currently posted on the NASA
research opportunity homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and will
appear at:
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2016.

The NASA point of contact for this program element is Errol J. Summerlin
who may be reached at errol.summerlin at nasa.gov.

EJ
Errol J. Summerlin
NASA/HQ SMD

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2. 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 https://www.ncn.gov.pl/polonez?language=en.

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3. MEETING: 16th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 6-10,
2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - **Third Announcement**



From: Gary P. Zank, garyp.zank at gmail.com



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.
www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/16thannual/index.html.



Registration and Abstract Submission Now Available. Hotel Online Booking
will be made available this week or you may contact the hotel directly to
book your special rate rooms.



Mark your calendars and contact us with your interest in attending. E-mail
inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at
garyp.zank at gmail.com or icnsmeetings at gmail.com.





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4. 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.
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335/

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5. 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

http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/

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6. MEETING: 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop: Exploring the Solar Environs, April
3-6, 2017, Granada, Spain

EXPLORING THE SOLAR ENVIRONS

Registration is open. Visit our web page at http://spg.iaa.es/solo2017/

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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7. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2017 - the 12th International Conference on Numerical
Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Saint Malo, France, 26–30 June, 2017.



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 Nikolai.Pogorelov at uah.edu and
Edouard.Audit at cea.fr.

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8.  JOB OPENING: Permanent Research Position in Heliophysics, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD



Applications are invited for a permanent civil service research scientist
position in the area of Heliophysics and more specifically charged and
neutral particle physics focusing on the energization and propagation of
particles in the heliosphere and on the interaction of the heliosphere with
the interstellar medium.

It is desirable that the applicant hold a PhD degree in physics,
geophysics, astrophysics or a related field.  At least one year of
experience in spacecraft data analysis or spacecraft instrumentation
development is required. The appointment begins in mid 2017. The
appointment is for a GS-13 position with salary commensurate with the
applicant’s past experience.


U.S. citizenship is required. To view the full vacancy announcement, which
contains further information including qualification requirements and
application instructions, go to (
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/455714200).  The vacancy
announcement will be open from November 9, 2016 to December 8, 2016.
Applications must be received by December 8, 2016 via the USAJobs website.
For additional questions, contact Dr. Adam Szabo via e-mail at
Adam.Szabo at nasa.gov.

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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|,
daniela.tordella at polito.it; complete-network at polito.it

Dr. Michele Iovieno, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering |
Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy Tel (+39) 011 090 6853,|
michele.iovieno at polito.it ;complete-network at polito.it
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