[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - Feb 23, 2017

[Eric J. Zirnstein]

Heliosphere News


February 23, 2017


http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/


A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.


Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu<http://unh.edu/>)

Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai at swri.edu<http://swri.edu/>)

Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ejz at princeton.edu<http://princeton.edu/>)

Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher at bu.edu<http://bu.edu/>)

Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings at gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>)

Co-Editor: Nikolai Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu<http://uah.edu/>)

Web site editor: Ken Fairchild (Ken.Fairchild at unh.edu<http://unh.edu/>)

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Announcements

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1. The Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2017.

2. The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2017 semester.

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

4. New SPA Editors for GRL

5. POLONEZ Funding Program

6. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

7. MEETING: 2017 GEM Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia, June 18-23, 2017

8. MEETING: Applied Space Environments Conference 2017, Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-19, 2017

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

10. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27 August to 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

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

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

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

14. MEETING: Workshop on Kappa Distributions & Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics: Theory & Applications in Plasmas, held during the SigmaPhi2017 Conference (International Conference on STATISTICAL PHYSICS / ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ) in Corfu, Greece, 10-14 July 2017.

15. PUBLICATION: “Structure of the Heliotail from Interstellar Boundary Explorer Observations:
Implications for the 11-year Solar Cycle and Pickup Ions in the Heliosheath"

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1. The Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire is accepting applications (to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2017 semester.

http://physics.unh.edu/content/graduate-program

We have a number of graduate research fellowships to award to incoming students. The Department of Physics is linked to the Space Science Center (SSC), part of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space. Faculty and students are members of the Department of Physics (http://physics.unh.edu<http://physics.unh.edu/>) with a graduate degree program specializing in Space Physics/Astrophysics. The Space Science Center fosters research and graduate education in all of the space sciences with studies ranging from the ionosphere to the Earth's magnetosphere, the local solar system, and out to the farthest reaches of the universe. Investigations of the Earth's environment in the solar system look at space as a laboratory for plasma physics. We conduct theoretical, computational, data analysis, and instrument development projects focused on the solar-terrestrial radiation environment involving both satellite and suborbital missions. High energy astrophysics investigations involve the sensing of energetic astrophysical objects with ground, balloon, and satellite detectors. Satellites from NASA missions are still providing data for ongoing analysis. Students have opportunities to participate in recent missions that are carrying SSC-associated instruments including STEREO (launched 2006), IBEX (launched 2008), LRO (launched 2009), Van Allen Probes (launched 2012), Firebird (launched in Dec. 2013), MMS (launched in 2015), FIREBIRD II (launched in 2015), and GOES-R (launched in 2016). Upcoming missions in which the SSC is involved include Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe. The SSC is also a Center of Excellence in theoretical Solar-terrestrial research.

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2. The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is accepting applications to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2017 semester.

http://www.uah.edu/science/departments/space-science

We have a number of GRA fellowships to award incoming students, which provide tuition and a competitive stipend, and allow motivated students to begin working on a research project from the day they arrive on campus. We are a small research-focused department that aims to produce proficient and self-reliant scientists through our MS and PhD programs. Students have the opportunity to not only work with our world-renowned faculty, but also with adjunct faculty from the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research and NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center. Scientists from both centers share office space on the UAH campus with faculty from the department. Our research projects cover topics including: the Sun, solar atmosphere, inner heliosphere and space weather, the solar wind and its interaction with the interstellar medium, solar energetic particles and cosmic rays, high energy astrophysics. Our students graduate with a broad range of professional scientific skills including: analytic methods for solving physics problems, computational physics, data analysis, presentation of scientific ideas in both written and oral formats. UAH is an anchor tenant of the second largest research park in the country, in a city with a rich history of space science that dates back to Werner von Braun and the birth of the US space program.

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3. 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<http://polito.it/>; complete-network at polito.it<http://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<http://polito.it/> ;complete-network at polito.it<http://polito.it/>

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4. New SPA Editors for GRL

From: Bill.Peterson (Bill.Peterson at lasp.colorado.edu<http://lasp.colorado.edu/>)

Bill Peterson and Benoit Lavraud have completed their terms as SPA editors for Geophysical Research Letters

Andrew Yau and Merav Opher have replaced them effective January 1, 2017.

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5. 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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6. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

The next MMS Science Workshop, to be held this June in Boulder, Colorado in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, which is hosted by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.

The MMS Science Workshop will convene June 6-8 including an evening poster session and reception on Wednesday June 7. The main science sessions will be hosted in the Jennie Smoly Caruthers BiotechnologyBuilding (https://jscbb.colorado.edu/) adjacent to LASP with poster sessions to be held in the LASP SPSC facility (http://lasp.colorado.edu<http://lasp.colorado.edu/>).

MMS Instrument Team-only splinter meetings will be held at LASP SPSC on Monday June 5 and Friday June 9 (as needed).

Abstracts will be solicited on MMS observations and numerical simulations with an emphasis on the six major science topics below:

1) Magnetic Reconnection of the Ion and Electron Diffusion Regions

2) Magnetopause

3) Magnetotail

4) Shock Physics

5) Plasma Turbulence

6) Energetic Particles

Registration details and abstract submissions will be announced in AGU/SPA this February with final meeting registration deadlines expected in May.

The Local Scientific Organizing Committee:

Narges Ahmadi, Bob Ergun, Stefan Eriksson, Allison Jaynes, Karlheinz

Trattner, and Rick Wilder

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7. The GEM 2017 Summer Workshop will be held during June 18-23, 2017 at the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth, Virginia.

Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html

Student support is open for application now (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/students.html). A high priority will be given to the following groups: graduate students engaged in their thesis or dissertation research, first time attendees and students from small institutions, and students having specific GEM-related duties. We urge those of you who qualify and are planning to attend the 2017 GEM Workshop to act quickly and send applications to Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu<mailto:zxu77 at vt.edu>) by Friday, March 17, 2017. Applications or adviser recommendations received after this date will be on the waiting list.

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8. MEETING: Applied Space Environments Conference 2017, Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-19, 2017

Abstract Submission Now Open

Applied Space Environments Conference 2017: Measurements, Models, Testing, and Tools,  http://sti.usra.edu/asec2017

Abstract submission is now open for the Applied Space Environments Conference (ASEC) that will be held in Huntsville, AL on May 15-19, 2017 at The Westin. This event is co-sponsored by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA and will focus on a broad range of topics related to space environments and their effects on space systems.

All abstracts are welcome, with special consideration for presentations that address aspects of space environment and effects modeling, in-space observations of space environment impacts on space systems, recent space environment measurements and using historical data sets for characterizing space environments for system design and environment specification, and laboratory testing to better understand material and hardware interactions with space environments.  Relevant areas of the space environment include (but are not limited to):

• Charged particles in the solar wind, solar particle events, galactic cosmic rays, and trapped radiation belts

• Comets, asteroids, and dust

• Electric and magnetic fields

• Extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet, and infrared photons

• Ionosphere and neutral planetary atmospheres

• Magnetosphere(s)

• Meteoroids and orbital debris

• STEM applications

• Commercial applications

Please go to the following link to submit your abstract:

https://asec2017.exordo.com

Abstracts due March 1, 2017. Contact person: Joseph Minow (joseph.minow at nasa.gov<http://nasa.gov/>)

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9. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecast 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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10. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27Aug-1Sep, 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

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

1.  SPACE WEATHER FROM SUN TO EARTH: BRINGING DATA AND MODELS TOGETHER (IAGA, IAMAS), Convenor - Sarah Gibson

2.  THE REFERENCING OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PRODUCTS: THE ROLE OF DOIs (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO), Convenor - Masahito Nose

3.  FRONTIER CHALLENGES IN DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTING FOR THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND SOLID EARTH. (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO), Convenor - Weijia Kuang, Craig Bishop

4.  SOLAR RELATED VARIABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE (IAGA, IAMAS),

Convenor,  Christoph Jacobi

Early Bird Deadline: 5 May 2017

Online Registration Closes: 22 August 2017

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

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

From: Gary P. Zank, garyp.zank at gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>

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).

www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/16thannual/index.html<http://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/16thannual/index.html>

REGISTRATION DEADLINES:

Standard Registration fee: $475 USD beginning Jan 1, 2017

Late and Onsite registration is $500 USD beginning March 1, 2017.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE HAS PASSED: Final talk schedule has been posted online. Go to:

https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/16thannual/talks.html

HOTEL BOOKING DEADLINE HAS PASSED. PLEASE CONTACT HOTEL DIRECTLY FOR AVAILABILITY: La Posada de Santa Fe Hotel:  505-954-9615

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<http://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/16thannual/index.html>

E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Gary Zank at garyp.zank at gmail.com<http://gmail.com/> or icnsmeetings at gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>.

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12. 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 Nikolai.Pogorelov at uah.edu<http://uah.edu/> and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr<http://cea.fr/>.

The conference website is: http://irfu.cea.fr/ASTRONUM2017/

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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13. 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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14. MEETING: Workshop on Kappa Distributions & Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics: Theory & Applications in Plasmas, held during the SigmaPhi2017 Conference (International Conference on STATISTICAL PHYSICS / ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ) in Corfu, Greece, 10-14 July 2017.

Workshop organized by: G. Livadiotis, P. Yoon and K. Dialynas

Please note that the Abstract Submission Deadline is 18 April 2017.

We welcome abstracts reporting on the progress of the following three broad subject areas :

- Theory of Kappa Distributions and Statistical Framework:

Non-extensive statistical mechanics; Superstatistics; Connection with thermodynamics; Entropy and information measure; Concept of temperature; Anisotropy of velocity space; Distributions with potential energy.

- Effects on Plasma Processes, Dynamics, and Complexity:

Particle acceleration; Transport and diffusion; Plasma linear/nonlinear waves and instabilities; Shocks and Rankine–Hugoniot conditions; Polytropic relations; Plasma interactions; Particle correlations; Coupling phenomena; Turbulence and chaos; Mechanisms generating kappa distributions.

- Data Analyses, Simulations, and Applications in Space Plasmas:

Solar/Stellar atmospheres; Flares/CMEs; Solar wind; Ionosphere; Terrestrial, planetary, and cometary magnetospheres; Heliosheath and interstellar plasmas; Nebular, galactic and intergalactic plasmas.

http://www.sigmaphi.polito.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&catid=21&Itemid=232

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15. PUBLICATION: Zirnstein, E. J., Heerikhuisen, J., Zank, G. P., et al. 2017, ApJ, 836, 238

“Structure of the Heliotail from Interstellar Boundary Explorer Observations:
Implications for the 11-year Solar Cycle and Pickup Ions in the Heliosheath”

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa5cb2

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