[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - June 27, 2017

Tue Jun 27 11:56:35 EDT 2017

Heliosphere News – June 27, 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: Nick Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu<http://uah.edu/>)

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Announcements
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1. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH026: “Observing the Evolving Global Heliosphere over the Solar Cycle with IBEX and INCA” Call for Abstracts

2. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH021: "Velocity Space: The Final Frontier" Call for Abstracts

3. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH027: “Physical Phenomena in the Outer Heliosphere and Beyond” Call for Abstracts

4. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH013: “Facing and Understanding Particle Radiation in Expanding Human Access to Space” Call for Abstracts

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

6. WORKSHOP: Space Weather: a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 25-29, 2017

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

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

9. MEETING: Fourteenth European Space Weather Week, Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2017, Ostend,
Belgium

10. MEETING: NSF-SHINE Session #4 “Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulence and Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection: Outstanding Challenges” and #13: "Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes",
Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, July 24-28, 2017.

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1. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH026: “Observing the Evolving Global Heliosphere over the Solar Cycle with IBEX and INCA” Call for Abstracts

We invite submissions to the following AGU session (submission deadline Wed Aug 2)

Session Title:
Observing the Evolving Global Heliosphere over the Solar Cycle with IBEX and INCA
Session Description:
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and the Ion and Neutral Camera (INCA) instrument on Cassini globally image the solar wind’s (SW) interaction with the local interstellar medium (LISM) by detecting energetic and lower energy neutral atoms that are created from and beyond heliospheric boundary regions. These observations provide a wealth of knowledge as the heliospheric environment evolves through the unique solar cycle 24, an era of activity unlike any other observed in the space age. We invite abstracts focusing on understanding the interaction of the SW with the LISM, the evolution of the global heliosphere, the properties and composition of the heliosheath and interstellar plasma, the processes causing particle acceleration due to solar and interstellar interactions, and the connections between IBEX, INCA and Voyager’s in situ measurements of heliospheric boundary regions and the LISM. These observations form the bases of a new chapter of exploration of our local galactic environment.

Primary Convener: Nathan Schwadron (University of New Hampshire, Durham)
Convener: Stamatios Krimigis (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Convener: Eric Zirnstein (Princeton University)

Invited Speakers: David J. McComas (Princeton University), Kostas Dialynas (Academy of Athens)

Session website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24166.html

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2. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH021: "Velocity Space: The Final Frontier" Call for Abstracts

We invite submission of abstracts to for the AGU 2017 Session SH021, "Velocity Space: The Final Frontier". Abstracts are due Aug. 2nd, and can be submitted at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24757<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__agu.confex.com_agu_fm17_preliminaryview.cgi_Session24757&d=DwMFaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=8xYFAcsHVGxQh4GpgKBqWBzXzSphgngCTiUiHsS-Z9g&m=Gakx211chk7KMMoKjIP2VpgQfqhrN-_FTkIiomX9dFo&s=IyHb9BpEzOiL80q6BhM-F0zKff_e-3YxCIsWK7qZXOY&e=>

Session ID#: 24757
Session Description:
In weakly collisional space plasmas, such as the solar corona and solar wind, velocity space contains a wealth of information regarding the dynamics of the system. Using physics-based models to interpret the fluctuations in velocity space opens up novel means of identifying the physical mechanisms governing plasma heating and particle energization, a key goal of heliophysics. This session will highlight innovative new diagnostic techniques and analysis methods that are being developed to utilize fully the information contained in velocity space, including field-particle correlations, transformation and analysis of velocity-space structure using Hermite, Hankel, or other orthogonal basis sets, and studies of the quasilinear evolution of the velocity distribution function. Experimental, analytical, and numerical investigations that exploit particle velocity distribution function measurements in weakly collisional or collisionless plasmas are solicited.

Kristopher Klein, Jason TenBarge, Gregory Howes

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3. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH027: “Physical Phenomena in the Outer Heliosphere and Beyond” Call for Abstracts

SH027:
Physical Phenomena in the Outer Heliosphere and Beyond
Session Description:
The Voyager 1/2 mission is performing in situ investigation of the physical phenomena that accompany the solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium. In partially ionized plasmas, charge exchange, ionization, kinetic and fluid instabilities, and magnetic fields play important roles in determining the heliospheric structure. This session addresses the most challenging issues related to Voyager observations: (1) the effects of charge exchange, interstellar magnetic field draping, and time dependent phenomena on Voyager observations; (2) physics of non-thermal ions; (3)  ion acceleration at the termination shock and in the heliosheath; (4) galactic cosmic ray transport throughout the heliosphere and LISM; (5) roles of plasma waves, turbulence, instabilities, and magnetic reconnection; (6) relation of Voyager measurements to remote observations from IBEX, Cassini, SOHO, HST, and air shower observatories. We solicit papers addressing these and other phenomena occurring in the outer heliosphere and LISM.

Primary Convener:  Nikolai V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  John D Richardson, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States

Index Terms:
2104 Cosmic rays [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2124 Heliopause and solar wind termination [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2126 Heliosphere/interstellar medium interactions [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2152 Pickup ions [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]

Session website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26436

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4. SESSION: AGU 2017 SH013: “Facing and Understanding Particle Radiation in Expanding Human Access to Space” Call for Abstracts

We invite submissions to the following AGU session (submission deadline Wed Aug 2)

Session Title:
Facing and Understanding Particle Radiation in Expanding Human Access to Space
Session Description:
Human access to space is expanding in a new realm of deep space exploration, space tourism and the society’s increasing reliance on rapid and reliable aviation. Particle radiation poses significant hazards for astronauts, satellites, aviators and passengers as well as produces affects on planetary bodies. Increasing galactic cosmic ray fluxes near successive solar minima highlight the increasing radiation hazard. Radiation weathers the regolith of the Moon, the two moons of Mars, other airless bodies, and contributes to chemical evolution of atmospheres at Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Pluto. Radiation remains a factor that we must face through improved understanding and innovation of methodologies for prediction. We invite abstracts on research including the origin of SEPs from coronal mass ejections, propagation of events through the solar system during the anomalously weak solar cycle 24 and important examples of radiation interactions for Earth, other planets and airless bodies such as the Moon.
Session Viewer Link:  https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24863<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__agu.confex.com_agu_fm17_preliminaryview.cgi_Session24863&d=DwMDaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=KLJx8QYk_I21vrfTgAQC2pOs6GRLm1-feVl6VLSxalM&m=em_g4g2M_h5nwoQAeiNmEGQie2EO7IOYsxGwx6A3nzQ&s=Z9ENtln2XqqZyGLuMow20y1BhgFgQ8CCa3FtVzjwGvY&e=>

Primary Convener:
Nathan Schwadron, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States

Conveners:
William M Farrell, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters/NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States and W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States

Invited Speakers:
Harlan Spence (U. New Hampshire), Chris Mertens (NASA Langley Research Center)

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5. 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<tel:%28%2B39%29%20011%20090%206853>, michele.iovieno at polito.it<http://polito.it/>; complete-network at polito.it<http://polito.it/>

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6. WORKSHOP: Space Weather: a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 25-29, 2017

From: Enrico Camporeale (e.camporeale at cwi.nl<http://cwi.nl/>)

SCOPE and AIM

The study of space weather has traditionally been carried out using standard techniques and tools found in space physics such as time series correlational analyses. These techniques, although having the advantage of being fast and simple, are sometimes not adequate or complete because the Sun-Earth system is a complex nonlinear system. On the other hand, researchers in the fields of mathematics, information science, computer science, machine learning, data mining, have developed, over the last several decades, tools that can handle complex nonlinear systems and are eager to apply these new tools to new difficult problems.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from space weather, space physics, mathematics, computer science, information science, machine learning, data mining, etc. to foster symbiosis and cross-fertilization across the fields.

The topics that will be discussed include:
-- machine learning for Space Weather
-- information theory for Sun-Earth system
-- pattern recognition and deep learning of solar images
-- data mining in space physics

LOCATION: Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. REGISTRATION is available onhttp://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/921/info.php3?wsid=921&venue=Oort

Please notice that the workshop is limited to 45 participants. Lorentz Center workshops have no registration fees. Hotel accommodation can be arranged through the Lorentz Center. Please contact the organizers for further information. Enrico Camporeale, e.camporeale at cwi.nl<mailto:e.camporeale at cwi.nl>, Simon Wing, simon.wing at jhuapl.edu<mailto:simon.wing at jhuapl.edu>, Jay Johnson, jrj at andrews.edu<mailto:jrj at andrews.edu>

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7. 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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8. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27-Aug to1-Sep, 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
Online Registration Closes: 22 August 2017
http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/

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9. MEETING: Fourteenth European Space Weather Week, Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2017, Ostend, Belgium

The ESWW is the main annual event in the European Space Weather calendar. It is the European forum for Space Weather as proven by the high attendance to the past editions. The agenda will be composed of plenary/parallel sessions, working meetings and dedicated events for service end-users. The ESWW will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather.

Following an excellent response to the call for sessions, the Program Committee is pleased to invite contributions to sessions, addressing a wide range of scientific and application related themes.

ESWW14 will be held from November 27 - December 1 in Ostend, Belgium. The meeting website is http://www.stce.be/esww14/.

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10. MEETING: NSF-SHINE Session #4: “Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulence and Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection: Outstanding Challenges.”

NSF-SHINE Session #13: “Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes.”

The annual NSF-SHINE (Solar Heliospheric & Interplanetary Environment) Workshop will be held July 24-28 2017 in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada.

Researchers and students interested in this topic are invited to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at this session. See the Web site  (shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php<http://shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php>) for further information.

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