[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - May 23, 2017

Tue May 23 11:29:36 EDT 2017

Heliosphere News - May 23, 2017 

http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/

A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.

Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu)
Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai at swri.edu)
Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ejz at princeton.edu)
Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher at bu.edu)
Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings at gmail.com)
Co-Editor: Nick Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu)

Web site editor: Ken Fairchild (Ken.Fairchild at unh.edu)

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Announcements 

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

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

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

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, 27 August to
1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

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

7. MEETING: NSF-SHINE Session #13: "Dissipation in the Solar Wind:
Kinetic Processes", Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, July 24-28, 2017.

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1. 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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2. 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).

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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3.  MEETING: 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) by Friday, March 17, 2017. Applications or adviser
recommendations received after this date will be on the waiting list.

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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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 and Edouard.Audit at 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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7. MEETING: 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.
Session #13 of the 2017 Workshop is entitled “Dissipation in the Solar
Wind: Kinetic Processes”.  Researchers and students interested in this
topic are invited to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at
this session.  Deadline for abstract submission is June 23, early
registration deadline is May 26, but deadline for student financial
support applications is April 21.  See the Web site
(shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php) for further information.

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