[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - November 7, 2017

[Ken Fairchild]

Heliosphere News - Nov. 7, 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: Nick Pogorelov (np0002 at uah.edu)

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

If you are interested in being added to the list, being removed from the
list, or posting an announcement, please send information to Nathan,
Mihir, Eric, Merav, or Nick. Posts are limited to ascii text.
Newsletters are archived on the following website:
http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/.

******************* Announcements *******************

1. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

2. MEETING: "Cosmic Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy
Particles and Radiation", November 6-9, 2017, Annapolis, Maryland

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

4. MEETING: 17th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March
5-9, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

5. Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24
May 2018

6. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Panama City Beach, Florida,
USA

7. Graduate Student Opportunities at University of Alabama, Huntsville

8. Graduate Studies in Solar and Heliospheric Physics at the University
of Arizona

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1. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

From: Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

Dear AGU/SPA Colleagues,

The submission of applications for SCOSTEP/VarSITI grants for 2018 is
now open.  The deadline is December 1, 2017, and the guidelines can be
found on the VarSITI web-site: http://www.varsiti.org/

We are looking forward to your proposals,

Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva, VarSITI co-chair shiokawa at
isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp, kgeorg at bas.bg

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2. MEETING: "Cosmic Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy
Particles and Radiation", November 6-9, 2017, Annapolis, Maryland

The Joint Space Science Institute at the University of Maryland and the
Goddard Space Flight Center is sponsoring a meeting on "Cosmic
Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy Particles and
Radiation". The meeting will take place over 3.5 days on November 6-9,
2017, in the historic city of Annapolis, Maryland (see link below). The
goal of this meeting is to bring together scientists working on the
detection of high-energy particles and radiation signatures and
theorists and modelers to engage in a discussion of the dynamics of
astrophysical systems and the mechanisms for particle acceleration. We
are soliciting scientific contributions to this meeting that can take
the form of oral presentations (15 minute presentation + 5 minute for
discussion) or posters. The deadline for the submissions for oral
presentations is October 9 with a final deadline for posters of October
27.

The conference will cover a broad range of topics, including the latest
observations from new observatories and insights into the mechanisms for
particle acceleration coming from theoretical developments and
large-scale simulations. The goal of the meeting is to assess where we
stand in our effort to understand the sources of energetic particles
throughout the universe and the implications for understanding the
dynamics of those systems. A list of the topical sessions is below. In
addition to overview and invited talks, we are soliciting contributed
talks and poster presentations. Thus, we are encouraging a broad range
of participation, including early career scientists and students.
Students qualify for a reduced registration fee.

SOC members: Gianfranco Brunetti, Steven Christe, James Drake, Jordan
Goodman, Alice Harding, Maxim Markevitch, Angela Olinto, Jeremy Perkins,
Eun-Suk Seo, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Toni Venters

https://jsi.astro.umd.edu/conferences/2017-jsi-workshop

Meeting Sessions:

• Setting the Stage: overviews of observations and acceleration
mechanisms
• Cosmic Rays
• Supernova Remnants
• Pulsars, Pulsar Winds, Pulsar Wind Nebulae
• Black Holes, AGN, Jets and GRBs
• The Heliosphere: a local laboratory
• Galaxy Clusters
• Fast Radio Bursts

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3. 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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4. MEETING: 17th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March
5-9, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: The 17th Annual International Astrophysics
Conference will be return to Santa Fe, New Mexico at the La Posada de
Santa Fe Hotel from March 5-9, 2018. (Welcome Reception and Evening
Registration begins Sunday, March 4).

The website and more details will be available soon. For now, please
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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5. Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24
May 2018

The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) is a joint meeting of the Space
Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and
the Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the American Astronomical Society.
Following the successful inaugural meeting in Indianapolis in 2015, the
next meeting will take place 20-24 May 2018 at the Lansdowne Resort and
Spa in Leesburg, VA.

TESS welcomes participation by the entire Heliophysics community,
including all four traditional sub-disciplines devoted to studies of the
Sun, Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere.
TESS not only promotes greater interaction and unity within
Heliophysics, but also connections to astrophysics and planetary
physics.

The scientific program will include four interdisciplinary plenary
sessions of interest across Heliophysics:  Space Weather, Heliophysics
Applied to Stellar-Planet Systems, Ion-Neutral Coupling Throughout the
Heliophysical System, and Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasmas. There
will also be many sessions devoted to other topics, both
interdisciplinary and more narrowly focused. Some of these sessions will
be led by organizers, in the conventional "AGU style", while others will
be created by the Scientific Organizing Committee after the abstracts
have been submitted (SPD style). The SOC invites you to help organize
and then join us for the second TESS meeting.

To suggest a session, please contact one of the organizers below by 6
November.

Dana Longcope (dana at solar.physics.montana.edu) Larry Paxton
(larry.paxton at jhuapl.edu)

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6. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Panama City Beach, Florida,
USA

Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize
ASTRONUM-2018 - the 14th International Conference on Numerical Modeling
of Space Plasma Flows in Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, on 25-29 June,
2018.

The conference will cover the following topics:

(1) Advanced numerical methods for space and astrophysical 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
icnsmeetings.com will soon 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.

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), Ewald Mueller (Max-Planck-Institute for
Astrophysics, Garching), 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. Graduate Student Opportunities at the University of Alabama,
Huntsville

The Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in
Huntsville is accepting applications to its M.S. and Ph.D. programs for
the Fall 2018 semester. We are a graduate-only, student and research
focused department that aims to produce proficient and self-reliant
scientists through our M.S. and Ph.D. 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 including gamma- ray bursts and
gravitational waves. 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 Wernher von
Braun and the birth of the US space program. Contact person is Dr. Jacob
Heerikhuisen, e-mail: jh0004 at uah.edu.
 
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8. Graduate Studies in Solar and Heliospheric Physics at the University
of Arizona

The Department of Planetary Sciences, and Lunar & Planetary Laboratory,
at the University of Arizona seeks prospective graduate students
interested in pursuing research in heliophysics and space physics.
Successful candidates will (nominally) enter the program in the fall
2018 semester. The deadline for application is December 8, 2017;
prospective students should apply at
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/graduate/admission. Research assistantships
in solar and heliospheric physics are available.

The Solar and Heliospheric research group
(https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/research/heliophysics), consists of eight
faculty and researchers, whose broad research interests include: cosmic
ray acceleration and transport in the solar system, the nature of the
heliosphere, the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field, space
weather and the space radiation environment, and fundamental topics in
space plasma physics and astrophysics.   We are involved in existing
NASA spacecraft missions, including Voyager and the Advanced Composition
Explorer, and future NASA missions such as the Parker Solar Probe – a
mission to ‘touch’ the Sun – launching next summer. 

Students admitted to our program will take courses covering broad
aspects of planetary sciences, including physics, chemistry, and geology
of the solar system, in addition to research in solar and heliospheric
physics.  Further details can be found at
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/graduate

Questions about the program, application process, research projects, or
other general questions, should be directed to either Prof. Joe
Giacalone (giacalon at lpl.arizona.edu) or Prof. Kristopher Klein
(kgklein at lpl.arizona.edu).


Best regards,


       Mihir

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Dr. Mihir I Desai  Tel:+1 210 522 6754

Director, Department of Space Research Cell:+1 210 454 1671

Space Science & Engineering Division Fax: +1 210 520 9935

Southwest Research Institute Email:mdesai at swri.edu 
6220 Culebra Road, 

San Antonio TX 78238-5166, USA  

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Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Texas, San Antonio
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Texas 78249-0697, USA

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