[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - February 6

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Heliosphere News - Feb 6, 2018

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)

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Eric, Merav, or Nick. 

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

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

2. MEETING: EWASS 2018 (Liverpool, UK 3- 6 April 2018) Symposium S4: High
Resolution Solar Physics - the dawn of a new era

3. MEETING: New England Space Science Consortium (NESSC) Meeting 26 at U.
New Hampshire, May 4, 2018: The Evolving Solar Wind During a Decade of
Historically Low Solar Activity: Preparing for Parker Solar Probe and Solar
Orbiter

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

5. MEETING: AOGS 15th Annual Meeting, Heliospheric Session, June 3-8, 2018,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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

7. MEETING: 49nd COSPAR SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY, July 14-22, 2018, Pasadena,
California, USA (PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE 2/16/2018)

8. MEETING: 15th International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2018,
Brussels, Belgium

9. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Joint UTSA/SwRI Graduate Physics Program in San
Antonio, TX 

10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Student Opportunities at University of
Alabama, Huntsville

11. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Department of Physics at the University of New
Hampshire is accepting applications for Fall 2018

12. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Solar and Heliospheric Physics at
the University of Arizona

13. PROPOSAL OPPORTUNITY: Call for International Teams for the International
Space Science Institute (ISSI), LOI: Feb 20, 2018, Deadline: March 28, 2018

14. AWARD OPPORTUNITY: AGU SPA "Nonlinear Waves" prize of ~$10,000 

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1. 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).

Conference Website:
https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/17thannual/index.html

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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2. MEETING: EWASS 2018 (Liverpool, UK 3- 6 April 2018) 

Symposium S4: High Resolution Solar Physics - the dawn of a new era

Abstracts submission for the EWASS symposium on High Resolution Solar
Physics is now open, and we encourage you to submit your abstracts before
the deadline of 27 Nov. 

The topics of the symposium are:

- Solar dynamo and its surface manifestations

- Flux emergence and evolution

- Photospheric dynamics and magnetism

- Chromospheric dynamics and magnetism

- Energy transport and waves

- Eruptive events

And we welcome contributions from theorists, ground and space-based
observers alike. 

More information on the symposium goals, abstract submission and
registration can be found at:

http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS/session.jsp?id=S4

Sarah Matthews, Manolo Collados, Mihalis Mathioudakis, Ilaria Ermolli,
Hector Socas-Navarro

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3. New England Space Science Consortium Meeting #26

http://nessc.unh.edu/NESSC_Spring_2018_Meeting.html

Friday May 4, 2018, 10 AM - 5 PM

Room 330/332 Memorial Union, University of New Hampshire

Local Organizers: Nathan Schwadron, Ken Fairchild, Noe Lugaz, Maureen
Rodgers, Chuck Smith, Sonya Smith

The Evolving Solar Wind During a Decade of Historically Low Solar Activity:
Preparing for Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

Over more than a decade, Solar and Heliospheric Scientists have observed
behavior in the solar wind that is unprecedented through the space age.
Solar wind densities, magnetic field strengths and pressures have been
exceptionally low, while galactic cosmic ray fluxes have reached new the
highest levels in more than 80 years. Solar activity has also been extremely
weak during the mini solar maximum of cycle 24. Fundamental to Heliophysics
is connection between solar activity, the properties of the solar wind and
Heliospheric magnetic field, the nature and frequency of coronal mass
ejections, the properties of solar energetic particles and cosmic rays. The
physical relationships between these phenomena is a critical area in
Heliophysics with wide-reaching implications for space weather, and for
upcoming missions including Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and the
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. 

We invite you to come to the meeting. If you should decide to come, please
send an email to Maureen Rodgers (maureen.rodgers at unh.edu), and if you would
like to give a talk, please send a title along with the authors and
co-authors to Maureen. 

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4. MEETING: 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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5. MEETING: AOGS 15th Annual Meeting, Heliospheric Session, June 3-8, 2018,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

AOGS HELIOSPHERIC SESSION HONOLULU

We are soliciting abstracts for our session ST15, "Evolution and Effects of
Large Solar Transients Throughout Geospace and the Heliosphere" at AOGS
meeting June 3-8 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

The abstract deadline is Jan 19, 2018 and the web site is
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018/public.asp?page=home.htm

We hope to see you in Honolulu!

Dr. John Richardson (M.I.T., USA)

Prof. Chi Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Dr. Iver Cairns (University of Sydney, Australia)

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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.

Conference Website:
https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/astronum2018/index.html

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. MEETING: 49nd COSPAR SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY, July 14-22, 2018, Pasadena,
California, USA

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PAPERS IS EXTENDED TO 02/16/2018

Heliospheric sessions:

A. Scientific Commission D

Overview Talks

Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and in the Interstellar Medium:
Acceleration, Anisotropy and Anomalous Transport

Large-Scale Heliospheric Structure: Theory, Modelling, and Data

Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and
beyond: from Pickup Ions to Cosmic Rays

Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun
and in the Inner Heliosphere

Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences & Coronal Rain) and
Non-solar Analogs

Solar Transients: From Solar Origin to Earth Impact and the Outer Helioshere

Space Climate

Highlights of Magnetospheric Plasma Physics

Cross-Scale Coupling and Multipoint Observations in the Magnetosphere

Role of Nonthermal Distributions in Wave Generation, Particle Heating and
Acceleration in Space Plasmas

Plasma Transport and Heating Across Boundary Layers

Particle Acceleration and Loss in the Earth and Planetary Magnetospheres

Magnetotail Dynamics and Substorms during Storm and Non-storm Time

B. Panels and Special Events

Issues in Capacity Building and Education for Space Sciences

Near-term Exploration of the Interstellar Medium

Development of Physics-based, Empirical, and Data Assimilative Models of the
Radiation Environment

Metrics and Validation Needs for Space Weather Models and Services

Solar System Space Weather

>From Ionospheric Indices towards Standardised Activity Scales for Space
Weather Services

Interoperability of Space Weather Data Models, Data Holdings and Data Access
Tools

Space Weather Initiatives and Coordinated International Efforts to implement
COSPAR-ILWS Roadmap Recommendations

8. MEETING: 15th International Solar Wind Conference, June 18-22, 2018,
Brussels, Belgium

Topics

    Origin and acceleration of the solar wind close to the Sun

    Solar wind evolution during its propagation in the heliosphere  

    Connection of CMEs and ICMEs

    Suprathermal and energetic particles in the solar wind

    Solar wind interaction with solar system objects and dust

    Interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium

    Current and future solar and heliospheric missions

Deadline for abstract submission = March 31, 2018

Author acceptance notifications = April 16, 2018 

9. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Joint UTSA/SwRI Graduate Physics Program in San
Antonio, TX

Since 2004, a physics graduate program has been offered in partnership
between the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research
Institute (SwRI).  UTSA is the second largest component university of The
University of Texas System, with an enrollment of more than 28,000 students.
SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division is a leader in space physics
and planetary science research with major involvement in numerous NASA
missions. The participation by SwRI offers students a chance to be involved
in many of the most exciting ongoing NASA missions (Juno, MMS, LRO, Van
Allen Probes, New Horizons, TWINS, IBEX) and future missions (e.g., Europa
Clipper, JUICE, Bepi Columbo, Solar Probe).  

UTSA/SwRI graduate students can engage in data analysis and instrument
design & calibration, and even lead their own projects.  Some past or
current projects include (for example):  analysis of Cassini observations of
Enceladus' water vapor plume, design of a new ion mass spectrometer,
interpretation of the first New Horizons measurements from Pluto, and
investigation of reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere. During one year, the
students in our laboratory class got to perform the calibration on one of
the IBEX instruments now flying and obtaining phenomenal new observations of
the interstellar boundary.  

Our areas of space physics include:

           Solar & Heliospheric physics           

           Planetary Science

           Magnetospheric physics

           Space Science instrumentation

           Astrophysics

Our website is http://www.utsa.edu/physics/, with the joint program details
at http://grad.space.swri.edu.

The deadlines for application:  

1 February 2018 for entry in Fall 2018.  

1 October 2018 for entry in Spring 2019.  

Application procedures and additional information:

- Visit http://graduateschool.utsa.edu/admissions/graduate-application/ and
http://grad.space.swri.edu/application/how_to_apply.html

- Or contact Professor Mihir Desai at mdesai at swri.edu or +1 210 522 6754.

You are welcome to talk directly to current graduate students at
utsaphysicsstudents at listsrv-svr.itc.swri.org.

Financial support is available to students through Research Assistantships
while conducting research for SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division
(http://www.swri.edu).

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10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: 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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11. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: The Department of Physics at the University of New
Hampshire is accepting applications (to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall
2018 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) 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 Parker Solar Probe. The SSC is also a
Center of Excellence in theoretical Solar-terrestrial research.

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12. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: 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).

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13. Call for International Teams for the International Space Science
Institute (ISSI)

The  International  Space  Science  Institute  (ISSI)  in  Bern,
Switzerland,

and ISSI-BJ in Beijing, China, invite  proposals  for  establishing
International  

Teams to conduct on its premises research activities in Space Sciences,
based on the

interdisciplinary  analysis  and  evaluation  of  data  from  spacecraft
and

possible integration with ground data and theoretical models. For the
purpose

of  this  Call,  Space  Sciences  include the Solar and Heliospheric
Physics,

Solar-Terrestrial   Sciences,   Space   Plasma  and  Magnetospheric
Physics,

Planetary   Sciences,   Astrobiology,  Cosmology,  Astrophysics,
Fundamental

Physics in Space, and Earth Sciences using Space data.

Letter of Intent:                 February 20, 2018

Deadline for proposals:     March 28, 2018

The Call for International Teams proposal is available on the ISSI web site:

http://www.issibern.ch/spotlight/ISSI_ISSI-BJ_annual_call2018.pdf

January 23, 2018

Maurizio Falanga

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12. AWARD OPPORTUNITY: AGU SPA "Nonlinear Waves" prize of ~$10,000 

We call attention to an AGU SPA "Nonlinear Waves" prize of ~$10,000 to be
given out by the AGU in 2018
(https://honors.agu.org/sfg-award-lecture/space-weather-and-nonlinear-waves-
and-processes-prize/).  The deadline for submission is at the beginning of
2018.  All of the pertinent information can be found on the AGU website.  If
you still have questions, you can contact Antonio Covington
(acovington at agu.org) of the AGU or any of the four of us.  This prize will
be given out every other year (alternating with a prize for Space Weather).
The prize is intended to stimulate research in this particular area of
science. 

Anyone who has published a significant paper or body of papers on nonlinear
plasma/MHD waves in space plasmas is eligible.  The specific requirement is
that the results be observational, theoretical/simulation that explain
observations unequivocally, or theoretical/simulations that eventually led
to confirmative observations.  

A selection committee will be set up by the AGU SPA President (L. Paxton)
and President-Elect (C. Cohen) and the AGU Nonlinear Geophysics (NG) Focus
Group President (A. Pouquet) to evaluate the submitted nominations. 

With Best Wishes, 

Bruce Tsurutani (bruce.tsurutani at jpl.nasa.gov)

Larry Paxton (larry.paxton at jhuapl.gov)

Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu)

Annick Pouquet (pouquet at ucar.edu)

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Nikolai V Pogorelov

Professor

Department of Space Science

University of Alabama in Huntsville

320 Sparkman Dr.

Huntsville, AL 35805

Tel. 256-961-7617

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