[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere Newsletter May 15

[Opher, Merav]

Heliosphere News - May 15, 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)

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

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

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

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

5. MEETING: International Workshop on 'Particle Acceleration and
Transport: From the Sun to Extragalactic Sources', 12-16 November 2018,
Universita Della Calabria, Rende, Italy

6. Heliophysics POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Opportunity at SwRI, San Antonio

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1. 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 author registration deadline is Apr 20, 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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2. 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

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

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
Heliosphere

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

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

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5. MEETING: International Workshop on 'Particle Acceleration and
Transport: From the Sun to Extragalactic Sources', 12-16 November 2018,
Universita Della Calabria, Rende, Italy

The University of Calabria will host the international workshop on
'Particle acceleration and transport: from the Sun to extragalactic
sources' on 2018 November 12-16
(http://astroplasmas.unical.it/workshop2018/)

Scientific rationale:

The workshop aims at presenting recent research on the longstanding
problems of particle acceleration and transport in different
astrophysical environments, such as the Sun, the heliosphere, galactic
sources, and extragalactic sources. The purpose is to bring together
experts in the fields of cosmic ray physics, plasma turbulence,
acceleration processes, and particle transport, in order to stimulate
cross-fertilization and to exchange scientific information among
different areas. Indeed, the basic theoretical framework adopted to
describe particle acceleration and transport is common to all those
fields but the properties of the environments change noticeably. In
addition, in-situ and remote observations often question the validity of
the standard theories and prompt for further investigations to be
interpreted. The availability of large datasets from new
instrumentations and recent theoretical and numerical studies give the
opportunity to advance the models and possibly to answer some of the
basic unresolved issues. Exchange of ideas among the various fields
would certainly speed up this process.

We strongly encourage to present to the different communities recent,
pioneering observations, theories, and models that try to explain and
describe processes of particle acceleration and transport. We try to
bring together scientists who would like to understand what is happening
beyond their field of specialty.

In order to promote an efficient exchange of ideas among different
fields, each research area (solar, heliospheric, galactic, and
extragalactic physics) will be introduced by a 40 minutes broad review
talk. The majority of the talks will be upon invitation (30 minutes
each), and at the end of each day a time slot of about 45 minutes will
be dedicated to open discussions on the daily sessions led by a couple
of scientists.

Contributed talks and poster presentations will be organized.

Main Topics:

-Observations of energetic particles in the solar, heliospheric,
galactic and extragalactic environments

-Properties of cosmic ray transport and acceleration from in-situ and
remote observations

-Solar flares, Crab flares, flaring phenomena in astrophysics

-Shock acceleration: problems and advances

-Particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection, including the
relativistic regimes

-Particle acceleration in accretion flows and relativistic jets

-Transport and acceleration in non-linear regimes

-Magnetic turbulence in astrophysical plasmas: properties from large to
small scales and effects on particle transport

-Theoretical models and numerical simulations of particle transport and
acceleration

SOC:

Silvia Perri (Chair, Universit? della Calabria, Rende, Italy)

Elena Amato (co-chair, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)

Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA-INAF, Bologna, Italy)

Andrey Bikov (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Silvia Dalla (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)

Horst Fichtner (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany)

Natasha Jeffrey (University of Glasgow, UK)

William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)

Reinout J. van Weeren (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Gaetano Zimbardo (Universit? della Calabria, Rende, Italy)

Contact: workshopunical2018 at gmail.com

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6. Heliophysics POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Opportunity at SwRI, San
Antonio.

The Space Research Department at SwRI, San Antonio is seeking
applications for a postdoctoral researcher to carry out original
research addressing the origin and acceleration of energetic particles
in the interplanetary medium. The candidate will analyze suprathermal
and energetic particle, as well as magnetic field and solar wind plasma
data from Wind, ACE, and STEREO, and the upcoming Parker Solar Probe
mission. The candidate is also expected to support the development and
calibration of suprathermal and energetic particle instruments to be
used in upcoming heliophysics missions, publish results in peer-reviewed
scientific journals, and present results at scientific meetings,
workshops, and conferences. The research will involve interactions with
Institute Staff engaged in a broad range of observational,
computational, and theoretical research in the physics of the solar wind
and suprathermal and energetic particles. The candidate should have a
PhD degree in Space Physics or Plasma Physics, and have graduate-level
experience in the analysis and interpretation of solar wind, magnetic
field, and suprathermal particle datasets. The candidate must have at
least a 3.0 GPA, and demonstrate the ability to program and utilize data
analysis software tools such as IDL, C, or MATLAB.

To apply for this position go to
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01272.
For more information about SwRI visit
https://www.swri.org/technical-divisions/space-science-engineering

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