[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - Feb 4, 2019

[Nathan Schwadron]

Heliosphere News - Feb 4, 2019

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)

Coordinator: Liz Wilber (Elizabeth.Wilber at unh.edu)

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

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

1. MEETING: 18th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, February
18-22, 2019, Pasadena, California, USA, Second announcement

2. MEETING: 14th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows: ASTRONUM-2019, July 1-5, 2019, Paris, France

3. MEETING: EGU 2019 - Session on the Sun and Heliosphere: 7-12
April 2019, Vienna, Austria

4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Michelle Thompson won the Arctowski Medal.

5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)
Mission Website is Online

6. ANNOUNCEMENT: Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, Superstatistics and
Beyond: Theory and Applications in Astrophysical and Other Complex
Systems

7. INVITATION: to Join the Whole Heliosphere & Planetary Interactions
Campaigns

8. INVITATION: Plasma 2020 Decadal Assessment: Call for White Papers

9. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Space Physics at UNH

10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Heliophysics at University of
Texas at San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute

11. POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics
Instrumentation and Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory

12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Job Openings at the Southwest Research Institute,
San Antonio, Texas, USA

13. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at
University of Alabama in Huntsville

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1. MEETING: SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: The 18th Annual International
Astrophysics Conference will be held in Pasadena, California at the
Sheraton Pasadena February 18 - 22, 2019.(Welcome Reception and Evening
Registration begins Sunday, February 17).

The theme of the meeting will be "The Physics of Energetic Particles:
Universal Processes from the Solar Corona to the Very Local Interstellar
Medium and the Physics they Enable" and will follow the same format as
before with 25-minute presentations punctuated by selected 40-minute
invited talks that will explore various themes in greater detail.

Energetic particles are ubiquitous throughout the solar wind, being
integral to the solar corona, accelerated by interplanetary shock waves,
present in the quiet solar wind, possibly accelerated by magnetic flux
ropes or magnetic islands in the vicinity of the heliospheric current
sheet, at planetary bow shocks, present in the distant heliosphere and
the heliospheric termination shock, in the inner heliosheath, and now
observed by Voyager 1 in the very local interstellar medium. Although
numerous mechanisms have been identified that accelerate particles, no
consensus exists as to which is primary, and indeed several acceleration
processes can operate simultaneously in close proximity. The
acceleration of particles to large energies represents a fundamental
dissipative process for the plasma and can therefore modify the
underlying plasma physical processes in important ways. The meeting will
explore observations, theories, and look forward to anticipated new
missions that will shine a light on this theme, the Parker Solar Probe
and IMAP.

Please visit the conference website for registration and abstract
submission:
https://www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/18thannual/index.html

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: 14th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows in Paris, France, on 1 - 5 July, 2019.

The 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-2019, the 14th International Conference on
Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in Paris, France, on 1 - 5
July, 2019.

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 will
soon be established to provide you with useful information about the
conference venue, registration, and means of transportation, etc. E-mail
inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov at
uah.edu and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr. The meeting website is 
http://irfu.cea.fr/ASTRONUM2019/.

Program Committee: Tahar Amari (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France),
Edouard Audit (CEA, Maison de la Simulation, France, co-chair), Amitava
Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA), Phillip
Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Anthony Mezzacappa
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), Ewald Mueller
(Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany), Nikolai
Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA, chair), Kazunari
Shibata (Kyoto University, Japan), Jon Linker (Predictive Science Inc.,
USA), and Gary P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA).

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3. MEETING: EGU 2019 - Session on the Sun and Heliosphere: 7-12
April 2019, Vienna, Austria

Dear colleagues, we invite abstract submissions to our session at the
2019 European Geosciences Union General Assembly, ?ST1.1 Open Session on
the Sun and Heliosphere?.

Submission deadline is 10 Jan 2019, 13:00 CET

Confirmed speaker: Nathan Schwadron

Looking forward to meeting you in Vienna! Manuela Temmer, Andre Galli,
Margit Haberreiter, Olga Malandraki

ST1.1 Abstract: The session traditionally provides a forum for the
discussion of all aspects of solar and heliospheric physics. Popular
topics have included solar cycle dependencies of the Sun, solar wind and
heliosphere, Coronal Mass Ejection research, studies of energetic
particles throughout the heliosphere, and the outer boundaries of the
heliosphere. We encourage contributions related to all ongoing and
planned space missions, to ground-based experiments and to theoretical
research. Papers presenting ideas for future space missions and
experiments are very welcome in this session. The session will consist
of both oral and poster presentations.

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4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Michelle F. Thomsen, Planetary Science Institute and Los
Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded the Arctowski Medal for her
discoveries related to planetary and solar physics. The medal is presented
with a $100,000 prize, and $100,000 to support research in solar physics and
solar terrestrial relationships.

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5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)
Mission Website is Online

From: David J. McComas (dmccomas at princeton.edu)

Princeton University's website for NASA's Interstellar Mapping and
Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission is online and available at
https://imap.princeton.edu. Launching in 2024, the IMAP mission and its
suite of 10 instruments simultaneously investigates two of the most
important issues in space physics today - how particles are accelerated
to high energies in space and how the solar wind interacts with the
interstellar medium at the boundaries that surround our solar system.

Additional information about the IMAP mission, the 10 instruments, and
the fundamental questions that IMAP will answer can be found on the
website and its associated links.

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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: Special Issue in EPJ ST: Nonextensive Statistical
Mechanics, Superstatistics and Beyond: Theory and Applications in
Astrophysical and Other Complex Systems.

From: George Livadiotis (george.livadiotis at swri.org )

https://www.epj.org/open-calls-for-papers/85-epj-st/1546-epjst-special-
issue-nonextensive-statistical-mechanics-superstatistics-and-beyond-
theory-and-applications-in-astrophysical-and-other-complex-systems

Topics include, among others: Applications in astrophysics, space and
other plasma physics, geophysics, high energy physics, cosmology, image
and time series processing. The Guest Editors invite authors to submit
their original research and short reviews on the theme of the Special
Issue of the European Physical Journal -Special Topics. Articles should
be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ: ST by selecting the
"Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, Superstatistics and Beyond" as a
special issue at:
https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjst/home.php

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7. INVITATION: to Join the Whole Heliosphere & Planetary Interactions
Campaigns

It's solar minimum. In the tradition of Whole Sun Month (1996) and Whole
Heliosphere Interval (2008), it's time for Whole Heliosphere & Planetary
Interactions (2019) - WHPI!

Goal

A coordinated observing and modeling effort to characterize the
three-dimensional interconnected solar-heliospheric-planetary system. By
focusing on specific solar rotations near solar minimum, structures and
activity can be unambiguously traced throughout the heliosphere and into
planetary space environments.

When

3 target intervals:

Jul 2019 - Solar eclipse

Sep 2019 - Parker Solar Probe at perihelion Dec 2019 - Parker Solar
Probe Venus flyby

Who

Everyone is welcome - it's a grassroots effort. Sign up - we will have
telecons and workshops to coordinate analyses. See
https://whpi.hao.ucar.edu for further details.

Contact: Sarah Gibson (sgibson at ucar.edu)

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8. INVITATION: Plasma 2020 Decadal Assessment: Call for White Papers

The US National Academies has recently started the Decadal Assessment of
Plasma Science (http://nas.edu/plasma) - Plasma 2020. As with the
previous decadal assessment, Plasma 2010
(http://sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/BPA_048210), the Plasma 2020
report will provide an overview of accomplishments in all fields of
plasma science and technology during the previous decade, and provide
guidance on the most critical science challenges leading to societal
benefit to be addressed in the coming decade. As with Plasma 2010, we
expect the Plasma 2020 report to be highly influential in establishing
priorities for plasma focused agencies, both in the US and
internationally. The Plasma 2020 committee invites the US and
international plasma science and technology communities to submit white
papers addressing past accomplishments, future science challenges,
opportunities to provide societal benefit, needed interdisciplinary
collaborations and means to enhance careers in the fields of plasma
science and technology. The white papers will be a major source of input
to the committee. Instructions for submitting white papers are at the
bottom of http://nas.edu/plasma. Please submit white papers by February
15, 2019. Questions can addressed to the study Director, Christopher
Jones (cjjones at nas.edu ) or the co-chairs of the study.

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9. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Space Physics at UNH

The Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire is
accepting applications (http://physics.unh.edu/content/graduate-program)
to its MS and PhD programs for the Fall 2019 semester. 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), GOES-R (launched in
2016), and Parker Solar Probe (launched in 2018). Upcoming missions in
which the SSC is involved include Solar Orbiter and the Interstellar
Mapping and Acceleration Probe. The SSC is also a Center of Excellence
in theoretical Solar-terrestrial research.

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10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Heliophysics at University of
Texas at San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute

The Joint UTSA/SwRI Graduate Physics Program in San Antonio, TX invites
applications for several Graduate Research Assistants wishing to pursue
a PhD. in the areas of Space and Planetary Science. UTSA is the second
largest component university of The University of Texas System, with an
enrollment of more than 30,000 students (http://www.utsa.edu/physics/).
SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division is a leader in space
physics and planetary science research with major involvement in
numerous NASA missions (http://www.swri.edu). UTSA/SwRI graduate
students engage in data analysis and instrument design & calibration in
many of the most exciting ongoing NASA missions (Juno, MMS, LRO, Van
Allen Probes, New Horizons, TWINS, IBEX, Parker Solar Probe) and future
missions (e.g., Europa Clipper, JuICE, Bepi Columbo, Interstellar
Mapping and Acceleration Probe or IMAP). Application deadline is 1
February 2019 for entry in Fall 2019 (http://grad.space.swri.edu). For
further information about the program, please contact Prof. Mihir Desai
at mdesai at swri.edu or +1 210 522 6754. Application procedures and
additional information can be found at
http://graduateschool.utsa.edu/admissions/graduate-application/ and
http://grad.space.swri.edu/application/how_to_apply.html.

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11. POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics
Instrumentation and Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory seeks candidates for a postdoctoral
position in heliospheric physics and instrumentation with the Space
Science and Applications Group (ISR-1). ISR Division currently leads
instruments or instrument subsystems on NASA's IMAP, IBEX, SWIFT, TWINS,
ACE, Mars Odyssey, and Van Allen Probes missions, as well as NASAs Mars
Science Laboratory and Mars 2020 rovers. The candidate chosen for this
position will be expected to carry out original research addressing the
structure and evolution of the outer heliosphere through analysis of
data from the ongoing IBEX mission. The candidate is also expected to
support the development and calibration of energetic neutral atom
instrumentation to be used in the upcoming IMAP mission. Additional
opportunities in the development of space plasma instrumentation may
also be available. Applicants should have laboratory experience
applicable to developing hardware for the detection of space plasmas.
Additional desirable skills include familiarity with heliospheric
science (solar wind, outer heliosphere, magnetospheres, etc.), or a
strong interest in learning about such environments. The selected
candidate will have the opportunity to interact with Laboratory staff
engaged in a broad range of observational, computational, and
theoretical research in heliophysics.

This is a two-year position with the possibility of an extension to a
third year. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Space Physics,
Physics, Astronomy, or appropriate similar fields obtained within the
last five years, or soon to be completed. They should have demonstrated
ability to pursue independent research and work as a member of a team,
as well as a strong record of publication and presentation.

Interested candidates should send their CV, publications list, and
statement of research interests to Dan Reisenfeld (dreisenfeld at
lanl.gov), and apply online at jobs.lanl.gov and search for IRC69562.

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12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Job Openings at the Southwest Research Institute,
San Antonio, Texas, USA

The Department of Space Research of the Southwest Research Institute in
San Antonio, Texas seeks candidates for positions at the postdoctoral
researcher, research scientist and senior or principal research
scientist levels in Heliospheric Physics. The selected candidate is
expected to carry out original research addressing the origin and
acceleration of energetic particles in the interplanetary medium, and/or
lead and support the development and calibration of energetic neutral
atom and plasma instruments to be flown on upcoming heliophysics or
planetary missions such as the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration
Probe or IMAP. Research will focus on the analysis of suprathermal and
energetic particle, as well as magnetic field and solar wind plasma data
from the Wind, ACE, and STEREO, and Parker Solar Probe missions and 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. Propose and
lead relevant scientific investigations in data analysis and modeling
and publish results in peer-reviewed scientific journals, present
results at scientific meetings, workshops, and conferences. 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.

Click on the following links for more information about these positions.

15-01272 Postdoctoral Researcher
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01272

15-01317 Research Scientist/Sr. Research Scientist - Heliophysics
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01317

15-01309 Sr. Research/Principal Scientist
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01309

15-01308 Research/Sr. Research Scientist
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01308

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13. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at
University of Alabama in Huntsville

The Department of Space Science of the University of Alabama in
Huntsville is seeking an outstanding scientist and teacher to fill a
tenure-track assistant professor position in the field of
low-temperature plasma (LTP) science, broadly defined. This is the first
of three positions that will be filled in this general area over the
next three years, all of which are expected to support and complement a
recently awarded National Science Foundation Established Program in
Support of Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grant in low-temperature plasma
physics. Within the general field of LTP science, areas of particular
interest to the Department include solar physics, interplanetary and
heliospheric physics, magnetospheric physics, physics of the very local
interstellar medium, dusty and/or complex plasma, gas discharge physics,
and plasma interactions with soft and/or hard matter. For more
information and how to apply, please visit
https://www.uah.edu/cspar/jobs.

Reviewing of applicants will begin by January 18. 2019.

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Nathan Schwadron
Presidential Chair
Norman S. and Anna Marie Waite Professor
University of New Hampshire

n.schwadron at unh.edu
Morse Hall - Room 350
8 College Road
Durham NH 03824
USA

(603) 862-3451










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