[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - Jan 28, 2019

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Heliosphere News - Jan 28, 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 )

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

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Eric, Merav, or Nick. Posts are limited to ascii text. Newsletters are
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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. ANNOUNCEMENT:  Michelle Thompson won the Arctowski Medal.

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

5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Non-extensive Statistical Mechanics, Superstatistics and
Beyond: Theory and Applications in Astrophysical and Other Complex Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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. 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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4. 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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5. 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-ap
plications-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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6. . INVITATION: to Join the Whole Heliosphere & Planetary Interactions
Campaigns

>From Sarah Gibson (HAO/NCAR):

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
focussing 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.

https://whpi.hao.ucar.edu/

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7. 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 ofhttp://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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8. 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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9. 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
athttp://graduateschool.utsa.edu/admissions/graduate-application/ and
http://grad.space.swri.edu/application/how_to_apply.html .

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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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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