[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - July 2, 2019

[Eric J. Zirnstein]

Heliosphere News - July 2, 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)

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/.

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1. MEETING: SHINE Session - Pickup Ions in the Outer Heliosphere and Beyond, Boulder, CO, August 5-9, 2019

2. MEETING: EPSC-DPS Special Session: Interstellar Probe: science, mission designs, opportunities and challenges, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 15-20 September 2019

3. MEETING: 5th Edition of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop - CR2019, Gran Sasso Science Institute, in L'Aquila, Italy, on October 7-11, 2019

4. MEETING: Mini-conference "Turbulence, Reconnection, Particle Acceleration, and Shocks in Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas" at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, October 21-25, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

5. MEETING: AGU Fall Meeting 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco, CA

Special Sessions: 
    3rd Interstellar Probe Special Session
    A Quarter Century of Wind observations
    The Outer Heliosphere
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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: International Course (School/Workshop) on Complexity with Applications in Astrophysical Systems, Erice, Italy, July 2- 8, 2019

7. INVITATION: Send SPA Images for AGU Centennial

8. INVITATION: Request for Community Input on Benchmarks for Space Weather

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

10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: MS and PhD Funded Graduate Opportunities in Space Physics Available at UAH

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

12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Project Manager Position, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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1. SHINE MEETING SESSION: Pickup Ions in the Heliosphere and Beyond, Boulder, CO, August 5-9, 2019 (conveners: N. Pogorelov and M. Zhang).

The purpose of this session is to discuss the fundamental properties of the solar wind (SW) and its interaction with the local interstellar medium (LISM) caused by the presence of non-thermal, pickup ions (PUIs). The discussion will follow a broad, integrative approach based a variety of observation data, simulation tools, and theoretical methods. The session will address both in situ measurements of PUIs by ACE, Ulysses, New Horizons, and Voyager, and remote observations of ENA fluxes from IBEX, Cassini/INCA, and SOHO/HSTOF. It will particularly focus on the following
scientific questions:

1. Where are PUIs produced and how their distribution function evolve throughout the heliosphere?

2. How the distribution functions of non-Maxwellian ions, and PUIs in particular, behave at collisionless shocks?

3. What is the effect of PUIs and anomalous cosmic rays on the global structure of the heliosphere?

4. What are the mechanisms to accelerate PUIs in the supersonic solar wind and in the inner heliosheath?

5. What is the correlation between observations and model predictions for the bulk properties of PUIs?

6. What are the physical mechanisms responsible for the IBEX ribbon and distributed ENA fluxes?

How to improve the energy resolution of ENA models.

7. What are the major theoretical challenges in our understanding of the PUI physics from the perspective of the IMAP mission?

Scene-setting presentations will be given by David McComas and Vadim Roytershteyn.

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2. MEETING: EPSC-DPS Special Session: Interstellar Probe: science, mission designs, opportunities and challenges, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 15-20 September 2019

EPSC-DPS Special Session: “Interstellar Probe: science, mission designs, opportunities and challenges”
An Interstellar Probe mission has been discussed since  1960 and studied by multiple groups since then. A new NASA-funded trade study is under way to design a mission concept using available or near-term technology. The cross-disciplinary science targets include exploration of the Very Local Interstellar Medium and its interaction with the heliosphere, characterization of the circum-solar dust disk, exploration of previously unexplored Kuiper Belt Objects, and observation of the extragalactic background light beyond the zodiacal cloud. A vantage point far away from the solar system, naturally enables these observations to be put in the context of other exoplanetary systems and astrospheres. At the same time, Chinese scientists are studying with their space agency CNSA a scenario in which two “Heliospheric Boundary Explorers”. Not only will the synergies between these two missions be particularly valuable, but also both of them will offer unique opportunities for broad international collaborations, including European contributions. This session will welcome reports on the unique science discoveries enabled by missions to the Interstellar Medium beyond heliospheric boundaries and will discuss their design concepts, enabling technologies and programmatic challenges.
Abstract Deadline: 8 May
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/session/34097
Convener: Michel Blanc | Co-conveners: Pontus Brandt, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Kathleen Mandt, Merav Opher, Olivier Witasse

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3. MEETING: 5th Edition of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop - CRA 2019

5th edition of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop - CRA 2019 that will be hosted at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, in L'Aquila, Italy, on October 7 to 11, 2019.

CRA2019, following the experience of previous editions, will bring together scientists from around the world to discuss the origin, composition, propagation, and modulation of cosmic-rays, with a focus upon the anisotropy on small and large scales, and the effects of interstellar and heliospheric processes on the signal observed at the Earth, including plasma processes.

The program will include invited lectures and contributed talks. As in the past, the workshop is addressed to scientists in the field as well as to PhD and graduate students. We will encourage lively and informal discussions among participants!

To ensure organizational effectiveness we will be allowing maximum 70 registrations. The registration fee of €150 will include the social dinner and coffee breaks during the Workshop.
Should you have any question please do not hesitate to write to us at carmelo.evoli at gssi.it or paolo.desiati at icecube.wisc.edu

Here below the important dates of the Workshop:
              • 1 April 2019: open call for abstract.
              • 30 May 2019: call for abstract close.
              • 1 June 2019: early registration open (registration fee 150€).
              • 7 June 2019: confirmation of abstract acceptance.
              • 2 August 2019: early registration close (after this date the registration fee will be 200 €)
              • 1  September 2019: registration close.
              • 7-11 October 2019: Conference

Please find additional information, including the list of invited speakers and logistics at:  
https://indico.gssi.it/event/45/

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4. MEETING: Mini-conference "Turbulence, Reconnection, Particle Acceleration, and Shocks in Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas"  at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, October 21-25, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The abstract deadline is July 3.

Program Committee: Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Wiscosin-Madison), Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue), Nikolai Pogorelov 

(University of Alabama in Huntsville), Dmitri Uzdensky (University of Colorado), and Ming Zhang (Florida Institute of Technology)

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5. MEETING: AGU Fall Meeting 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco, CA

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Home/0

Abstract Submissions Open
Abstract Deadline July 31, 2019

SPECIAL SESSIONS: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/gateway.cgi

5A. (SH012) 3rd Interstellar Probe Special Session at the Fall AGU

Over the past few years the global community discussion about a pragmatic Interstellar Probe beyond the sphere of the Sun’s influence have intensified, due to the fact that both Voyager 1 and 2 have exited through the heliopause and due to developments in new launch capabilities. Several special sessions at major conferences and dedicated workshops have provided a platform for the community and stakeholders to come together around the timeliness, the remarkable discoveries across the divisions, and the available enabling technologies and mission architectures that would make a launch in the 2030’s, and humanity’s first explicit step in to the galaxy, a reality.

5B. (SH003) A Quarter Century of Wind observations

5C. (SH026) The Outer Heliosphere: Where the Solar Wind, Interstellar Pickup Ions, Suprathermal Particles, and Galactic Cosmic Rays Interact

With the upcoming Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission providing higher resolution Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) maps, New Horizons exploring the outer heliosphere, and Voyager exploring the interstellar medium, it is becoming important to understand how particle populations spanning a wide range of energies interact over large scales throughout the heliosphere. As the solar wind propagates, solar wind structures merge forming larger structures that can become Global Merged Interaction Regions (GMIRs). GMIRs reduce the amount of Galactic Cosmic Rays reaching Earth. As the solar wind propagates encountering more interstellar material, the solar wind heats and slows as interstellar material is ionized and picked up. Interstellar pickup ions and suprathermal tails modify shocks (interplanetary & planetary) and outer heliospheric boundaries. We seek abstracts involving data sets, theory, and simulations that explore how particles with such a wide range of energies interact over large scales connecting the inner and outer heliosphere.

Conveners: Heather A. Elliott, Eberhard Moebius, John D. Richardson, and Merav Opher

Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/78505

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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: International Course (School/Workshop) on Complexity with Applications in Astrophysical Systems, Erice, Italy, July 2- 8, 2019

(https://sites.google.com/view/supernext2019/home)
We welcome young and senior researchers involved with space and astrophysical plasma physics to attend the International Course (School & Workshop) on Complexity, “Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, Superstatistics and beyond: Theory and Applications in astrophysical and other complex systems”, to be held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Italy, 2 - 8 July, 2019.
In order to participate, PhD students and post-docs should send their CV and a recommendation letter to: complexityerice2019 at gmail.com. Senior researchers are very welcome to attend and should send their application to the same email address with a motivation letter. (Due: April 1, 2019)
Topics include, but are not limited to:

Generalized Central Limit theorems; Generalized Large Deviation theory; Low-dimensional nonlinear conservative and dissipative dynamical systems near the edge of chaos; Long-range-interacting many-body classical Hamiltonian systems; Complex networks; Area-law-like quantum systems; Applications in astrophysics, space and other plasma physics, geophysics, high energy physics, cosmology, granular matter, cold atoms, econophysics, theoretical and structural chemistry, biophysics, social systems, power grids, image and time series processing, among others.
With our very best wishes,

C. Beck , G. Benedek, G. Livadiotis, A. Rapisarda , U. Tirnakli, C. Tsallis

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7. INVITATION: Send SPA Images for AGU Centennial

From: Christina M. S. Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu)

Greetings from Your Space Physics & Aeronomy Section Leadership!

This Fall Meeting is also our Centennial, and we are collecting iconic images and graphics that represent progress within our field over the past 100 years. The images and graphics can include results and observations, science history, vision of the future, scientists and engineers in action (instrumentation development and building), rocket spacecraft missions, etc. Some of the images will be displayed at the Centennial theater screen on a rotating basis with images collected from other sections and potentially on other AGU media.

For additional questions or comments about the images, please contact any one of the SPA section leadership members, listed below. Images/graphics along with a short title or brief description may be sent to Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu<mailto:cohen at srl.caltech.edu>).
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We look forward to seeing many of you at the Fall Meeting!

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8. INVITATION: Request for Community Input on Benchmarks for Space Weather

From: Michael Wiltberger (mwiltber at nsf.gov)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring an effort that seeks to engage the space weather community to develop the next phase of space weather benchmarks. As a point of reference, the U.S. National Science and Technology Council released Phase 1 benchmarks in June 2018. This new NSF-sponsored effort seeks to improve on the Phase 1 Benchmarks and identify opportunities for research efforts that will improve the understanding of extreme space weather, resulting in better benchmarks and preparedness. This effort, supported by NASA and the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, is being chaired by Geoff Reeves (LANL).

To support this effort, we are requesting input from the space weather community. Your input will help improve the fidelity and utility of space weather benchmarks and support development of a more refined Phase 2 Benchmarks study. This input may also be used to inform Federal research and development R&D priorities. For more information, please see the following link: https://idalink.org/SWxBenchmarks

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9. 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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10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: MS and PhD Funded Graduate Opportunities in Space Physics Available at UAH

The Department of Space Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has several funded teaching and research Assistantship positions available for motivated students wanting to pursue a PhD in Space Science, starting in the Fall of 2019. We are still accepting applications. We are a research-focused graduate-only department, covering topics in theory, simulation, data analysis, and instrument design in all aspects of space and solar physics. Students can participate in numerous research programs ranging from the physics of the outer atmosphere of the Sun, solar wind, solar energetic particles, turbulence, space weather, the heliosphere, the interstellar medium, gamma-ray bursts, and cosmic rays, for example. The Department collaborates closely with members of the Marshall Space Flight Center's solar physics, gamma ray physics, gravitational wave, energetic particles, and dusty plasma groups, with whom we share a building. More information can be found at our website https://www.uah.edu/science/departments/space-science.  Inquiries can be made to spa at uah.edu or Prof. Gary P Zank (garyp.zank at gmail.com), and applications should be made through the UAH graduate school https://www.uah.edu/admissions/graduate/apply-for-admission. Be sure to indicate Space Science on your application.

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11. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Job Opening 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 research scientist or senior research scientist levels in Heliospheric Physics. The selected candidate is expected to 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. The candidate is also expected to publish results in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and present results at scientific meetings, workshops, and conferences. Research will also involve interactions with Institute Staff engaged in a broad range of experimental, observational, and computational research.
Click on the following link for more information about this position.
15-01317 Research Scientist/Sr. Research Scientist - Heliophysics
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01317

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12. Project Manager Position: University of Alabama in Huntsville

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is seeking a Project Manager for a large multi-million dollar five-year funded project. The project engages all the AL research universities and is led by UAH. The project will develop an AL-wide research, educational, and workforce development program focused on understanding low-temperature plasma physics with applications in the development of novel materials, as well as in the medical, biological, and agricultural sciences. We are seeking an innovative, creative person with excellent writing and verbal communication skills. The individual should possess some technical background in the sciences with ideally a masters, or PhD degree, or equivalent experience as a Project Manager.  Experience should include the corresponding reporting functions typical of federal projects, as well as coordinating projects across multiple environments and locations.  Management, supervisory, and delegation skills are essential.

The successful candidate must be willing and able to travel to the seven AL partner institutions several times a year. The Project Manger will also help organize and run a Summer School, an annual meeting, and an Open House event. The Project Manager will report to the Principal Investigator of the project, coordinate and work closely with the Project Management Committee that is comprised of the institutional co-principal investigators.

For more information and to apply, go to: https://uah.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=110056

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer of minorities/ females/ veterans/ disabled.

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