[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - November 5, 2019

Tue Nov 5 15:22:14 EST 2019

Heliosphere News – November 5, 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)
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at uah.edu)

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1.  MEETING: ST1.6 Advancing the Understanding of the Heliosphere and the
Very Local Interstellar Medium with IMAP, EGU General Assembly 2020 in
Vienna, Austria.

2. MEETING: Open Session on the Sun and Heliosphere at the upcoming EGU
General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria

3. MEETING: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: The 19th Annual International Astrophysics
Conference will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 9 - 13, 2020.

4. MEETING: 15-th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2020), Pasadena, CA, July 20-24, 2020.

5. MEETING: SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium
(STP-15), Alibag, India, February 21-25, 2022

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

7. JOB OPPORTUNITY: NSF Supported Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar
Physics and Astro-informatics at
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA 

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

9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral, Early-Career Staff, and Mid-Career Staff
Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory

10. JOB OPENING: Research Chair in Space Weather at South African National
Space Agency (SANSA) in South Africa

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1.  MEETING: ST1.6 Advancing the Understanding of the Heliosphere and the
Very Local Interstellar Medium with IMAP
at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria.
EGU meeting will be held May 3-8 2020 in Vienna, Austria.
Meeting details can be found at https://www.egu2020.eu/.
The abstract submission site is open. The deadline for all submissions is
Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 13:00 CET. Abstracts will not be accepted for
review after this date.
Session description:
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is a future space
mission dedicated to study the interaction of the solar wind with the
interstellar medium and the acceleration of energetic particles. These two
topics are crucial for understanding the coupling between the inner and the
outer heliosphere. With discoveries of the past (e.g., Mariner, Pioneers,
Ulysses) and the present (e.g., Voyager, SOHO/SWAN, IBEX) heliospheric
missions our understanding of the heliosphere, its boundary regions, as well
as the Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) still expands. Many methods
and techniques have developed to study the heliosphere and its interstellar
neighbourhood. The boundaries regions of the heliosphere are probed directly
by the two Voyager spacecraft and their investigation is accessible by
remote observations of the energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), interstellar
neutral (ISN) gas, pickup ions (PUIs), cosmic rays, and heliospheric
backscattered ultraviolet emission by instruments in the Earth’s vicinity.
The processes in the inner and the outer heliosphere comprise a complex
system to investigate the shape and size of the heliosphere, the plasma flow
in the inner and outer heliosheath, as well as the magnetic field, the
composition, and the ionization state of the VLISM. This session is
dedicated to contributions advancing the understanding of the heliosphere
and its interaction with VLISM, this includes theory development, modelling,
analysis of data from past and present space missions, and preparations for
future heliospheric missions like, e.g., IMAP.
We are looking forward to see you at the session.
Conveners: Justyna Sokol, Andre Galli, Olga Katushkina
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2. MEETING: ST1.1 Open Session on the Sun and Heliosphere at the upcoming
EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria.
The EGU meeting will be held May 3-8 2020 in Vienna, Austria.
Meeting details can be found at https://www.egu2020.eu/.
The abstract submission site is open. The deadline for all submissions is
Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 13:00 CET. Abstracts will not be accepted for
review after this date.
Session description:
This 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.
We are looking forward to see you at the session.
Conveners: Manuela Temmer, Olga Malandraki, Andre Galli
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3. MEETING: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: The 19th Annual International Astrophysics
Conference will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 9 - 13, 2020.(Welcome
Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, March 8).

The theme of the meeting will be “From the Sun's Atmosphere to the Edge of
the Galaxy: A Story of Connections” 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.

The oldest and the newest heliospheric space missions are distinguished by
being the farthest and closest human-made objects ever to the Sun. Plunging
into the depths of the atmosphere of the Sun, the Parker Solar Probe,
launched in August 12, 2018, has completed the first three closest encounter
passes to the Sun, edging closer and closer with each orbit. The venerable
Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, entered the very local interstellar
medium on 25 August 2012 and at ~141 astronomical units from the Sun is now
further from the Earth than any other human-made object. Voyager 2,
following suit, likewise entered the interstellar medium on 5 November 2018.
It is astonishing that, since the start of the space age in October 1957,
humankind is now reaching for the stars and reaching into a star itself.
Despite the immense distance separating the Voyager spacecraft from the Sun,
the Sun’s influence is still felt in the immensely cold distant very local
interstellar medium. This conference will address the connected story of how
the Sun and interstellar medium collectively shape their environment.

Conference Website: www.icnsmeetings.com/conference/19thannual/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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4. MEETING: 15-th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space
Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2020), Pasadena, CA, July 20-24, 2020.

Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize
ASTRONUM-2020 – the 15th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of
Space Plasma Flows in Pasadena, CA, USA, on 20–24 July, 2020.

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 dot Pogorelov at uah dot edu
and Edouard dot Audit at cea dot fr.

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), Jon Linker (Predictive Science
Inc., USA), Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
Ewald Müller (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany),
Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA, chair),
Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University, Japan), James Stone (Princeton
University, USA), and Gary P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville,
USA).

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5. MEETING: SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium
(STP-15), Alibag, India, February 21-25, 2022

We are happy to announce that the SCOSTEP’s 15th Quadrennial
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-15) will be held at Alibag, India,
on February 21-25, 2022. 

The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) organizes
the Solar-Terrestrial Physics (STP) symposium once every four years. SCOSTEP
is engaged in three major activities: long-term scientific programs,
capacity building and public outreach. The scientific programs are of
interdisciplinary nature involving scientists from around the world. They
are designed to advance our understanding of the solar-terrestrial
relationship using space- and ground-based observations, cutting-edge models
and theory.  Under what ways the Sun affects the Earth and its environment
over various time scales is the underlying theme of the scientific programs
pursued under SCOSTEP. Having addressed the variability component during the
recently concluded Variability of the Sun and its Terrestrial Impact
(VarSITI) program, the new program of SCOSTEP, Predictability of the
variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling (PRESTO,
2020-2024,http://www.issibj.ac.cn/Publications/Forum_Reports/201404/W0201906
20592906717714.pdf), address the predictability component of those phenomena
that have impact on the Sun-Earth system as a whole in various time scales.

The STP-15 will aim to gather eminent scientists from solar, magnetospheric,
ionospheric and atmospheric physics communities to discuss and deliberate on
the cutting-edge sciences pertaining to STP. STP-15 will address the
predictability as a focus area in each of the traditional topics deliberated
upon during the earlier STP meetings, namely, the mass and radiation chains
and intra-atmospheric coupling.

Please put the date of STP-15 into your calendar, and prepare to join in
with the new SCOSTEP program PRESTO. 

With best regards,
Kazuo Shiokawa, SCOSTEP President
Daniel Marsh, SCOSTEP Vice President
Nat Gopalswamy, SCOSTEP Past President
Patricia Doherty, SCOSTEP Scientific Secretary SCOSTEP Bureau members and
their liaison organization: Aude Chambodut (WDS), Jorge Chau (URSI) ,
Kyung-Suk Cho (IAU), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (COSPAR), Renata Lukianova (IAGA),
Annika Seppala (SCAR), Prasad Subramanian (IUPAP), and Peter Pilewskie
(IAMAS) S. Gurubaran, LOC chair (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism)

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6. 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. Seehttps://whpi.hao.ucar.edu
for further details.
Contact: Sarah Gibson (sgibson at ucar.edu)

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7. NSF Supported Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Solar Physics and
Astro-informatics at
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University (GSU) is
seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position by Fall 2020 at the
assistant professor level. We are looking for a solar physicist with
significant expertise in both the MHD of the solar corona and flares and in
Big Data and Machine Learning, along with a desire to enhance GSU's solar
physics and big data curriculum, with a focus on minority and female
education and mentoring. The new hire will join our Astro-informatics
Cluster, a close collaboration between the solar/stellar physics and remote
sensing for space sciences groups in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy, and the Computer Science department at GSU. Our Cluster is
currently focused on space weather forecasting and is looking to merge two
techniques (numerical simulations (SIM) and Machine Learning (ML)) into a
fully integrated approach for data-driven solar physics research and space
weather prediction. With our new hire the Cluster will achieve the critical
mass needed to succeed in this initiative.

This position is funded for the first five years through NSF's prestigious
Faculty Development in the Space Sciences (FDSS) program. NSF support
includes summer salary, travel, publications, and graduate student support.
Upon the awarding of tenure in the fifth year GSU further supports the
faculty line.

Georgia State University, an enterprising R-1 university is located in the
heart of downtown Atlanta, a vibrant international city in the Southeast.
GSU enrolls and graduates one of the most diverse student bodies in the
nation and advances innovative research by building a diverse faculty. We
encourage applications from women and members of underrepresented groups in
the physical sciences.

Applicants should have the following basic qualifications: 1) Ph.D. in
astronomy, physics, or closely related field, 2) postdoctoral research
experience, 3) evidence of the ability to establish and maintain a
successful research program, 4) evidence of the motivation and ability to
teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels with a diverse student body,
5) evidence of the ability and clear desire to work in a large,
collaborative effort (i.e. the Cluster).

Applications should include 1) a CV, including a publication and grant list,
2) a statement of the candidate’s research interests and how the research
fits into the above program, 3) a statement of teaching experience and
philosophy, and 4) contact information for at least three references. All
materials should be sent via email to martens at astro.edu. Questions regarding
the position can be addressed to Dr. Piet Martens at the same email address.
Applications received by December 15, 2019, will receive full consideration.
An offer of employment will be conditional on background verification.
Georgia State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not
discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran
status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local
protected class.

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8. 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 -
Heliophysicshttps://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15
-01317

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9. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral, Early-Career Staff, and Mid-Career Staff
Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Space Science and Applications (ISR-1) Group at Los Alamos National
Laboratory is hiring postdocs and staff scientists at the early- and
mid-career level to support our research programs in magnetospheric and
heliospheric science and our national security mission focused on
space-based verification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

Positions are available for candidates with expertise in modeling &
simulation, data analysis, and/or instrumentation.  We particularly seek
strong candidates with expertise in our core research areas including inner
magnetospheres, natural and man-made radiation belts, space weather, and
plasma, energetic particle, and neutral particle sensors. Candidates are
also sought who can contribute to developing topic areas including
ionospheric physics and magnetosphere-ionospheric coupling, GICs, EMP, and
heliospheric and planetary science.

For the staff scientist positions, candidates are sought who have the
flexibility and interest in contributing to both basic science research and
our national security mission.  Staff scientist positions require the
ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship.

For the postdoc positions, candidates are expected to contribute to our
basic science research.  Postdoc positions are open to all citizenships. The
ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship,
is desirable but not required.

Los Alamos has been named a "Top 10" small town to live in, with its
abundant outdoor recreation, highly ranked public school system, and
available community facilities and activities.

Two-body problem?  Maybe we can help!  LANL has recently launched an
aggressive hiring campaign to meet future staffing needs across many
disciplines, including a new system to promote dual-career hires into
strategic areas.

Interested candidates should contact Daniel Reisenfeld <dreisenfeld AT
lanl.gov> or Vania Jordanova <vania AT lanl.gov>.  More about the ISR
Division and the ISR-1 group can be found at <space.lanl.gov>.  The ISR-1
postdoc and staff scientist (Scientist 2, 3, and 4) job ads can be found by
clicking on "Space Science and Applications" on the right menu.

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10. JOB OPENING: Research Chair in Space Weather at South African National
Space Agency (SANSA) in South Africa

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is searching for a Research
Chair in Space Weather, preferably specialising in Solar Physics. The
Research Chair would be mainly responsible for undertaking research within
the specialised area, providing guidance to the operational space weather
centre, and supervising postgraduate students.

The successful candidate will: • have an extensive research track record
within an area of Space Weather (preferably Solar Physics) • high and
sustained publication record in reputable research journals • international
collaborations • lead large projects • raise and manage research funds •
lead research groups and postgraduate student supervision and training.

The position is based in Hermanus in South Africa, and would be for an
initial 5 year period renewable for an additional 5 years based on
performance. The applicants do not have to be South African – this is a
global recruit initiative for a specialised scarce skill area.

You can find out more about SANSA at the following links:
http://www.sansa.org.za
http://spaceweather.sansa.org.zahttp://research.sansa.org.za

SANSA has 3 campus locations. The position is to be based at the Hermanus
Campus within the Western Cape province of South Africa. Here is a link to
more information on Hermanushttps://www.whalecoast.info/
https://hermanus-tourism.co.za/

More information including full requirements and application process can be
found at:
https://www.sansa.org.za/2019/07/29/sansa-sarchi-chair-in-space-weather/

Nikolai V Pogorelov
Distinguished Professor
Department of Space Science
University of Alabama in Huntsville
320 Sparkman Dr.
Huntsville, AL 35805
Tel. 256-961-7617