[HeliosphereNews] Heliosphere News - January 9, 2024

Tue Jan 9 10:47:10 EST 2024

Heliosphere News – January 9, 2024

http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/

A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.

Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu)
Co-Editor: Maher A. Dayeh (maldayeh at swri.edu)
Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ejz at princeton.edu)
Co-Editor: Matina Gkioulidou (matina.gkioulidou at jhuapl.edu)
Co-Editor: Jamie Rankin (jsrankin at princeton.edu)
Coordinator: Liz Wilber (Elizabeth.Wilber at unh.edu) Web site editor: Ken Fairchild (Ken.Fairchild at unh.edu)

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1. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Space Research at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

2. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in the Heliophysics Research Group, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Space Science Center

3. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Position for the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) at Kiel University, Germany

4. MEETING: 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference -- March 25-29, 2024, Turin, Italy -- Early Bird Registration

5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Like, Follow and Share IMAP on social media!

6. ANNOUNCEMENT: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H Session

7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Next SHIELD Webinar - Queer Eye for Space Science

8. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Summer School on Plasma Processes at the Edge of the Solar System, Week of June 10th, 2024

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1. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Space Research at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

The Department of Space Research at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas is seeking applications for a postdoctoral scientist position to participate in and carry out original research in experimental space physics and supporting laboratory experiments. SwRI is involved in the development of current missions such as the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), TRACERS, PUNCH, Europa Clipper, JUICE, and CuSP. SwRI also leads or contributes to currently operating missions such as Juno, MMS, PSP, New Horizons, and IBEX.

The successful candidate is expected to support the development, testing, and calibration of energetic neutral atom and plasma instruments to be flown on upcoming heliophysics or planetary missions. The candidate is expected to publish original research and 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 experimental, observational, and computational research.

The candidate should have a PhD degree in space physics, experimental physics, or directly related physics degree with a GPA of 3.0 or greater. The candidate should have work experience in related experimental physics. The candidate should have demonstrated the ability to program and utilize software tools such as Simion and Lua, LabView, TRIM, Geant4, IDL, C, Python, or MATLAB.

Interested candidates should apply online at https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Details.aspx?JOB_CD=15-01533&JOB_TITLE=POSTDOCTORAL%20RESEARCHER%20-%20SPACECRAFT%20INSTRUMENTATION

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2. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in the Heliophysics Research Group, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Space Science Center

The Heliophysics research group in the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) is seeking an exceptional candidate to fill a Postdoctoral position under the general supervision of Prof. Nathan Schwadron. Working on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission, and in collaboration with associated project personnel, the PostDoc will develop new data products for IBEX, study the effects of global heliosphere on the inflow of interstellar neutral atoms and study the changing radiation environment of the globalheliosphere.

The University of New Hampshire is a major research institution, providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs (https://www.unh.edu/). UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast, and is convenient to New Hampshire's lakes and mountains. The Department of Physics confers both undergraduate (B.A., B.S.) and graduate (M.S., Ph.D.) degrees and currently includes 26 faculty members. EOS is the largest research institute at UNH, with more than 275 faculty, staff and students.

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3. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Position for the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) at Kiel University, Germany

The Extraterrestrial Physics Division at Kiel University is looking for a Post-Doc to work with the Energetic Particle Detector on Solar Orbiter. The Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU) is a medium-sized research university with ~27’000 students situated on the Baltic sea. The Extraterrrestrial Physics Division counts some 40 students, researchers, and engineers, and has a long history of designing, building, and developing instruments for solar and heliospheric missions, and analyzing and interpreting their data.

The candidate is expected to analyze and interpret data primarily from the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) on Solar Orbiter. EPD consists of four sensors which cover energies from a few keV to > 100 MeV. The CAU Solar Orbiter team consists of several students and Post-Docs.

The candidate should have:
- PhD in physics, preferably space physics, or a related field
- Demonstrated research experience in data analysis, ideally from space missions
- Demonstrated ability and experience in publishing high-impact results
- Demonstrated understanding of (space) instruments and modeling techniques, e.g. GEANT4.
- Demonstrated experience with mentoring students

The position is open and should be filled as soon as possible. It will remain open until filled. Salary is at the E13 level (https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2021&matrix=1). Funding is assured to the end of 2025, an extension is very likely, but contingent on performance.

Application: Your application package should include: cover letter, CV, statement of research interests, and a list of three potential references.
Please send your application package to nebendahl at physik.uni-kiel.de.
Questions should be addressed to wimmer at physik.uni-kiel.de.

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4. MEETING: 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Conference, March 25-29, 2024, Turin, Italy -- Early Bird Registration

Early Bird Registration Open for AIAC 21, March 25-29, 2024, Turin, Italy

REGISTER NOW: Registration and abstract submission can be found at https://www.uah.edu/cspar/news-and-events/aiac.

ABOUT: The 21st Annual International Astrophysics Conference will be held for the first time internationally in Turin, Italy at the AC Hotel Torino, from March 25-29, 2024 (Welcome Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, March 24, 2024).

THEME: “Bracketing the Solar Wind: The Physics of its Initiation and Termination” is the theme for the 21st AIAC. The meeting will include both oral and poster presentations. Since the oral presentations are 25 minutes each, we can accommodate only a limited number of talks and the remainder will be poster presentations.

Early bird registration is available until 14 January 2024.

Reach us by emailing aiac at uah.edu for all conference-related inquiries.

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5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Like, Follow and Share IMAP on social media!

The IMAP Team invites you to follow the IMAP Story on social media.  Tell your family, friends and neighbors!
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Help us grow our audience: Like, Follow and Share!

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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H Session

The triennial URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC) is one of the URSI flagship conferences, alongside the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) and the Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC).

The 4th URSI AT-RASC will be held May 19-24, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Spain, as a fully in-person conference with only on-site presentations. The conference will have a series of convened and open sessions within the domains covered by all ten Commissions of URSI.

One of the convened sessions is the following:

H08: Turbulence and Instabilities in Space Plasmas

Conveners: Alexander Pitňa (Charles University, Czechia), Owen Wyn Roberts
(Space Research Institute, Austria), Julia Stawarz (Northumbria
University, UK), Domenico Trotta (Imperial College London, UK), Gary
Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

Description: Plasma turbulence is a complex phenomenon that involves the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves and plasma particles, affecting the transport of energy, momentum, and particles in various plasma environments such as solar and stellar winds, and planetary magnetospheres. This session will explore plasma turbulence and its connection to waves from various perspectives, covering topics of basic plasma turbulence theory, modeling, and observations as well as applications to plasma heating, scattering of plasma particles, the influence of turbulence on instabilities and wave modes, the heating of the solar corona and acceleration of the solar wind, the interaction and impact of turbulence with shock waves, reconnection processes, including the acceleration of particles. The session welcomes contributions on the use of radio observations to determine the nature of density and velocity fluctuations remotely in the solar wind, alongside work on the theory, numerical modeling, and in situ observations of turbulence and instabilities. The topics are relevant to many current in situ missions (e.g., Wind, DSCOVR, ACE, Cluster, MMS, STEREO, THEMIS/ARTEMIS, Van Allen Probes, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter). Contributions on methods and techniques for measuring and analyzing turbulence are welcomed.

Abstract submissions are now open, and the submission deadline is January 20, 2024.

The complete list of sessions and their descriptions are available here: https://www.atrasc.com/papersubmission.php

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7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Next SHIELD Webinar - Queer Eye for Space Science
Friday, Jan. 19th, 2024, 2pm ET

The value of diversity within a scientific team is well documented. Team members with different backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives to the problems and challenges faced by the team. This webinar will bring together 3 space scientists who are also members of the LGBTQ+ community to discuss how being queer influenced their trajectory and made their science a richer experience. We will discuss their personal trajectories, mentorships, and aspects such as - did being queer make them do or have a different approach to exploring scientific questions. As usual with our webinars, we will have an unguarded frank conversation and will be open to the audience for questions.

Panelist include:
Merav Opher (she/her), Professor in the Astronomy Department at Boston University.
Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín (they/he) Planetary Scientist at JHU Applied Physics Lab
Jaye Verniero (they/he); Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
For more information: https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-webinars/

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8. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Summer School on Plasma Processes at the Edge of the Solar System, Week of June 10th, 2024

The SHIELD Summer School invites applications for the 2024 Summer School running in Boston during the week of June 10th, 2024. Participate in lectures from leading research scientists working in the outer heliosphere exploring plasma processes and phenomena in play at the edge of the solar system. Work with other participants on activities that explore data and models that exemplify these concepts. Topics covered include reconnection, turbulence, neutral-plasma interactions; particle acceleration; overview of the structure of the heliosphere; and theory and practice of interpreting spacecraft data from missions such as Voyager, New Horizons, Cassini, and IBEX. 

Advanced undergraduates, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers are welcome to apply.
For more information and application, visit https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-summer-school/

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