Heliosphere News - Nov 1, 2017

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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1. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

2. MEETING: "Cosmic Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy Particles and Radiation", November 6-9, 2017, Annapolis, Maryland

3. MEETING: Fourteenth European Space Weather Week, Nov 27 - Dec 1 2017, Ostend, Belgium

4. MEETING: 17th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 5-9, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

5. Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24 May 2018

6. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Panama City Beach, Florida, USA

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1. SCOSTEP/VarSITI Grants for 2018

From: Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

Dear AGU/SPA Colleagues,

The submission of applications for SCOSTEP/VarSITI grants for 2018 is now open.  The deadline is December 1, 2017, and the guidelines can be found on the VarSITI web-site: http://www.varsiti.org/

We are looking forward to your proposals,

Kazuo Shiokawa and Katya Georgieva, VarSITI co-chair shiokawa at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp, kgeorg at bas.bg

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2. MEETING: "Cosmic Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy Particles and Radiation", November 6-9, 2017, Annapolis, Maryland

The Joint Space Science Institute at the University of Maryland and the Goddard Space Flight Center is sponsoring a meeting on "Cosmic Accelerators: Understanding Nature's High-energy Particles and Radiation". The meeting will take place over 3.5 days on November 6-9, 2017, in the historic city of Annapolis, Maryland (see link below). The goal of this meeting is to bring together scientists working on the detection of high-energy particles and radiation signatures and theorists and modelers to engage in a discussion of the dynamics of astrophysical systems and the mechanisms for particle acceleration. We are soliciting scientific contributions to this meeting that can take the form of oral presentations (15 minute presentation + 5 minute for discussion) or posters. The deadline for the submissions for oral presentations is October 9 with a final deadline for posters of October 27.

The conference will cover a broad range of topics, including the latest observations from new observatories and insights into the mechanisms for particle acceleration coming from theoretical developments and large-scale simulations. The goal of the meeting is to assess where we stand in our effort to understand the sources of energetic particles throughout the universe and the implications for understanding the dynamics of those systems. A list of the topical sessions is below. In addition to overview and invited talks, we are soliciting contributed talks and poster presentations. Thus, we are encouraging a broad range of participation, including early career scientists and students. Students qualify for a reduced registration fee.

SOC members: Gianfranco Brunetti, Steven Christe, James Drake, Jordan Goodman, Alice Harding, Maxim Markevitch, Angela Olinto, Jeremy Perkins, Eun-Suk Seo, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Toni Venters

https://jsi.astro.umd.edu/conferences/2017-jsi-workshop

Meeting Sessions:

• Setting the Stage: overviews of observations and acceleration mechanisms

• Cosmic Rays

• Supernova Remnants

• Pulsars, Pulsar Winds, Pulsar Wind Nebulae

• Black Holes, AGN, Jets and GRBs

• The Heliosphere: a local laboratory

• Galaxy Clusters

• Fast Radio Bursts

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3. MEETING: Fourteenth European Space Weather Week, Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2017, Ostend, Belgium

The ESWW is the main annual event in the European Space Weather calendar. It is the European forum for Space Weather as proven by the high attendance to the past editions. The agenda will be composed of plenary/parallel sessions, working meetings and dedicated events for service end-users. The ESWW will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather.

Following an excellent response to the call for sessions, the Program Committee is pleased to invite contributions to sessions, addressing a wide range of scientific and application related themes.

ESWW14 will be held from November 27 - December 1 in Ostend, Belgium.

The meeting website is: http://www.stce.be/esww14/

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4. MEETING: 17th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, March 5-9, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: The 17th Annual International Astrophysics Conference will be return to Santa Fe, New Mexico at the La Posada de Santa Fe Hotel from March 5-9, 2018. (Welcome Reception and Evening Registration begins Sunday, March 4).

The website and more details will be available soon. For now, please mark your calendars and contact us with your interest in attending. 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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5. Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24 May 2018

The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) is a joint meeting of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the American Astronomical Society. Following the successful inaugural meeting in Indianapolis in 2015, the next meeting will take place 20-24 May 2018 at the Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Leesburg, VA.

TESS welcomes participation by the entire Heliophysics community, including all four traditional sub-disciplines devoted to studies of the Sun, Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere. TESS not only promotes greater interaction and unity within Heliophysics, but also connections to astrophysics and planetary physics.

The scientific program will include four interdisciplinary plenary sessions of interest across Heliophysics:  Space Weather, Heliophysics Applied to Stellar-Planet Systems, Ion-Neutral Coupling Throughout the Heliophysical System, and Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasmas. There will also be many sessions devoted to other topics, both interdisciplinary and more narrowly focused. Some of these sessions will be led by organizers, in the conventional "AGU style", while others will be created by the Scientific Organizing Committee after the abstracts have been submitted (SPD style). The SOC invites you to help organize and then join us for the second TESS meeting.

To suggest a session, please contact one of the organizers below by 6 November.

Dana Longcope (dana at solar.physics.montana.edu) Larry Paxton (larry.paxton at jhuapl.edu)

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6. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Panama Beach, Florida, USA

Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize ASTRONUM-2018 - the 14th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in Panama Beach, Florida, USA, on 25-29 June, 2018.

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 icnsmeetings.com will soon provide the information about the conference venue, registration, and means of transportation. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov at uah.edu  and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr.

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

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