Heliosphere News - Feb 4, 2019

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)

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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: 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. MEETING: EGU 2019 - Session on the Sun and Heliosphere: 7-12

April 2019, Vienna, Austria

4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Michelle Thompson won the Arctowski Medal.

5. ANNOUNCEMENT: Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)

Mission Website is Online

6. ANNOUNCEMENT: Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, Superstatistics and

Beyond: Theory and Applications in Astrophysical and Other Complex

Systems

7. INVITATION: to Join the Whole Heliosphere & Planetary Interactions

Campaigns

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

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

10. GRAD OPPORTUNITY: Graduate Studies in Heliophysics at University of

Texas at San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute

11. POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics

Instrumentation and Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory

12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Job Openings at the Southwest Research Institute,

San Antonio, Texas, USA

13. 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:

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. MEETING: EGU 2019 - Session on the Sun and Heliosphere: 7-12

April 2019, Vienna, Austria

Dear colleagues, we invite abstract submissions to our session at the

2019 European Geosciences Union General Assembly, ?ST1.1 Open Session on

the Sun and Heliosphere?.

Submission deadline is 10 Jan 2019, 13:00 CET

Confirmed speaker: Nathan Schwadron

Looking forward to meeting you in Vienna! Manuela Temmer, Andre Galli,

Margit Haberreiter, Olga Malandraki

ST1.1 Abstract: The 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.

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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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 )

issue-nonextensive-statistical-mechanics-superstatistics-and-beyond-

theory-and-applications-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:

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7. 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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8. 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 of http://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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9. 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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10. 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 at

http://graduateschool.utsa.edu/admissions/graduate-application/ and

http://grad.space.swri.edu/application/how_to_apply.html.

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11. 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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12. 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

15-01317 Research Scientist/Sr. Research Scientist - Heliophysics

15-01309 Sr. Research/Principal Scientist

15-01308 Research/Sr. Research Scientist

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13. 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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