Heliosphere News - Apr 03, 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. NOMINATIONS FOR AGU UNION AWARDS - DEADLINE Extended to April 15
 
2. INTERNATIONAL COURSE (SCHOOL/WORKSHOP) ON COMPLEXITY WITH APPLICATIONS IN ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS, ERICE, ITALY, 2 - 8 JULY, 2019.
 
3. MEETING: 14th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: ASTRONUM-2019, July 1-5, 2019, Paris, France
 
4. ANNOUNCEMENT: Debye Team Meeting at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna on 10 April 2019
 
5. MEETING: 5TH EDITION OF THE COSMIC RAY ANISOTROPY WORKSHOP - CRA 2019
 
6. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Ulam Program of Polish Academy of Science.
 
7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Request for Community Input on Benchmarks for Space Weather
 
8. INVITATION: Propose an 2019 AGU Session
 
9. INVITATION: to Join the Whole Heliosphere & Planetary Interactions Campaigns
 
10. POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Position in Space Physics Instrumentation and Data Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
11. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Job Openings at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
 
12. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at University of Alabama in Huntsville
 
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1. NOMINATIONS FOR AGU UNION AWARDS - DEADLINE Extended to April 15, 2019
 
Our community has an abundance extraordinary scientists, some of which you may know personally.  I urge you to nominate these deserving individuals for one of the appropriate AGU Union awards.
 
The deadline for nomination submission is April 15 (honors.agu.org/awards-medals-prizes)
 
Awards to consider include:
 
Spilhaus Award (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/athelstan-spilhaus-award) - given in recognition of ‘enhancement of the public engagement with Earth and space sciences.’
 
Africa Award (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/africa-awards-for-research-excellence-in-earth-and-space-science) - given to an early career scientist from the African continent in recognition of ‘completing significant work that shows the focus and promise of making outstanding contributions to research in space science.’
 
Lal Medal (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/devendra-lal-memorial-medal) - given in recognition of ‘outstanding Earth and/or space sciences research by a scientist belonging to and working in a developing country.’
 
Macelwane Medal (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/james-b-macelwane) - given in recognition for ‘significant significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding early career scientist.’
 
Simpson Medal (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/joanne-simpson-medal-mid-career-scientists) - given in recognition of ‘significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences by an outstanding mid-career scientist.’
 
Fleming Medal (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/john-adam-fleming) - given in recognition for ‘original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, aeronomy, space physics, and/or related sciences.’
 
Bowie Medal (honors.agu.org/medals-awards/william-bowie) - given in recognition for “outstanding contributions for fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research.”
 
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2. INTERNATIONAL COURSE (SCHOOL/WORKSHOP) ON COMPLEXITY WITH APPLICATIONS IN ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS, ERICE, ITALY, 2 - 8 JULY, 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@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:
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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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3. 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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4. ANNOUNCEMENT: A Debye team meeting will be held during the EGU General Assembly in Vienna on 10 April 2019 from 10:45 until 12:30. It will take place at the conference center in Room 2.17 (Red Level 2, second floor). Please come and join us! The registration for the EGU General Assembly is currently open.
 
Debye is a mission proposal in response to ESA's F-Class call. As the first dedicated electron-astrophysics mission, Debye will use the solar wind as a test bed to study universal small-scale electron processes throughout the universe. The mission's key science question is: "How are electrons heated in astrophysical plasmas?"
 
Debye has reached the second step in ESA's down-selection process and is now in competition with five other F-Class candidates. The mission is led by University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory (Mission PI: Robert Wicks, Mission co-PI Science: Daniel Verscharen) and has important hardware contributions from countries across Europe and from partners in Japan and the US.
 
You can find more information on our website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/research-projects/2018/dec/debye
If you have any questions about Debye, please don't hesitate to contact me (d.verscharen at ucl.ac.uk).
 
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5. 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@gssi.it or paolo.desiati@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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__indico.gssi.it_e_CRA2019&d=DwIFaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=8xYFAcsHVGxQh4GpgKBqWBzXzSphgngCTiUiHsS-Z9g&m=yuUQpMGTQeoOFcNDIHXj8yYrBgVoGYve-GkW4EZk32Q&s=ZQHEojzvnLKVUqcB5VKNhQGygEfa_lwV9q1BroFLaes&e=
 
6. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Ulam Program of Polish Academy of Science.
 
The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange calls for proposals in The Ulam Program opened for international scientists holding PhD degree for postdoctoral research grants in the Polish institutions. The programme will allow for participation in scientific activities in the Polish institutions of science and higher education, conduct research projects and didactics. Details of the Ulam program:
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7. ANNOUNCEMENT: 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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8. INVITATION: Propose an 2019 AGU Session
 
From: Christina Lee, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Romina Nikoukar (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)
 
As AGU celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019, the Fall AGU meeting moves back to the new renovated Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Although December 9 - 13 seems a long way off, now is the time to submit proposals for scientific sessions. This is your opportunity to bring together a group of your colleagues to present the latest results in an area of interest to you. Since this is the AGU centennial, we especially encourage proposals for sessions that focus on what we’ve learned over the past 100 years and what may we expect in the next 100 years.
 
The 2019 AGU Fall Meeting Session Proposal submission deadline is Wednesday, 17 April. To submit a proposal, go to https://meetings.agu.org/fall-meeting-2019/#session-proposal.
 
Before submitting your proposal, please check to see if a session on a similar theme has already been submitted. If so, please consider contacting the other proposers to discuss a merger, or rework your session proposal to focus on a unique topic. Proposals with significant overlap may be merged or rejected, so please make sure your proposal is focused and unique. You can view existing SPA session submissions here (on the left select the Program of interest, e.g., SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics): https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Search/0?sort=Relevance&size=10&page=1 .
Session proposals from first-time session planners, early career researchers (including students!) and those under-represented in our field are especially welcome. Conveners who are well-established in the field should consider helping students and/or early career scientists to gain more experience in this role by inviting them to be your co-conveners.  Note that to be a primary convener of a session, you must be a current member of the American Geophysical Union (https://membership.agu.org/join-renew/).
 
In additional to the traditional oral- and poster-session formats, we encourage proposal sessions that use alternate session formats such as panels, short talks, and eLightning sessions.
 
If you have any questions, please contact one of your SPA secretaries (SH: Christina Lee, SM: Elizabeth MacDonald, SA: Romina Nikoukar).
 
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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. 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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11. 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
https://resapp.swri.org/ResApp/Job_Search_Results.aspx?DETAIL=15-01272
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. 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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Best regards,

Merav


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Merav Opher
Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy
Boston University