Heliosphere News - May 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 Position in the Heliophysics Research Group, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Space Science Center
2. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join the Space Physics at Princeton Group!
3. MEETING: User’s Meeting #1: Publicly Accessible Software for Modeling Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties
4. MEETING: 16th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2024), July 1-5, 2024, La Rochelle, France – Registration open.
5. ANNOUNCEMENT: URSI AT-RASC 2024 Commission H Session
6. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Webinar: The Human Spirit Can Make the “Impossible” Possible: What Space Exploration Can Learn About Passion, Perseverance, and Resilience from a Groundbreaking Athlete
7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Princeton University Visiting Fellows in Space Physics Program
8. ANNOUNCEMENT: Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) 2024 Summer School: May 20 – 24, 2024
9. ANNOUNCEMENT: Termination Shock Virtual Workshop: Looking Forward to the New Horizons Encounter,
August 19th (10 am - 1 pm) and 20th (10 am - 3 pm)
10.
ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Seed Funding and Early Career Support (Due date: July 31, 2024)
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1. 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 global heliosphere.
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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2. JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join the Space Physics at Princeton Group!
The Space Physics Group (see
https://spacephysics.princeton.edu/) in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, anticipates offering one or more postdoctoral or more senior research positions in the observational
study of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) and Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs).
The Space Physics Group researches many aspects of space physics (aka Heliophysics), with a strong emphasis on experimental and observational space plasma physics. The Group currently leads NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Integrated
Science Investigation of the Sun (ISOIS) energetic particle instrument suite, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, and the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will launch in 2025 to explore the details of particle
acceleration and the Sun's interaction with the local interstellar medium.
The successful candidate(s) will join an exciting and dynamic group and play a significant role in the analysis and publication of SEP observations from ISOIS and/or ENA observations from IBEX. The candidate(s) should have some
prior experience analyzing at least one of these types of particle data, as well as the proven ability to lead and participate in the rapid development and publication of numerous excellent research articles. A Ph.D. is required in physics, astrophysics, space
science, or a closely related field.
Interested persons must apply online at
https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/31021 and submit a curriculum vitae, cover letter, publication list, a brief statement of research interests, and contact information for three references.
Letters of recommendation will also be handled through this site. Applications will continue to be accepted until positions are filled. For further inquiries, contact spacephysicsATprinceton.edu.
This is an in-person position as part of the Space Physics research group at Princeton University (not hybrid or remote).
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3. MEETING: MEETING: Publicly Accessible Software for Modeling Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties: Users Meeting #1
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 20—23, 2024
Supported Jointly by NSF and NASA, the dedicated science teams across the country have been developing new, free-access software for modeling physical processes determining space weather at Earth and other planets. This software
involves the PFSS/PFCS solvers, a surface flux transport (Open Flux Transport, OFT) on the solar surface, and coronal (WSA) and heliospheric models operating with the high order of accuracy and efficient parallelism on modern computer architectures (CPUs and
GPUs), and capable of performing simulations on adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cubed sphere grids (HelioCubed).
The meeting will include lectures describing the developed software, which will be followed by hands-on experience. Students are especially encouraged to apply, but this is not a requirement. Recommendations from student’s supervisors
will be required.
Full financial support is expected for 15-20 students. The meeting website is
https://uahspace.wixsite.com/swqu/events. Any additional inquiries should be addressed to Nikolai Pogorelov,
SWQUworkshop@uah.edu. The registration deadline is April 20, 2024.
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4. MEETING: 16th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2024), July 1-5, 2024, La Rochelle, France – Registration open.
Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France and the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and will organize ASTRONUM-2024 – the 16th International Conference on Numerical
Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in La Rochelle, France, on July 1 – 5, 2024. The meeting will consist of invited and contributed talks.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading experts in applied mathematics, space physics, and astrophysics to discuss the application of novel physical approaches and numerical strategies to solving computationally
challenging problems.
Early Bird Registration for ASTRONUM-2024 is open on
https://irfu.cea.fr/ASTRONUM2024/. After initial registration and abstract submission, a separate link will be shared to complete registration.
Reach us by emailing to
Nikolai.Pogorelov@uah.edu and
Edouard.Audit@cea.fr.
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5. 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.
The complete list of sessions and their descriptions are available here:
https://www.atrasc.com/papersubmission.php
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6. ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Webinar: The Human Spirit Can Make the “Impossible” Possible: What Space Exploration Can Learn About Passion, Perseverance, and Resilience from a Groundbreaking Athlete
Any challenging human endeavor requires both passion, perseverance, and resilience. This is true when both pushing the edges of the human body's physical endurance, or the boundaries of our understanding of the universe.
Diana Nyad, a world renown marathon swimmer and a member of the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, overcame extraordinary challenges to swim the open ocean from Cuba to Key West Florida. Her passion, perseverance and resilience
were key to ultimately succeeding after multiple attempts at this extraordinary feat.
Merav Opher, is a Professor of Astronomy at Boston University and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. She is the leader of the SHIELD DRIVE Science Research Center, one of the three NASA funded centers to tackle breakthrough science.
SHIELD’s goal is to create a twin analog of the heliosphere, the bubble formed by the solar wind as it encounters the interstellar medium. It took passion, perseverance, and resilience to build a multi-institution team composed of members who hold strong
diverse opinions about the shape of our heliosphere and how to understand the science behind it.
Join us in the webinar for a conversation between Diana Nyad and Merav Opher as they explore the meaning and value of passion, perseverance, and resilience.
Registration link:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zmIYnKlRRk2Fg9w4QGUXDQ#/registration
For past SHIELD Webinars:
https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-webinars/
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7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Princeton University Visiting Fellows in Space Physics Program
The Space Physics at Princeton Group (https://spacephysics.princeton.edu/) in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences is
pleased to offer Visiting Fellow positions. The program supports faculty and equivalent senior researchers to do intensive research in residence at Princeton for periods from one month up to a full year. Visiting Fellows will work closely with Space Physics
at Princeton Group members on one or more of several topical areas: 1) Energetic Particles observations from Parker Solar Probe, 2) Energetic Neutral Atom and/or Interstellar Neutral Atom observations from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), and 3)
scientific preparations for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The environment is scientifically intense, highly collaborative, and extremely rewarding. The goal of the program is to strengthen the Group with new and diverse perspectives
while carrying out world-class research and publishing numerous papers in collaboration with the Group. Visiting Fellow positions are suitable for faculty members on sabbatical and other comparable senior researchers on leave from their primary appointments.
Financial support (including stipend and/or housing) may be offered. Interested researchers should submit to
https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/30982 the following: 1) a brief cover letter stating the specific reasons you'd like
to visit the Space Physics at Princeton Group and the dates you're available to visit and 2) a CV.
Contact:
spacephysics@princeton.edu
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8. ANNOUNCEMENT: Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) 2024 Summer School: May 20 – 24, 2024
The Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) is holding its second summer school Monday, May 20th to Friday, May 24th at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in scenic Boulder, Colorado, USA.
This year’s Summer School builds on the foundational success of its predecessor, offering an even deeper dive into the rich ecosystem of Heliophysics Python packages. Open to graduate students, early career scientists, and anyone
eager to deepen their understanding of Python in the Heliophysics and Space Weather disciplines, this program promises a mix of in-depth tutorials, engaging demos, and hands-on sessions, delivered by some of the field’s leading experts.
Remote options will be available for those unable to make the trip to Boulder. The presentations will also be recorded and streamed to YouTube. Further, in keeping with PyHC’s commitment to knowledge-sharing, this year’s event
remains FREE for all attendees. Some travel support funds are available.
See the Summer School’s web page at
https://heliopython.org/summer-school-24 for more information regarding the agenda, a link to registration (due by Monday, 29 April 2024), housing information (there’s a hotel option for reduced costs
before 19 April 2024), and other pertinent information!
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9. ANNOUNCEMENT: Termination Shock Virtual Workshop: Looking Forward to the New Horizons Encounter,
August 19th (10 am - 1 pm) and 20th (10 am - 3 pm)
New Horizons is currently 58 AU from the Sun, near the solar equatorial plane, and close to the same longitude as Voyager 2, which crossed the Termination Shock at 84 AU. Depending on the shape and solar wind pressure, New Horizons
could cross the Termination Shock in 5-8 years. Energetic particles streaming in from the Termination Shock could give a few years warning of the crossing. In preparation for this crossing, this virtual workshop will discuss previous Termination Shock data
and models. Discussions will also focus on New Horizons observations which will help us to understand the Termination Shock physics and the heliosheath beyond it. Scene-setting talks will be followed by open discussion. All are invited!
Registration Link:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-qgrDwsGtCu0YBk_XEqiP_dPJeKBRsF
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10.
ANNOUNCEMENT: SHIELD Seed Funding and Early Career Support (Due date: July 31, 2024).
The SHIELD Team requests science proposals for SHIELD Seed funding and Early Career support.
The SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center (https://shielddrivecenter.com) is an international collaboration involving researchers from over
half a dozen institutions, and led by Merav Opher from the Astronomy Department
at Boston University. SHIELD’s goals are to: (1) determine the global nature of the heliosphere; (2) determine how pickup ions evolve from ‘cradle to grave’ and affect heliospheric processes; (3) establish how the heliosphere interacts with
and influences the LISM; and (4) understand how cosmic rays are filtered by and transported through the heliosphere.
Seed Funding supports ideas that, although related to the proposed SHIELD work, represent a departure because they are innovative, emergent, and possibly high-risk.
Early career funding supports undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs working on SHIELD-related projects.
The proposal instructions are on the SHIELD web site (https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-seed-funding/).
Due date is July 31, 2024.
Contacts: Merav Opher (mopher@bu.edu) and John Richardson (jdr@space.mit.edu)
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