[Shine-participants] SHINE June 2018 Newsletter

Mon Jun 18 17:49:54 EDT 2018

SHINE Newsletter June 2018

Dear SHINE Community,

The 2018 SHINE workshop is soon approaching! Please note that the abstract deadline is June 22nd, this Friday! SHINE will take place from July 30th to August 3rd (student day July 29th) in Cocoa Beach, FL jointly at the Courtyard Marriott (posters) and Hilton (oral sessions).

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Parker Solar Probe launch has been delayed until August 4th.  Due to the delay of the PSP launch, we have decided to modify the schedule for SHINE workshops, in particular returning to a 8:30 am start for the workshop each day.  Please visit our website for more details on schedule changes.  For those of you planning on staying for the PSP launch, you can find information about viewing the Parker Solar Probe launch on our website.

Looking forward to seeing you in Florida in July!

Sincerely,
Georgia A. de Nolfo
SHINE Steering Committee Chair

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Contents:

  1.  SHINE 2018 Workshop Session Details
  2.  Second Call for Community Input to LWS TR&T Focused Science Topics
  3.  Doctoral and postdoctoral positions at the AIDA H2020 Consortium funded by the European Commission
  4.  Master’s Degree in Applied Space Weather Research at the Department of Physics at Catholic University of America (CUA)
  5.  The 2nd APSCO & ISSI-BJ Space Science School with EISCAT, Study Space Weather Effects From the Sun to the Ground

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1.  SHINE 2018 Workshop Details and PSP Launch

Changes to the SHINE Schedule:
Given the large number of sessions this year, we will not have our usual 4-minute session descriptions on Monday.  There will be an opportunity to show session descriptions as a one-slide electronic display. Session organizers may want to consider taking advantage of this and submit their slides to either me or Noé Lugaz.  Given the delay of the Parker Solar Probe launch (now August 4, 2018), we have modified the schedule to begin the workshop, as usual, at 8:30 am each day.  There are some changes to the sessions times/days as well, so please check the current schedule on our website.

Workshop details:
The scientific program (27 sessions) and details about the registration and abstract submission processes are listed in the SHINE website ( shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php<http://shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php> ).  Rooms are available at both hotels at the rate of $169 (Courtyard Marriott) and $159 (Hilton). Researchers who are required to pay the per diem rate should contact Noé Lugaz or Umbe Cantu directly.  The registration fee includes one poster per person; this year, no additional posters are allowed. Please consider acting as a student poster judge at this year’s workshop.

Important deadlines:
—Early-bird registration ($450) deadline: May 18th - extra fee of $50 afterwards. Participants who have completed their registration, including payment, by the early-bird deadline will have the opportunity to apply to attend the PSP launch at KSC.
—Hotel and Abstract Reservation deadline: June 22nd (link and conference code provided on the SHINE website)

SHINE Town Halls

I. “What’s Next for Space & Heliospheric Physics? “ (Monday/July 30 )           Organizers: Don Hassler, Sarah Gibson, Todd Hoeksema, Scott McIntosh, Jeff Newmark

Description: Solar and Heliospheric physics has experienced a golden age of discovery over the past 20+ years with such successful missions as SOHO, YOHKOH, RHESSI, ACE, TRACE, HINODE, IBEX, STEREO, SDO, etc. We are now preparing for the commissioning of DKIST and the launches of Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and IMAP that will take Solar Physics to new frontiers. These projects promise exciting new observations and insights into the interfaces of the photosphere, corona, solar wind, and heliosphere.
But what is next -- after Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and IMAP? We are halfway between Decadal Surveys. The Space Studies Board of the National Academies is preparing to begin a mid-term assessment, and it is time for the community as a whole to start thinking about this process again. Given the long time scales associated with realizing space missions, and the rapid advances in technology, as well as our changing needs and understanding, it is healthy for the community to start thinking seriously about what comes next, both for ground-based and space-based observations.
Questions we should be thinking about include: What are the burning questions for understanding the solar & heliospheric system? What are the important unexplored places and domains of the Sun & heliosphere? What new technologies that enable exploration of these new domains can be exploited or need to be developed? How do we incorporate and prioritize the urgent practical goals of Space Weather in the community discussion, and how do we balance applied and pure science? What type of future missions should we be thinking about, and how should they be structured and organized?
Format & How to Contribute: This Town Hall is intended to stimulate this dialogue within the community, and to start to articulate and discuss arguments and advocacy for our next potential future missions and programs. The Town Hall will begin with a ~10 minute Scene Setting Introduction followed by a series of short (3-5 min) “Flash or Lightning” talks (1-2 slides) contributed by members of the community to stimulate discussion. If you would like to contribute or give a short Flash talk, please email 1-2 slides to shinetownhall at gmail.com<mailto:shinetownhall at gmail.com> by Friday, July 27.

II.  A Living with a Star Town Hall (Friday/August 3/9)
Community input to Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Focused Science Topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond.  The main purpose of the Town Hall at SHINE would be to discuss and get comments on a new short list of about 15 LWS Targeted Research Topics. Some time after the SHINE Meeting, NASA will down-select from the short list to 4 or so Targeted Research Topics for the 2019 call for proposals.

2. NASA - Second Call for Community Input to LWS TR&T Focused Science Topics

The 2018 NASA Living with a Star Targeted Research and Technology (LWS TR&T) Program Analysis Group (LPAG https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag) executive committee (EC) will soon begin developing the next round of LWS focused science topics for ROSES 2019 and beyond. It is vital for the success of the LWS TR&T program that there be active community engagement in the development of annual TR&T science topics. We are therefore asking the Heliophysics community to provide input by July 2, 2018 for these topics.

Suggested science topics should be organized around achieving the goals set out in the strategic science areas (SSA’s) articulated in the LWS Ten Year Vision:
https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWS_10YrVision_Oct2015_Final.pdf

Physics-based Understanding to Enable Forecasting of:
SSA-0, Solar Electromagnetic, Energetic Particle, and Plasma Outputs Driving the Solar
System Environment and Inputs to Earth?s Atmosphere
(note, Sun-Climate topics fall under SSA-0)
SSA-1, Geomagnetic Variability
SSA-2, Satellite Drag
SSA-3, Solar Energetic Particle
SSA-4, Total Electron Content
SSA-5, Ionospheric Scintillation
SSA-6, Radiation Environment

Input may be entered through the LWS TR&T website at: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/input/ To view and comment on input which has been submitted in response to this call, please go to:
https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/

To view the topics which were developed from community input by the previous TR&T committee in 2016, see the final report of that committee at:
https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/pdf/LWSTRT-Report-2016-Final.pdf
And the original community input and comments at: https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2016/
Any topics in this 2016 report which were not selected by NASA for the ROSES 2017 TR&T call, or which are not selected by NASA for the upcoming ROSES 2018 TR&T call will be reviewed by the LPAG EC. Community input regarding updates to those topics is welcome.

We greatly look forward to your input and to continuing on the path of innovation and scientific exploration in the LWS program.

LPAG Executive Committee Members: Anthea Coster (Co-Chair), Mark Linton (Co-Chair), Joe Borovsky, Richard Collins, Seebany Datta-Barua, Matina Gkioulidou, Fan Guo, Jorg-Micha Jahn, Enrico Landi, John Leibacher, Sabrina Savage, Brian Walsh

LPAG Ex Officio Members: Jeff Morrill, Janet Kozyra, Shing Fung

3.  Doctoral and postdoctoral positions at the AIDA H2020 Consortium funded by the European Commission

The AIDA H2020 Consortium funded by the European Commission is looking to cover several positions at the doctoral and postdoctoral level. The AIDA consortium is composed by KU Leuven in Belgium; CWI in The Netherlands; University of Calabria, University of Pisa and CINECA in Italy; CNRS in France; IRIDA in Greece and by Space Consulting in USA.

The activities of AIDA will focus on the development of modelling and data analysis from multiple space missions of processes in the solar corona (flares, CMEs), in the solar wind and in the Earth’s magnetosphere. The work will be primarily in the development of new methods for data analysis and simulation, focusing especially on machine learning and artificial intelligence but covering also more traditional data analysis methods. Knowledge of the python programming language is critical in most tasks. The work will be based on the extensive previous expertise in the field of high performance computing, space science and its application to space weather within the consortium.
The selected candidates will have expertise in at least one of the following areas:

1. Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Bayesian Methods
2. Solar, Magnetospheric and Solar wind data analysis
3. Expertise on computer programming with Python, C, C++ or Fortran.
4. Plasma physics, astrophysics or space physics,
5. Numerical methods for fluid dynamics, MHD, and kinetic plasma physics (particle in cell methods, Vlasov Eulerian methods).

The researchers will have access to large parallel computer facilities and to a stimulating research environment within the AIDA consortium. The researchers will be employed by specific partners of AIDA, but collaborations with other centers are encouraged. An updated list of open positions can be found on www.aida-space.eu<http://www.aida-space.eu/><http://www.aida-space.eu<http://www.aida-space.eu/>>. Currently we have the following positions open:

*    1 PhD student position at KULeuven, Belgium:  4 years are the expected duration of a PhD at KULeuven: Details and Application Link: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54648904
*   1 PostDoc position at KULeuven, Belgium:  the position will be for up to 3 years. Details and Application Link: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54649709
*   1 Postdoc position at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, up to 3 years. Details and Application Link: https://tinyurl.com/aida-CWI-job
*   1 Postdoc position at the Department of Physics (UNIPI), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy up to 2 years. Details and Application Link: (see contact below). Required specializations: points 4, 5, 3.
*   2 Postdoc positions at the Department of Physics (UNICAL), University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy, of the duration of two years each. Details and Application Link: (see contact below)
*    2 PostDoc positions at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (CNRS), Paris, France:  the duration of each position will be 1 year. Details and Application Link: (see contact below)

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made directly to partner hiring.  Contact persons are:
*    KULeuven: Prof. Giovanni Lapenta (tel: +32 16 327965, email: coordinator.aida at kuleuven.be<mailto:coordinator.aida at kuleuven.be><mailto:coordinator.aida at kuleuven.be<mailto:coordinator.aida at kuleuven.be>>).
*    CWI: Dr. Enrico Camporeale (tel: +31 20 592 4240, email: e.camporeale at cwi.nl<mailto:e.camporeale at cwi.nl><mailto:e.camporeale at cwi.nl<mailto:e.camporeale at cwi.nl>>)
*    UNIPI: Prof. Francesco Califano (tel: +39 050 2214 862, francesco.califano at unipi.it<mailto:francesco.califano at unipi.it><mailto:francesco.califano at unipi.it<mailto:francesco.califano at unipi.it>>)
*    UNICAL: Dr. Sergio Servidio (tel: +39 0984 496138, sergio.servidio at fis.unical.it<mailto:sergio.servidio at fis.unical.it><mailto:sergio.servidio at fis.unical.it<mailto:sergio.servidio at fis.unical.it>>), Dr. Francesco Valentini (tel: +39 0984 496129, francesco.valentini at unical.it<mailto:francesco.valentini at unical.it><mailto:francesco.valentini at unical.it<mailto:francesco.valentini at unical.it>>
*    CNRS: Dr. Alessandro Retin? (tel: +33 1 69335929, alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr<mailto:alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr><mailto:alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr<mailto:alessandro.retino at lpp.polytechnique.fr>>), Dr. Fouad Sahraoui (tel: +33 1 69335922, fouad.sahraoui at lpp.polytechnique.fr<mailto:fouad.sahraoui at lpp.polytechnique.fr><mailto:fouad.sahraoui at lpp.polytechnique.fr<mailto:fouad.sahraoui at lpp.polytechnique.fr>>)

The review of the applications will begin on August 1

4. Master’s Degree in Applied Space Weather Research at the Department of Physics at Catholic University of America (CUA)

The Department of Physics at Catholic University of America (CUA) is pleased to offer a two-year program for graduate students to earn a Master’s Degree in Applied Space Weather Research.  The impetus for creating this new opportunity is the increasing need for expertise in space weather in the commercial sector, government, and academia.  Although the importance of space weather and the potential hazards to technical systems and human health have been highlighted in several recent studies, universities have yet to fully accommodate the multi-disciplinary knowledge that will provide the foundation for a space-ready society of the future.

Course offerings for the Master’s Degree in Applied Space Weather Research cover both the fundamental physics of the Sun-Earth system and the technical aspects of infrastructure impacted by conditions in the space environment.  Course instruction leverages the strong partnership between CUA and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The CUA Department of Physics has recently launched an on-campus Space Weather Center that will allow students to conduct research and access space weather data and models in a real-world setting.

CUA is accepting applications for the Fall 2018 semester.  Information about the program can be found at https://physics.catholic.edu/academics/graduate/ms-space-weather/index.html.  Questions about the program can be addressed to space-weather at cua.edu<mailto:space-weather at cua.edu>.  We strongly recommend candidates contact us prior to submitting an application.

Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla
IACS/CUA – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliospheric Physics Lab (672)
Phone: +1 (301)-286-8681
http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/teresa.nieves-chinchil-<http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/teresa.nieves-chinchil-1>1
http://spaceweathercenter.cua.edu<http://spaceweathercenter.cua.edu/>
email: Teresa.Nieves at nasa.gov<mailto:Teresa.Nieves at nasa.gov>

5. The 2nd APSCO & ISSI-BJ Space Science School with EISCAT, Study Space Weather Effects From the Sun to the Ground
This is the first announcement for the international 10-days school on « Study Space Weather Effects; From the Sun to the Ground ». The school will be held at the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station - RADI/CAS - in Sanya, China from October 10 to 19, 2018. Full information is available at the official website:
http://www.apsco.int/2nd%5FSpace%5FScience%5FSchool/

Introduction to the School:
This is the second joint space science school organized between the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) and the International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI- BJ). The 2018 school is also co-organized with the EISCAT Scientific Association (EISCAT). It is intended to promote a biennial School on space sciences for Master’s and Ph.D. students, as well as post-doctoral and early career scientists or engineers. This school will provide the participants with the in-depth knowledge of the science of Space Weather, observational methods and its relevance to applications from the Sun to the ground. While there are many different ground- based measurements of space weather and its effects, in this school we will focus on the use of incoherent scatter radars as operated by EISCAT. The school will build links between participants, and between teachers and participants in order to facilitate future collaboration in Space Weather.

The school will take place at China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station - RADI/CAS - in Sanya, China. This is a 10 days School (Wednesday, October 10 - Friday, October 19, 2018).  The number of participants will be limited to 60, and the participants will be hosted at the Centre, in double rooms (two students sharing a room).

Deadlines and Announcements
Terms                 Dates
First announcement        May 15, 2018
Registration deadline        July 31, 2018
Selected participants announcement     August 15, 2018
First circular               August 30, 2018
Second circular              September 19, 2018
School              October 10- 19, 2018

Contact persons:
Ms. EN Lijuan
Assistant to Executive Director International Space Science Institute-Beijing E-mail: enlijuan at issibj.ac.cn<mailto:enlijuan at issibj.ac.cn>
Mr. BAI Yu
Assistant of Department of Education, Training and Database Management (DET&DM) Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO),  E-mail: baiyu at apsco.int<mailto:baiyu at apsco.int>

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