[Shine-participants] SHINE Newsletter March 2019

Tue Mar 19 09:51:22 EDT 2019

SHINE Newsletter March 2019

Dear SHINE Community,

We are excited to announce our SHINE 2019 Workshop sessions (see below).  Details and the schedule will be posted shortly on our website.

 As a reminder, the SHINE 2019 workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado between August 5-9 (Student Day on August 4th).  Workshop conference and registration details are available at our website: www.shinecon.org<http://www.shinecon.org/>.  Early bird registration deadline is June 1, 2019 and abstract submission deadline is June 15th, 2019. In addition, the deadline for student support is May 15th, 2019.

Sincerely,

Georgia A. de Nolfo

SHINE Steering Committee Chair

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Contents:

1.      The 2019 SHINE Workshop Sessions are posted!

2.      Machine Learning in Heliophysics

3.      Tenure track Faculty position at the Geospace Section of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences

4.      NASA SBIR/STTR 2019 Program Solicitation

5.      Workshop Announcement: Scintillating Science: Cutting-Edge Science Achieved Through the Observations of Radio Scintillation

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1. The 2019 SHINE Workshop Sessions are listed below and posted at www.shinecon.org<http://www.shinecon.org>!

1 Exploring the Middle Corona (Organizers: Matthew J West & Daniel B Seaton)
2 Connecting Heliophysics and Laboratory Plasma Studies (Organizers: Michael Hahn, Adam Kobelski, Nick Murphy, Lucas Tarr)
3  "What is the Pre-eruptive Magnetic Structure of CMEs from Active Regions? MFRs or SMAs? Do we even care?” (Organizers: Georgios Chintzoglou, Angelos Vourlidas)
4 Force, Momentum, and Energy Distribution in Solar Eruptions (Organizers: Xudong Sun; Benjamin Lynch)
5 Techniques Used to Constrain 3-D MHD Models Via Remote-Sensing Observations and In-Situ Measurements  (Organizers: Bernard V. Jackson, Mario M. Bisi, Dusan Odstrcil)
6 Achievements and Challenges of Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Analysis and Prediction of Solar Activity  (Organizers: Viacheslav Sadykov, Irina Kitiashvili)
7 Solar modulation of cosmic rays: local versus global effects (Organizers: Claudio Corti, Ian G. Richardson, Veronica Bindi)
8 Ion and Electron Distributions in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Physics (Organizers: Kosta Horaites,Kristopher Klein, Daniel Verscharen)
9 Extreme space weather events throughout the heliosphere (Organizers: Christina O. Lee, Reka Winslow)
10 Tackling Outstanding Problems in Solar Wind Formation and Acceleration with Elemental Fractionation (Organizers:Yuan-Kuen Ko, Micah Weberg)
11  Long-Term Solar/Stellar Variability: Closing the Rift Between Models and Observations   (Organizers: Lisa Upton, Andres Munjoz-Jaramillo, Irina Kitiashvilli, Travis Metcalfe)
12 Global implications of kinetic-scale particle acceleration throughout the heliosphere (Year II) (Organizers: Joel Dahlin, Lynn Wilson, Bin Chen, Kris Klein, Joe Giacalone)
13 How does plasma origin and/or magnetic topology affect solar wind acceleration?(Organizers: Samantha Wallace, Charles N. Arge, Aleida Higginson )
14 Pickup Ions in the Heliosphere and Beyond (Organizers: N. Pogorelov and M. Zhang)
15 Connecting Slow Solar Wind Theories to Current and Future Observations Working Group — year 3 (Organizers: Justin Edmondson, Liang Zhao, Aleida Higginson, Ben Lynch, Xudong Sun)
16 On the Origin of Neutrals and Low-Charge Ions in the Corona (Organizers: Vincenzo Andretta, Valentin Martinez Pillet, Gianna Cauzzi)
17 Observational Signatures of Turbulence and Reconnection: New Frontiers with DKIST (Organizers: Gianna Cauzzi, Steven Cranmer, Maria Kazachenko, Kevin Reardon)
18 Data Analysis Tools and Methods for Observations of the Solar Corona (not focused & maybe working group or tutorial instead?) (Organizers: Naty Alzate, Dan Seaton & Huw Morgan)
19 SEP Modeling Challenge: Research to Operations (Organizers: Katie Whitman, Ian Richardson)
20 A Potential Field is Unique…Right?!? (Organizers: KD Leka, Graham Barnes, James McAteer)
21 Global Phenomena Associated with Highly Impulsive CMEs (Organizers: Vic Pizzo and Doug Biesecker)
22 Toward an open source Python ecosystem for heliophysics (Organizers: Nick Murphy, David Stansby, B. L.Alterman)
23 What are the Physical Drivers of Energetic Storm Particle (ESP) events? (Organizers: Rob Ebert, Maher Dayeh, Gang Li)
24 Shortcomings of current CME observations and modeling. What’s next? (Organizers: Nada Al-Haddad, Phillip Hess, Christina Kay)

Town Hall/Tutorial
I Town Hall : Developing an Agile Rideshare Program for NASA Heliophysics (Sarah Gibson)
II  Lunch Tutorial on IRIS (Georgios Chintzoglou)

2. Machine Learning in Heliophysics Conference

We are pleased to invite you to the conference “Machine Learning in Heliophysics” to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on September 16-20, 2019.
Conference Website:
http://bit.ly/ml-helio19
Abstract submission is now open (deadline 1st April)
https://www.aanmelder.nl/mlih2019/author
The goal of this first ML- Helio conference is to leverage the advancements happening in disciplines such as machine learning, deep learning, statistical analysis, system identification, and information theory, in order to address long-standing questions and enable a higher scientific return on the wealth of available heliospheric data.
We aim at bringing together a cross-disciplinary research community:  physicists in solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric, and aeronomy fields as well as computer and data scientists. ML- Helio will focus on the development of data science techniques needed to tackle fundamental problems in space weather forecasting, inverse estimation of physical parameters, automatic event identification, feature detection and tracking, times series analysis of dynamical systems, combination of physics-based model with machine learning techniques, surrogate models and uncertainty quantification.
See the website for a list of topics covered.
The conference will consist of classic-style lectures, complemented by hands-on tutorials on Python tools and data resources available to the heliophysics machine learning community.
Enrico Camporeale -- on behalf of the SOC

3. Tenure track Faculty position at the Geospace Section of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences

The Geospace Section of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences is pleased to offer awards for the creation of new tenure-track faculty positions within the intellectual disciplines which comprise the space sciences to ensure the health and vitality of solar and space sciences on university teaching faculties. The aim of these awards is to integrate research topics in solar and space physics into basic physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, geoscience, meteorology, computer science, and applied mathematics programs, and to develop space physics graduate programs capable of training the next generation of leaders in this field. Space Science is interdisciplinary in nature and the Faculty Development in the Space Sciences awardees will be expected to establish partnerships within the university community. NSF funding will support the entire academic year salary and benefits of the newly recruited tenure-track faculty member for a duration of up to five years with a total award amount not to exceed $1,500,000.

Full solicitation at

HTML - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19558/nsf19558.htm

PDF - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19558/nsf19558.pdf

4. NASA SBIR/STTR 2019 Program Solicitation

Announcement from James Spann, PhD
NASA SBIR/STTR 2019 Program Solicitation is open and includes Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development
The NASA SBIR/STTR programs provide opportunities to small business concerns to engage in the research, development, and demonstration of technologies that both fulfill NASA needs and have the potential for successful commercialization. The 2019 Program Solicitation is now open and includes subtopic S5.06, Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development. Phase I proposals are due by March 29, 2019<detected://date/0> at 5:00 pm EST<detected://date/1>.
The subtopic S5.06 is intended to help the NASA Heliophysics Program meet its research obligations to prepare our nation for space weather events.  Four areas have been identified for priority development:
  *   Preparation and validation of existing science models that may be suitable for transition to operational use
  *   Innovations to produce and/or further refine space weather operational benchmarks
  *   Data assimilation innovations that enable tools and protocols for the operational space weather community
  *   Instrumentation concepts, flight architectures, and reporting systems suitable for data assimilation into space weather monitoring and forecasting systems
For complete information, please see the S5.06 Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development Subtopic at https://sbir.nasa.gov/solicitations.  The NASA SBIR/STTR Help Desk can answer questions (sbir at reisystems.com<mailto:sbir at reisystems.com><mailto:sbir at reisystems.com> / 301-937-0888<tel:301-937-0888>, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m<detected://date/2>., Mon.-Fri<detected://date/3>., Eastern Time).
James Spann, PhD
Space Weather Lead

5. Workshop Announcement: Scintillating Science: Cutting-Edge Science Achieved Through the Observations of Radio Scintillation

Dear Colleagues.
Following our save-the-date announcement a few months ago, we would like to provide you with the official first announcement for our upcoming “Scintillating Science: Cutting-Edge Science Achieved Through the Observations of Radio Scintillation” focussed/specialist workshop which will be held in Hermanus (near Cape Town), South Africa, the week of 15th July 2019.
The workshop will cover all aspects of scintillation from the science (including all the domains in which it can be applied, e.g. ionosphere, heliosphere, interstellar) through to engineering concepts/requirements including all aspects of its theory/modelling.  We are in the process of putting together more-detailed themes and these will appear on the workshop website before the end of March 2019.  In addition, we are in the process of setting out invited speakers and scene-setting speakers.
Early registration and abstract submission opens very soon on 25th March 2019.  The full list of deadlines can be found on the workshop website here: https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/meetings/SSCESATORS/ along with further information about the scope of the workshop and local information.
Best wishes on behalf of the workshop SOC and LOC,
Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space – SOC Co-Chair)
Mike Kosch (SANSA/Lancaster University – SOC Co-Chair/LOC Chair)
Science Organising Committee (SOC):
    Mario M. Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space, UK) (Co-Chair)
    Michael Kosch (SANSA, South Africa/Lancaster University, UK) (Co-Chair)
    Richard A. Fallows (ASTRON, NL)
    Daniel Stinebring (Oberlin College and Conservatory, OH, USA)
    Anna Bilous (University of Amsterdam, NL)
    Ue-Li Pen (University of Toronto, ON, Canada)
    Lucilla Alfonsi (INGV, Italy)
    Joseph Olwendo (Pwani University, Kenya)
    Biagio Forte (University of Bath, UK)
    Tshimangadzo Matamba (SANSA, South Africa)
    Oyuki Chang (UKRI STFC RAL Space, UK)
Local Organising Committee (LOC):
    Michael Kosch (SANSA, South Africa/Lancaster University, UK)
    Lee-Anne McKinnell (SANSA, South Africa)
    Tshimangadzo Matamba (SANSA, South Africa)

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