Our colleague Prof. John Brown, OBE, was an outstanding, innovative scientist, a dedicated teacher and communicator, and a good friend and mentor to many of us in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group. He was the 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland and was formerly Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of.....(to original post)

In the Science Advances article, “The development of lower-atmosphere turbulence early in a solar flare” the first observational study of the onset and evolution of solar flare turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere on an unprecedented time scale of 1.7s using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph is presented. The work, performed by A&A.....(to original post)

The A&A group would like to congratulate Dr Galina Motorina (former A&A PhD) for earning a place at the Heliophysics Summer School 2018. The Heliophysics Summer School was held in Boulder, Colorado, July 24 - 31, 2018 by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, CPAESS Programs. The school focuses on the physics.....(to original post)

Congratulations to Paul Wright (A&A Ph.D. student) for securing a place at NASA's Frontier Development lab. NASA’s Frontier Development Lab is an artificial intelligence (AI) research accelerator established by NASA and the SETI Institute to apply AI technologies to challenges in space exploration for the benefit of humankind.  It brings together a diverse.....(to original post)

We're delighted that the European Physics Society Solar Physics Division (EPS-SPD) chose to award its 2018 ESPD PhD Prize to Dr. Peter Levens "for significant contributions to the study of tornado-like prominences - using detailed ultraviolet spectroscopic, multi-wavelength imaging and visible spectropolarimetric observational analysis - helping to unveil the nature of.....(to original post)

Low-Frequency Radio data from the CALLISTO spectrometer located in Glasgow is now included in the quick look images accessed from the RHESSI Browser. The Glasgow CALLISTO spectrometer detects radio emissions from the Sun between 45-80 MHz from 07:15 UT until 15:00 UT on a daily basis.  Quick look images are produced every.....(to original post)

Dr Galina Motorina (Researcher from Pulkovo Observatory, Russia) will be visiting us for three weeks. Her work is on the diagnostics of energy release in the solar corona using X-ray and EUV emissions (Support by the RSF grant No.16-12-10448).  .....(to original post)

Xingyao Chen (National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) will be visiting us as a PhD scholar for 12 months. She will be work with the solar radio data from LOFAR and to study the energetic particles responsible for the solar radio emission in solar flares. Her recent paper on Fine Structures.....(to original post)

European Week of Astronomy and Space Science press release RAS PR 18/20 (EWASS 16) Despite their appearance solar tornadoes are not rotating after all, according to a European team of scientists. A new analysis of these gigantic structures, each one several times the size of the Earth, indicates that they may have been.....(to original post)

Ben Alcock with thesis entitled "Solar Electron and Radio Wave Propagation in the Turbulent Solar Corona" successfully passed his viva on Thursday March 22. A part part of the thesis was published and another part is in preparation for publication......(to original post)

A&A's Dr. Ryan Milligan stars in his own TV show this week, all about two of his passions - astronomy and trucks. The programme follows Ryan driving a truck, hauling the supercomputer for the radio telescope i-LOFAR from the Netherlands to Birr in Ireland. It was broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland on Monday.....(to original post)

The mini-volume published in RAA journal presented research papers based on talks at the 1st RadioSun workshop in China. The RadioSun network links research teams from China, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and the UK. The paper by Hamish Reid and Heather Ratcliffe won a RAA Excellent Paper award.  .....(to original post)

Galina Motorina was awarded a PhD degree for her work entitled "Dynamics of plasma heating and energy distributions of accelerated electrons during solar flares based on X-ray and ultraviolet emission".  Galina was a visiting PhD student in Astronomy & Astrophysics group for a number of months and worked on thermal properties.....(to original post)

Nicolina Chrysaphi have successfully captured a number of solar radio bursts using the Rawling Array (aka UK-LOFAR). The preliminary quick-look images show the variety of fascinating solar phenomena......(to original post)

In the PhysicsCentral article, "Small-Scale Turbulence May Help Power Solar Explosions" the complex physics about role of turbulence in solar flares is explained using simple terms. The Glasgow-led research team spread over 13 time zones represents six languages, five solar instruments, and various areas of expertise on the Sun’s activity. With PhysicsCentral,.....(to original post)

Research led by Dr. Paulo Simoes has been featured as a research highlight in a  press release from the 15th European Solar Physics meeting, held recently in Hungary. Paulo's work uses numerical simulations to predict the behaviour of chromospheric flare emission in the infrared continuum, and understand how it can be.....(to original post)

We congratulate A&A’s Dr. Eduard Kontar. He was elected president of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) during the elections at the European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM) in Budapest last week. Dr. Eduard Kontar is also currently president of CESRA (Community of European Solar Radio.....(to original post)

We're delighted that Paul Wright has been awarded the 2017 American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Student Poster Prize at the 48th AAS/SPD meeting in Portland, OR. His poster was on "Microflare Heating of an Active Region Observed with NuSTAR, Hinode/XRT, and SDO/AIA”, and was based on a paper published in.....(to original post)

We're delighted that the EPS Solar Physics Division chose to award its first-ever 2017 ESPD Early Career Prize to Dr. Natasha Jeffrey "for significant contributions to the physics of solar flares and for inspiring outreach activities". Well done Natasha! The 2017 ESPD Prizes will be presented in the course of the 15th European.....(to original post)

An Institute of Physics Blue Plaque was unveiled on Tuesday 28th March 2017 for Professor Alexander Wilson MD FRSE, the first Regius Chair of Astronomy at Glasgow (1760 -1784). The ceremony was attended by the Astronomer for Scotland, Professor John C Brown OBE FRSE, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli, former.....(to original post)

Congratulations to A&A group's Professor Lyndsay Fletcher who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. RSE Press Release......(to original post)

Graham Kerr with thesis "Observations and Modelling of the Chromosphere During Solar Flares" and Duncan Stackhouse with thesis "The Acceleration and Transport of Electron Populations in Solar Flares" successfully passed their vivas......(to original post)

Alliance Meeting on energetic particles in solar flares  [webpage] , contact Nic Bian regarding the meeting......(to original post)

Glasgow now hosts the CESRA (Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers) website thanks to Kenzie Nimmo and Norman Gray. The recent solar radio (and other) science highlights can be followed, discussed and shared on Twitter and Facebook......(to original post)

Congratulations to the A&A group's Professor John Brown (former Regius Professor of Astronomy and currently Astronomer Royal for Scotland) who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List “for services to the promotion of astronomy and science education”......(to original post)

A fully funded PhD studentship is available in the area of Solar Radio Physics at the University of Glasgow. It is a joint UK-Franco project supported by Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow in the Astronomy &.....(to original post)

In the outer solar corona, the radio observations provide the unique link between near-Sun phenomena and the effects of solar activity that extend throughout the heliosphere.  'RadioSun' sponsored researchers use Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio images to study giant radio source associated with a Coronal Mass Ejection......(to original post)

"In recognition of truly outstanding research achievements associated with PhD study in the broad field of plasma physics", the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) awarded Dr Natasha Jeffrey a PhD prize for her thesis "The spatial, spectral and polarization properties of solar flare X-ray sources".....(to original post)

Peter Levens, a PhD student in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, has won the School of Physics and Astronomy's Thomson Prize for his second year report on Solar Tornadoes in Prominences. Well done Peter!.....(to original post)

A recent Times Higher Education article is all about the school's composer-in-residence Drew Mulholland. Times Higher Education The BBC have also interviewed him about his work with the Astrophysics group. BBC.....(to original post)