UK Solar Physics Newsletter Lyndsay Fletcher & Duncan Mackay, Editors December 1st 2009 o News, Views and Gossip o ROSA availability o Responsibility for funding STP o RHESSI science nugget. o NUAP questionnaire and updated strategy o A&G reader survey o STFC Diary of Forthcoming Events o STFC Science in Society Fellowships 2010 o Meetings, Conferences and Workshops o Flux emergence in the Hinode era workshop o STEREO SWG, March 22-26, 2010 o ISIMA applications open o CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO "Magnetic topology and energetic particles in the solar system" (EGU 2010 Session ST1.4) o Reminder - RAS Discussion Meeting on Alfven waves o Solar News Items of Interest - http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20091123.txt o IAU Symposium "Advances in Plasma Astrophysics" o Employment Opportunities o Junior Research Fellowship - Merton College Oxford o PhD project in Space and Solar Plasma Physics o Postdoctoral position @ IISER Pune, India o Faculty Positions at IISER Pune, India o Solar News Items of Interest - http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20091123.txt o Postdoctoral Position in Solar Physics at Astrophysical Institute Potsdam o Postdoctoral Fellowships at NAOJ/Hinode project Dear Colleague, Here are a few items which have come to our attention since the last Newsletter. You can find this newsletter also at the UKSP website: http://www.uksolphys.org Lyndsay (lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk) Duncan (duncan@mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk) ********************************************************************* * * * News, Views and Gossip * * * ********************************************************************* From: Mihalis Mathioudakis - M.Mathioudakis@qub.ac.uk ROSA availability The Solar Group at Queens University Belfast (QUB) and the National Solar Observatory (NSO) would like to announce the availability of the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) instrument to the UK Solar Physics community. ROSA is a 6-camera high cadence imaging system and is available at the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Solar Observatory in New Mexico USA. QUB can provide observing support and access to a data reduction pipeline to UK proposers. Access to the telescope and instrument is provided through the NSO TAC. More information on the instrument are provided in the link below: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/rosa/ Proposal submission process and deadlines : http://www.nso.edu For more information please contact: M.MATHIOUDAKIS@QUB.AC.UK or D.JESS@QUB.AC.UK ************************************ From: Rosemary Young - rosemary.young@stfc.ac.uk Responsibility for funding STP Following the recommendation of the Wakeham review, funding responsibility for solar terrestrial physics research which relates to the Earth is being transferred to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The two research councils have drawn up the following agreement to assist the research community: Responsibility for Funding Solar Terrestrial Physics On the advice of the Wakeham review, NERC and STFC have agreed the following definition of which parts of solar terrestrial physics research are most relevant to the NERC mission: The parts of solar terrestrial physics research which are most relevant to the NERC mission are those whose primary goal is to understand the Earth's environment from the deep interior to the upper atmosphere (i.e., mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere). We refer to this as Earth-oriented solar terrestrial physics. NERC and STFC have also agreed the following set of principles as guidance for the community and research partners: - STFC retains responsibility for funding space-based facilities (spacecraft, instruments and operations) for solar terrestrial physics and their associated primary exploitation. NERC becomes a stakeholder in the selection process for Earth-oriented solar terrestrial physics missions; - NERC assumes responsibility for funding ground-based instruments for Earth-oriented solar terrestrial physics supported through EISCAT (http://e7.eiscat.se/)[1]; - NERC assumes responsibility for funding Earth-oriented solar terrestrial physics research, except that primarily exploiting STFC-funded space-based facilities; - STFC assumes responsibility for funding all non-Earth-oriented solar terrestrial physics research (e.g., fundamental space plasma physics and not related to the Earth). Further advice with respect to current or future support for these areas of research can be obtained from: STFC: For space-based facilities and projects - Rosemary Young (rosemary.young@stfc.ac.uk, tel: 01793 442135) For research grants - Kim Burchell (kim.burchell@stfc.ac.uk, tel: 01793 442021) NERC: For facilities: Lin Kay (rlfk@nerc.ac.uk , tel: 01793 416600) For research grants: Bill Eason (wre@nerc.ac.uk, tel: 01793 411961) [1]NERC is working with EISCAT and STFC to transfer responsibility for EISCAT in the UK from STFC to NERC. ************************************* From: lyndsay Fletcher - lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk RHESSI science nugget http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Dips_and_Waves This is to announce a new RHESSI science nugget, "Dips and Waves", by Iain Hannah and Eduard Kontar. The inclusion of wave-particle interactions appears to have a drastic effect on the classical thick-target model for flare hard X-ray emission Please see http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Dips_and_Waves We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions. Steven Christe Hugh Hudson ************************************* From: Lyndsay Fletcher Dear colleagues I have been asked by STFC to forward you this email on behalf of NUAP best wishes Lyndsay ----- Dear All, Thank you for your responses to the most recent NUAP questionnaire. NUAP has updated the strategy document as a result of this input and has sent this onto PPAN; please see http://www.scitech.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/nuap.aspx . On 30th November NUAP will make a presentation to PPAN on this update, and the presentation will be made available to the community. Best regards Michele Dougherty and NUAP ************************************** From: Ronald Wiltshire Dear Colleagues 'A&G is fantastic! It goes straight into the waste bin! Its got too much news and too little science! I wish it carried more stories about the RAS! ' Whatever your views we want to hear them. Please tell us by completing the very short on-line survey at http://tinyurl.com/n7tnjz [tinyurl.com] ( and be entered into a prize winning draw). Your views matter and will shape the development of YOUR journal. Please note the deadline for completing the survey - 31 December 2009. PS The draw,on13 January 2010, will land the lucky winner with 4 recent books: 'Eyes on the Skies: 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery'; 'Hidden Universe'; ' Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics' and ' From First Light to Reionization: The End of the Dark Ages'. David Elliott Executive Secretary Royal Astronomical Society Burlington House Piccadilly London W1J 0BQ ********************************************* From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS 1 December - IPS (Innovations Partnership Scheme) Panel Meeting, Institute of Physics, London STFC contact : Sue.Fuller@stfc.ac.uk 1 December - Advanced LIGO Oversight Committee meeting, Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Deborah.Miller@stfc.ac.uk 1 December - Cosmic Vision M-Class missions presentation event 2009, Institut Oceanographique, Paris STFC contacts : Chris.castelli@stfc.ac.uk and Rosemary.Young@stfc.ac.uk 1 - 4 December - EMMA (Electron Machine with Many Applications) Commissioning Workshop, Daresbury Laboratory STFC contact : Sue.Waller@stfc.ac.uk 2 December - Small Awards in Public Engagement Judges meeting, Institute of Physics, London STFC contact : Chris.Woolford@stfc.ac.uk 2 December - ISIC Project Board (International Space Innovation Committee), London STFC contact : Sharon.Bonfield@stfc.ac.uk 2 - 3 December - ISIS Facility Access Panels STFC contact : Uschi.Steigenberger@stfc.ac.uk 4 December - Executive Board, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot STFC contact : Sharon.bonfield@stfc.ac.uk 4 December - ISIS User Committee STFC contact : Uschi.steigenberger@stfc.ac.uk 7 December - T2K Oversight Committee meeting, Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Rachel.Boning@stfc.ac.uk 7 - 8 December - Science Board, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot Chair : Professor Jenny Thomas, jthomas@hep.ucl.ac.uk STFC : Victoria.Wright@stfc.ac.uk 8 - 9 December - JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) Board, Hilo, Hawaii STFC contact : Michelle.Cooper@stfc.ac.uk 9 December - RCUK EG (Research Councils- Executive Group), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Linda.Enderby@stfc.ac.uk 9 December - UKCC (United Kingdom Committee on CERN), DIUS, London STFC contact : Charlotte.Jamieson@stfc.ac.uk 10 December - 5th Appleton Laboratory Space Conference, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot STFC contact : Richard.Holdaway@stfc.ac.uk 14 December - Eureca Visiting Panel, Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford University Chair : Craig Buttar, c.buttar@physics.gla.ac.uk STFC contact : Tahmina Aziz, tahmina.aziz@stfc.ac.uk 15 December - STFC Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot STFC contact : Ruth.Jeans@stfc.ac.uk 15 December - Atlas Upgrade Visiting Panel, University College London Chair : Peter Jones, p.g.jones@bham.ac.uk STFC contact : Tahmina Aziz, tahmina.aziz@stfc.ac.uk 16 December - CERN Finance Committee, CERN, Geneva STFC contact : Charlotte.Jamieson@stfc.ac.uk January - Advisory Panel for Science in Society, Venue TBC, STFC contact : Chris.Woolford@stfc.ac.uk 7 - 9 January - National Science Teachers Meeting (The ASE), University of Nottingham STFC contact : Chris.Woolford@stfc.ac.uk 11 January - Lux Zeplin Visiting Panel, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London Chair : Craig Buttar, c.buttar@physics.gla.ac.uk STFC contact : Sharmila Banerjee sharmila.banerjee@stfc.ac.uk 13 January - Executive Board, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot STFC contact : Sharon.bonfield@stfc.ac.uk 13 - 14 January - Advanced and Postdoctoral Fellowships Sift Meeting, Polaris House, Swindon Chair : Professor J Hough, j.hough@physics.gla.ac.uk STFC contact : Steve.Cann@stfc.ac.uk 14 January - ISIC Project Board (International Space Innovation Committee), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Sharon.Bonfield@stfc.ac.uk 14 - 15 January - PALS (Physical and Life Sciences Committee) location to be advised Chair : Professor Steven Rose STFC contact : Jenny.Hiscock@stfc.ac.uk 18 January - MICE UKNF (Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment United Kingdom Neutrino Factory) Oversight Committee, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot STFC contact : Charlotte.Jamieson@stfc.ac.uk 20 January - RCUK EG (Research Councils- Executive Group), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Linda.Enderby@stfc.ac.uk 20 January - PANDA Oversight Committee (AntiProton Annilation at Darmstadt), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Katharine.Schofield@stfc.ac.uk 20 - 21 January - PPRP (Projects Peer Review Panel), Kings Manor, University of York Chair : Peter Jones, p.g.jones@bham.ac.uk STFC contact : Sharmila.Banerjee@stfc.ac.uk 25 January - ATLAS Upgrade Visiting Panel, University College, London Chair : Peter Jones, p.g.jones@bham.ac.uk STFC contact : Sharmila.Banerjee@stfc.ac.uk 26 January - STFC Council meeting, venue to be confirmed STFC contact : Ruth.Jeans@stfc.ac.uk 26 January - ISL (Inverse Square Law) Oversight Committee, Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Deborah.Miller@stfc.ac.uk 27 - 28 January - Postdoctoral Fellowship Interviews, Lydiard House Conference Centre, Swindon Chair : Professor J Hough, j.hough@physics.gla.ac.uk STFC contact : Steve.Cann@stfc.ac.uk 27 - 28 January - PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics Science Committee), location to be advised Chair : Professor Jordan Nash STFC contact : Trish.Mullins@stfc.ac.uk 28 January - Healthcare Technology Forum, University Hospital, Birmingham STFC contact : Major.Chahal@stfc.ac.uk 1 February - Liverpool Telescope Oversight Committee, Liverpool John Moores University STFC contact : Michelle.Cooper@stfc.ac.uk 3 - 4 February - Advanced Fellowship Interviews, Lydiard House Conference Centre Chair : Professor J Hough, j.hough@physics.gla.ac.uk STFC contact : Steve.Cann@stfc.ac.uk 4 February - GridPP Oversight Committee, Medical Research Council, London Chair : Professor Jonathan Flynn, jflynn@phys.soton.ac.uk STFC contact : Trish.Mullins@stfc.ac.uk 8 February - Executive Board, Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Sharon.Bonfield@stfc.ac.uk 10 - 11 February - 1st Vacuum Symposium UK, Cockcroft Institute STFC Contact : Sue.Waller@stfc.ac.uk 10 - 11 February - Science Board meeting, Polaris House, Swindon Chair : Jenny Thomas, jthomas@hep.ucl.ac.uk STFC contact : Victoria.Wright@stfc.ac.uk 15 - 16 February - ESA HME EUB (European Space Agency Human Space Flight & Exploration Programme, Exploration Utilisation Board) STFC contact : Sue.Horne@stfc.ac.uk 17 February - RCUK EG (Research Councils- UK Executive Group), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Linda.Enderby@stfc.ac.uk 23 February - STFC Council meeting, venue to be confirmed STFC contact : Ruth.Jeans@stfc.ac.uk 24 February - AurAC (Aurora Advisory Committee), London STFC contacts : Sue.Horne@stfc.ac.uk and Lindsay.Dannatt@stfc.ac.uk 25 February - Agata (Advanced Gamma Tracking Array), Polaris House, Swindon STFC contact : Katharine.Schofield@stfc.ac.uk 26 February - ISIC Project Board (International Space Innovation Committee), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,Didcot STFC contact : Sharon.Bonfield@stfc.ac.uk ************************************************ From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk STFC Science in Society Fellowships 2010 STFC announces the 2010 round of the Science in Society Fellowship Scheme, whose aim is to contribute to STFC's Science in Society Programme by investing in good communicators with research credibility. They will act as champions or ambassadors for STFC's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) work to the media, public audiences, or schools. The Fellowships are aimed at those with significant research experience who also have a track record in public engagement or communications work. The fellowships recognise and reward current practitioners and enable them to expand the work they do in public engagement. Fellowships buy time for additional or extended communication activities which will have a significant national or regional impact. Both STFC grant-funded researchers and users of STFC facilities are eligible to apply. Facility users would champion generic facility programmes, for example the use of neutron, muon or light sources to study materials; lasers; high performace computing; e-science, etc. Closing Date: Tuesday 2nd March 2010 at 16:00 For further details, Notes for Guidance and links to the application forms on the Je-S system go to http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Grants/Fells/SandS/contents.aspx [www.stfc.ac.uk] ********************************************************************* * * * Conferences, Workshops, Meetings * * * ********************************************************************* From: Lucie Green - lmg@mssl.ucl.ac.uk Flux emergence in the Hinode era workshop http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/fluxworkshop To exploit the continued success of the Hinode mission we are holding a workshop to address the physics of magnetic flux emergence into the solar atmosphere. The broad aim of this workshop will be to combine recent theoretical advances with the latest space and ground based observations, in particular the high spatial resolution data taken with the Hinode spacecraft. The workshop will include discussions on the process of flux emergence as well the associated chromospheric and coronal responses. To focus the discussions, it is essential that participants conduct some prior analysis related to a specially selected flux emergence observation. It is intended that the participants are involved in the definition of science questions to be addressed prior to the workshop. The theoretical and observational analysis will continue in break out sessions during the workshop. We welcome suggestions for specific science topics and data sets from the participants. Through bringing together theory, simulations and observations of flux emergence it is hoped that we will move toward a more complete understanding of the flux emergence process. The workshop will be held from 22 to 26 March 2010 at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, near Dorking in Surrey. Due to the workshop style format, we can accommodate up to 20 participants. We welcome interest from PhD students. There is a small registration fee of -120 per person to cover daily lunch and refreshments, and a workshop dinner. Registration closes on 31 January 2010. ********************************************* From: James McAteer - james.mcateer@tcd.ie STEREO SWG, March 22-26, 2010 The solar research group at Trinity College Dublin is glad to invite the UK solar and heliospheric community to the 21st STEREO Science Working Group (SWG) to be held in Dublin, Ireland. This will be part of a series of STEREO meetings during the week of March 22-26, 2010. As part of this week of STEREO science we will also be hosting individual meetings for each instrument onboard STEREO. We strongly encourage the UK solar and heliospheric community to attend and present their science results. We also encourage a strong degree of participation by PhD students and young scientists to present their STEREO related results as oral presentations. As part of the meeting we intend to hold a tutorial session on STEREO data analysis software. This is a great opportunity to pose questions on STEREO data, discuss your projects and needs with the STEREO team, and help strengthen the mission as the spacecraft separate from Earth and we look forward to a new solar cycle. Details of the meeting are available on grian.phy.tcd.ie/stereo The website contains information on travel, local hotels and transport, and meeting details and will be updated regularly. There may be a small conference fee payable on arrival to cover some expenses. This will kept as low as possible so as to encourage maximum attendance. Registration is via the meeting website and the local organising committee greatly appreciate early registration. Hope to see everyone in Dublin, James McAteer STEREO Scientist, Trinity College Dublin James.mcateer@tcd.ie LOC, James McAteer (chair), Peter Gallagher, Shane Maloney (website), Jason Byrne, David Lon ********************************************* From: Pascale Garaud Dear colleague, We are delighted to announce that applications to the first International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics (ISIMA) are now open. ISIMA is a 6-week long program designed to integrate multi-disciplinary research in Astrophysics with graduate student training. The first ISIMA program will be held in Santa Cruz, California, from Juy 5th to August 13th 2010, on the topic of "Transport Processes in Astrophysics". For all details, and application forms, see our web-site: http://isima.ucsc.edu Please consider forwarding this annoucement to your colleagues and students, as you see appropriate. The first week of the program (July 5th-9th) is a workshop on the selected topic. The morning sessions are invited lectures by prominent scientists in the field, while the afternoon sessions are short invited talks by young researchers. Weeks 2-6 are dedicated to research. Invited faculty and postdocs are encouraged to proposed collaborative research projects to the students. Over the course of the program, students are expected to make significant progress on their selected research project, eventually leading to a journal publication. This is intended to be a very intense and condensed research experience for students, while providing an interactive and multi-disciplinary environment for invited faculty and post-docs. Daily seminars will be held during this period. Selected participants will be fully funded for their stay in Santa Cruz (aside from travel, depending on the country of origin). The venue is one of the Santa Cruz colleges, only minutes walk away from the central part of the campus which hosts the Astronomy & Astrophysics, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Statistics departments. See http://isima.ucsc.edu/current.html for a tentative list of participants to date. Applications are competitive for all participants. Student applications are due on January 20th, 2010. Applications from senior participants (postdocs and faculty) will remain open until all positions have been filled. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered for full funding. The SOC: Nic Brummell (UCSC), Patrick Diamond (UCSD), Pascale Garaud (UCSC), Mark Krumholz (UCSC), Michel Rieutord (Obs. Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse). -------------------------------------------------------------- International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics URL: http://isima.ucsc.edu Email: isima@ucsc.edu Phone: P. Garaud, +831-419-7769 -------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************** From: Claire Foullon - claire.foullon@warwick.ac.uk http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2730 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO "Magnetic topology and energetic particles in the solar system" EGU 2010 Session ST1.4, 02-07 May 2010, Vienna, Austria. This session is a forum with special emphasis on energetic particles arising in the slow and fast solar wind, co-rotating interactions regions, interplanetary or planetary shocks and foreshock regions, and from magnetic reconnection events such as solar flares. Remote or in-situ observations of the particle populations in the solar system are continuously ongoing owing to several dedicated spacecraft missions (from new generations of spacecraft like STEREO and THEMIS and earlier ones like ACE, SOHO, WIND, Cluster, RHESSI, etc.). Their measurements, the associated data analysis, as well as theoretical considerations provide crucial information for understanding the sources of the particle populations, their acceleration and propagation/transport processes. Magnetic topology plays an important role through parallel and perpendicular shock geometries, the trapping of the energetic particles and re-acceleration from long-lived acceleration sites. This session invites contributions on a wide range of theoretical, modeling and observational topics. The signatures of the various forms of plasma interactions, the effects of dynamically evolving magnetic field configurations such as resonant magnetic field lines or expanding flux ropes, or using the particles to probe the magnetic topology of the structures they originate from are highly relevant. Contributions for oral and poster presentations are now solicited. Important deadlines: Support applications: December 4, 2009 Abstract submission: January 18, 2010 Pre-registration: March 31, 2010 Conveners: Claire Foullon, University of Warwick, UK (claire.foullon@warwick.ac.uk) Harald Kucharek, University fo New Hampshire, USA (harald.kucharek@unh.edu) Olga Malandraki, National Observatory of Athens, Greece (omaland@astro.noa.gr) For abstract submission to the session and more information, see the meeting website: ************************************ From: Mihalis Mathioudakis - M.Mathioudakis@qub.ac.uk Reminder - RAS Discussion Meeting on Alfven waves http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/ras/ This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the RAS Discussion Meeting on Alfven waves is December 10 2009. *********************************************************************** * * * Positions Vacant * * * *********************************************************************** From: Alexander Schekochihin - a.schekochihin1@physics.ox.ac.uk Job Advert http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/index.shtml Merton College Oxford has advertised a Junior Research Fellowship in plasma physics/magnetic confinement fusion. It is open to applicants both from within the field AND FROM PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS GENERALLY. The link to the advert is here: http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/index.shtml (scroll down to "Culham Junior Research Fellowship in Physics...") An important point to stress is that those who have done their PhD in AREAS OTHER THAN PLASMA PHYSICS but wish to switch to fusion research can apply: the criterion will be outstanding quality of people's previous work, not necessarily specific expertise in plasmas. ******************************************** From: David Tsiklauri - d.tsiklauri@qmul.ac.uk PhD project in Space and Solar Plasma Physics Studentship Advert Applications are invited for a SEPnet funded (South-East Physics network, http://www.sepnet.ac.uk/) PhD Studentship within the Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The project is related to exciting, major unsolved problems of solar physics such as coronal heating http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/mysteries_l1/corona.html and solar flare dynamics. Type III radio bursts are believed to come from solar flare electrons that travel upwards, away from the Sun, on open magnetic field lines. The proposed work aims to fill the gap in understanding how the upwards moving electrons are accelerated and produce the observed radio emission. This will be achieved through kinetic-scale modelling of the phenomenon and numerical simulation results will be compared with radio and other wavelength observations. The project benefits from access to large-scale parallel 1000 core processor cluster via UKMHD consortium, while the radio data will be available via participation of QMUL in LOFAR-UK and SEPnet Astro consortia (http://astro.kent.ac.uk/SEPNET/). The LOw Frequency ARray, LOFAR (http://www.lofar-uk.org/), is a next-generation software-driven telescope currently under construction in the Netherlands and UK. Dr David Tsiklauri, Senior Lecturer at Astronomy Unit, QMUL and will be the PhD project supervisor, while Dr Aris Karastergiou, Astrophysics, Oxford University, will act in a co-supervisory capacity. Applicants should have a good Honours degree in Physics or Applied Mathematics (at least 2:1 or equivalent) or a lower second class plus a Master's (MPhys) qualification. Programming experience in any high level language is highly desirable. Candidates will receive full fees and tax free stipend of circa ?13,000 per annum for three years. Candidates should send their CV and names (with contact details) of two referees by Email to: D.Tsiklauri -at- qmul.ac.uk The applications should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than 15 January 2010. Starting date will be soon after the deadline and is negotiable. For further information, please visit URL links below: Dr David Tsiklauri's webpage -- http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~tsiklauri/ Astronomy Unit -- http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/Astronomy/ Queen Mary University of London -- http://www.qmul.ac.uk/ Funding Notes In addition to UK and EU students, non-UK or non-EU ones (worldwide) are also eligible to receive tuition fee waiver and a full stipend ******************************************** From: Prasad Subramanian - p.subramanian@iiserpune.ac.in Postdoctoral position @ IISER Pune, India http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~p.subramanian The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India, invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position in Solar Physics. The successful applicant should have a PhD in physics/astrophysics, and be interested in plasma astrophysics/solar physics. (S)he will work with Dr Prasad Subramanian in the general area of the propagation and terrestrial effects of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The work will involve a combination of theory and analysis of data from sources like SOHO and the GRAPES-3 cosmic ray telescope. MHD and/or particle plasma simulations are also a possibility. This position is funded through a RESPOND grant from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The initial appointment will be for two years, with a performance review at the end of the first year. The stipend will be as per ISRO norms. Interested candidates may send a CV, a publication list, a short statement of research interests and names and contact details of 3 referees who are familiar with the candidate's work to Dr Prasad Subramanian (p.subramanian@iiserpune.ac.in). Further information about IISER Pune may be obtained at http://www.iiserpune.ac.in The first round of applications will be scrutinized by January 15 2010. ******************************************** From: Prasad Subramanian p.subramanian@iiserpune.ac.in Faculty Positions at IISER Pune, India http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/Inside%20Pages/Faculty%20Positions.htm The Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Pune has been set up by the Government of India at par with the IITs and IISc Bangalore. The Government of India has generously invested in IISER to set up state-of-the-art research facilities in all branches of science (physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology) and to promote interdisciplinary areas of research. IISER Pune pursues full-fledged research not only at the institute and but also in a network arrangement with other internationally reputed research institutions. IISER Pune invites applications for faculty positions from Indian nationals possessing excellent academic records and research experience. For further details, please visit http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/Inside%20Pages/Faculty%20Positions.htm -- Dr Duncan H Mackay Mathematical Institute, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland. Tel 01334 463760 Fax 01334 463748 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 _______________________________________________ uksp mailing list uksp@physics.gla.ac.uk http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/uksp