UK Solar Physics Newsletter

            Lyndsay Fletcher & Duncan Mackay, Editors
                         July 15th 2009

     o News, Views and Gossip
       o CAWSES Book #2 published.
       o Re-introduction of scientific memoirs series in Solar Physics.
       o RHESSI Science Nugget
       o Solar News Items of Interest: http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090701.txt
         o Solar Physics Topical Issue `Remote Sensing of the Inner
           Heliosphere'
       o Solar News Items of Interest: http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090715.txt
         o The 2008-2009 Report of the Steering Committee for the NASA Living
           With a Star Targeted Research and Technology Program (TR&T) is now
           available at the TR&T website:
     o Meetings, Conferences and Workshops
       o ANGLO-FRENCH MHD MEETING, CAMBRIDGE 14-15 SEPTEMBER 2009
       o Solar News Items of Interest: http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090701.txt
         o IAU General Assembly Joint Discussion (JD) 16: Whole Heliosphere
           Interval; August 12-14, 2009; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     o Employment Opportunities
       o Solar News Items of Interest: http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090715.txt
         o ESA Postdoctoral Fellowships in Space Science
         o Permanent Position at ROB/SIDC, Belgium
         o Postdoctoral Fellowships in Solar MHD Simulations at the Center for Turbulence
           Research, Stanford University


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)


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From: Nicolas Labrosse <n.labrosse@physics.gla.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues,


The CAWSES Book #2 has been published, and the free electronic pdf file
is available from the publisher's web page at:

http://www.terrapub.co.jp/onlineproceedings/ste/index.html

The book includes selected papers from the 2007 Kyoto CAWSES Symposium.
It was edited by Toshitaka Tsuda, Ryoichi Fujii, Kazunari Shibata, and
Marvin A. Geller.

Regards,
Gang Lu

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From: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi <Lidia.vanDriel@obspm.fr>

Re-introduction of scientific memoirs series in Solar Physics

The journal Solar Physics is reinstituting a series of memoirs by senior scientists that initially ran for three years during the late 1990s with articles by de Jager (1996), Parker (1997), and Pecker (1999).  The template for these memoirs - now as well as a decade ago - is the autobiographical article in the Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics.  The long-term perspective provided by such articles reminds us just how much we have learned about the Sun in recent decades.  It also gives leading solar scientists the opportunity to tell how they learned what they learned - the two-steps forward,
one-step back nature of cutting-edge research - and to emphasize the questions that remain to be answered.

The Memoirs Committee consists of Ed Cliver (Chair), Paul Charbonneau, Lyndsay Fletcher, Cristina Mandrini, Don Melrose, Giannina Poletto,  Sami Solanki, Bojan Vrsnak, and Jingxiu Wang.  Please contact the chair or any of the committee members with your suggestions for this year's memoirist.

Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (Editor)

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From: Hugh Hudson <hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu>

Announcing a new RHESSI Science Nugget: The 15.11 MeV Gamma-Ray Line Detected? by Brian Dennis (GSFC). This line was Carol Crannell's suggestion, and she would have been pleased to see progress that may lead to its effective use in solar gamma-ray astronomy.

See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/ The_15.11_MeV_Gamma-ray_Line_Detected%3F.

S. Christe
H. Hudson

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From: Michael Proctor <mrep@cam.ac.uk>

ANGLO-FRENCH MHD MEETING, CAMBRIDGE 14-15 SEPTEMBER 2009

The French GDR group will this year be organizing their annual meeting in Cambridge. Any UK researcher in MHD (astrophysical or otherwise) is warmly invited to attend. Full details of the meeting are given at the following web address:

http://www.phys.ens.fr/~dormy/MHD/DAMTP09/

Registration closes very shortly, so please register this week if you have not already done so.

A grant from the London Mathematical Society provides partial support for Uk research students please contact the organisers for further details.

Mike  Proctor
for the organising committee