UK Solar Physics Newsletter Valery Nakariakov & Duncan Mackay, Editors July 1st 2010 o News, Views and Gossip o Important information regarding July and August Newsletters o New EIS science nugget announcement o Congratulations to Richard Harrison o RHESSI Science Nugget o Evaluation for STEM providers seminars o Solar News Items of Interest - http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20100615.txt o SDO/AIA test data now available o Living Reviews in Solar Physics: "The Sun's Supergranulation" o SDO AIA data available via the VSO o TRACE mission ending o Meetings, Conferences and Workshops o Third Announcement: Fifth Solar Image Processing Workshop o THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE: From Exoplanets to Hypernovae o Solar News Items of Interest - http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20 100615.txt o SHINE Workshop 2010 o Planning a New Flare/CME/SEP Mission o 10th RHESSI Workshop: Important Deadlines o Local Helioseismology Workshop, August 2-6, 2010, Stanford o Employment Opportunities o Solar News Items of Interest - http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20100615.txt o Fellowships for PhD Students in Solar System Physics o JOB OPPORTUNITY: Electronics Engineer Position at University of Kiel, Germany o JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-doctoral Position at University of Kiel, Germany 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 : Editors Important information regarding July and August Newsletters The next newsletter will be published on Wednesday 14th July, one day earlier than usual. To include items in this newsletter please submit them by 10am on Wednesday 14th July. There will be no newsletter on the 1st August and the next one will be sent out on the 15th August. Duncan ******************************************* From: Lucie Green New EIS science nugget announcement UCL-MSSL is pleased to announce a new Hinode EIS science nugget which discusses the response of the corona to the emergence of "serpentine" magnetic field. http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/eisnuggets.jsp Next month's nugget is entitled "Preparing EIS data using neural networks?" by Suguru Kamio. EIS nuggets are published on the 1st of every month and we welcome contributions from the community. Please contact Lucie Green if you are interested. ************************************ From: andrzej.fludra@stfc.ac.uk Congratulations to Richard Harrison on his promotion to Individual Merit-1, the highest award that can be achieved in STFC for science leadership and research. Thanks, Andrzej ************************************* From: Hugh Hudson - hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Albedo_and_the_modification_of_RHESSI_resul ts Compton backscattering of X-rays from the solar photosphere has observable and interesting consequences ************************************* From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk Evaluation for STEM providers seminars [www.big.uk.com] Free seminars run by The Royal Academy of Engineering [www.raeng.org.uk] and the British Interactive Group for researchers who are involved in public engagement or outreach work and will help you understand and implement effective evaluation. The three seminars will be held in Newcastle (21st July), Bristol (2nd September) and Birmingham (6th September). Please follow the link for further information on attending. ********************************************************************* * * * Conferences, Workshops, Meetings * * * ********************************************************************* From: Jack Ireland - Jack.Ireland@nasa.gov http://www.sipwork.org/sipworkV/ Third Announcement: Fifth Solar Image Processing Workshop The Fifth Solar Image Processing Workshop to be held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 12-16 September, will discuss the application of modern computer vision methods to the challenges of understanding and predicting the behavior of our Sun. Registration and abstract submission are now open at http://www.sipwork.org/sipworkV/ Important dates: 15 July: Early registration (CHF 180) closes. 15 July: Deadline for student financial support 31 July: Deadline for Hotel Reservation -- no room availability guaranteed after this 15 August: Abstract submission closes. 12 September: Registration closes (CHF 200) closes. 12 September: Conference dinner registration closes (CHF 50). 12-16 September: Conference. The fifth Solar Image Processing Workshop will concentrate on the role played by solar image processing as we enter the petabyte era of solar physics. For example, the Solar Dynamics Observatory vastly increases the amount of data we have about our Sun, and solar image processing is taking a central role in reducing SDO and other data into useful information about the underlying physics. Many other facilities, such as the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), PROBA2, Picard and the H-alpha network each present varied and significant challenges in applying computer vision techniques to help understand the physics of the Sun. Confirmed invited speakers: - Piet Martens (Harvard-Smithsonian), on the SDO Science Center and the image processing techniques being used there, - Michaele Piana (University of Genoa), on inverse problems in relation to image processing, - Hassan Foroosh (U. Central Florida), on spatial/temporal tracking of features - Ian Jermyn (INRIA-Sophia), on image segmentation, - Mark Butala (UIUC), on three dimensional coronal structure reconstruction. In addition, Jean-Marc Odobez from the Idiap Research Institute located in the nearby town of Martigny will give an evening lecture on computer vision. The structure of the workshop is as follows. The morning is given over to plenary sessions, with breaks being poster sessions. Participants are expected to attend all talks and poster sessions. In the afternoons, the conference splits into splinter sessions, where the following subject areas are covered. We solicit contributions in these areas. Splinter session 1: Solar Eruptive Events This session examines solar eruptive events of all types such as flares and coronal mass ejections, including: * detectable precursors * automated tracking of events via image processing algorithms * physics of eruptive events * energy and mass storage in the corona * flow into the extended solar atmosphere * prediction of eruption Splinter session 2: Solar Disk Features This session deals with all types of features and events on the solar disk and how they may be tracked in time, space and wavelength. Topics of particular interest are: * prediction of the emergence of active regions * automated tracking of features in time, space and wavelength during their passage across the disc. * cataloging of features and the comparison of feature catalogs * detection of changes to solar features with time as precursors to shorter time-scale behavior such as flares and prominence eruptions. * physics of sunspots, coronal holes, filaments/prominences and other solar features Splinter session 3: Reconstruction of the 3-D solar atmosphere This session deals with the reconstruction of the true structure of the solar atmosphere from multiple viewpoints, wavelengths and times. Topics of particular interest are: * reconstruction of the three-dimensional dynamics of coronal mass ejections as a function of time * propagation of 3-dimensional structures in the extended solar atmosphere * three-dimensional structure of coronal magnetic fields * changes in three-dimensional structure in time as a precursor to subsequent events Splinter session 4: Differential emission measure, solar activity and irradiance reconstruction This session deals with the differential emission measure (DEM) of various solar features; how solar activity changes the DEM, and the reconstruction of the solar irradiance spectrum from the spatial features we see on the Sun. Topics of particular interest are: * DEM reconstruction methods * using DEM to recover the physics of solar features * connecting DEM to the observed spatial and temporal behavior of solar features * reconstruction of the irradiance spectrum. Limited funding is available for students who wish to attend the conference. Please contact the Chair of the Science Organizing Committee (Jack.Ireland@nasa.gov) before 15 July stating: * name * institution * proposed contribution (title + abstract + presentation type ? talk or poster) * A short paragraph on why you want to attend this meeting Students will be selected for funding on a first come, first served basis and on the suitability of their work with respect to the stated areas of interest of the workshop. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact the SOC and LOC chairs at the email addresses below. See you in Switzerland in September! LOC Chair: Andre Csillaghy, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (andre.csillaghy@fhnw.ch) SOC Chair: Jack Ireland, ADNET Systems Inc./NASA GSFC (Jack.Ireland@nasa.gov) ********************************************* From: Peter Gallagher - peter.gallagher@tcd.ie www.ria.ie THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE: From Exoplanets to Hypernovae Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland 23-24 September 2010 www.ria.ie A joint specialist two day discussion meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland. PRINCIPAL TOPICS o High-power transients, including gamma-ray bursts, hypernovae, TeV transients. o Solar transients and the Sun-Earth connection. o Stellar transients, including X-ray and radio transients, and other irregular stellar activity. o Planetary system transients, including exoplanet and solar-system phenomena. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Gibor Basri (University of California, Berkeley) Andrew Collier-Cameron (St Andrews University) Joanna Haigh (Imperial College London) Gregg Hallinan (University of California, Berkeley) Louise Harra (MSSL, University College London) Stephen Smartt (Queens University Belfast) Danny Steeghs (University of Warwick) Darach Watson (University of Copenhagen) PUBLIC LECTURE "The Sun-Climate Connection" Professor Mike Lockwood (University of Southampton/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Thursday, September 23 at 7pm Emmet Theatre, Trinity College Dublin CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS There will be programme space for a number of contributed papers, as well as posters. There will be a prize for the best poster presented by a postgraduate student. Proposed contributions (Title, Author, Institute, Abstract) should be submitted by email to tohypernovae@gmail.com by August 27 REGISTRATION www.ria.ie ORGANISING COMMITTEE Simon Jeffery (co-chair), Paul Callanan (co-chair), Peter Gallagher, Felix Aharonian, Andrew Shearer, Mike Redfern, Gilly Clarke, Don Pollacco, Graham Harper, Neil Trappe, Ray Bates. -- 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