UK Solar Physics Newsletter Lyndsay Fletcher & Duncan Mackay, Editors September 15th 2009 o News, Views and Gossip o Congratulations to David Jess on been awarded the Keith Runcorn RAS Prize for 2009. o Congratulations to Lucie Green from MSSL on been awarded the 2009 Royal Society Kohn Award. o New contact details - Dr David Tsiklauri. o UK FP7 Space Information Day and Networking Event with the European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA). o RHESSI Science Nugget o AAS/SPD SolarNews Items- http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090915.txt o Nominations for Harvey Prize o Nominations for Hale Prize o New textbook on solar physics o Meetings, Conferences and Workshops o Call for abstracts for Autumn MIST 2009 o AAS/SPD SolarNews Items- http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090915.txt o The 12th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium of SCOSTEP o IAGA Symposium No 2, entitled "Solar Wind-Space Environment Interaction" at Cairo University (Egypt), December 4-8, 2009 o Employment Opportunities o AAS/SPD SolarNews Items- http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090915.txt o Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics at West Virginia 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) ********************************************************************* * * * News, Views and Gossip * * * ********************************************************************* From: Mihalis Mathioudakis David Jess has been awarded the Keith Runcorn RAS Prize for 2009 for the best doctoral thesis in Exploration Geophysics; Physics of the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere or Magnetosphere; Planetary Physics; Solar Physics or Solid-Earth Geophysics. ********************************** From: The Editors Congratulations to Lucie Green from MSSL, who has been awarded the 2009 Royal Society Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science. She is receiving the award for her leadership in building up a first-class programme of engagement, communication and outreach projects at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) at UCL over ten years. More information can be found here http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=8736 Well done Lucie! ********************************** From: David Tsiklauri My new contact details are: Dr David Tsiklauri Senior Lecturer in Astronomy Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS Tel.: 020 7882 5452 Fax: 020 8981 9587 Email: D.Tsiklauri@qmul.ac.uk ********************************** From: Lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk UK FP7 Space Information Day and Networking Event with the European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) Friday 18 September On Friday 18 September the British National Space Centre (BNSC) is holding a UK FP7 Space Information Day on the 2010 work programme for the Space theme at the 1 Victoria Street Conference Centre. The aim of the event is to build on the information day we held in July by providing further detail regarding the work programme directly from the European Commission, and to offer the opportunity to network with other potential framework programme participants via break out sessions. If you would like to register for the day please contact Gill Richards, the UK National Space Contact (email: space@fp7uk.co.uk) expressing your attendance, giving details of any dietary requirements and answering the three questions above. Please could you RSVP as soon as possible as this will help us to prepare fully for the event. ************************************ From: lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk RHESSI Science Nugget This is to announce a new RHESSI science nugget, "Confined Flares versus Eruptive Flares" by Jie Zhang Eruptions tend not to happen for events that occur deep within an active region http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets We publish these at roughly two-week intervals. Steven Christe Hugh Hudson schriste@ssl.berkeley.edu ********************************************************************* * * * Conferences, Workshops, Meetings * * * ********************************************************************* From: Colin Forsyth Dear colleagues, Abstract submission is now open for the Autumn MIST Meeting 2009, to be held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly on Friday the 27th November 2009. We invite members of the community to submit abstracts for the "Ionospheric Science: present and future" and "MIST Science" sessions. The meeting will begin at 10 am with talks from 10:30 am. The morning session will begin with an invited talk, followed by contributed talks lasting 20 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions. Following on from last year, a poster session will take place in the afternoon. Please indicate if you wish to submit an abstract to this session. Please send abstracts, in the following format, to cfo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk before FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER: TITLE: AUTHORS: PRESENTING AUTHOR (IF NOT LEAD AUTHOR): LEVEL (e.g. PhD, PDRA, Research Fellow...): ABSTRACT: POSTER: YES/NO We look forward to receiving your titles and abstracts. Best regards, MIST Council Mike Hapgood [M.A.Hapgood@rl.ac.uk] Colin Forsyth [cfo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk] Andrew Kavanagh [a.j.kavanagh@lancaster.ac.uk] Betty Lanchester [bsl@phys.soton.ac.uk] Gabby Provan [gp3@ion.le.ac.uk] ********************Autumn MIST Meeting 2009************************ Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly 27th November 2009 SESSIONS: Ionospheric Science: Present and Future Convenor: MIST Committee The ionosphere is the interface between the neutral atmosphere and the surrounding plasma environment. It is key to providing global communications, connections with orbiting spacecraft and is strongly affected by space weather. Through observations with ground-based instrumentation and spacecraft, we have probed both the ionosphere at Earth and other planets and moons in the solar system. For many years the UK has been at the forefront of ionospheric research. In this session we review present work in ionospheric science and consider new ways the UK can continue to study the ionosphere in the future through projects such as EISCAT 3D, SWARM and LOFAR. We invite submissions from all areas of ionospheric research (ground-based, space-based, M-I coupling, planetary ionospheres) to be presented during the morning session of the Autumn MIST meeting. MIST Science Convenor: Chris Owen The UK MIST community continues to investigate a wide range of physical processes within our solar system using combinations of ground or space based instrumentation and modelling. We invite contributions on any area of MIST science to be presented during the afternoon session of the Autumn MIST meeting. -- Dr Duncan H Mackay Mathematical Institute, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland. 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