Galina Motorina, a winner of the all-Russia competition, was awarded a scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation to pursue solar flare research in Glasgow. The awards are for PhD students who “achieved considerable success in fundamental or applied researches”.
Author Archives: Eduard Kontar
Ionospheric perturbations ‘decorated’ solar radio dynamic spectrum observed in December
Ionospheric perturbations strongly affect radio propagation, and can produce rather peculiar patterns in the dynamic spectra of solar radio emission (for details – see the paper Meyer-Vernet, N., Daigne, G., and Lecacheux, A., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1981). Such unusual patterns can be seen in Glasgow radio data as well – see images and the radio data from other radio observatories (CALLISTO status report/news letter #47):
Natasha Jeffrey awarded Thomson prize
Natasha Jeffrey was awarded Thomson prize in recognition of excellent work on her PhD studies.
Solar ALMA Workshop
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the largest astronomical project in existence.
The workshop (see details here….) aims to bring together the ALMA-minded solar community to discuss solar observational issues with ALMA, solar science and planned observations with ALMA, and the planning of solar ALMA observations.
Th workshop is hosted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Group, and will take place in School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.
First light observations by e-Callisto at Acre Rd Observatory
The first light dynamic spectra of solar radio burst detected by a newly installed CALLISTO receiver at Acre Rd Observatory
Workshop on High Energy Flare Physics, 25-26 June 2012
This workshop is a continuation of the Alliance workshops held under the Franco-British partnership research programme in 2009-2011.
ALMA workshop, Glasgow, May 14, 2012
ALMA/CASA workshop with solar emphasis will be held at Glasgow University on Monday, May 14. The agenda and timetable can be found at the UK ALMA homepage http://www.alma.ac.uk/events/glasgow-workshop (courtesy of George Bendo). Organiser and further info email Eduard Kontar.
Astronomy Summer Research Projects
Astronomy and Astrophysics Group offers a number of undergraduate Summer Vacation Research Projects in the field of Astronomy. Second, third, and forth year students are invited to contact the potential supervisor and discuss the project.
More details can be found here.
PhD Studentships from SUPA – deadline extended to February 10, 2012
The deadline for applications for PhD prize scholarships sponsored by SUPA has been extended to Friday 10th February and for references to Monday 20th February. As a part of Scotish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, University of Glasgow, encourages applications for SUPA prize scholarships.
Please see details application details: http://apply.supa.ac.uk/
The SUPA Prize Studentships are prestigious and competitive awards intended to attract outstanding physics students from around the world, irrespective of nationality, to study for a PhD in Scotland.
Spatially resolved hard X-ray polarization in solar flares
Solar flare X-ray polarization may provide us with a method of determining photon anisotropy – an essential tool for constraining models of electron transport and acceleration.
Spatially resolved polarization across the extent of a single X-ray source has been simulated. A RHESSI nugget (Nugget 165) outlining the main ideas of the paper can be found here.