[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXV, Issue 15

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXV, Issue 15
Mar.02,2018

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: Solar Wind 15 - Second Announcement - Abstract Deadline: March 31, 2018

2. MEETING: 5th Cluster-THEMIS Workshop, Chania, Crete (Greece), 24-28 September 2018

3. Monday Science Telecon

4. Boulder Space Weather Summer School 2018 - Application Deadline Extended

5. Special Issue of JGR

6. JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Experimental Space Plasma Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

7. JOB OPENING: Assistant Research Scientist and Postdoc Openings

8. JOB OPENING: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Space Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g


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MEETING: Solar Wind 15 - Second Announcement - Abstract Deadline: March 31, 2018

From: Giovanni Lapenta (giovanni.lapenta at kuleuven.be) and Ian Richardson

The 15th edition of the International Solar Wind Conference (Solar Wind 15) is gearing up to welcome solar wind experts from June 18 till 22, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.
The three-annual Solar Wind Conference covers all aspects of solar wind physics, with presentations that examine the current research and outline the future directions in all the relevant fields. It is organized by the KU Leuven in collaboration with the Royal Observatory of Belgium. We are proud to introduce the following speakers.
 
Plenary Speaker
Thomas Zurbuchen (Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters)
 
Keynote Speakers
Joseph Lemaire (UC Louvain, Belgium)
William Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)
Marco Velli (University of California, USA)
Bob Wimmer (Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
 
Invited speakers
Natalia Borodkova (Space Research Centre, Russia)
Christina Cohen (Space Radiation Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA)
Steven Cranmer (University of Colorado, USA)
Andrzej Czechowski (Space Research Centre, Poland)
Pascal Demoulin (Paris Observatory, France)
Cooper Downs (Predictive Science Incorporated, USA)
Andy Driesman (John Hopkins University, USA)
Ian Hutchinson (MIT, USA)
Justin Kasper (University of Michigan, USA)
Olga Katushkina (Space Research Institute, Russia)
David McComas (Princeton University, USA)
Jack Scudder (University of Iowa, USA)
Durgesh Tripathi (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India)
Lucile Turc (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Francesco Valentini (Universita della Calabria, Italy)
 
We would also like to remind you to submit your abstract for the Fifteenth International Solar Wind Conference, via our online submission tool: https://kuleuvencongres.be/solarwind15/articles/abstract-submission

Please keep in mind that the abstract submission deadline is March 31, 2018!

An overview of the topics that will be covered during the conference can be found below:
 
· Origin and acceleration of the solar wind close to the sun
· Solar wind evolution during its propagation in the heliosphere
· Connection of CMEs and ICMEs
· Suprathermal and energetic particles in the solar wind
· Solar wind interaction with solar system objects and dust
· Interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium
· Current and future solar and heliospheric missions
 
Please note that all authors should register for the conference as well, and that submitting an abstract does not automatically means that you are registered for the conference. Registration can be done here: https://www.kuleuven.be/register/solar-wind-15/step1

The Solar Wind 15 Conference will take place at the Hotel Métropole, the renowned venue of the famous 1911 Solvay Conference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference#/media/File:1911_Solvay_conference.jpg), which kicked off modern physics. The hotel is located in the heart of Brussels, within walking distance of cultural and recreational activities. If you would like to book your room at the Métropole hotel, please fill out the booking form in attachment of this e-mail and send it to resa at metropolehotel.be

On behalf of all the organizing team of Solar Wind 15, we are looking forward to welcoming you in Brussels in June 2018 for a successful scientific meeting! Keep an eye on our website for further updates, a preliminary program will follow soon: https://kuleuvencongres.be/solarwind15/articles

The organizing committee
Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven
Stefaan Poedts, KU Leuven
Andrei Zhukov, Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)
Luciano Rodriguez, Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)
Viviane Pierrard, UCLouvain and Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB-BIRA)
David Berghmans, Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)


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MEETING: 5th Cluster-THEMIS Workshop, Chania, Crete (Greece), 24-28 September 2018

From: C. Philippe Escoubet (philippe.escoubet at esa.int)

5th Cluster-THEMIS workshop
First announcement
Chania, Crete (Greece) on 24-28 September 2018

This workshop follows a tradition of Cluster and THEMIS workshops based on highly successful previous meetings in New Hampshire in 2008, Corfu, Greece in 2010, Boulder, USA in 2012 and Palm Spring, USA in 2016. Science from other space missions are most welcome (MMS, Van Allen Probe, Arase and Geotail) as well as theory and simulations and ground-based observatories.

The following sessions will be organised:

1. Large Scale Dynamics within the magnetosphere (Storms, substorms, etc)
2. Solar wind and coupling to the magnetosphere (shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers) 
3. Small-Scale processes in space plasma (auroral acceleration, reconnection, etc)
4. Wave-particle interaction and particle acceleration (inner magnetosphere, etc)
5. Turbulence and plasma heating (solar wind, magnetosheath, foreshock, plasma sheet)

The workshop will take place in Chania (Crete, Greece): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chania
The conference web site will be published in the next announcement.

Science organising committee:

O. Alexandrova (Meudon Observatory, France)
M. Andre (IRF, Sweden) 
V. Angelopoulos (UCLA, USA)
I. Dandouras (IRAP, France)
C. P. Escoubet (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)  
A. Fazakerley (MSSL, UK) 
S. Haaland (Bergen U., Norway)
J. Halekas (IOWA, USA)
H. Hietala (UCLA, USA)
H. Laakso (ESA/ESAC, Spain) 
W. Li (BU, USA)
I. Mann (Alberta, Canada) 
A. Masson (ESA/ESAC, Spain)
Y. Miyoshi (ISAS, Japan)
Y. Narita (IWF, Austria)
T. Nishimura (BU, USA)
K. Nykyri (Embry-Riddle, USA)
T. Phan (UCB, USA)
J. Raeder (UNH, USA)
A. Runov (UCLA, USA)
D. Sibeck (GSFC, USA)


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Monday Science Telecon

From: David Sibeck (david.g.sibeck at nasa.gov)

At 12:00 noon EST on Monday (March 5), we plan to hold the next in our ongoing series of science telecons. The speaker this Monday will be Bea Gallardo-Lacourt from University of Calgary. The topic will be "An analysis of optical structures: From the Polar Cap boundary to the Subauroral region".

The telecom will be broadcast live via webex. If you would like to join, please
go to http://uclaigpp.webex.com/, search for the ‘Dayside Science' meeting, enter your name and contact information, and then the meeting password, which is Substorm1!

To hear the audio, do not dial the number that pops up on the webex website. Instead, please dial the following toll free (in the United States) number:
1-844-467-6272
with passcode 901533

Please remember to mute your telephone if you are not speaking.

Looking forward to speaking with you.


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Boulder Space Weather Summer School 2018 - Application Deadline Extended

From: Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu)

Application Deadline Extended to March 11th 2018

We are pleased to announce the 2018 Boulder Space Weather Summer School (formerly the CISM Space Weather Summer School), which will be held July 9-20 at NCAR in Boulder, CO (funding pending). The SWSS is a comprehensive two-week introduction to the science of space weather: what it is, what it does, and what can be done about it.

The SWSS curriculum stands out for its distinctive integration of the fundamental science of the Sun-Earth system with the socioeconomic impacts of space weather, with a particular emphasis on modeling and forecasting. The School is targeted at first or second year graduate students who are considering space weather or space physics as a research field as well as active practitioners from government and industry (for example, space weather forecasters). Admission is also open to advanced undergraduate students. The proven pedagogical approach combines morning lectures from distinguished experts with interactive afternoon learning modules that give students hands-on experience analyzing and interpreting data from state-of-the-art missions and models. The interactive activities culminate in a capstone project where students synthesize and apply the concepts and skills they have learned to forecast a space weather event, from its origins on the Sun to its impact on the Earth.

Students will be exposed to the world-class solar and space physics community in Boulder. Local SWSS partners include NCAR's High Altitude Observatory, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, the National Solar Observatory, and the University of Colorado's Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center. Lecturers come from these and other leading research and educational institutions across the US. Note that the occurrence of the 2018 School is contingent on receiving funding from NSF, which is still pending.
For further information and instructions on how to apply see:
http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/SWSS
Or contact Mark Miesch (miesch at ucar.edu) or Nicholas Gross (gross at bu.edu).


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Special Issue of JGR

From: Joe Borovsky (jborovsky at spacescience.org)

Special Issue of Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

“The Earth’s Magnetosphere: New Tools, New Thinking, New Results”

Generation after generation, advancements are made in our understanding of the operation of the Earth’s magnetosphere-ionosphere system in response to the temporally changing solar wind. This special issue will highlight reports of new tools, new thinking, and new results and will encourage discussions of future needs and future directions for magnetospheric research. New tools include new in situ and ground-based data sets, revitalizations of older data sets, new computer-simulation capabilities, advances in plasma physics, the use of machine learning, and new applications of mathematical analysis. New thinking is the result of a new generation of researchers and our ever-increasing understanding of the magnetosphere, helped by the growth of systems science and driven by new goals for magnetospheric research and new plans for future missions. This special issue will be timely with the maturing of the research efforts from the Van Allen Probes and the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, with the newly increasing interest in systems science and machine learning, and with a new heliophysics decadal survey on the horizon.

Submissions accepted: March 1 - July 1, 2018

Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute
Mick Denton, Space Science Institute
Pablo Moya, Universidad de Chile
Marina Stepanova, Universidad de Santiago
Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Universidad de Chile


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JOB OPENING: Faculty Position in Experimental Space Plasma Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

From: Göran Marklund (goranmar at kth.se)

The subject aims at clarifying the fundamental physical processes underlying the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheres of Earth and other planets. The research is mainly carried out by analysis, interpretation, and modelling of data obtained from sounding rockets, satellites and interplanetary spacecraft with fully or partly self-made instruments.

The successful candidate is expected to carry out the following duties:

- As leader of Space and Plasma Physics, be responsible for the research and the third cycle education, with particular focus on the experimental magnetospheric physics.
- To carry out own research through scientific analysis, interpretation and modelling of data from multipoint space measurements (from MMS and Cluster), and to attract, submit funding applications for, and supervise PhD students and Postdocs.
- To work for KTH to assume an important role in proposing, designing, and developing future national and international space missions.
- To teach at first, second and third cycle education levels in Space Plasma Physics.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. KTH is Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. The research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as in architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy.

Space and Plasma Physics at The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has about 20 employees, mostly researchers and engineers. Their work is of the highest international quality and is conducted in a creative and open work environment. The staff has an international background and the working languages are Swedish and English. The main area of expertise is electric field measurements in space. The space activities include participation with instruments in international and national projects and are conducted in collaboration with outstanding partners world-wide.

Please visit the full announcement at https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:179515/ . The closing date for applications is 15 May 2018.


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JOB OPENING: Assistant Research Scientist and Postdoc Openings

From: Christine Stevens (christine-stevens at uiowa.edu)

The University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy is seeking a physicist with experience in space plasmas to conduct research on the Martian ionosphere and its interaction with the solar wind using the MARSIS ionospheric radar on the Mars Express spacecraft.  The primary emphasis of this research is to carry out collaborative investigations with the MAVEN spacecraft which is also conducting ionospheric and solar wind interaction studies in orbit around Mars.To apply: go to Jobs at uiowa.edu and refer to requisition number 72360. To apply for the postdoc position please refer to requisition number 2927.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are strongly committed to diversity; the strategic plans of the University and College reflect this commitment. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.


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JOB OPENING: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Space Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

From: Tomas Karlsson (tomas.karlsson at ee.kth.se)

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to analyze electric field data from the LAP instrument on the Rosetta mission, and a PhD student to investigate fast flows in Earth's magnetosphere and magnetosheath using MMS multipoint data. 

More details and application instructions are available here: 

PhD position: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:193005/where:4/

Postdoc position: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:194089/where:4/

Please contact Tomas Karlsson (tomas.karlsson at ee.kth.se) with any questions about the positions.


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