[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 13

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 13
Feb.18,2024

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING 11th Coronal Loops Workshop - Second Announcement

2. MEETING: Heliophysics in Europe and 1st European Heliophysics Community Meeting -- Save the Date

3. SHIELD Team Meeting Open Session: IMAP Observations and Model Predictions

4. PhD in Space Plasma at LPC2E, Orléans, France: Analysing Solar Type III Radio Bursts with Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

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


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MEETING 11th Coronal Loops Workshop - Second Announcement

From: Craig Johnston (craig.d.johnston at nasa.gov)

The 11th Coronal Loops Workshop will be held from 25-28 June 2024 in the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). The Coronal Loops Workshops are a series of highly focused biennial meetings, organized since 2002. They deal with the observation and modeling of magnetically confined solar plasma.

In addition to discussions of recent progress in community driven topics that will be based on the abstracts submitted, this meeting will include sessions on three specific themes: coronal cooling, reconciling 1D vs 3D models, and high resolution observations.

The confirmed invited speakers are: Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), Petra Kohutova (Rosseland Center for Solar Physics), Paolo Pagano (Università di Palermo), Elena Petrova (KU Leuven), Jeffrey Reep (University of Hawaii), and Seray Sahin (University of Northumbria).

The abstract submission (for talks and posters) and pre-registration will open on the 1st of March. We encourage graduate students and early-career postdocs to participate and present their research work. While abstracts are not required for participation, preference will be given to those who submit abstracts, in order to limit the number of participants to 75.

The registration fee (350 EUR, TBC) includes the workshop, a welcome reception, coffee breaks, lunches from Tuesday to Thursday, and the conference dinner on Thursday.

We are pleased to announce that a National Science Foundation (NSF) Conference Proposal was funded to support the travel costs of students and early career post-docs from different institutions across the US. Those with financial need and from under-represented groups in solar physics will be prioritized. Additional information on these NSF travel grants together with the eligibility criteria and requirements for applicants can be found on the workshop website.

The LOC aims to offer a limited number of registration fee waivers, with preference for early career researchers.

To apply for support or request further information, please send your request in an e-mail to the contact address below, with Subject including “[Fee waiver request]” or "[NSF support]", before 15 April 2024.

Important dates

 1 March 2024: pre-registration and abstract submission open
15 April 2024: abstract submission closes
 1 May   2024: notification of acceptance of contributions and support
 1 June  2024: deadline for payment of the registration fee

Contact address: clw11 at iac.es
Workshop website: https://meetings.iac.es/clw11/

Iñigo Arregui
On behalf of the SOC and LOC


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MEETING: Heliophysics in Europe and 1st European Heliophysics Community Meeting -- Save the Date

From: Matt Taylor (matthew.taylor at esa.int)

Save the date notice for ‘Heliophysics in Europe and 1st European Heliophysics Community meeting – 18-22 November 2024, ESTEC, Netherlands

Save the date! 

Heliophysics is the science of understanding the Sun and its interaction with the Earth and the solar system. Here, we define Heliophysics to encompass space plasma physics throughout the solar system, from Sun to the solar wind, planets and small bodies. Heliophysics has a large and active international community, with significant expertise and heritage in the European Space Agency and Europe. 

Following on from the 2023 Heliophysics in Europe meeting, and the resulting recommendations from that meeting, the ESA Heliophysics Working Group will host another ‘Heliophysics in Europe” including the 1st European Heliophysics Community meeting, both online and in person.

The meeting will look to build on the momentum from the first meeting, aiming at better connection of all parts of the Heliophysics community to itself and to all relevant parts of ESA and vice-versa.

The in-person component of the meeting will be held at ESA’s ESTEC location.

If you are interested in being part of the organization of the meeting, please contact Matt Taylor at Matthew.Taylor at esa.int

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esa-heliophysics/heliophysics-in-europe-2024


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SHIELD Team Meeting Open Session: IMAP Observations and Model Predictions

From: Nick Gross (gross at bu.edu)

SHIELD Team Meeting Open Session: 
IMAP Observations and Model Predictions
Feb. 29th, 3:30pm to 5:30pm ET 

Please join the SHIELD Team for this Open Webinar during the SHIELD Team meeting.

The upcoming NASA IMAP mission (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/) is a follow-up to the successful IBEX mission that observed energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) coming from the outer heliosphere and beyond. Speakers in this session will describe expected observations as well as model predictions for these observations.  Additionally, current disagreements between the models and observations will be highlighted. Significant time will be available for discussion.  

Speakers Include
Eric Zirnstein (Princeton): IMAP observations and models 
André Galli (Uni. of Bern): ENA energy gap at low energies
Matina Gkioulidou (JHU/APL): ENA energy gap at high energies
Marc Kornbleuth (BU): SHIELD ENA Model Predictions

Register Here: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rpH9bOhBRpyMjUTHK7Ygvw


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PhD in Space Plasma at LPC2E, Orléans, France: Analysing Solar Type III Radio Bursts with Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

From: Matthieu Kretzschmar (matthieu.kretzschmar at cnrs-orleans.fr)

The Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace (LPC2E) is hiring a PhD student to work in collaboration with the LESIA laboratory from Paris Observatory on the analysis of solar radio bursts observed by the Solar Orbiter (ESA) and Parker Solar Probe (NASA) space missions. 

Solar type III radio burst are the signature of complex and energetic phenomena: sporadically, the Sun produces beams of energetic electrons that interact with the much slower ambient plasma of the solar wind. This interaction results in the production of Langmuir waves that will eventually produce radio emission at the local plasma frequency, or twice its value (harmonic emission). As the electron beam propagates, it interacts with less dense plasma and consequently the frequency of the emitted radio waves decreases with time, which allows to track the propagation of the energetic electrons. Eventually, the electron beam reaches the spacecrafts where its consequences can be observed locally. 

The processes involved in the production of type III radio burst are complex and still poorly explained, despite being a very active field of research. The PhD project aims at putting strong observational constraints on the generation mechanisms of type III radio burst. The main parameters to be studied and that are measured by the two space missions are the properties of the electron beams, the level of the density fluctuations, the power and polarization of the Langmuir or z-mode wave, and the properties of the radio emission.

The hired student will benefit from the strong involvement of the LPC2E and LESIA teams in the two space missions and their relevant instrumentations.  

Good skills in plasma physics and data analysis are required for the position.

For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Matthieu Kretzschmar (matthieu.kretzschmar at cnrs-orleans.fr) and Dr. Milan Maksimovic (milan.maksimovic at obspm.fr)

Applications should be submitted online as soon as possible and no later than 14 March 2024 on the CNES PhD program website: 

https://recrutement.cnes.fr/en/annonce/2701659-24-283-type-iii-radio-bursts-analysis-with-solar-orbiter-and-parker-solar-probe-45100-orleans


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