[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXXI, Issue 36

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SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 36
Jun.16,2024

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: The 10th MMS Community Workshop at UCLA, September 17-19, 2024

2. MEETING: Apply to Attend the 5th Eddy Symposium in India!

3. SESSION: GEM 2024 Reconnection Sessions

4. SESSION: ESWW Open Parallel Session OPS-1, November 4-8, 2024, Portugal

5. SESSION: ESWW Session "Inner Magnetospheric Dynamics and Coupling Processes" — Final Announcement

6. Cold Plasma Seminar Series

7. Survey on Python Tools in Heliophysics

8. JOB OPENING: Department Chair of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

9. JOB OPENING: Two Positions in Solar and Space Physics at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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


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MEETING: The 10th MMS Community Workshop at UCLA, September 17-19, 2024

From: Hanying Wei (hwei at igpp.ucla.edu)

The MMS project teams welcome the community to join the 10th MMS community Workshop hosted at University of California, Los Angeles, from September 17th to 19th: https://www.space.ucla.edu/mms2024.
 
This workshop is open to the general science community with research interests in magnetic reconnections in theory, space or laboratory plasma environment, shock physics, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability/waves in Earth magnetosphere, FTE and boundary layers, wave and turbulence, heliophysics and other studies using the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission data. 

Session topics: Please submit titles and optional abstracts when the submission is open (in about 1-2 weeks), and add a note if you prefer oral or poster presentations. We will generally have oral presentations, but poster presentations are a possible choice if preferred.

1. General reconnection: we can further break this big topic into multiple sessions, such as reconnection theories, electron only reconnection, heating and acceleration related to reconnection process, etc. 
2. Shock Physics
3. Waves and turbulences: including the first results of string-of-pearl campaign 
4. Kelvin Helmholtz instability and boundary layers
5. MMS as a part of heliophysics system observatory (HSO): research using MMS and other HSO missions
6. Others: including multiple topics of or beyond the above list

Please visit https://www.space.ucla.edu/mms2024 for more details about the workshop and email hwei at igpp.ucla.edu for related inquiries.

Looking forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!


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MEETING: Apply to Attend the 5th Eddy Symposium in India!

From: Dawn Mullally (mullally at ucar.edu)

The NASA 5th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium is presented in collaboration with NASA's Living With a Star Program, the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), and the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES).  This ongoing series of events bring together great minds across the interdisciplinary field of heliophysics. It continues the legacy of the frontier-thinking, cross-disciplinary gathering that the Eddy Symposia have come to define. Each symposium has a unique theme, and within part of its framework, scientific discussions, and creative-thinking sessions, three specialized themes are explored. 

This year’s theme: Star-Planet Interactions in the Solar System and Beyond. This year's theme will be examined through lenses utilized by three working groups established in previous Eddy Symposia: The Interconnection of Sun, Climate, and Society; Risk and Resiliency to Space Weather Disruption; and (Exo)Planetary Atmosphere: the Impact of Stars and Solar Physics on Habitability & Life .

The symposium will take place from Nov. 17 to Nov. 22, 2024 in Nainital, India. Apply now to attend and to be eligible for travel funds by June 28, 2024. The application and more information can be found here: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/nasa-5th-eddy-cross-disciplinary-symposium 


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SESSION: GEM 2024 Reconnection Sessions

From: Narges Ahmadi, Yi Qi (narges.ahmadi at lasp.colorado.edu)

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate in the magnetic reconnection sessions at the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) workshop that will be held from June 23rd to June 28th, 2024, in Fort Collins, CO, at the Hilton Fort Collins.

There will be two reconnection sessions at 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM and 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM MT on Monday (6/24/2024). The broad goals of the focus group are to understand (1) The role of turbulence in magnetic reconnection, (2) how reconnection behaves when expanded beyond 2-D laminar models, (3) where the energy dissipation in reconnection occurs, and (4) how local physics of magnetic reconnection depends on and determine the global plasma and magnetic field configurations.

We invite everyone who is interested to join us. We expect each presentation to be less than 10 minutes long, with 3-5 minutes for questions and discussion. The last 30 minutes of the second session will be an open discussion focusing on the future of the reconnection focus group. This is the last year of the current reconnection focus group, and we would like to gather suggestions and recommendations that we can include in the application for future reconnection focus group.

If you are interested in giving a talk at our session, please send the title to Yi Qi (yi.qi at lasp.colorado.edu) and Narges Ahmadi (Narges.Ahmadi at lasp.colorado.edu) by June 19th.

We are also delighted to announce exciting collaborations with two other focus groups: Kinetic Plasma Processes in the Magnetotail during Substorm Dynamics (KiTS) and Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes (CPMP). The CPMP-RX joint session will be at 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM on Tuesday (6/25/2024). The KiTS-RX joint session will be at 10:30-12:00 AM on Wednesday (6/26/2024). For more details regarding the joint sessions, please contact the following representatives: Yi Qi (yi.qi at lasp.colorado.edu) – RX; Derr, Jason R Dr (jason.derr at westpoint.edu) – KiTS; Harry Arnold (harryarnold at gmail.com) – KiTS; Ryan Dewey (rmdewey at umich.edu) – CPMP.

Looking forward to seeing you at GEM!


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SESSION: ESWW Open Parallel Session OPS-1, November 4-8, 2024, Portugal

From: Audrey Schillings (audrey.schillings at umu.se)

Dear all, 
Are you planning to come to the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) in Coimbra this year and want to present your work but don't see a session where it fits? Then submit to the Open Parallel Session (OPS-1)! 

Description of the session: 
This session welcomes submissions on research topics related to Space Weather and Space Climate but not covered by other focused sessions. This includes but is not limited to, e.g., Space Climate, long-term solar variability, and solar-terrestrial effects.

The abstract submission deadline for oral contributions is 20th of June 2024.
ESWW 2024 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal from 4th to 8th of November 2024. More information on ESWW can be found here.

Looking forward to your contribution. 
On behalf of OPS-1 conveners. 


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SESSION: ESWW Session "Inner Magnetospheric Dynamics and Coupling Processes" — Final Announcement

From: Ravindra Desai, Sarah Glauert, Adnane Osmane, Alex Lozinski (ravindra.desai at warwick.ac.uk)

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite abstract submissions to ESWW 2024 session: Inner Magnetospheric Dynamics and Coupling Processes, to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 4–8 November, 2024.
Abstract Description: The inner magnetosphere is host to a range of dynamically varying plasma populations including cold plasmaspheric ions, the ring current and relativistic radiation belts. These populations are tightly coupled by a range of micro-scale wave-particle interactions, meso-scale and macro-scale dynamics, which lead to a complex interplay of acceleration, transport and loss. For example, chorus waves are generated by injected plasma sheet electrons and then accelerate 100s keV electrons to relativistic energies, forming the radiation belts, with this acceleration being most efficient in regions of low plasma density. In turn, precipitation of radiation belt particles into the atmosphere balances ionospheric outflows of cold plasma into the inner magnetosphere. Further research into these cross-scale couplings is essential to improve our understanding and ability to predict inner magnetospheric dynamics and the associated space weather impacts.

This session calls for observational, modeling and theoretical studies focusing on all topics related to inner magnetospheres, as well as review papers and mission concepts to help define the future direction of inner magnetospheric research within the space weather forecasting era. We invite observational contributions from current missions such as Arase, Themis, MMS and GPS, from ground-based facilities such as EISCAT, SuperDARN and VLF receivers, and from historical datasets such as from the Van Allen Probes, Cluster and earlier solar cycles. We invite numerical modeling contributions spanning Fokker Planck simulations, kinetic simulations of wave-particle interactions, and global modeling of the magnetosphere and its couplings to the ionosphere and solar wind, as well as novel machine learning approaches and solutions.

ESWW Abstract Deadline 20 June: https://esww2024.org/programme/parallel-sessions  


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Cold Plasma Seminar Series

From: Pedro Resendiz (resendiz at lanl.gov)

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for our Cold-Plasma Seminar series taking place in the Retro Room at the Research Library 1st Floor on June 19th, 2024 from 9:00AM-10:00AM (Los Alamos time). This seminar will be also held virtually. The Webex link will be made available prior the seminar on our website at:
https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/theoretical/applied-mathematics-plasma-physics/cold-plasma-seminars.php

You can also join the distribution mailing list by contacting Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov).

The speaker is Oleksiy Agapitov from Space Science Laboratory, UC Berkley.

Speaker: Oleksiy Agapitov, Space Science Laboratory UC Berkley.
Title: The effects of the cold plasma for wave-particle interactions in the outer radiation belt
Date: June 19th, 2024
Time: 11 AM - 12 PM Eastern Time, 3-4 PM Universal Time Coordinated, 5-6 PM Central European Time.
Recorded Seminar: Yes.

Thanks,
Pedro Resendiz
Los Alamos National Laboratory


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Survey on Python Tools in Heliophysics

From: Sandy Antunes (sandy.antunes at jhuapl.edu)

Hi there! 
We are an international working group (IHDEA, International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance) that is working to create sharable science platforms for the Heliophysics, Space Physics, and related communities. We are developing multiple Python-based software environments tailored to current research in our fields, so we are interested in which Python packages you currently use in your research. By developing these software environments based on community input, we intend to increase the reproducibility of your research for others, which research shows is expected to increase citations to your work and increase collaboration across our communities. 

Please open up your favorite software environment and answer the brief questions below. If you have more than one environment, please enter your answers for those environments on separate forms. We intend to give reports on our progress at the DASH workshop and at AGU. Thanks for your input!

https://forms.gle/MqJw4f6hQ6ix8e6e6  

IHDEA Science Platforms Coordination Working Group 
Co-chairs: Shawn Polson and Jan Reerink
https://forms.gle/MqJw4f6hQ6ix8e6e6  


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JOB OPENING: Department Chair of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

From: Ofer Cohen (Ofer_cohen at uml.edu)

Candidates from all field of space physics are encouraged to apply.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell invites applications for the position of Chair to lead an established and active Department of Physics and Applied Physics. We seek a visionary chair with a record of academic and research achievement to take the department to a new level, who will supervise and maintain departmental academic activities, while continuing their independent research program in a field that enhances and/or complements our current research strengths. The successful candidate will be a nationally prominent academic leader with an established record of excellence in research, education and mentorship that can promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, respect, and integrity.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a leading public research university in the greater Boston area and has a national reputation in science, engineering, and technology. The appointee will be offered a competitive start-up package, with access to high-end research equipment and facilities, and the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across disciplines in various science and engineering departments and research centers.

The position is open until filled, with a planned start date of September 1, 2025. 

For more information visit:
https://explorejobs.uml.edu/en-us/job/523612/professor-and-department-chair-of-physics-and-applied-physics


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JOB OPENING: Two Positions in Solar and Space Physics at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

From: Dana Hurley (dana.hurley at jhuapl.edu)

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has two positions available for experienced researchers in our Solar and Space Physics Group: a scientific manager and an scientific leader for missions/instruments. Our staff conduct original scientific research, provide scientific leadership of instruments that measure space physics phenomena, lead national heliophysics initiatives, bridge research to operations to research (R2O2R) for space weather and national security applications, and support the design, implementation, and operation of a variety of spaceflight missions including Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The team operates in close conjunction with the Atmospheres and Ionospheres Group, bringing together scientific expertise across all realms of space physics. We also take pride in our extensive involvement in instrument development and mission concept formulation. 

A) Scientific Manager. We seek a Scientific Manager in the position Group Supervisor (GS). The GS will be the leader of ~50 full- and part-time professional staff and postdoctoral researchers. Responsibilities include developing and supporting a team of high-performing staff members and future leaders, providing a vision and technical leadership for future directions, maintaining core capabilities through hiring and training of staff, and managing facilities and budgets that support the group’s work. https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/55179?lang=en-us

B) Space Physics Researcher. We seek an experienced researcher to lead efforts to develop new instrument and mission concepts to further the understanding of solar and space physics. This position will enable you to develop cutting edge concepts for instruments and space missions to provide new measurements of importance to heliophysics and space weather, to propose for internal and external funding to advance technology, and to conduct original research using data from spacecraft missions. https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/55257?lang=en-us

These positions are a fantastic opportunity to have an impact on the future of heliophysics at a key space science and mission implementation institution. Please contact Dana Hurley (dana.hurley at jhuapl.edu) for more information. The application deadline is 30 June 2024.


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