Events and News

UK MIST/UKSP   Edinburgh, 2004-03-29 14:00:00 - 2004-04-01 17:30:00

The 2004 out-of-town spring MIST meeting will be held at the University of Edinburgh jointly with the UK Solar Physics meeting ("Auld Reekie" MIST/UKSP).

EGU General Assembly 2004   Nice, France, 2004-04-25 00:00:00 - 2004-04-30 00:00:00

Brings together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth and Planetary Sciences: geology, geomorphology, geochemistry, geophysics, geobiology and hazards research alike.

IAGA/ICMA Workshop   Bath University, 2004-07-12 00:00:00 - 2004-07-15 00:00:00

Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere/Ionosphere System

RAL EISCAT Training Course   Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2004-05-17 12:00:00 - 2004-05-21 12:00:00

The course is designed for any post-graduate students/post-docs who will be using EISCAT in their research, or indeed, anyone else who wants to brush up a bit of their knowledge. The course covers: basic principles of incoherent scatter radars, data analysis and visualisation, operation of the EISCAT system, and interpreting EISCAT data (NEW).

AGU/CGU Spring Meeting   Montreal, Canada, 2004-05-17 00:00:00 - 2004-05-21 00:00:00

The 2004 Joint Assembly, a partnership between CGU, AGU, SEG and EEGS, is being held in Montreal, Canada. The Program Committee is developing a Union-wide science program in the traditional AGU form and spirit. In addition, sessions related to the uses or applications of the geophysical sciences will be provided. Check this site regularly for updates on the science program and other meeting related activities.

35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly   Paris, France, 2004-07-18 00:00:00 - 2004-07-25 00:00:00

The annual conference of the Committee on Space Research.

AGU Fall Meeting   San Francisco, 2004-12-13 00:00:00 - 2004-12-17 00:00:00

 

Chicago 2004: A Workshop to Foster Broader Participation in NASA Space Science Missions and Research Programs   Chicago, USA, 2004-06-28 00:00:00 - 2004-06-29 00:00:00

This workshop will try to promote a better understanding of how the NASA space science program is organized, planned, and conducted; how missions and research programs are conceived; how mission and research teams are formed; and how successful proposals are constructed. A diverse community of investigators, minority scientists and educators in relevant disciplines, scientists and educators at minority institutions, and all current and prospective investigators are urged to attend.

7th International Conference on Substorms   Levi, Finland, 2004-03-21 00:00:00 - 2004-03-27 00:00:00

The conference will be focused on a wide variety of substorm topics. Ground and space-based observations of the substorm phenomenon, especially new observations on CLUSTER, IMAGE, TIMED, together with theory and simulation are key topics for presentation and discussion. The conference themes include isolated substorms, storm-substorm coupling, and substorm-like processes in planetary magnetospheres.

Huntsville 2004 Workshop: Challenges to Modeling the Sun-Earth System   Huntsville, Alabama, USA, 2004-10-18 00:00:00 - 2004-10-20 00:00:00

This workshop will provide a forum for identifying and exploring promising new directions and approaches for characterizing and understanding the Sun-Earth system. Particular emphasis will be placed on modeling the coupling aspects of phenomena across boundaries, between regions, and on data analysis that guides and constrains model results. Topics include corotating interaction regions, coronal mass ejections, energetic particles, system preconditioning, extreme events and super storms, and end-to-end modeling efforts.

Ionospheric Effects Symposium   Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 2005-05-10 00:00:00 - 2005-05-12 00:00:00

This symposium will include such topics as space weather effects on telecommunication systems; relevant solar phenomena including solar wind, IMF and CMEs; ionospheric models and forecasting; ionospheric mapping methods; transionospheric effects including scintillation; effects on aviation systems such as WAAS, HF and longwave system effects; GPS systems and TEC measurements, and diagnostic measurement systems.

RAL EISCAT Training Course

Every year the UK EISCAT Support group runs a training course for PhD students and experienced scientists who wish to learn about the EISCAT system or brush up their existing skills. We are currently taking enrollments for this year.

RAL EISCAT Training Course - Schedule

The schedule for the EISCAT traning course at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, commencing 17th May, is now available.

PPARC Introductory STP Summer School   Kelvin Conference Centre, University, 2004-08-29 00:00:00 - 2004-09-03 00:00:00

This 5-day school is intended as an an introduction to the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics. It will cover basic plasma theory, and solar, space-weather, magnetospheric and ionospheric observations and phenomenology. It is aimed at PhD students beginning their studies this year, and researchers seeking an entry-level course to the field from a physics background. It assumes no prior knowledge of solar physics or STP.

First European Space Weather Week   ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), 2004-11-29 09:00:00 - 2004-12-03 12:00:00

The meeting will review the science and applications of space weather with a strong focus on transitioning science to applications and involving European agencies. The meeting will also explore community development, emerging markets and education, aiming towards a sustainable space weather activity in Europe. (Co-operative meeting between ESA, COST 724, COST 271 and E-STAR (ESF))

The Magnetospheric Cusps Revealed: Results from the CLUSTER mission   Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London, 2004-10-08 10:30:00 - 2004-10-08 15:30:00

The Royal Astronomical Society will host a one-day discussion meeting on the scientific achievements of Cluster in the cusp. The topics covered will include the cusp structure and boundaries at all altitudes, the role played by the solar wind in determining these, as well as small- scale plasma processes in the cusp. The meeting will comprise a number of longer (25 - 30 minute) invited talks, as well as shorter (15 minute) contributed talks.

PPARC Advanced Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) Course   St. Martin's College, Ambleside, Lake District, 2004-09-06 00:00:00 - 2004-09-11 00:00:00

The course is designed to provide PhD students and post-doctoral researchers with more detailed material than the fundamental material offered by the annual Introductory Course. Current topics of high research interest and areas of controversy are covered by this course. The proposed course outline will broadly follow the pattern set by previous MIT Advanced Courses, although the details of the material presented will, of course, differ due to the changing areas of research interest in the last few years.

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly   Austria Centre Vienna (ACV), Vienna, Austria, 2005-04-25 00:00:00 - 2005-04-29 00:00:00

Brings together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth and Planetary Sciences: geology, geomorphology, geochemistry, geophysics, geobiology and hazards research alike.

AGU Fall Meeting 2005   San Francisco, 2005-12-05 00:00:00 - 2005-12-09 00:00:00

The 2005 AGU Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 11,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting   Beijing, 2006-07-24 00:00:00 - 2006-07-28 00:00:00

The Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM) provides an opportunity for AGU members, and members of the sponsoring societies in the Western Pacific region, to attend a meeting that serves the needs of geophysicists interested in studies in the western Pacific region. However, papers on all related aspects of geophysical sciences are encouraged. This is the first WPGM to be held in Beijing. Don't miss this opportunity to participate!

European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2006   Vienna, 2006-04-02 00:00:00 - 2006-04-07 00:00:00

The EGU General Assembly 2006 will bring together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU invites all geoscientists to participate in the assembly, submit contributions to the topical sessions and share their research with colleagues and friends. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcome you in Vienna!

The 12th EISCAT International Workshop   Kiruna, Sweden, 2005-08-29 00:00:00 - 2005-09-02 00:00:00

 

Incoherent Scatter Summer School   Kiruna, Sweden, 2005-08-15 00:00:00 - 2005-08-26 00:00:00

 

COSPAR 2006   Beijing, 2006-07-16 00:00:00 - 2006-07-23 00:00:00

The 36th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly

Autumn MIST 2005   London, 2005-11-25 10:30:00 - 2005-11-25 17:00:00

 

Spring MIST 2005   Aberystwyth, 2006-04-10 00:00:00 - 2006-04-13 00:00:00

 

PPARC Summer School 2005   Warwick, 2005-09-04 00:00:00 - 2005-09-09 00:00:00

The course will provide an introduction to the field of solar-terrestrial physics to new PPARC postgraduate students (and others) starting work in the fields of solar physics, the solar corona and solar wind, magnetospheric physics and the physics of the upper atmosphere of the Earth. The programme will give students an overview of the coupled Sun-Earth system. The course (Monday-Friday) provides a general review of energy flow through the Sun-Earth system, starting in the interior of the Sun and ending in the Earth's atmosphere.

PPARC advanced summer school in MIT Physics   Aberystwyth, 2005-09-12 00:00:00 - 2005-09-16 00:00:00

The PPARC Advanced Summer Schools are designed to provide PhD students and post-doctoral researchers with more detailed material than the fundamental material offered by the annual Introductory Course. Current topics of high research interest and areas of controversy are covered by this course. The summer school is aimed at postgraduate students in the second year of their Ph.D., but is open to all workers in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) field, whether PPARC-funded or not. The Solar and Terrestrial Physics Group at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, will host the next Advanced MIT Course in Aberystwyth from Monday 12 September to Saturday 16 September, 2005.

URSI 2005   New Delhi, 2005-10-23 00:00:00 - 2005-10-29 00:00:00

General Assemblies of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) are held at intervals of three years. The main objective of an Assembly is to review current trends in research, present new results, and make plans for future research work, especially where it seems desirable to arrange for cooperation on an informational scale.

Connecting the Sun to the Earth   , 2005-10-14 00:00:00 - 2005-10-14 00:00:00

It is well known that the Sun has a significant impact on the near-Space environment of the Earth. However, direct causal links between events on the Sun and those observed at 1 AU are not well understood. So, for example, accurate prediction of space weather effects is still a distant goal. However, the ESA Solar Orbiter mission, which is approved with an expected launch in 2013, will allow us to address this problem through a payload providing both remote sensing observations of the Sun and in situ observations of the solar wind at distances as close as ~0.2 AU. The success of this mission will depend on the co-ordination of the two related sets of expertise, namely those of the solar physics and space plasma physics communities. It is therefore timely to hold a RAS discussion meeting, which we hope will promote the links between the two communities and provide some groundwork for the critical bridge between remote sensing and in situ measurements.

International Heliophysical Year Meeting   London, 2005-11-01 10:30:00 - 2005-11-01 15:00:00

In fifteen months time it will be 2007 - the International Heliophysical Year. 2007 is the fiftieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, which had a huge impact on the practice and profile of solar-terrestrial and space physics. It is hoped that IHY will be similarly significant, in concert with the other international years which coincide in 2007 - International Polar Year (IPY), electronic Geophysical Year (eGY), and the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE). Plans and preparations for IHY are developing quickly and the UK has been playing an important part in this process. A meeting will be held on Tuesday November 1st at Burlington House in London.

The 3rd IAGA/ICMA Workshop on "Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System"   Varna, Bulgaria, 2006-09-18 00:00:00 - 2006-09-22 00:00:00

The 3rd IAGA/ICMA Workshop on “Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System” will be held in the five-star “Grand Hotel Varna” located in the famous Bulgarian seaside resort “St Konstantin and Elena” near the beautiful city of Varna, Bulgaria, during September 18 – 22, 2006. This symposium will focus primarily on those forcing mechanisms that originate in the lower atmosphere and on their transmission into the atmosphere-ionosphere system above. It aims to stimulate the integration of observations and models to provide physical explanations for, and new insights into, the range of phenomena that result from coupling and feedbacks in the atmosphere-ionosphere system. The main objective of this workshop is to provide the next opportunity for the international research community to review the progress made so far and suggest some future directions in the investigation of all significant couplings (dynamic and electrodynamic, radiative, transport and chemistry of atmospheric constituents), trigger mechanisms and feedback processes.

New Linux Cluster

A new linux based cluster being deployed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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EISCAT Training Course 2006   Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2006-05-15 00:00:00 - 2006-05-19 00:00:00

The EISCAT Training Course at RAL is designed for any post-graduate students/post-docs who will be using EISCAT in their research, or indeed, anyone else who wants to brush up on their knowledge. For UK EISCAT users, we can cover the cost of travel and bed & breakfast accommodation at Cosenor's House, Abingdon.

Timetable for EISCAT Training Course 2006

The timetable for the EISCAT Training Course (to be held at RAL for one week from Monday 15 May) is now available.

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RAS Meeting - Hinode/Stereo   Burlington House, London, 2007-10-09 10:30:00 - 2007-10-09 15:30:00

A year of Observations with Hinode and STEREO: Solar Magnetic Energy and Its Influence on the Near-Earth Environment