August 25, 2016: The 5th SOLARNET School started today at Queen's University Belfast.

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Published on Thursday, 25 August 2016 11:47

The 5th SOLARNET School "Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere" started today at Queen's University Belfast, UK. The school will run from Thursday the 25th of August to Tuesday the 30th inclusive.

There are 25 early career researchers from 10 different countries (UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Spain, USA, Algeria, Georgia) attending the School. All of them received partial funding by SOLARNET. Eleven attendees are women out of the 25.

The 5th SOLARNET school will provide students and early-career researchers with a solid foundation in a range of topics related to the theme of Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere. The primary topics covered in the Sschool therefore are:

1. MHD waves and instabilities throughout the atmosphere.
2. Observations and techniques.
3. MHD Simulations.
4. Helioseismology.

The School wiill be followed by the Workshop “Heating in the Solar Atmosphere” that will run from Wednesday the 31st of August until lunchtime on Friday the 2nd of September.

More details at 5th SOLARNET School.

August 19, 2016. IV SOLARNET Meeting "The physics of the Sun from the interior to the outer atmosphere" (Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain, 16-20 January 2017).

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Published on Friday, 19 August 2016 12:05

The IV SOLARNET Meeting "The physics of the Sun from the interior to the outer atmosphere" will take place in Arrecife (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain) from 16th to 20th of January 2017, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

The purpose of this conference is to provide a coherent picture of the Sun as a single physical system playing all the underlying physical processes measured and observed in the solar atmosphere to date. Graduate students and early-career postdocs are particularly invited to participate in the conference to present their research work and to meet and discuss with their more senior colleagues.

The scientific program will include the following topics:

1. Solar internal structure from helioseismology.
2. Solar cycle: convection, rotation, dynamo, and flux emergence.
3. Theoretical radiative transfer and spectropolarimetry.
4. Photospheric dynamics and magnetism.
5. Chromospheric dynamics and magnetism.
6. Corona and transition region: dynamics, magnetic fields and heating mechanisms.
7. Energetic events, flares and CMEs and space weather.
8. Upcoming telescopes and instruments.
9. Science with the future EST

The detailed scientific programm will be available after 16 October, 2016.

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Conference Website: http://www.iac.es/congreso/solarnet-4meeting/

July 8, 2016. Teide Observatory Open Doors Days 2016.

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Published on Friday, 08 July 2016 08:17

Open Doors Days at Teide Observatory (8^th and 9^th July)

Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide aka OT), is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide, Tenerife, operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Anybody who wants to get to know this observatory can go in a group to visit the telescopes, make their own observations and learn basic astronomical concepts.

From 10.00 to 15.00, guided visits to the telescopes will be arranged, and workshops and direct observations will be carried out with the aim of explaining what an astronomical observatory does, how telescopes work and why astronomy is so relevant for humankind. The visitors will be able to enter the IAC-80 telescope and the Carlos Sanchez Telescope (TCS), also the Solar Laboratory, the Optical Ground Statoin (OGS) and the Solar Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT).

More detail at OT Open Doors Days 2016