News 2024
09-13.12.2024 Lauren McClure, Suzana Silva and Viktor Fedun participated at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 meeting in Washington, D.C.
SH21G-2916, Lauren McClure et al., "Solar Vortex Networks and their Ensemble Contribution to the Plasma Dynamics" (poster);
SH43E-08, Suzana Silva et al., "A New Approach to Predicting Active Region Emergence on the Photosphere" (oral);
SH21G-2903, Samuel Skirvin at al., "Poynting Flux Associated with MHD Modes in Rotating Flux Tubes" (poster, presented by Viktor).
Suzana Silva, Samuel Skirvin and Viktor Fedun organised SH21G "Plasma Dynamics of the Lower Solar Atmosphere" session.
29.11.2024 The first PDG journal club of the academic year is coming up on 3rd Dec: 16:30-17:00. The speaker will be Matthew Lennard, "Correlation Tracking: A how to and how not to guide"
08.11.2024 The new paper is published in the framework of the UK-Ukraine collaboration (The Royal Society International Exchanges, PI I. Ballai and L. Kozak). Kozak, L., Ballai, I., Fedun, V., Kronberg, E. A., Bloecker, A., Petrenko, B. Changes in turbulent processes caused by atmospheric gravity waves from troposphere, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 265, 106364, 2024
02.11.2024 The short info about the outcome of Solar MHD 2024 is published in the SCOSTEP newsletter,
01.10.2024 Congratulations to Foad Hanassi-Savari on his first day as PDG PhD student!
26.09.2024 Congratulations to Suzana for being nominated an outstanding Postdoc as part of Postdoc Appreciation Week. "Suzana deserves the biggest accolade in the universe for all her support to our PhD students. Her clear views and practical solutions helped the progress of many students in our group."
20.09.2024 Congratulations to Sam on his paper, which was accepted for publication in ApJ! Well done! Skirvin, S., Fedun, V., Goossens, M., Silva, S.S.A., Verth, G., Poynting flux of MHD modes in magnetic solar vortex tubes, 2024.
10-11.09.2024 Our friend Dr Sergiy Shelyag (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia) stopped by PDG for a short research visit.
09-13.09.2024 Dr Istvan Ballai (President ESPD, main conference organiser) is participating in the 17th European Solar Physics Meeting, Turin, Italy. Dr Istvan Ballai presented the ESPD Zdenek Švestka Senior prize to Prof Sami Solanki (Max Planck Institute, Germany).
09.09.2024 Congratulations to Luiz and PDG members on their paper, which was accepted for publication in ApJ! Well done! Schiavo, L. A. C. A., Gordovskyy, M., Browning, P., Silva, S. S. A., Verth, G., Ballai, I., Shelyag, S., Ruzheinikov, S., McLaughlin, J., Fedun, V., Modeling the effects of a lightbridge on properties of MHD waves in solar pore, ApJ, 2024 (Accepted).
06.09.2024 Congratulations to Suzana on her paper, which was accepted for publication in ApJ! Well done! Silva, S. S. A., Verth, G., Ballai, I., Rempel, E., Shelyag, S., Schiavo, L. A. C. A., Gomes. T. F. P., Fedun, V., Solar Vortex Tubes III: Vorticity and Energy Transport, 2024.
02-05.09.2024 PDG is one of the main organisers of Solar MHD 2024, IAC, Tenerife, Spain.
19.08-06.09.2024 Prof Chia-Hsien Lin (Department of Space Science and Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan) is visiting us in the framework of our collaborative grant IEC\R3\233017 - International Exchanges 2023 Cost Share (NSTC).
15.08.2024 Congratulations to Istvan on his paper published in Universe. Ballai, I., Asiri, F., Fedun, V., Verth, G., Forgacs-Dajka, E., Albidah, B. A., Slow Body MHD Waves in Inhomogeneous Photospheric Waveguides, Universe, 10(8), 334, 2024.
12-17.08.2024 Perseids over Sheffield.
23.07.2024 Berretti, M., Stangalini, M., Verth, G., Jafarzadeh, S., Jess, D., Berrilli, F., Grant, S. D. T., Duckenfield, T. and Fedun, V., Unexpected frequency of horizontal oscillations of magnetic structures in the solar photosphere, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, 687, L21, 2024.
15-19.07.2024 PDG attending NAM 2024 at Hull.
17.07.2024 Samuel (the star striker!), Max and Matt have got a football trophy at NAM 2024!
12.07.2024 Congratulations to our PhD student Max McMurdo on his successful viva! Well done!
31.06-04.07.2024 Dr Alina Donea from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia ) is visiting PDG.
23-28.06.2024 Viktor Fedun participates in AOGS conference, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea. Session Chair, ST17 Observing and Simulating Plasma Dynamics in the Solar Atmosphere and presenting:
ST17-A010, Adel Sulaiman H. Alanezy, Istvan Ballai, Gary Verth, Viktor Fedun, Kartika Sangal, Abhishek Srivastava "Phase Mixed Alfven Waves in Partially Ionised Solar Plasmas".
ST12-A022, Max McMurdo, Istvan Ballai, Gary Verth, Viktor Fedun, "Waves and Oscillations in Faint Coronal Hole Loops".
14.06.2024 Congratulations to Suzana and Sam on the acceptance of their session proposal in the framework of AGU annual meeting taking place from 9 - 13 December 2024 in Washington, D.C., USA! SH026 - "Plasma dynamics of the lower solar atmosphere".
13.06.2024 Congratulations to Suzana and Viktor on the acceptance of their ISSI proposal! No 24-607 "Opening new avenues in identifying coherent structures and transport barriers in the magnetised solar plasma".
13.06.2024 Well done to SunbYte! Our paper "SunbYte: A framework for low-cost robotic solar telescopes on high altitude balloons" has been accepted by Experimental Astronomy" is published in Experimental Astronomy. 57, 27, 2024, HTML
31.05.2023 Congratulations to our PhD student Fisal Asiri on his successful viva!
23-31.05.2024 Viktor Fedun and Suzana Silva visited colleagues at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in the framework of The Royal Society International Exchanges programme, project "Solar vortex tubes and their role in driving atmospheric dynamics".
13-17.05.2024 Viktor Fedun participated in ISSI meeting organised by the US colleagues Ben Tremblay and Masha Kazachenko "Tracking Plasma Flows in the Sun’s Photosphere and Chromosphere: A Review & Community Guide"
11.05.2024 Matthew Lennard took this beautiful image of the Aurora!
01.05.2024 Our session "Modern methods for the analysis of dynamical plasma processes in the solar atmosphere" has been accepted for NAM 2024 jointly with St-Andrews proposed session "Numerical approaches for understanding the Sun’s energetic atmosphere".
01.05.2024 Plasma Dynamics Group photo 2024
30.04.2024 Matthew Lennard participated in 2024 Space Weather Workshop, April 15-19, 2024 in Boulder, CO, USA and presented his work on "Understanding Plasma Flows in Solar Active Regions: a neural network based method for the recovery and analysis of coherent plasma structures in magnetically dominated environments". He also hiked to 2 km elevation in the Colorado Mountains! Well done Matt!
29.04.2024 Our paper is accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics: Jafarzadeh, S., Schiavo, L.A.C., Fedun, V., Solanki, S.K., Stangalini, M., Calchetti, D., Verth, G., Jess, D.B., Grant, S.D.T., Ballai, I., Gafeira, R., Keys, P.H., Fleck, B., Morton, R.J., Browning, P.K., Silva, S.A., Appourchaux, T., Gandorfer, A., Gizon, L., Hirzberger, J., Kahil, F., Orozco Suarez, D., Schou, J., Strecker, H., del Toro Iniesta, J.C., Valori, G., Volkmer, R., Woch, J., Sausage, kink, and fluting MHD wave modes identified in solar magnetic pores by Solar Orbiter/PHI, arxiv
22.04.2024 Dr Samuel Skirvin joined PDG again, but now as a Research Associate. Welcome back and well done, Sam!
22.04.2024 Congratulations to Max McMurdo with his acceptance aa a PostDoc at KU Leuven. Well done Max! He will work with Tom Van Doorsselaere on SOUL project.
10.04.2024 Viktor Fedun and Gary Verth participated in XIV COLAGE 2024 conference, 08-12.2024, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and observed the total solar eclipse in the conference framework. Viktor Fedun delivered an invited talk "Vortices and their contribution to the energy transport in the solar atmosphere", authors: Viktor Fedun Suzana Silva, Gary Verth, Istvan Ballai and Erico Rempel.
10.04.2024 Viktor Fedun and Gary Verth participated in XIV COLAGE 2024 conference, 08-12.2024, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and observed the total solar eclipse in the conference framework. Viktor Fedun delivered an invited talk "Vortices and their contribution to the energy transport in the solar atmosphere", authors: Viktor Fedun Suzana Silva, Gary Verth, Istvan Ballai and Erico Rempel.
26.03.2024 Viktor Fedun and Gary Verth are visiting INPE - National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, 23.03-04.03.2024
24.03.2024 Today's Sun.
21.03.2024 Matthew Lennard presented an excellent talk “Throwing Computers at the Sun: Understanding Space Weather Using Data” at the Tapton Science Seminars. This was a fabulous opportunity to share and educate students, in years 12 and 13, on the Sun and it’s influence on space weather, and what research we do in Sheffield in the way of understanding complex solar events. It was great to see local students turning up and asking enthusiastic questions about the subject.
19.03.2024 Dr Samuel Skirvin (RA at KU Leuven, Belgium and our former PhD student) was accepted at Research Associate at ACSE department (PDG). Well done Sam!
18.03.2024 Dr Istvan Ballai visited our collaborator Dr Lena Khomenko (IAC, Spain) in the framework of the International Exchanges Royal Society grant (UK-Spain), 18-22.03.2024.
16.03.2024 Today's Sun.
14.03.2024 Our research visitor Mr Ioannis Dakanalis (final year PhD student), National Observatory of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, presented a seminar on Swirling motions in the lower solar atmosphere: detection, statistics and profile analysis from multi-wavelength observations.
12-21.03.2024 Dr Kostas Tziotziou (Director Scientist, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens) and PhD student Mr Ioannis Dakanalis are visiting PGD in the framework of RS IE "Solar vortex tubes and their role in driving atmospheric dynamics".
05.03.2024 Congratulations Fisal (PDG PhD student) with his first research paper in the field of Solar Physics, Asiri, F., Ballai, I., Fedun, V., Verth, G., Ruzheinikov, S., Albidah, A. B., "Slow body magnetohydrodynamic waves in solar photospheric flux tubes with density inhomogeneity", MNRAS, 529, 748–760, 2024, pdf | HTML
29.02.2024 Congratulations Matthew Lennard on his successful application to support his participation in 2024 Space Weather Workshop, April 15-19, 2024 in Boulder, CO, USA. Matt will present his work on "Understanding Plasma Flows in Solar Active Regions: a neural network based method for the recovery and analysis of coherent plasma structures in magnetically dominated environments".
21.02.2024 Today's Moon
10.01.2024 Congratulations to Dr Malcoln Druett (KU Leven) on his Lecturer position at ACSE (PDG). Well done Malcolm.
22.01.2024 Dr Victor Uche J. Nwankwo, Space, Anchor University, Nigeria, presented a seminar on VLF studies in Atmospheric Physics & Radio Wave Lab
01.01.2024 PDG Phd student Max McMurdo published a new UKSP nugget : 132. Phase mixing of propagating Alfvén waves in a single-fluid partially ionized solar plasma.
30.01.2024 Matthew Lennard presented research topics from the Plasma Dynamics Group at the Sheffield SoMaS away day.
08-12.01.2024 Suzana Silva, Gary Verth and Viktor Fedun participated in WaLSA meeting, Oslo, Norway.
