We announce the "Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop" to be hosted by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and held in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 19-23 October 2015. The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including white-light, EUV, and radio observation, together with modellers in order to tackle key outstanding science and space-weather operational issues, establish closer working relations, and devise the best ways to move the field forward as a whole. In addition, the science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-weather forecasting. The workshop aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and sub-communities and to officially launch the IPS Common Data Format v1.0 (IPSCDFv1.0) now in use. It also aims to allow investigations into ways in which we model the inner heliosphere looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the available modelling, updates on present and future remote-sensing capabilities, and investigating further the ways in which these data sets all complement each other and are necessary to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical processes that occur within the inner heliosphere. These are critical processes that are key to both Heliophysics science as well as to space-weather operations and forecasting.

IPELS2015 will take place in the Atholl Palace hotel in Pitlochry, Scotland, UK.

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to foster intellectual interaction and scientific collaboration between the ionospheric, magnetospheric, solar, heliophysics, and astrophysics communities and the laboratory experimental, theoretical and computational communities to address the fundamental plasma processes governing these extraordinarily complex and dynamic environments. Dedicated laboratory studies (1) probe and elucidate fundamental plasma physical processes, (2) provide benchmarks for validating theory and modeling, and (3) produce spectroscopic measurements, all in support of interpreting rocket, satellite and telescope data. Contributions to facilitate this interaction in terms of diagnostic-techniques needs and emerging instrumentation development as well as theory, modeling and simulations are also welcome.

The format is daily oral sessions (review, invited topical, and contributed focus talks) and one poster session. The 2015 IPELS workshop will address the following topics that are investigated in laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas:

• Particle Acceleration and Heating
• MHD & Self-Organization
• Magnetic Reconnection and explosive phenomena
• Magnetic dynamo and angular momentum transport
• Shocks, Jets, Structures, & Flow
• Wave & Turbulence, Wave-particle interaction
• Planetary and Astrophysical Dusty Plasma
• High Energy Density Physics