Of possible interest to recent and soon-to-be PhD recipients. Canadian nationals are eligible to apply by virtue of Canada's staus as a Cooperating State. The deadline for applications is 1 October 2015.

The ESA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme is aimed at providing young scientists, holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means to perform research in space science. The programme is open to suitably qualified applicants who have completed their PhD (or equivalent) or will have completed it by the start of the fellowship. Preference will be given to applications submitted by candidates within five years of receiving their PhD.

More click http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/science-faculty/rf/all-in-one-page

We need that all the people interested in attending the workshop will let us know ASAP in order to arrange hotel discounts and local workshop facilities - please note the slight change in dates of the workshop to allow for easier travel on to the ISEST-2015 Workshop the following week.

Please can fill you complete the pre-registration form on the web pages before 31 July 2015 if you are intending on taking part in the workshop.

Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop, Morelia, Mexico, 20-24 October 2015.

The workshops website is for pre-registration: http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/ We also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/remotesensingofinnerheliosphere

Thanks and best wishes,
Mario (On behalf of the SOC and the LOC).

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, Michoac?, Mexico, 20-24 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 pace-weather operations and forecasting.

It is anticipated that the Workshop will focus on topics such as (but not limited to) the following:

• Stream and co-rotating interaction regions (SIRs/CIRs).
• Numerical modelling of the inner heliosphere through comparison with remote-sensing observations.
• The solar wind in the initiation phase/acceleration phase and its modelling.
• Present and future observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS).
• A look at CME events where remote-sensing observations failed us, how and why this occurred, and how might we improve upon this in the future.
• The future of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere - from IPS opportunities (MEXART, STEL, ORT, LOFAR, SKA, etc...) to Heliospheric Imager (HI) opportunities.

Venue Unidad Michoac?, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoac?, Mexico.

Core Organisers
J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza (SCIESMEX, UNAM, Mexico), Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK) Bernard V. Jackson (UCSD, USA) David Webb (BC, USA)

Further information about registration, scientific program, financial support, etc., will be posted soon at the following site. http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015