--------------------------------------------------------------- M I S T E L E C T R O N I C N E W S L E T T E R No. 7 15 September 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The main purpose of this Newsletter is to remind you about three MIST meetings which will be happening in London between now and Christmas. There are specialised RAS/G-MIST Discussion meetings in October and December, and the regular Autumn MIST meeting in November. I realise that having the meetings close together in successive months may cause difficulties for some, but nevertheless I hope you will be able to attend. AUTUMN MIST 2003 This year's autumn MIST meeting in London will be on Friday 28th November at the Geological Society Lecture Room, Burlington House, Piccadilly, beginning at 10.30 am (coffee will be available in the Geological Society library from 10.00 am). A sandwich lunch (for a small charge) and afternoon tea will also be provided. Contributions are invited on all MIST topics. The abstract deadline is 10th November, and the programme will be published shortly after that date. For the first time there is a webform for submitting your abstract, which may be found at: www.mist.ac.uk/mistas03.html Please let me know if you have any difficulty with using this. The lecture room must be vacated by 5.30 pm, but proceedings usually continue informally over a pint at the "Walkers of St James" pub in Duke Street (across Piccadilly from Burlington House). Many thanks to the Royal Astronomical Society for supporting our meetings. RAS/G-MIST Discussion meeting; 10th October 2003 This meeting will be on the subject of: "Identifying the open-closed field line boundary in magnetospheric and ionospheric data sets" and is being organised by Gareth Chisham and Gary Abel of BAS and Steve Milan of Leicester. It will be held in the Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, beginning at 10.30am. There are a number of invited speakers including two from overseas. The deadline for submission of contributed abstracts has now passed, and the programme for the meeting will be published soon. More details may be found at: www.antarctica.ac.uk/Meetings/2003/OCB/index.html At the RAS Ordinary meeting which follows the Discussion meeting at 4pm in the Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, one of the leaders of our field Professor Yohsuke Kamide (Director of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Japan) will be presented with the Gold Medal of the RAS and will give a talk on "Specifications of Space Weather". RAS Ordinary meetings are open to all with free admission. See also the item below on the RAS awards. RAS/G-MIST Discussion meeting; 12th December 2003 This meeting on "Twenty-two Years of EISCAT" is in memory of the late Phil Williams; it is being organised by Alan Aylward of UCL and Eleri Pryce of Aberystwyth. It will be held in the Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, beginning at 10.30am. More details will be available nearer the time. Registration fees at RAS Discussion Group meetings. From now on there will be modest Registration fees for non RAS members attending RAS Discussion Group meetings (£10; £5 for students). This makes joining the RAS even better value. More details may be found on the RAS website www.ras.org.uk/html There will be no fees for the Autumn MIST meeting, which at least for the present remains free to all. SPRING MISTs Since the last Newsletter, the 2003 spring MIST meeting ("Soarly MIST") has been held at Leicester. Many thanks to Mark Lester and his colleagues for organising this very successful meeting, and to Neil Arnold for writing the meeting report which appeared in the June 2003 issue of "Astronomy & Geophysics" (and is also available on the MIST website). If you don't receive this journal (free to members of the Royal Astronomical Society) every two months, you should consider joining the Society which is the independent learned society representing MIST science, and is the professional body for MIST scientists. There are reduced fees for students, new members, young members, and retired members. Details on the RAS website www.ras.org.uk/ Alternate spring MIST meetings are held jointly with the UK Solar Physics Community, and the 2004 MIST/UKSP 'Auld Reekie' meeting will be held in Edinburgh, 30 March - 2 April 2004. The meeting will be hosted at the University of Edinburgh by the British Geological Survey; local organiser Alan Thomson (awpt@bgs.ac.uk). The local organiser for the Solar side will be Lyndsay Fletcher (lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk) of the University of Glasgow. More details will be published in due course on the website: www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/mist/ LONDON MIST 2004 This will be on Friday 26 November 2004 at Burlington House. More details nearer the time. RAS Awards. Each year the Royal Astronomical Society makes a number of awards (including the prestigious Gold Medal) to scientists in the fields of Astronomy and Geophysics (which in this context includes MIST). This year there are new awards: The Fowler awards which are aimed at scientists in the earlier part of their careers (~10 years from starting a PhD), and the RAS Award for Service to Astronomy and Geophysics. Nominations close on 31 October, so if you wish to nominate anyone, please look at the details given on the RAS website. MIST Website and Mailing List The MIST website continues to be at www.mist.ac.uk/ It contains information about future meetings, reports of past ones, links to research groups, the MIST email directory, and other relevant information. There are currently 260 on the MIST mailing list. Posting guidelines, plus instructions on how to subscribe to the list, may be found at www.mist.ac.uk/misteml.html I will look forward to seeing you at one of more of the forthcoming meetings. Best wishes, Andy Smith, MIST Coordinator -- Dr A.J. Smith, British Antarctic Survey, Phone: +44-1223-221544 Madingley Road, Fax: +44-1223-221226 Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. Email: A.J.Smith@bas.ac.uk MIST Home page: http://www.mist.ac.uk/