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SHIELD Voyager StoryCorps: 50 Years with Voyager - The Ultimate Voyage!

Friday, May 16, 2pm ET

Join Bill Kurth, one of the original team for the Plasma Wave Instrument on Voyager, and Allison Jaynes, a Co-I on the Voyager as they discuss their experience with the data from this instrument throughout the lifetime of this remarkable mission.

Allison Jaynes is a Wendell F. Miller Associate Professor at the University of Iowa and her research is focused on space weather, planetary magnetospheres, aurora and wave-particle interactions throughout the heliosphere. She joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2017 after receiving a PhD from the University of New Hampshire and working as a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been a Co-Investigator on the Van Allen Probes NASA satellite mission. She is currently a Team Member on NASA’s MMS mission and a Co-I on the Voyager mission working with the Plasma Wave Instrument. Prof. Jaynes is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane medal from AGU and the Katherine E. Weimer award from APS-DPP. Recently, she has been analyzing Voyager observations of interstellar dust collected over the last 45 years.

Bill Kurth has been a member of the Radio and Plasma Wave Group at University of Iowa since 1971 studying radio and plasma waves inplanetary magnetospheres, the solar wind, and the interstellar medium. He has been involved in the Voyager mission since he was a graduate student and is the Principal Investigator for the Voyager Plasma Wave Science investigation and the Lead Co-Investigator for Juno Waves investigation.

SHINE Workshop (June 23-27, 2025, Charleston, SC)

Registration: February 1, 2025 – April 30, 2025
Late Registration: May 1, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Final Registration Deadline (Hard cutoff, No onsite registration): May 31, 2025
Attendance Cap: Attendance will be capped at 350 participants. Registration will close when the cap is met.
Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2025 (Participants can continue to edit their abstracts until the meeting day)

Relevant session:

#4: Pickup ions, electrons, and energetic neutral atoms in the heliosphere and local interstellar medium:

1. What are the time-dependent properties of the (multi-component) PUI and electron velocity distribution functions and their impact on the global heliosphere?

2. What are the physical processes affecting ENA observations of the globally-distributed and ribbon fluxes, and how can theoretical and numerical ENA models be improved to better fit observational data?

3. How to reconstruct the heliospheric magnetic field at NH and PUI properties at Voyagers?

https://helioshine.org/

ASTRONUM-2025, 17th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows

Center for Space Science and Aeronomic Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/Inria/UPS/UVSQ), Saclay, France are organizing ASTRONUM-2025 – the 17th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in Madison, WI, USA, on July 14 – 18, 2025.

The conference will bring together leading experts in applied mathematics, space physics, astrophysics, and geophysics to discuss the application of novel numerical algorithms, parallelization strategies, and machine learning techniques to computationally challenging problems. The conference will be structured around invited talks and a limited number of contributed talks, with the attempt to have no parallel sessions.

Registration and information: https://space-science.uah.edu/astronum2025/index.html

E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to nikolai.pogorelov@uah.edu, boldyrev@wisc.edu, and edouard.audit@cea.fr.

Solar Wind-Interstellar Medium (SWIM) Workshop

August 11-15, Stoweflake Resort, Stowe, Vermont, USA

Early Registration Deadline: May 16, 2025

The 1st Annual Solar Wind–Interstellar Medium (SWIM) Workshop is an open forum focused on all aspects of outer-heliospheric science—from the origins of the solar wind to the properties of the interstellar medium. In recent years, significant efforts have been devoted to understanding the physics of both the inner and outer heliosphere. There is now a considerable breadth of available in-situ and remote observations—from Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, Voyagers 1 and 2, New Horizons, Cassini, IBEX, and soon IMAP—alongside major advances in numerical and analytical modeling. These efforts have not only deepened our understanding of the data but have also raised new and important questions. This community-wide workshop will explore all facets of the heliosphere and the very local interstellar medium (VLISM), including in-situ and remote observations, data analysis, theoretical studies, and modeling. Topics include plasma physics, magnetic fields, energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), solar energetic particles (SEPs), pickup ions (PUIs), dust, ultraviolet (UV) emissions, and cosmic rays in the heliosphere and beyond.

For registration and information, visit: www.swimworkshop.org

For e-mail inquiries, please contact Merav Opher (mopher@bu.edu), John Richardson (jdr@space.mit.edu), or Marc Kornbleuth (kmarc@bu.edu).

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