Dear Colleagues,

 

The Coronal Loops Workshop series, inaugurated in Paris (2002) with the most recent Workshop in Palermo (2017), has been tremendously successful in bringing together researchers from all over the world to discuss current problems related to the physics of closed magnetic structures in the solar corona, and to present their progress toward solving them. The Workshops have also provided an excellent venue for young researchers to participate in discussions and to showcase their work.

 

The Steering Committee for the Coronal Loops Workshops is responsible for soliciting and selecting Workshop proposals, and assisting / advising each Scientific Organizing Committee in choosing a topical, over-arching theme and setting an agenda and goals for their Workshop.

 

The current members of the Steering Committee are: Steve Bradshaw [Chair]; Philippa Browning; Ineke De Moortel; Giulio Del Zanna; Viggo Hansteen; Susanna Parenti; Paola Testa; Ignacio Ugarte-Urra; Nicholeen Viall.

 

Three members of the Steering Committee (Susanna Parenti, Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, and Nicholeen Viall) have reached the end of their 6 year terms. Since they were elected in 2012 they have been involved in the organization of 3 Loops Workshops (Loops VI – VIII, not forgetting that Inaki also Chaired Loops V) and the Loops community owes them a great deal of thanks and appreciation for their tremendously hard work on our behalf.

 

It is now time to elect 3 new members of the Steering Committee. We are soliciting nominations and self-nominations, the latter are particularly encouraged, to help ensure a diverse pool of candidates to represent the interests of our community, for scientists who are active in the broad field of the physics of closed magnetic structures in the solar corona, to serve on the Coronal Loops Workshops Steering Committee for a 6 year term.

 

Please submit your nominations and self-nominations to Steve Bradshaw (Steering Committee Chair: stephen.bradshaw@rice.edu) no later than Monday April 30th. The current members of the Steering Committee will vote per the Bylaws and the newly-elected members will be duly contacted and announced directly thereafter.

 

With best wishes,

 

Steve Bradshaw

(on behalf of the Coronal Loops Workshops Steering Committee)

 

 

Dr. Stephen J. Bradshaw

(Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy)

 

Department of Physics and Astronomy (MS 108)

Rice University,

6100 Main Street,

Houston,

TX 77005,

USA.

 

Tel: +1 713 348 4045

Email: stephen.bradshaw@rice.edu

Web: solar.rice.edu