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May 2023:  IAU Ph.D Prizes:

We are happy to congratulate the young members of our community who have been awarded the following prize and honorable mentions:

1) PhD Prize Winner:

Dr. Yajie Chen
Thesis title: “Forward Modeling of Solar Coronal Magnetic Field and Plasma Diagnostics"


2) PhD Prize Honorable Mentions:

Dr. Prabir Kumar Mitra
Thesis title: “Investigations of Initiation and Evolution of Transient Phenomena in Solar Atmosphere”
 
Dr. Yuto Bekki
Thesis title: “Theory of solar oscillations in the inertial frequency range"
 
The full announcement of prize winners may be found at: 2022 IAU PhD Prize Winners Announced | IAU.

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May 2022:  IAU PhD Prizes:

We are happy to congratulate the young members of our community who have been awarded the following prizes and honorable mentions:
 
1) PhD Prize Winner: Dr. Souvik Bose
Thesis title: "On the dynamics of spicules and mass-flows in the solar atmosphere"
 
2) PhD "at-large" Prize Winner: Dr. Reetika Joshi
Thesis title: "Study of Solar Jets and Related Flares"
 
3) PhD Prize Honorable Mention: Wenzhi Ruan
Thesis title: "Solar flares and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities: Particle acceleration and high energy radiation"

The full announcement of prize winners may be found here.

February 2022: IAU Division E Newsletter

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June 2021:  IAU PhD Prizes:

We are happy to congratulate a young member of our community who has won 2020 IAU Ph.D Prize. Camilla Scolini won the Division E prize for her thesis on “Modeling analyses of the evolution of magnetic fields in coronal mass ejections, from Sun to Earth”.
 
The full announcement of prize winners may be found here.
 

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June 2020:  IAU Ph.D Prizes:

We are happy to congratulate two young members of our community who have won 2019 IAU Ph.D Prizes. 
Munehito Shoda won the Division E prize for his thesis on "Fast solar wind driven by parametric decay instability and Alfvén wave turbulence"
Prantika Bhowmik won the IAU At-Large prize for her thesis on "Data Constrained Models for Solar Activity Predictions"
 
The full announcement of prize winners may be found here.

January, 2020: Newsletter from the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP), courtesy of IAU-SCOSTEP liaison Kyungsuk Cho

November 2019: IAU Division E Newsletter

July 20th, 2019:  IAU Ph.D Prizes:

We are happy to congratulate two young members of our community who have won 2018 IAU Ph.D Prizes. 
 
Jenna Samra won the Division E prize for her thesis on "An Airborne Infrared Spectrometer for Coronal Observations: Development, Characterization, and First Science Results from the 2017 Solar Eclipse". 
 
Gopal Hazra won the IAU At-Large prize for his thesis on "Understanding the behaviour of the Sun’s large scale magnetic field and its relation with the meridional flow."
 
The full announcement of prize winners may be found here.

June 2019: IAU Division E Newsletter

November 5th, 2018:  Creation of a list of historical astronomy data:

Dear Colleagues,
 
Over the past decades and even centuries, the astronomical community has accumulated a significant amount of historical records of observations of the Sun, stars and other astronomical objects. Those records contain irreplaceable information about long-term evolutionary and non-evolutionary changes in our Universe, and clearly need to be preserved so that researchers can access and exploit them.  As a first step in that process, we are creating an inventory of historical data which members of the astronomical community consider to be worthy of preservation.  Most such records are analogue ones (plates, film, paper, books) but can include primitive magnetic tapes (e.g., those lacking recognizable formatting) or other early digital data. 
Through this letter, we solicit input from the community as to which data exist that you feel merit consideration for preservation, the current state of those data (e.g., digitized or not) or of any associated metadata, and their current location.
 
You can provide your input via this web form:  https://goo.gl/forms/lphoIfquXRtvSfrm2
 
Please share this invitation with colleagues who may be able to contribute to our inventory and who for whatever reason may not receive it through the IAU mailing.
 
Sincerely,
 
Alexei Pevtsov
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Co-Chair
 
IAU Inter-Division B-E WG on Coordination of Synoptic Observations of the Sun
On behalf of informal working group on historical astronomy data, which includes Elizabeth Griffin, Joan Burkepile, Valentin M Pillet, Sarah Gibson, David Webb, Frederic Clette, Jim Hesser, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Peter Stetson, Frank Hill, Rick Bogart, and Dana Longcope.

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