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Minutes from remote meeting on 25 October 2018

Agenda

  • List of seminar speakers for the MIST community
  • NAM sessions/plenaries
    • Oliver's suggestion
  • Autumn MIST submissions
  • MIST communications

 

Notes

Seminar speakers for the MIST community

  • Useful for early career researchers to make themselves known to group seminar organisers
  • UKSP does this as an on-request service but it might be better for us to do it on the website
  • List should include name, email address, seniority, institution, and topic(s) they can talk on
  • Oliver to send emails and construct list
  • John to add Oliver to the website and add initial list

NAM sessions/plenaries

  • MIST strategy day/bolt-on planning:
    • Sarah raised idea of MIST strategy day at end of NAM, no resistance from Lancaster
    • Ian talked with Mihalis (UKSP chair) about the idea of a parallel UKSP/MIST strategy slot at NAM
    • Mihalis invited MIST people to annual mission forum on 10 January at Burlington House
      • Jonny has been to these before
    • Mihalis indicated that he'd be open to a collaborative follow-up at NAM
    • Sarah to email HOGS and keep organising this
  • We should make sure that UKSP/MIST sessions are proposed:
    • A member of the community has approached Jasmine about co-convening an MHD waves session
    • Oliver mentioned a ‘from Sun to mud’ session being talked about at Reading, including Rad Sat and SWIGS from the MIST side and UKSP
    • [redacted] suggested that exoplanetary magnetospheres aren't advanced enough yet to have a session which includes solar system bodies
      • If the title includes habitability or atmospheres that might open it up to more exoplanetary researchers
  • Suggestions for plenary speakers are sought:
    • Council to suggest speakers by next meeting (as Lancaster internal deadline is end of December)
    • Since 2013, there has been:
      • 3x solar talks (Green '17, Dougherty '16, Fletcher '15)
      • 1x gas giant talk (Bunce, 2018)
      • 1x cometary talk (Taylor, 2015)
      • 1x terrestrial talk (Lester, 2013)
    • [redacted] could be a good suggestion
    • A terrestrial talk might be nice given the last was 2013
    • Mercury/Venus/Mars are not at all represented
    • Gas giants were covered very recently (last year)

Autumn MIST submissions

  • Six talk/poster abstracts so far
  • Zero lightning talks so far
    • Might be worth making criteria more flexible in the next reminder email
  • Jasmine to send reminder email with plug for lightning talks

MIST communications

  • John has asked Q to redirect This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Jonny to join the MIST Slack
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