--------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 6 24 May 2002 --------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The MIST Electronic Mailing List is working again; see details below. 'Auld Reekie' MIST/UKSP; Edinburgh, 30 March - 2 April 2004 Following the first joint meeting of the MIST and UK Solar Physics communities, in Sheffield last month, there was a feeling in both that this was valuable and should be repeated. The close relationship between the two areas of Solar System science, and the several issues of common interest, were generally thought to make such joint meetings worthwhile. Following some debate about whether such meetings should be held in alternate years or every three years, the former was decided upon, and the Edinburgh Spring MIST meeting, already planned for 2004, was expanded to become the second joint MIST/UKSP. The meeting will be hosted at the University of Edinburgh by the British Geological Survey; local organiser Toby Clark (toby.clark@bgs.ac.uk). Many thanks to Toby for rearranging the bookings. The local organiser for the Solar side will be Lyndsay Fletcher (lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk) of the University of Glasgow. It is planned that the meeting will run from Tuesday 30 March to lunchtime Friday 2 April 2004. This is a day longer than has been traditional for MIST meetings, to allow time for joint/plenary sessions which are envisaged in addition to parallel and poster sessions. The extra time should also help to ensure that MIST presentations do not have to be quite as brief as the 12 minutes per talk allocated at Sheffield. Accommodation will be available on the night of Monday 29 March for those who want it. More details will be published in due course. AUTUMN MIST 2002 This year's autumn MIST meeting in London will be on Friday 22nd 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. The abstract deadline is 4th November, and the programme will be published shortly after that date. If you wish to contribute, please send me your abstract in electronic form by the deadline, not forgetting to include the title, and all the authors with their affiliations, indicating which one will be presenting. If you have any special requirements, other than a standard overhead projector, and/or Powerpoint laptop/projector, please specify 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. SPRING MISTs Since the last Newsletter, the Steel MIST/UKSP meeting held at Sheffield has come and gone. Many thanks to Roy Moffett and his colleagues for organising this very successful meeting, and to Neil Arnold, Graham Bailey and Robertus Erdelyi for writing the meeting report which should appear in the June 2002 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. MIST people currently on the RAS Council are Sandra Chapman, Michele Dougherty, Mike Hapgood and Andy Smith. There are reduced fees for students, new members, young members, and retired members; also, reduced registration fees were available for RAS members at the Sheffield meeting. Further information is on the RAS website: http://www.ras.org.uk/ The Spring 2003 MIST meeting will be held at the University of Leicester, 14-16th April ("Soarly MIST"). More details will be available in due course. For 2004, see details above regarding the Auld Reekie MIST/UKSP spring meeting. LONDON MIST 2003 This will be on Friday 28 November 2003 at Burlington House. More details nearer the time. MIST Website: new Internet address As from 21 May 2002, the MIST web pages are at a new Internet domain: mist.ac.uk The URL of the MIST home page is now: http://www.mist.ac.uk/ This should be more mnemonic than the old one and also more readily transportable in the event of the pages being hosted at a different institution in the future. Please update your Bookmarks, Favourites, and any hyperlinks to MIST on your web pages. The old URL should continue to work for a while. If you encounter any problems using the new pages, please let me know. A page recently added to the website was "MIST Portraits" (linked from the home page). With one or two notable exceptions, everyone seems to be smiling. Perhaps this shows what an enjoyable pursuit MIST science is! EMAIL DIRECTORY MIST people are listed in the MIST email directory: http://www.mist.ac.uk/mistemai.html Any additions or amendments should be sent to me, and if you would like to have a link to a personal home page from your entry in the directory, then please sent me the details. New subscribers to the MIST mailing list are added to the directory unless they request to the contrary. ELECTRONIC MAILING LIST In conjunction with the Internet domain change described above, the address for sending messages to the MIST mailing list has changed to mist@mist.ac.uk For further information, including how to subscribe and unsubscribe, and what kind of messages are acceptable, please see: http://www.mist.ac.uk/misteml.html The list is a moderated one. In order to filter out junk and offensive mail, all messages are vetted by me before being cleared for distribution. This procedure may sometimes cause delay so please be patient. See you in November? 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/