FDSS: Faculty Position in Solar Physics at the University of Arizona

PI提议帮助在亚利桑那大学行星科学系和月球与行星实验室（DPS/LPL）建立一个完整的太阳物理学终身教职，那里已经有一个研究小组在理论太阳层等离子体物理和能量粒子物理的一般领域工作。目标是将太阳物理学作为一门学术和研究学科纳入大学。这项倡议将明确包括与国家太阳观测站工作人员（其中两人是共同调查员）的密切合作和协作，以利用国家太阳观测站现有的人员和设施。其目的是吸引最高质量的教员，使太阳物理学成为大学充满活力和重要的组成部分，并使更广泛的太阳物理学社区受益。拟议增加的DPS/LPL教员将把该系的研究和教学扩展到新的领域，同时巩固现有的优势。预计太阳物理学与日球层和行星科学的结合将与大学的大气科学、地球科学和宇宙化学等领域产生协同效应。太阳物理学加入亚利桑那大学的教育计划将产生直接影响。该大学世界一流的研究和教学以及邻近的国家天文台将吸引优秀的学生来做太阳物理学的研究生工作。大量的本科生将被介绍到我们对太阳的认识的现状。该大学将启动一项关于太阳物理学的暑期学校、会议和推广计划，这将使该计划引起更广泛的公众和科学界的注意。该活动将在文化多样化的美国西南部举行，在那里，大学将接触到来自各种种族和文化的学生，同时鼓励他们将科学教育和研究作为职业。

The PI proposes to help establish a full tenure-track faculty position in solar physics in the Department of Planetary Sciences and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (DPS/LPL) at the University of Arizona, where a research group working in the general areas of theoretical heliospheric plasma physics and energetic-particle physics already exists. The goal is to integrate solar physics as an academic and research discipline into the University. This initiative will explicitly include close cooperation and collaboration with the National Solar Observatory staff (two of whom are co-investigators), to take advantage of NSO personnel and facilities already in place. The intent is to attract an individual faculty member of the highest quality and to make solar physics a vibrant and important component of the University, as well as to benefit the broader solar physics community. The proposed addition to the DPS/LPL faculty will extend the research and teaching of the Department into new areas, while at the same time building on existing strengths. It is expected that the combination of solar physics with heliospheric and planetary science will produce synergies with areas such as atmospheric sciences, Earth sciences, and cosmochemistry at the University. The addition of solar physics to the educational program of the University of Arizona will have direct effects. The world-class research and teaching at the University and the proximity of the NSO will attract excellent students to do graduate work in solar physics. Significant numbers of undergraduate students will be introduced to the current state of our knowledge of the Sun. The University will initiate a program of summer schools, conferences, and outreach programs in solar physics, which will bring the program to the attention of the broader public and science community. The activity will be located in the culturally diverse Southwest of the United States, where the University will reach out to students in a wide variety of ethnic groups and cultures, while encouraging them to consider science education and research as a career.