Fall Semester 2017 Seminars (3pm in WAN305 unless otherwise noted below) September 15 PRESENTER: Anna Rosen, Ph.D, Einstein and ITC Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
An Unstable Truth: How Massiave Stars get their Mass
September 22 PRESENTER: Sarah Ballard, Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Scholar, MIT Kavli Institute TOPIC:
exoplanet
September 29 PRESENTER: Saurav Aryal/George Geddes TOPIC:
Eclipse
October 6 PRESENTER:
Laura Kreidberg, Harvard ITC
TOPIC:
exoplanet atmospheres
October 13 PRESENTER: Jiannan Tu, SSL TOPIC: On the prompt response of low/equatorial ionosphere to magentosphere disturbances
October 20 PRESENTER: Edward DeLuca, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics TOPIC: solar missions
October 27 PRESENTER: Paul Withers, BU Astronomy Dept. TOPIC: New method to detect ionospheres in planets and exoplanets
November 3 PRESENTER: TzuYang Yu, UML Civil Engineering Dept. TOPIC: GPR (GSSI system and experimental results)
November 10 NO SEMINAR
(VETERANS DAY OBSERVED)
November 17 PRESENTER: Qusai Al Shidi, SSL TOPIC: MHD Model for the solar chromosphere
November 24 NO SEMINAR
(THANKSGIVING RECESS)
December 1 PRESENTER: Mercedes Lopez Morales, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics TOPIC: exoplanets
December 8 practice talks for AGU
Fall '16 Seminars September 2 PRESENTER: Chris Hansen, UML Math Dept. TOPIC:
Automated
and Scalable Manufacture of Multifunctional Composite Materials
September 9 PRESENTER: Min Hyumg Cho, UML Math Dept. TOPIC:
Fast and robust Helmholtz equation solver in layered media
September 16 PRESENTER: Dr. Endawoke Yizengaw, BC TOPIC:
Multi-Instruments Observations to Mitigate Space Weather Impacts
September 23 PRESENTER: Jason Soderblom, Researcher Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences MIT TOPIC:
The Seas of Titan
September 30 PRESENTER: Dr. Evan Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College TOPIC:
The geomagnetic storm time response of GPS total electron content in the North American sector
October 7 PRESENTER: Jeremy J. Drake Smithsonian Astrophysical Observarory TOPIC:
The Energetic Radiation Environments of Stars and Planets
October 14 (2-3pm) Location: Ball314 PRESENTER: Prof. Brian Walsh,
Mechanical Engineering,
Boston University TOPIC:
Thinking
inside the box: advancing space physics with cubesats
October 21 PRESENTER: Dr. Jiannan Tu, SSL TOPIC: A Global 2-D Inductive-Dynamic Simulation Study of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling
October 28 PRESENTER: Xiaoyan Zhou, Researcher, UCLA TOPIC:
The auroral ionospheric response to interplanetary shocks
November 4 PRESENTER: Prof. Yan Luo, UML ECE TOPIC:
TBA
November 11 NO SEMINAR
VETERANS DAY
November 18 PRESENTER: Rona Oran, Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences MIT
TOPIC:
TBA
November 25 NO SEMINAR
due to Thanksgiving 11/24
December 2 (WAN405) PRESENTER: Mr. Saurav Aryal, LoCSST TOPIC:
Derivation of auroral energy and energy flux using simultaneous multi-spectral imaging PRESENTER: Mr. George Geddes, LoCSST TOPIC: Retrieval of O+ Density From Combined OII 83.4 nm and OII 61.7 nm Limb
Emissions PRESENTER: Dr. Susanna Finn, LoCSST TOPIC: Coordinated Ground-and Space-based Multispectral Campaign to Study Equatorial Spread-F Formation
December 9 (last seminar of semester) PRESENTER: Mr. Yifan Huang, Space Science Lab
TOPIC: Transverse wave parallell propagation in the partially ionized plasma of mutiple species
Spring Semester 2016 Seminars (3pm in WAN305 unless otherwise noted below) April 29 PRESENTER: Dr. Allan Weatherwax, Merrimack College School of Science and Engineering TOPIC:
At the Cusp of Discovery: The Evolution and Importance of Ground-based Geospace Observations in Antarctica
April 22 PRESENTER: NO SEMINAR
(Monday class schedule)
April 15 PRESENTER: George Geddes, LoCSST
TOPIC:
Remote Sensing in the ionospherie and thermosphere PRESENTER: Saurav Aryal, LoCSST
TOPIC:
Spectral Imaging of June 22, 2015 G4 storm by HiT&MIS
April 8 PRESENTER: Nicholas Baeza Hochmuth
UML Physics Dept.
TOPIC:
Formation of E+E Massive Compact Quiescent Galaxies in z<1 and its implications on theories of MCQ Galaxy Evolution PRESENTER: Forest Mathieu, UML Physics Dept.
TOPIC:
Outflows of Protostars
April 1 - WAN405 PRESENTER: Cesar Valladares
Boston College
TOPIC:
The low-latitude ionospheric
sensor network (LISN). A distributed
observatory to study low and mid-latitude plasma structures
March 25 PRESENTER: Jon Slavin
Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Modeling the Very Local Interstellar Medium
March 11 PRESENTER: Glenn Howe, LoCSST
TOPIC:
LiDARS - Past,
Present, and Future PRESENTER: Kuravi Hewawasam, LoCSST TOPIC:
Focal plane wavefront sensing for PICTURE-C
March 4 PRESENTER: Dan Milisavljevic
Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Reverse Engineering Supernovae
February 26 - WAN405 PRESENTER: Dr. Patrick Slane, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Energetic Windbags Young and Old: The Evolving Story of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
February 19 PRESENTER: Jack Steiner
MIT TOPIC:
Measuring the Spins of
Stellar-Mass Black Holes
February 12 PRESENTER: Noe Lugaz
UNH TOPIC:
Heliospheric Propagation and Magnetospheric Effects of
Coronal Mass Ejections Noé Lugaz, University of New Hampshire
February 5 PRESENTER: Dr. Pat Slane
Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Energetic Windbags Young and Old:
The Evolving Story of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
January 29 PRESENTER: Dr. Ofer Cohen
Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Constraining mass loss rates of low-mass cool stars
January 22 PRESENTER: Dr. Katharine Reeves Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics TOPIC:
Explosions on the Sun: Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection
from Orbiting Solar Telescopes
Fall Semester 2015 Talks (3pm in WAN305 unless otherwise noted below)
Dec 4 - 3:30pm PRESENTER: Merav Opher TOPIC:
Magnetized Jets Driven by the Sun, the Structure of the
Heliosphere Revisited: Consequences for Draping of BISM ahead of the HP and
Time Variability of ENAs
November 27 - NO SEMINAR
November 20 PRESENTER: John Richardson MIT Kavli Institute TOPIC:
Voyager observations of the outer heliosphere
and interstellar medium
November 9 - 2:30pm (in place of 11/13) PRESENTER: Yan Wang Space Science Lab TOPIC:
Thesis Defense A new Dynamic Fluid-Kinetic model within the Plasmasphere
November 6 - PRESENTER:
Jiannan Tu Space Science Lab
TOPIC: Simulation Studies on Dynamics of Field-aligned
Current Propagation and Pedersen Current Formations an Alternate theory of
Discrete Arc Formation
October 30 PRESENTER:
Phil Isenberg UNH
TOPIC: What can Pickup Ions tell us about Solar Wind Turbulence?
October 23 PRESENTER:
Marc Lessard UNH
TOPIC: Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron waves: their propagation in
the magnetosphere and ionosphere and their role in Earth's radiation belt
dynamics
October 16 PRESENTER:
Juha Vierine MIT Haystack Observatory
TOPIC: Instrumentation methods for radio remote sensing of
ionospheric plasma
October 9 PRESENTER: John Styers UML Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences TOPIC:
An Alternate Theory of Discrete Arc Formation
October (2pm) PRESENTER:
John Retterer BC
TOPIC: Faith in a Seed: On the Origins of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
September 25 PRESENTER: Dr. William Burke TOPIC:
Origins of the O+ Ring Current: A Van Allen Probe Perspective
September 18 NO SEMINAR
September 11 PRESENTER:
Robert Esposito UML Space Science Lab
TOPIC: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 101
September 4 PRESENTER:
Dr. Prof. Ivan Galkin UML Space Science Lab
TOPIC: Oblique Incidence Sounding with Digisondes for Better Environmental Security
August 28 PRESENTER:
Dr. Prof. Chi Wang National Space Science Center, Chinese Adacemy of Sciences, Beijing
TOPIC: Introduction to SMILE Mission
Spring Semester 2015 Talks
(Wannalancit @ 3pm)
May 1 (WAN305)
NO SEMINAR
April 24 (WAN305) PRESENTER:
Dr. Mark MCConnell
UNH
TOPIC: Gamma-ray Polarimetry as a probe of the central engine of Gamma-ray Bursts
April 17 (WAN305)
PRESENTER:
Dr. Dimitris Christodoulou
UML Math Dept.
TOPIC: A physical model for the formation of multiplanetary systems
April 10 (Pinananski 200)
PRESENTER: Charles Danforth
TOPIC: TBA
April 7 (Pinananski 200)
PRESENTER:
Ofer Cohen TOPIC: TBA
April 3 (WAN305)
PRESENTER:
Dr. Tom Chang
Kavli Institute for Astronphysics and Space Research MIT
TOPIC: Physics
of Complexity and ROMA (rank-ordered multifractal analyses of Strong
Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas and the Cosmic Web
March 27 (Pinanski 200)
PRESENTER:
Jackie Radigan
TOPIC:
Weather on Substellar Worlds: Observations of cloud and weather phenomena in the atmospheres of cool brown dwarfs
March 13 (WAN405)
PRESENTER:
Dr. Nick Murphy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
TOPIC: Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere
March 6 (Pinanski 200)
PRESENTER: Kate Whitaker NASA Podsoctoral Program Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center
TOPIC: Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
February 27 (WAN405) PRESENTER:
Prof. Joel Therrien
UML Electrical & Computer Engineering
TOPIC:
Advanced materials research in the SPIN lab
February 20 (WAN405)
PRESENTER:
Prof. Paul Song
UML Physics and Space Science Lab
TOPIC:
Radio Technology in Space Exploration
February 13 (WAN305)
PRESENTER:
John Foster
MIT haystack Observatory
TOPIC:
Multi-Instrument Observations of Radiation Belt Physics: Van Allen Probes Perspectives
February 6
PRESENTER:
Prof. Tim Cook
UML Physics and LoCSST
TOPIC: TBA January 30
PRESENTER:
Remi Soummer
Assoc. Astronomer
Head, Russell B. Makidon Optics Laboratory
Space telescope Science Institute
TOPIC:
High contrast imaging of exoplanets and disks
January 23
PRESENTER:
Prof. James Ryan
UNH Space Science Center TOPIC:
TOPIC: Cosmic Ray Production at the Sun
Fall Semester 2014 Talks
(WAN405 @ 3pm)
December 5
PRESENTER:
Dr. Prof. Meers Oppenheim
Astronomy Department and Center for Space Physics, Boston University
TOPIC:
"Collisional Plasma Waves: Can They Play Important Roles in Both the Earth's Ionosphere and the Solar Chromosphere?"
November 21
PRESENTER:
Dr. William Burke
UML Space Science Lab
TOPIC:
Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances: What they are and how they work
November 14
PRESENTER:
Dr. Phil Erickson
Atmospheric Sciences Group
MIT Haystack Observatory
TOPIC:
Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, GPS TEC, Millstone Hill radar, DMSP, and
other assets to look at system scale aspects of plasma redistribution
and influence on dayside reconnection, shock response, and highly
relativistic particles (among other effects)
November 7
PRESENTER:
Dr. Lynn Kistler
Professor of Physics
Director of Space Science Center
Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space
University of New Hampshire
TOPIC:
From the Aurora to the Ring Current: The Ionospheric Contribution to the Magnetospheric Plasma Population
October 31
PRESENTER:
Hui Tian
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
TOPIC:
First results of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission
October 17 and 24
NO SEMINARS - Prof. Song on travel
October 10
PRESENTER:
James LaBelle
Dartmouth
TOPIC:
Recent Advances in Ionospheric Mode-Conversion Radiations
October 3
PRESENTER:
Dr. Luke Moore
Boston University
TOPIC:
Saturn's Ring Rain
September 26
PRESENTER:
Mr. Rigel Cappallo
TOPIC:
Modeling X-ray Emission from Accreting Pulsars
September 19
PRESENTER:
Ms. Yan Wang
SSL
TOPIC:
A new dynamic fluid-kinetic model for plasma transport in the plasmasphere
September 12
PRESENTER:
Prof. Silas Laycock
TOPIC:
Black Hole Binaries: Recent results, and prospects for Timing Analysis and Modeling
September 5
PRESENTER:
Paul Withers
Boston University
TOPIC:
The ionosphere of Mars before the arrival of MAVEN
Spring Semester 2014 Talks (WAN403)
May 2
PRESENTER:
George Geddes
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
RAIDS/LITES modeling
April 25
NO SEMINAR
April 18
PRESENTER:
Vasili Kharchenko
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard-Smithsonian
TOPIC:
Collision Energy Relaxation in Planetary Atmospheres and Interstellar Gas
April 11
PRESENTER:
Chia Lin Huang
EOS, Space Science Center
University of New Hampshire
TOPIC:
Highlights on Radiation Belt Research Using Van Allen Probes
April 4
PRESENTER:
T. A. Fritz
TOPIC:
A travelogue of my professional life
March 28
PRESENTER:
Prof. Paul Song
UMLCAR/Physics
TOPIC:
A Model of the Chromosphere: Heating, Structures, and Circulation
March 21
NO SEMINAR/SPRING BREAK
March 14
PRESENTER:
Ms. Kathleen Oram
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Characterizing the Performance of MANIC
March 7
PRESENTER:
Dr. Christopher Mendillo
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
SPINR Sounding Rocket Measurements of Far-Ultraviolet Dust Scattering in Orion
February 28
PRESENTER:
Prof. Ivan Galkin
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Challenges of assimilating LITES and DPTIS observations of peak ionospheric density in IRTAM/GAMBIT model
February 21
PRESENTER:
Dr. Jichun Zhang
Space Science Center
UNH
TOPIC:
EMIC Waves
February 14
PRESENTER:
Meg Noah/Bill Burke
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Can we detect plasmoids from ground magnetometers?
February 7
PRESENTER:
Edisher Kaghashvili
Live Science and Technologies, LLC
TOPIC: Effects of Driven Waves on Solar, Magnetospheric, Ionospheric and Laboratory Plasma Dynamics
January 31
PRESENTER:
Shunrong Zhang
MIT Haystack Observatory
TOPIC:
Symmetric ionospheric variations at midlatitudes
January 24
PRESENTER:
Prof. Marty Lee
UNH Inst. for Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
TOPIC:
Puzzles Associated with the Heliospheric Boundary
Fall Semester 2013 Talks
(WAN405 3pm unless otherwise noted)
December 13
NO SEMINAR - AGU
December 6
PRESENTER:
Prof. Paul Song
CAR/Physics
TOPIC:
Magnetosphere-ionosphere Dynamic Coupling: Reflection and Transmission for Alfven Waves, Song, P., and V. M. Vasyliūnas
November 29
NO SEMINAR
November 22
PRESENTERS:
Drs. Pei Chen Lai and William Burke
TOPIC:
Topside Electron Density Profiles Measured during COSMIC-GPS Occultation Intervals
PRESENTER:
November 15
PRESENTER:
Bertalan Zieger
Research Scientist
Boston University Center for Space Physics
TOPIC:
A slow bow shock ahead of the heliosphere
November 8
NO SEMINAR
November 1
NO SEMINAR
October 25 (WAN407)
PRESENTER:
Larisa Goncharenko
Research Scientist
MIT Haystack Observatory
TOPIC:
Lower atmospheric forcing and the ionosphere: what do we expect for high solar activity?
October 18
PRESENTER:
Prof. Juan Trelles
UML Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Wind Energy Research Group
TOPIC:
Frontiers in Computational Plasma Modeling: Turbulence and Radiation
October 11 (pm)
PRESENTER:
Dr. Lars Dyrud
Draper Laboratory
TOPIC:
Solving Earth and Space Science uncertainty one tiny satellite at a time
October 11 (am)
PRESENTER:
Prof. Weixing Wan
Inst. of Geology and Geophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
TOPIC:
Coupling between the Longitudinal Structure in the Ionosphere and the Non-migrating Tides in the Atmosphere
October 4 PRESENTER:
John Noto
Scientific Solutions
TOPIC:
Innovating Airglow-Facilitating the Aeronomy Ecosystem
September 27
PRESENTER:
Dr. Chris Mendillo
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Direct imaging of an exoplanetary system using the PICTURE sounding rocket
September 20
PRESENTER:
Dr. Jiannan Tu
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Alfven Wave Propagation, Reflection and Heating the Chromosphere
September 13
PRESENTER:
Prof. Nathan Schwadron
UNH Inst. for Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
TOPIC:
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer and the IBEX Ribbon
September 6
PRESENTER:
Prof. Georges Grinstein
UML Computer Sciences Dept.
Director - Institute for Visualization + Perception Research Director - Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatic
TOPIC:
Weave, a Web-Based Analysis and Visualization Environment and its Application to Large Data
Spring Semester 2013 Talks
May 3
PRESENTER:
Prof. Ivan Galkin
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Space Physics vocabularies for virtual observatories: the science of ontology
April 26
NO SEMINAR
April 19
PRESENTER:
Dr. Brian Hicks
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Approaches to space based high contrast/resolution multiband imaging
April 12
PRESENTER:
Dr. Nikole Lewis
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences
MIT
TOPIC:
Atmospheric Circulation of Extrasolar Planets
April 5
PRESENTER:
Meredith Danowski
Department of Astronomy & Center for Space Physics
Boston University
TOPIC:
IMAGER launch success and new data
March 29
PRESENTER:
Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich
MIT
TOPIC:
Linear and non-linear effects in high power antennae in magnetized plasmas
March 22
PRESENTER:
Mr. Artem Vesnin
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Ionogram autoscaling using parametrized model of entire echo traces
March 15
NO SEMINAR (spring break)
March 8 (WAN405)
rescheduled to 3/22 due to storm
March 1
PRESENTER:
Dr. Jeffrey Baumgardner
Senior Research Scientist, Boston University
TOPIC:
Spectral Imaging of the Extended Atmospheres of the Moon, Jupiter and Mercury
February 22
PRESENTER:
Dr. Jiannan Tu
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Numerical Simulation Methods in Space Plasma and Application to M-IT Coupling (Part II)
February 15 (WAN405)
PRESENTER:
Brian Fleming
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
TOPIC:
The Search for Lyman Alpha Escape from Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
February 8, 2013
NO SEMINAR
February 1, 2013
PRESENTER:
Miles A. Sundermeyer
UMass Dartmouth
TOPIC:
Observations of Small-Scale Lateral Dispersion in the Ocean using Airborne Lidar
January 25, 2013
PRESENTER:
Dr. Jiannan Tu
UMLCAR
TOPIC:
Numerical Simulation Methods in Space Plasma and Application to M-IT Coupling (Part 1)
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