Center for Space Physics
Spring 2001 Seminar Speakers

 

Date

Topic (Tentative Titles)

Speaker

January 18

Chlorine on Io

Professor Nick Schneider

University of Colorado

January 25

Auroral Processes on Earth

Dr. Dirk Lummerzheim

University of Alaska

February 1

What Does Ionospheric Plasma Motion Tell Us About Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause?

Dr. Alan Rodger

British Antarctic Survey

February 8

HST Observations of Jupiter's Aurora

Dr. John Clarke

University of Michigan

February 15

Transient Convection and Pi2 Generation

Dr. Larry Kepko

IGPP/UCLA

February 20

Jupiter's Dark Poles and the Aurora

Dr. Wayne Pryor

LASP University of Colorado

March 1

Quantum Remote Sensing and Imaging

Professor Bahaa E. A. Saleh

ECE Department /Boston University

March 8

SPRING BREAK

No seminar this week

March 12

Topics in Giant Planet Atmospheres: Jupiter's downdrafts & atmospheric circulation of short-period extrasolar giant planets

Dr. Adam Showman

NASA AMES

March 14 TBD

Dr. Bonnie Buratti

JPL and Pomona College

March 19

Physics of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impacts

Dr. Joseph Harrington

Cornell University

March 29

No Seminar----European Geophysics

Meeting

April 5

Scientists Role in Society: View from the Hill

  Dr. Sherri Stephan

US Senate

April 12

Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Coupling: The View from MACCS

Professor Jeff Hughes

Boston University/Center for Space Physics

April 19 Sabbatical Science; Energetic Particles in the Magnetospheric CUSP

Professor Ted Fritz

Boston University/Center for Space Physics

April 26

FAST and Faster Results

Professor Cindy Cattell

University of Minnesota

 

Day & Time:

     Pre-seminar reception: 3:30 – 4:00

     Thursdays, 4:00 – 5:00

Seminar Place:

     Room 500 (5th floor)

     725 Commonwealth Avenue

Guest Parking Passes:

     Please contact Ms. Lisa Vercauteren 617-353-5990, e-mail: lmv@bu.edu

Additional Information:

     Please contact Prof. Michael Mendillo 617-353-2629, e-mail: mendillo@bu.edu

Web site:

     http://www.bu.edu/csp/


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