Spring 2016 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
1/21 No Seminar
1/28 Langmuir Turbulence and the Underlying Source of Free Energy in the Auroral Ionosphere Hassan Akbari BU CSP
2/4 What can X-rays tell us about the Jovian Magnetosphere? Results from a recent Hisaki/Chandra campaign to study the Jovian Aurora and Io Plasma Torus Ralph Kraft CfA
2/11 No Seminar Maria Kazachenko UC Berkeley
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Monday
2/22
Joint Astrophysics Seminar
Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through auroral observations
Yukitoshi
Nishimura
UCLA
2/25 Time-dependent global modeling of the inner heliosphere Slava Merkin Johns Hopkins
3/3 A Fundamental Physical Process in Collisionless Heliospheric Plasmas:
Interaction Between Whistler-mode Waves and Electrons
Wen Li UCLA
3/10 Spring Recess
3/17 Investigations of fundamental plasma physics to understand our Heliosphere: Magnetic Reconnection and Non-linear Alfvén waves Seth Dorfman UCLA
3/24 Why do we shoot rockets at the aurora?! Marilia Samara GSFC
3/31 Some Like it Hot: Plasma Heating and Impulsive Energy Release in the Solar Corona Amir Caspi SwRI
4/7 Pluto at Last Bonnie Buratti JPL
4/14 ICON: Exploring the Boundary Between Earth and Space Thomas Immel SSL-Berkely
4/21 Looking Beyond the Bright Lights in the Big City Summer Ash Columbia
University
4/28 Saturn’s Rings as a Probe of Saturn’s Interior Dick French Wellesley