Fall 2024 Seminars Click here to return to the main Events page. Date Title/Subject Speaker Affiliation Sept 12 Solar Flare Energy Release: Recent Progress and Future Prospects Bin Chen New Jersey Institute of Technology Sept 19 The Ionosphere as a Sensor Joshua Semeter Boston University Sept 26 Cosmic Dust in Planetary Atmospheres John Plane University of Leeds Oct 3 BepiColombo mission to Mercury and solar wind-Mercury interactions Anna Milillo National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) Oct 10 Quantitative Modeling of Aurora-like Picket Fence Emissions Driven by Local Ionospheric Parallel Electric Fields L. Claire Gasque UC Berkeley Oct 17 Isotopic Insights into Lunar Volatile Depletion and Surface Evolution Nicole Xike Nie MIT Oct 24 X-ray and Energetic Electron Imaging of Earth and Planetary Radiation Environments Robert Marshall University of Colorado Boulder Oct 31 Looking at Plasma Turbulence through a Microscope: Peering into the Smallest Scales of the Turbulent Cascade with Magnetospheric Multiscale Dr. Julia Stawarz Northumbria University Nov 7 Cross-Scale Modeling of Storm-Time Radiation Belt Variability Adam Michael Johns Hopkins University Nov 21 Agency Night: Updates and Insights from NASA and NSF Majd Mayyasi, Susanna Finn, & Chia-Lin Huang BU, NASA, & NSF