Fall 2009 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
9/10 Ionospheric Effects of Intense Lightning Discharges Robert Marshall Stanford University
9/17 Anatomy of a Magnetospheric Flux Tube Joshua Semeter Boston University
10/1 Earth Ring Current: Global Imaging and Global Modeling Natalia Buzulukova NASA Goddard
10/8 Probing the Inter-Galactic Medium with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph James Green University of Colorado
10/15 Early Results from the LRO Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) Harlan Spence Boston University
10/22 A Discussion on Exoplanets Timothy Cook Boston University
10/29 Nature vs. Nurture: Exploring the reasons behind compositional differences in comet nuclei and the role of solar weathering in driving them Walter Harris University of California Davis
11/5 The Lower Thermosphere and Wave Coupling from Below Gary Swenson University of Illinois
11/12 A Powerful New Imager for HST: Performance and Early Results of Wide Field Camera 3 Randy Kimble NASA Goddard
11/19 Cometary amino acids from the STARDUST mission Jamie Cook NASA Goddard
12/3 Comparison of Interstellar Boundary Explorer Observations with 3-D Global Heliospheric Models Nathan Schwadron Boston University