Spring 2017 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
1/26 The Risks of Multiple Breadbasket Failure Anthony Janetos BU
2/2 Cancelled
Numerical Modeling of Ionospheric Plasma and Its Effects on the Magnetosphere
Daniel Welling University of Michigan
2/9 Cancelled Due to Weather – Rescheduled for 3/30
Shedding Light on the Terrestrial Hydrogen Corona using its Ultraviolet Emission
Lara Waldrop U. Illinois
2/16 First Results of the Juno Mission in Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Jack Connerney NASA GSFC
2/23 Towards an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition Jonathan Fortney UC Santa Cruz
3/2 No Seminar
3/9 No Seminar – Spring Break
3/16 Joint Seminar with IAR
Exploring the Solar System with the James Webb Space Telescope
John Stansberry STScI
3/23 Ionospheric Studies using a Network of All-Sky Imagers from Equatorial to Sub-Auroral Latitudes Carlos Martinis BU
3/30 Shedding Light on the Terrestrial Hydrogen Corona using its Ultraviolet Emission Lara Waldrop U. Illinois
4/6 The Driving of the Earth’s Magnetosphere by the Solar Wind Joe Borovsky SSI
4/13 Radial Diffusion and Decay of Energetic Electrons in Earth’s Outer Radiation Belt and Slot Region Qianli Ma BU
4/20 Auroral Electron Acceleration by Alfven Waves Run Shi BU
4/27 Polar‐cap Precursor of Meso‐scale Nightside Auroral Brightenings Ying Zou BU/UCLA