Fall 2012 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
9/6 Imaging Saturn’s Magnetosphere–Solar Wind-Driven and Rotational Dynamics on the Large Scale Donald Mitchell JHU, Applied Physics Laboratory
9/13 Nonlinear Resonant Circuit Models of Space Plasma Physics Paul Bernhardt NRL
9/21 Beyond Hot Jupiters: Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Heather Knutson Cal Tech
9/27 Cold ion outflow from the polar ionosphere Stein Haalnd Max-Planck Institute
10/4 The Lakes of Titan Jason Soderblom MIT
10/11 The Small Satellite Program at BU Ted Fritz Boston University/CSP
10/18 Ionospheric Oxygen Ion Outflows in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Andrew Yau University of Calgary
10/25 The Solar Blow Shock Revisited: Is it a Slow Shock? Bertalan Zieger Boston University/CSP
11/1 Aurora on Ganymede Melissa McGrath NASA/MSFC
11/8 Taking the Measure of Mercury’s Magnetosphere: Energetic Electrons and MESSENGER Mission Ralph McNutt JHU, Applied Physics Laboratory
11/15 The Magnetosphere as a System George Siscoe Boston University/CSP