Spring 1998 Seminar Series
Date | Topic | Speaker |
January 15 | The role of the Cusp as a Source for Magnetosphere Particles: A New Paradigm? | Ted Fritz Center For Space Physics Boston University |
January 22 | Kinetic Effects on Large Scale MHD Phenomena in Space Physics | C.Z. (Frank) Cheng Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University |
January 29 | Do we really know the source of high speed solar wind streams? | Alan J. Lazarus MIT |
February 5 | Modelling the Thermosphere | Jackie Schoendorf Center for Space Physics Boston University |
February 12 | Explanation for the Aurora which has Fascinated Mankind for Centuries | Wynne Calvert University of Massachusetts Lowell |
February 19 | Do we really understand the mid-latitude, nighttime ionosphere? The implications of electrohydrodynamics, or gravity wave- Perkins instability interactions, for thermosphere-ionosphere coupling. | Clark Miller John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University |
February 26 | The Earth’s Bow Shock in Motion | Mona Kessel NASA Godard Space Flight Center |
March 5 | Helicity: A conserved quanitiy. | Robert Kotiuga Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University |
March 19 | Nonlinear Wave-Driven Currents In the E-Region Ionosphere: Simulations, Movies, and Theories. | Meers Oppenheim University of Colorado |
March 26 | Field-aligned Currents and Parallel Electric Fields in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer. | Michael Heinnemann Air Force Research Laboratory |
March 31 | CCD Image Measurements of Small and Large-Scale Gravity Waves in the Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, | Michael Taylor Utah State University |
April 2 | POLAR X-ray Images of the Aurora | David Chenette Lockheed Martin Reasearch Lab |
April 9 | Early results from the Electron Drift Instrument on Equator S. | Carl E. McIlwain UCSD |
April 9 | Energetic Particle Observations from the Galileo Space Craft associated with the Jovian moons | Richard McEntire Appled Physics Lab / JHU |
April 23 | Hawkeye’s V iew of the High-Latitude Magnetosphere | Shing Fung NASA / GSFC |
April 30 | Initial Results for Equator S | Lynn Kistler Department of Physics University of New Hampshire |