Seminar Series
To see a list of previous semesters’ seminars, please visit our Previous Seminars page.
All seminars are held from 3:30-4:30 PM at 725 Commonwealth Ave Room 502.
| Date | Title/Subject | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 1/29/2026 | Venus’ Aurora: A Happy Little Accident | Candace Gray | Boston University |
| 2/5/2026 | Drivers of Composition in the Earth’s Plasma Sheet | Lynn Kistler | University of New Hampshire |
| 2/12/2026 | Lunar Research in the Center for Space Physics | Brian Walsh, Carl Schmidt, Paul Withers, and Abhinav Prasad | Boston University |
| 2/17/2026 (TUESDAY) | What Does Art-Science Collaboration Make Possible? | Natalie Gosnell | Colorado College |
| 2/19/2026 | NO SEMINAR | – | – |
| 2/26/2026 | (Some) Outer Planet Research in the Center for Space Physics | Luke Moore | Boston University |
| 3/5/2026 | GPS Scintillation and Position Errors During Geomagnetic Storms and Substorms | Toshi Nishimura | Boston University |
| 3/12/2026 | SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR | – | – |
| 3/19/2026 | Juno/JADE | Phil Valek | SwRI |
| 3/26/2026 | Theory and Observations of the Interaction between MHD Waves and Shocks | Lingling Zhao | University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| 4/2/2026 | Electron and proton heating and energization during magnetic reconnection | James Drake | University of Maryland |
| 4/9/2026 | Photonics in Space Symposium | Hosted by: Brian Walsh, Joshua Semeter | Boston University |
| 4/16/2026 | Ionospheric variability induced by magnetospheric chorus waves | Lunjin Chen | University of Texas at Dallas |
| 4/23/2026 | TBD | Gian Luca Delzano | Los Alamos National Laboratory |