Spring 2022 Schedule

Spring 2022 Schedule

 

Date Title/Subject Speaker Affiliation
1/27 (zoom) Glowing with Excitement! Venus’ unique Proton Aurora Candace Gray New Mexico State University
2/3 (zoom) The Roar Between Two Lions: How Giant Planet Aurorae and Ionospheres are Wrung and Wrought by Their Atmospheres and Magnetospheres Tom Stallard University of Leicester
2/10 (zoom) Energetic Electron Precipitation into Earth’s Atmosphere Driven by Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves Luisa Capannolo Boston University
2/14 (CAS 502) Sun to earth coupling in the creation, evolution, and properties of high-latitude ionospheric plasma Lindsay Goodwin New Jersey Institute of Technology
2/17 (CAS 502) Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division Alex Fletcher Naval Research Laboratory
2/24 (CAS 502) In-situ Observations of Collisionless Dissipation in Astrophysical Plasmas Trevor Bowen University of California Berkeley
2/28 (CAS 502) Global Magnetohydrodynamics Modeling of Solar Wind and Coronal Mass Ejections: Testing Theories, Improving Forecasts, and Application to Solar Analogs Meng Jin SETI Institute & Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab
3/3 (CAS 502) Space Weather: From the Sun to Saturn Ravindra Desai Imperial College London
3/17 (CAS 502) Exploring Heliophysics in Our Solar System and Beyond: From Stellar Coronae to (Exo)Planetary Atmospheres Chuanfei Dong Princeton University
3/24 (CAS 502) Asteroids falling into the Sun Quanzhi Ye University of Maryland and Boston University
3/31 (CAS 502) The Ion Superhighway: Understanding Ion Dynamics from Earth’s Magnetotail to the Ionosphere Amy Keesee University of New Hampshire
4/7 (CAS 502) Bridging an Observation Gap: Measuring Winds in the Upper Atmosphere with a Next-Generation Meteor Radar Network Ryan Volz Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4/14 (CAS 502) A comparative study of reconnection X-line predictions on dayside magnetopause of Earth Ramiz Qudsi Boston University
4/20 (Wed) Satellite Swarms in Low-Earth Orbit and Their Impacts on Astronomy and the Night Sky — Joint Astrophysics/Space Physics seminar James Lowenthall Smith College
4/28 (CAS 502) Following a prominence eruption from Sun to Parker Solar Probe with multi-spacecraft observations R. Tatiana Niembro Hernández Harvard University
5/2 (zoom) How to Run Away and Join the Circus: Navigating Unconventional Career Paths in Astronomy — Joint Astrophysics/Space Physics Seminar Lucianne Walkowicz The JustSpace Alliance