Spring 2025

Date Title/Subject Speaker Affiliation
Jan 23 Recent Advances in PINNs and Deep Neural Operators George Em Karniadakis Brown University
Jan 30 Modern perspectives and challenges in magnetic reconnection Nuno Loureiro MIT
Feb 6 Cometary Science near the Sun Qicheng Zhang Lowell Observatory
Feb 13 Expediting Astronomical Discovery with Large Language Models: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions Yuan-Sen Ting Ohio State University
Feb 20 Unraveling the Redox Enigma: Mars and the Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Yuk Ling Yun California Institute of Technology
Feb 27 Capturing the Moon and Beyond: Digital Twins for Space Exploration Cody Paige & Don Derek Haddad MIT
Mar 6 Comets: from icy wanderers to rocky surprises Dennis Bodewits Auburn University
Mar 20 The Enigmatic Phaethon Quanzhi Ye Boston University
Mar 27 Current sheets and the plasmoid instability: mediators of fast magnetic reconnection and turbulence Amitava Bhattacharjee Princeton University
Apr 3 Jupiter’s Local-Time Dependent Alfvén Radius Licia Ray Lancaster University
Apr 10 Recent observations of Mercury’s magnetosphere by BepiColombo during its flybys Sae Aizawa Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), France
Apr 17 From Atoms to Exospheres: Atomic-scale Modeling to Better Understand the Exosphere-Surface Connection on the Moon and Mercury Liam S. Morrissey Memorial University of Newfoundland
Apr 24 Explore the “Traffic” between the Earth’s Atmosphere and Geospace Environment Dong Lin University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
May 1 Io’s Volcanic Activity as seen through Multi-Wavelength Observations Imke de Pater University of California, Berkeley