Fall 2015 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
9/3 No Seminar
9/10 Plasma Production and Radiation from Meteoroid Impacts on Spacecraft Alex Fletcher Boston University Center for Space Physics
9/17 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) – A New Mission Whose Time Has Come! Nathan Schwadron University of New Hampshire
9/24 Tackling the Spacial Temporal Ambiguity Charles Swenson Utah State University
10/1 Controlled Study of Whistler Wave Propagation and Interactions with Space Plasmas at Arecibo, Puerto Rico Min-Chang Lee BU
10/8 BU Rocket Propulsion Group and the Evolving Rocket Launch Market Joe Beaupre and the BU Rocket Propulsion Group BU
10/15 The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE): A system view of the Earth’s magnetosphere Brian Walsh BU
10/22 Joint Seminar with IAR
Why Solar Physics needs a 4m-class solar-telescope? The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and its capabilities
Valentin Pillet & Thomas Rimmele National Solar Observatory
10/29 Volcanoes, Atmospheres, and Magnetospheres, Oh My! Jeff Morgenthaler Planetary Science Institute
11/5 Low Frequency Radio Remote Sensing of Ionospheric Space Plasma Juha Vierinen MIT
11/12 From Halley to Churyumov-Gerasimenko: My Adventures in Comet Research Tamas Gombosi University of Michigan
11/19 Updates on the MAVEN Mission Majd Mayyasi, Marissa Vogt, John Clarke, and Michael Mendillo Boston University Center for Space Physics
11/26 Thanksgiving Recess
12/3 Charged Interstellar Dust in the Heliosphere: Trajectory Simulations and a Legacy of 16 Years of Ulysses Measurements Veerle Sterken ISSI
12/10 AGU Practice Talks and Posters