Fall 2008 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Title
9/11 Theodor Kostiuk
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Winds, Aurora, Temperature, and Composition of Planetary Atmospheres from High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy
9/18 Jerry Goldstein
Southwest Research Institute
What Everyone Should Know About Inner Magnetospheric Physics
9/25 Michael Mendillo
Boston University
The Power of Photons – Super Sodium Tails in the Solar System
10/2 Meers Oppenheim
Boston University
Tales of Meteor Trails: Lessons from Radar Observations and Theory
10/9 Angelos Vourlidas
Naval Research Laboratory
STEREO Imaging of the Sun and the Inner Heliosphere During Solar Minimum
10/16 Hannu Koskinen
University of Helsinki
Solar Wind Interaction with the Atmosphere of Venus in the Light of Fresh Data from Venus Express
10/23 Franco Cerrina
Boston University
Recent Advances in Extreme Ultraviolet Interferometric Lithography
10/30 William Lotko
Dartmouth University
Ionospheric Outflow and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
11/6 Andrew Stephan
Naval Research Laboratory
The Remote Atmosperic Ionospheric Detection System: New Science from the ISS
11/13 Gordon Shepherd
York University
Dynamics of the High Latitude Upper Atmosphere in Winter
11/18 Dava Sobel The Drama of Copernicus: How He Was Convinced to Publish his Crazy Idea
11/20 Alan Stern
Southwest Research Institute
New Horizons: Exploring the Solar System’s Third Zone
12/4 Don Neill
Caltech
Unraveling Mira’s Mysterious Tail