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Fall 2024
NOTE: All times listed are in Central Time (CT).
| Date/Time | Speaker/Title | Link/Place |
| Fri., Aug. 30 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
POSTPONED | |
| Fri., Sept. 6 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Organizational Meeting
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| WED., Sept. 11 12:00-12:50 PM CT |
Alison Farrish, NASA GSFC, “Modeling Stellar Winds of Young Solar Analogs and the Detectability of Stellar CMEs” (AU Joint Seminar) | In-person: HBH 227
No Recording |
| Fri., Sept. 20 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Daniel Johnson, University of St Andrews, “The Thermodynamic Response of Heating at Coronal Null Points” | Recording |
| Fri., Sept. 27 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
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| Fri., Oct. 4 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Kevin Pham, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, “A Whole Geospace Look at the May 2024 Superstorm” | Recording |
| Fri., Oct. 11 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Sasha Ukhorskiy, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, “Remote Sensing Magnetotail Dynamics from Low-Earth Orbit” | Recording |
| Fri., Oct. 18 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Elizabeth Jensen, Planetary Science Institute, “The Hunt for Perpendicular Magnetic Field Measurements in Plasma” | In-person: HBH 227 |
| Fri., Oct. 25 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Jason Derr, West Point/LANL, “On the Effects of the 10 May 2024 G5 Geomagnetic Storm Observed in the Hudson Valley” | Recording |
| Fri., Nov. 1 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
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| Fri., Nov. 8 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
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| Fri., Nov. 15 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Elizabeth Wraback, University of Michigan, “Understanding the Evolution of CME Plasmas in the Solar Corona from EUV Spectroscopy and Charge State Composition” | Recording |
| Fri., Nov. 22 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
Oliver Allanson, University of Birmingham, “Wave particle-interactions and the Earth’s Radiation Belts“ | Recording |
| Fri., Nov. 29 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
THANKSGIVING BREAK | |
| Fri., Dec. 6 12:00-1:00 PM CT |
POSTPONED |
Spring 2024
| Date | Time (Central Time Zone) | Speaker / Title | Link/Place |
| Friday, Jan 12 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Organizational Meeting | |
| Friday, Jan 19 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) |
Gregory Szypko, Rice University, “Fluid Modeling of Interchange Reconnection in the Solar Corona”
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Chloe Liebenthal, Rice University, “Cross-Calibrating Solar Wind Monitoring Spacecraft”
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HBH 227 |
| Friday, Jan 26 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Sina Sadeghzadeh, Rice University, “Investigating the Impact of Field-Aligned Potential Drops on Auroral Energy Flux and Conductance: Insights from RCM Simulations” | Recording |
| Friday, Feb 2 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Solene Lejosne, Space Sciences Laboratory – UC Berkeley, “From injection to diffusion: modeling the effect of radial transport on radiation belt intensity” | Recording |
| Friday, Feb 9 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Spring Recess | |
| Friday, Feb 16 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, Feb 23 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Drew Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, “Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas: Radiation belt systems, collisionless shocks, and astrospheres” | Recording |
| Friday, March 1 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Hong Zhao, Auburn University, “Earth’s Ultrarelativistic Electron Acceleration: Current Understanding and Future Exploration“ | Recording |
| Friday, March 8 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Charlie Gardner, Rice University, “Citizen CATE: Creating an Hour Long Movie of the Middle Corona during the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse“ | HBH 227 |
| Friday, March 15 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Spring Break | |
| Friday, March 22 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, March 29 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | CANCELLED | |
| Friday, April 5 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | CANCELLED | |
| Friday, April 12 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Jeffrey Reep, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, “Flows in an Expanding Coronal Loop“ | Recording |
| Friday, April 19 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Roger Scott, US Naval Research Laboratory, Numerical Modeling of Field-aligned Solar Wind Streams |
Fall 2023
*CT: Central Time Zone
| Date | Time (Central Time Zone) | Speaker / Title | Link/Place |
| Friday, August 25 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Carolyn Atkins, UK Astronomy Technology Centre, “3D Printing and Astronomy: A Layering Up of Disciplines” (Joint Seminar) | HBH 227 |
| Friday, September 1 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Organizational Meeting | TBD |
| Friday, September 8 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Andrea Isella, Rice University, “The Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array: Applications in Solar/Stellar and Space Physics“ | HBH 227 |
| Friday, September 15 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, September 22 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Evgeny Mishin, Air Force Research Laboratory, “The Evolving Subauroral Paradigm and Subauroral Arcs“ | Recording |
| Friday, September 29 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, “Magnetic Explosions in Space“ | Recording |
| Friday, October 6 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, October 13 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Frances Staples, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, “Radiation Belt Dynamics Viewed Through Multi-Mission Observations“ | Recording |
| Friday, October 20 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Hanli Liu, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, “The power of the powerless–The significant role of mesoscale processes in the middle and upper atmosphere.” (CGS Joint Seminar) | Recording |
| Friday, October 27 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, November 3 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Mateja Dumbović, University of Zagreb, “Solar Storms from Cradle to Grave: How do we Observe Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere?“ | Recording |
| Friday, November 10 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | ||
| Friday, November 17 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Alexander Drozdov, UCLA/Department of Earth and Space Sciences, “Loss and Acceleration of Radiation Belts Electrons and Corresponding Dynamic of Phase Space Density Profiles“ | Recording |
| Friday, November 24 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) | Thanksgiving Recess | N/A |
| Friday, December 1 | 12:00-1:00 PM (CT*) |
Spring 2023
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Friday, January 6 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Organizational Meeting | No Recording |
| Friday, February 3 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Evgeny Panov, Space Research Institute, “In Situ Signatures of Magnetotail Ballooning-Interchange Heads during Non-linear Stage of Development” | No Recording |
| Friday, February 10 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Spring Recess | N/A |
| Friday, February 17 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Elena Provornikova, Johns Hopkins APL, “Simulations of Interplanetary CMEs with GAMERA” | No Recording |
| Friday, February 24 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Andrei Runov, UCLA, “The Mystery of the Magnetotail Current Sheet” | No Recording |
| Friday, March 3 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, March 10 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, March 17 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Spring Break | N/A |
| Friday, March 24 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Bela Fejer, Utah State University, “Low Latitude Ionospheric Storm-Time Electric Fields” | HBH 227
No Recording |
| Friday, March 31 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Dana Longcope, Montana State University, “Storage, Release and Conversion of Magnetic Energy by Solar Flare Reconnection: A Story of the Large Scales“ | Link to Recording |
| Friday, April 7 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Anthony Sciola, JHU APL, “Modeling the Build-Up and Evolution of the Storm-Time Ring Current” | HBH 227
No Recording |
| Friday, April 14 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, April 21 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Slava Merkin, JHU APL, “Center for Geospace Storms: Recent Results” | No Recording |
| Friday, April 28 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Thursday, May 4 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Anastasia Newheart, UCAR, “Equatorial Plasma Bubbles and Ionospheric Electrodynamics during Geomagnetic Storms” | HBH 227
No Recording |
| Friday, May 5 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, “On-going Studies of Hemispheric Asymmetries Modeled by SAMI3-RCM and Observed by GNSS Total Electron Content Data” | HBH 227
No Recording |
Fall 2022
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Thursday, August 11 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Organizational Meeting | No Recording |
| Friday, September 2 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, September 9 | 12:00-1:00 PM | James Juno, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, “Leveraging Phase Space to Understand Energization in Collisionless Shocks” (Hybrid) | HBH 227 |
| Friday, September 16 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, September 23 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Juan Martinez-Sykora, University of Oslo, “A Multi-Fluid Numerical Code: Ebysus” | No Recording |
| Friday, September 30 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, October 7 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, October 14 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Clare Watt, Northumbria University, “Temporal Variability of Wave-Particle Interactions in Earth’s Outer Radiation Belt: Why It Matters, and How Do We Model It?” | No Recording |
| Friday, October 21 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, “The Why and How of Polarized Coronal Imaging” | No Recording |
| Friday, October 28 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Jay Albert, Air Force Research Laboratory, “Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in the Radiation Belts” | No Recording |
| Friday, November 4 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Wen Li, Boston University, “Diffuse Aurora at Earth and Jupiter” | No Recording |
| Friday, November 11 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, November 18 | 12:00-1:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Friday, November 25 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Thanksgiving Holiday | N/A |
Spring 2022
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Monday, January 10 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Organizational Meeting | N/A |
| Tuesday, January 18 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Tuesday, January 25 | 3:00-4:00 PM | William Longley, Rice University, “Advances in Incoherent Scatter Theory” | No Recording |
| Monday, January 31 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Monday, February 7 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Christopher Crabtree, NRL, “Overview of SMART Experiment and Theory” | No Recording |
| Monday, February 14 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Antti Pulkkinen, NASA GSFC, “Extreme Geomagnetic Storm Scenarios and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Heliophysics Science Division“ | No Recording |
| Tuesday, February 22 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Tuesday, March 1 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Monday, March 7 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Amy Keesee, University of New Hampshire, “The Ion Superhighway: Understanding Ion Dynamics from Earth’s Magnetotail to the Ionosphere“ | No Recording |
| Tuesday, March 15 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Seminar | N/A |
| Tuesday, March 29 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Hyunju Connor, NASA GSFC, “Monte-Carlo Simulation of Storm-Time Terrestrial Hydrogen Exosphere“ | No Recording |
| Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No seminar | N/A |
| Tuesday, April 12 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Paul Bellan, Caltech, “Experiments and Models of MHD Jets and their Relevance to Astrophysics and Solar Physics” | No Recording |
| Tuesday, April 19 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Ami Dubois, NRL, “Compressed Current Sheets in the Magnetotail: Importance of the Ambipolar Electric Field“ | No Recording |
| Tuesday, April 26 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Colin Forsyth, University College London, “New Insights into Substorm Processes from the Ground and Space” | No Recording |
Fall 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Monday, October 4 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Anna Tenerani, UT Austin, “Alfvénic Turbulence and Switchbacks in the Solar Wind: New Perspectives with Parker Solar Probe“ | No Recording |
| Monday, October 11 | 3:00-4:00 PM | No Meeting | |
| Monday, October 18 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Leslie Lamarche, SRI International, “Plasma Structuring and Scintillation in the Polar Cap Ionosphere“ | No Recording |
| Monday, November 1 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Cheng Li, University of Michigan, “Winds, Water and Weather of Jupiter’s atmosphere“ | No Recording |
| Wednesday, November 3 | 8:30-9:30 AM | Sina Sadeghzadeh, Southern University of Science and Technology, “RCM-I Modeling of Bubble Injections into the Inner Magnetosphere: Geostationary Altitudes and Ionospheric Responses” | No Recording |
| Thursday, November 4 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Alex Chartier, JHU APL, “Electromagnetic Energy Inputs to Earth’s Atmosphere, and their Effects on the Ionospheric Plasma” | No Recording |
| Monday, November 8 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Tatiana Niembro Hernandez, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard & Smithsonian, “Parker Solar Probe and Coronal Mass Ejections in the Multi-Spacecraft Data Era“ | N/A |
| Friday, November 12 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Wonde Eshetu, West Virginia University, “Quantifying the Effect of Field-Line Curvature Scattering on Ring Current Ions” | No Recording |
| Monday, November 15 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Phil Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, “Inner Magnetospheric Influences of Cold Plasma: O+ and the Geospace Plume“ | No Recording |
| Monday, November 22 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Jacob Bortnik, UCLA, “Using Machine Learning to Reconstruct the Inner Magnetospheric Wave and Particle Environment” | No Recording |
| Monday, November 29 | 3:00-4:00 PM | Allison Jaynes, University of Iowa, “Energetic Particles Keep Falling on My Head“ | No Recording |
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Tues., Jan. 26 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Nathaniel Frissell, University of Scranton, “HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station Development and Science” | No Recording |
| Tues., Feb. 2 | 12:30-1:30 PM | David Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, “The STORM Mission and Imaging the Magnetosphere in Soft X-rays” | No Recording |
| Tues., Feb. 9 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Ryan Dewey, Univ. of Michigan, “Substorm Dynamics in Mercury’s Miniature Magnetosphere” | No Recording |
| Tues., Feb. 16 | 12:30-1:30 PM | no seminar | |
| Tues., Feb. 23 | 12:30-1:30 PM | no seminar | |
| Tues., March 2 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Lindsay Goodwin, NJIT, “Characterizing High-Latitude Ionospheric Plasma Density Structures Using Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radars“ | No Recording |
| Tues., March 9 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Lynn Wilson, NASA/GSFC, “Particle Energization at Collisionless Shock Waves“ | No Recording |
| Tues., March 16 | 12:30-1:30 PM | William Longley, Rice Univ., “Stochastic Modeling of Energetic Electrons in the Outer Radiation Belt” | No Recording |
| Tues., March 23 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, “Mesoscales in the Ionosphere from Magnetosphere Forcing: Plasma Flows, Precipitation, and Conductance” | No Recording |
| Tues., April 6 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Nithin Sividas, NASA/GSFC, “The Edge of the Radiation Belts: Current Sheet Scattering“ | No Recording |
| Thurs., April 8 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Raluca Ilie, UIUC, “Nitrogen Ions: Tracers for Current and Past Atmospheric Loss” | No Recording |
| Tues., April 13 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Daniel Welling, UT Arlington, “A Science Center Approach for Studying Interhemispheric Asymmetries” | No Recording |
| Thurs., April 15 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Gerhard Haerendel, Max Planck Institute to Extraterrestrial Physics, “New Insights into the Onset of a Substorm” | No Recording |
| Tues., April 20 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory, “High-Resolution Observations with IRIS, MUSE, and EUVST” |
No Recording |
| Tues., April 27 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Sarah Gibson, High Altitude Observatory, “What Does a Magnetic Flux Rope Look Like?” | No Recording |
Fall 2020
| Date | Time | Speaker / Title | Link |
| Tues, Aug. 11 | 12:30-1:30 PM | George V. Khazanov, NASA/GSFC: “Electron Precipitation Dynamics in Diffuse Aurora” | No Recording |
| Wed. Sept. 2 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Joint Center for Geospace Storms seminar with Virginia Tech and Univ. of New Hampshire (hosted by Univ. of New Hampshire): Slava Merkin, JHU/APL:“The NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms: Transforming the understanding and predictability of space weather“ | No Recording |
| Tues. Sept. 15 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Evgeny Panov, Austrian Academy of Sciences: “Ballooning-interchange waves and heads, auroral beads and pseudo-breakups” | Link to video |
| Wed. Oct. 7 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Center for Geospace Storms seminar with Virginia Tech and Univ. of New Hampshire, (hosted by Rice): Shanshan Bao, Rice Univ.: “Simulating storm-time magnetospheric dynamics with the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model“ | No Recording |
| Tues. Oct. 13 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Mikhael Sitnov, JHU/APL: “Mining Data in the Tail and Inner Magnetosphere: Implications for the First-Principles Models” | Link to Video |
| Tues. Oct. 20 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Agnit Mukhopadhyay, University of Michigan: “Global Driving of Auroral Conductances: Source Balance and Impacts” | Link to Video |
| Friday Oct. 30 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Kareem Sorathia, JHU/APL: ” Modeling Transport and Buoyancy in the Magnetosphere” | Link to Video |
| Tues. Nov. 3 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Larry Lyons, UCLA: “Physics of Substorm Longitudinal Expansion” | Link to Video |
| Tues. Nov. 17 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: “Riders of the Space Hurricane (Particle Transport, Heating and Acceleration by Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability)” | Link to Video |
| Wed. Nov. 18 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Center for Geospace Storms seminar with Virginia Tech and Univ. of New Hampshire, (hosted by Virginia Tech): Dong Lin, NCAR: ” Exploring the ionosphere/thermosphere dynamics during geospace storms with the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model” | No Recording |
| Tues. Nov. 24 | 12:30-1:30 PM | Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA/GSFC “An overview of Space Physics books published in the last 60 years and my current research on MI coupling“ | Link to video |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker / Topic | |||
| 1/6 | Organizational Meeting | |||
| 1/13 | ||||
| 1/20 | MLK Holiday – No Seminar | |||
| 3/9 | 3/16 | Spring Break | ||
| 3/23 | ||||
| 3/30 | ||||
| 4/6 | ||||
| 4/13 | ||||
| 4/20 |
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are at noon on Monday in Herman Brown Hall room 227.
Last updated on Sept. 10, 2019
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 9/2 | Labour Day Holiday |
| 9/9 | |
| 9/16 | |
| 9/23 | Mark Matney, NASA/JSC: “The Challenge of Orbital Debris” |
| 9/30 | |
| 10/7 | Heather Elliot, SWRI, “Radial Variations in the Solar Wind, and Slowing of the Solar Wind In the Outer Heliosphere” |
| 10/10 | [Thurs., 4PM, Brockman 300, joint with AMO] Eva Kostandivona, Baylor, “Alice In-Between Worlds: The Dusty Plasma Wonderland” |
| 10/14 | Mid Term Recess |
| 10/21 | Natalie R. Hinkel, SWRI, “Expanding the Definition of Planetary Habitability by Analyzing Their Host Stars” |
| 10/28 | Edgar Bering, University of Houston, “The X-ray aurora” |
| 11/4 | |
| 11/11 | Solene Lejosne, UC Berkeley, “Sixty Years of Radial Diffusion Research in the Earth’s Radiation Belts – Is it Time for a Paradigm Shift?” |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/7 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/14 | |
| 1/21 | MLK Holiday – No Seminar |
| 1/28 | Chih-Ping Wang, UCLA, ” Mesoscale Perturbations in the Earth’s Mid-Tail” |
| 2/4 | |
| 2/11 | David Cooke, AFRL/VSBX, “Momentum Coupling in Plasmas” |
| 2/18 | |
| 2/25 | |
| 3/4 | Jerry Goldstein, SWRI, “Earth’s Plasmasphere: Open Questions” |
| 3/11 | Spring Break |
| 3/18 | Brian O’Brien, “Invitation to a Lunar Dusty Plasma Laboratory: Hard vacuum, Raw Sunlight, Magnetic, Dynamically-active, Chemically-reactive Nanoparticles, rich with Recent Nuclei of the Solar Wind” |
| 3/25 | |
| 4/1 | Asher Pembroke, NASA GSFC and The Catholic University of America, “Kamodo Analysis Suite: A functional API for space weather models and data” |
| 4/8 | George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, ” Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Space Thermodynamics” |
| 4/15 | Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, “Ionospheric Variability due to Solar Influences: Solar Storms, Eclipses, Flares, and the 11-year Solar Cycle” |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/20 | Organizational Meeting |
| 8/27 | [4 PM] Craig Johnston. University of St. Andrews, “Modeling the Solar Transition Region Using a Jump Condition” |
| 9/3 | Labor Day- No Seminar |
| 9/10 | William Longley, BU, “Electron-electron collision effects on ISR temperature measurements” |
| 10/1 | Alex Boyd (New Mexico Consortium), “Using Phase Space Density to Explore the Dynamics of the Outer Radiation Belt” |
| 10/8 | Mid term recess – No Seminar |
| 10/15 | Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA GSFC, “Space Weather Influence on Atmospheric Heating and Loss at Close-In Exoplanets” |
| 10/22 | Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max Planck, “Outflow of plasma without removal of magnetic flux: The three-dimensional magnetic topology” |
| 10/29 | |
| 11/7 | [Wed, 12 PM joint with AU] Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC, “Mechanisms of Ion Jet Formation in Magnetic Reconnection” |
| 11/7 | Physics Colloquium [4 PM, Brockmann 101]; Barbara Giles, NASA/GSFC,”WHEN NAVIGATORS BECOME SCIENTISTS: NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission” |
| 11/12 | |
| 11/19 | Will Barnes, Rice, “Understanding Heating Frequency in Active Region Loops through Forward Modeling and Machine Learning” /Alison Farrish, Rice, “Simulating Asterospheric Magnetic Field Behavior of Exoplanet Host Stars” |
| 11/26 | |
| 12/5 | [Wednesday, 12 PM] Shanshan Bao, Rice, “Coupling the Rice Convection Model-Equilibrium with the Lyon–Fedder–Mobarry Global Magnetohydrodynamic Model” |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/8 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/15 | MLK Day – No Seminar |
| 1/22 | |
| 1/29 | |
| 2/5 | Pat Reiff, Rice, “The once and future IMAGE” |
| 2/12 | Anthony Sciola, Rice, “Modeling the Magnetic Characteristics of Exoplanets” |
| 2/19 | James McAteer, New Mexico State University,
“Solar Economics: Balancing the Budget and Too Big Too Fail” |
| 2/26 | Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, ” MMS observations of near-Earth plasma sheet disturbances produced by magnetic reconnection” |
| 3/12 | Spring Break |
| 3/19 | Chunming Zhu, Montana State Univ., ” Two-phase Heating in Solar Flaring Loops “ |
| 3/26 | [Joint with AMO, 11:45 – 1:15, Brockman 300] Scott Baalrud, Univ. of Iowa, “Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas “ |
| 4/2 | Paul O’Brien, Aerospace, “Drift Phase Structure Implications for Radiation Belt Transport.” |
| 4/9 | Alison Farrish, Rice, “Simulating Magnetic Field Behavior and High-Energy Emission from Exoplanet Host Stars” |
| 4/16 | Sofia-Paraskev Moschou, CfA, “Where are all the CMEs?” |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/21 | |
| 9/4 | Labour Day – No Seminar |
| 9/11 | Organizational Meeting |
| 9/18 | |
| 9/25 | |
| 10/2 | |
| 10/9 | Midterm recess – no seminar |
| 10/16 | |
| 10/23 | |
| 10/30 | Jeff Reep, NRL, ” A Hydrodynamic Model of Alfvénic Wave Heating in a Coronal Loop “ |
| 11/6 | Peter Williams, CFA, “Jovian Magnetospheres Beyond the Solar System” |
| 11/13 | Liheng Zheng, UTD, “Modeling energetic electron nonlinear wave-particle interactions with strong EMIC waves” |
| 11/20 | Richard Wolf, Rice, “Buoyancy Waves in Earth’s Magnetosphere” |
| 11/27 | |
| 12/8 | [Friday] Evgeny Panov, Graz, “Plasma sheet currents associated with flow braking” |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/13 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/16 | MLK Day – No Seminar |
| 1/23 | |
| 1/30 | |
| 2/6 | |
| 2/17 | [Friday]Lou-Chuang Lee, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica,“Generation of helium and oxygen EMIC waves by the bunch distribution of oxygen ions associated with weak fast shocks in the magnetosphere” |
| 2/20 | |
| 2/27 | Will Barnes, Rice, “A Framework for Forward Modeling Solar Active Regions from Hydrodynamic Simulations of Coronal Loops.” |
| 3/6 | Lunjin Chen, UTD, “The modulation of chorus wave intensity by ULF compressional poloidal modes” |
| 3/13 | Spring Break |
| 3/20 | |
| 3/27 | Katherine Goodrich, LASP, “Generation and Micro-scale Effects of Parallel Electric Fields in an Oblique Shock as Observed by MMS” |
| 4/17 | Edison Liang, Rice, “PIC simulations of Relativistic Shear Flows” |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/22 | Organizational Meeting |
| 8/29 | |
| 9/5 | Labor Day – No Seminar |
| 9/12 | |
| 9/19 | James Webster, Rice, “Constraining Magnetic Reconnection with In-Situ Observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission” / Pat Reiff, Rice,“Multispacecraft observations and CCMC modeling of a major geomagnetic storm” |
| 9/26 | David Alexander, Rice, “Hard X-ray Asymmetries in Solar Flares” |
| 10/3 | Yu Lin, Auburn, “Global hybrid simulation of magnetospheric plasma processes” |
| 10/10 | Mid term recess – no seminar |
| 10/17 | Space physics/LSAP Seminar: Alex Glocer, GSFC, “Ionospheric Outflow and Atmospheric Evolution for Earth, Planetary, and Exoplanetary Systems” |
| 10/24 | |
| 10/31 | LSAP Lunch: Matt Knepley, CAAM, Rice, “TBA” |
| 11/7 | |
| 11/15 | [Tuesday, 12:10] Scot Elkington, LASP, ” Physical Models of the Near-Earth Space Radiation Environment” |
| 11/21 | Aaron Schutza, Rice, “Buoyancy Oscillations in Earth’s magnetosphere” |
| 11/28 | Allison Jaynes, LASP, “TBA” |
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are at noon on Monday in Herman Brown Hall room 227.
Last updated on Nov. 17, 2016
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/11 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/18 | MLK Day – No Seminar |
| 1/25 | Paul OBrien, Aerospace, “Estimating electron radial diffusion coeficients from particle data” |
| 2/1 | Jiang Liu, UCLA, “Dipolarization Fronts forming the Substorm Current Wedge–the Wedgelet Scenario” |
| 2/8 | William Longley, Rice, “Using Auroral Asymmetries to Test MHD Models” |
| 2/15 | Pat Reiff/Stan Sazykin, Rice, “MMS, Magnetic Reconnection, and the June 22 Storm” |
| 2/22 | |
| 2/29 | Spring break – no seminar |
| 3/7 | |
| 3/14 | Phil Erickson, MIT Haystack Observatory, “New Insights into Relativistic Electron Radiation Belt Dynamics: The Impenetrable Barrier, the Plasmapause, and the VLF Bubble” |
| 3/21 | Matina Gkioulidou, APL, “The Physics of Ring Current: Old News, New Insights” |
| 3/28 | Yaxue Dong, CU-LASP, ” MAVEN observations of ion escape from Mars “ |
| 4/4 | LSAP Seminar: David Kipping, Columbia University, “Hunting for Exomoons & The Cool Worlds Lab” |
| 4/11 | LSAP Seminar: Zdzislaw Musielak, UTA, “TBA” CANCELLED |
| 4/18 | Raluca Ile, University of Michigan, “Transport, Acceleration, and Loss of the near-Earth Plasma: A Global Perspective” |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/24 | Organizational Meeting |
| 8/31 | LSAP talk: David Alexander, Rice, “Categorizing solar activity and scaling to other stars” |
| 9/7 | Labor Day – no seminar |
| 9/14 | LSAP talk: Andrea Isella, Rice, “Searching for Radio Emission from Extrasolar planets” |
| 9/21 | |
| 9/28 | |
| 10/5 | Craig Rodger, University of Otago, “Observations of EMIC wave-driven precipitation from the radiation belts” |
| 10/12 | Mid-term recess – no seminar |
| 10/19 | LSAP talk: Ofer Cohen, CFA, “The Space Physics of Close-in Exoplanets and Star-planet Interaction” |
| 10/26 | |
| 11/2 | |
| 11/9 | Will Barnes, Rice, “Impacts of Two-fluid Effects on Emission from Impulsively Heated Coronal Loops” |
| 11/16 | Pål Brekke, Norwegian Space Center, “The Sun – and its connection to Earth. Norwegian involvements in solar missions.” |
| 11/23 | [NOTE: Marlar Lecture, Fran Bagenal, CU, “New Horizons Mission to Pluto” 7PM McMurtry Auditorium] |
| 11/30 | Aaron Schutza, Rice, “Thin filament simulations using empirical magnetosphere models” |
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are at noon on Monday in Herman Brown Hall room 227.
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/12 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/19 | MLK Holiday – No Seminar |
| 1/26 | Scott McIntosh, HAO, “The Seasons of Solar Variability” |
| 2//2 | |
| 2/9 | Ramkumar Balasubramanian, Rice, “Carrington 2? Estimated hypothetical response of a major CME impact on Earth and its implications to space weather.” |
| 2/16 | |
| 2/23 | |
| 3/2 | Spring Break – No seminar |
| 3/9 | |
| 3/19 | [Thurs] Robert Pappalardo, JPL, “Geology and Interiors of the Icy Galilean Satellites of Jupiter” |
| 3/23 | |
| 3/30 | |
| 4/1 | [Wed,. Joint with AU] Federico Fiuza LLNL, “PIC Simulations and Experiments of Collisionless Shocks” |
| 4/6 | |
| 4/13 | Michelle Thomsen, Planetary Science Institute (PSI), “Plasmapause Formation at Saturn”. |
| 4/20 | Drew Turner, Aerospace, “Understanding the variability of Earth’s outer radiation belt electrons: New perspectives from the THEMIS and Van Allen Probes era” |
| 4/21 | [Tues, 12:05 PM] Douglas Biesecker, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, “The Deep Space Climate Observatory ( DSCOVR)” |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/25 | Organizational Meeting |
| 9/1 | Labor Day – No Seminar |
| 9/8 | Jeff Chancellor, National Space Biomedical Res. Inst., “Simulating the Interplanetary Space Weather Environment for Ground-based Radiobiology Experiments. “ |
| 9/15 | – |
| 9/22 | Yaxue Dong, Rice, “Characteristics of ice grains in the Enceladus plume from Cassini observations” |
| 9/29 | |
| 10/6 | Robert Kerr, Director, Arecibo Observatory, “Observing the Exosphere from Arecibo. Nothing Matters.” |
| 10/13 | Mid term recess – No Seminar |
| 10/20 | Aaron Schutza, Rice,”Simulation of dislocated flux in a dynamic magnetosphere” Brandon Mueller, Rice, “Source and Time-Variability of the Slow Solar Wind” |
| 10/27 | Liheng Zheng, Rice, “Three-dimensional diffusion in the radiation belts: from dipole to asymmetric magnetic field” |
| 11/3 | Jian Yang, Rice, “Contribution of plasma sheet bubble injections to the storm-time ring current” |
| 11/10 | Geoff Mcharg, USAFA, ” The Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA)—A low cost space weather sensor” |
| 11/17 | Margaret Chen, Aerospace, “Dynamics of the Earth’s Ring Current: Recent Understanding through Self-Consistent Simulations” |
| 11/24 | – |
| 12/3 | [Wed., Joint with AU] Hui Li, LANL, “Particle Acceleration from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Highly Magnetized Plasmas “ |
| 12/12 | Evgeny Panov, IWF, Graz, “Plasma sheet flow dissipation during oscillatory braking” |
Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/13 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/20 | MLK Holiday – No Seminar |
| 1/27 | |
| 2/3 | |
| 2/10 | (Joint withe AU) Jason Jackiewicz, New Mexico State, “Magnetism and Seismology of the Sun and Red-Giant Stars “ |
| 2/17 | Jian Yang, Rice, “RCM-E simulation of Auroral Arcs “ |
| 2/24 | |
| 3/3 | Mid term recess – No Seminar |
| 3/10 | |
| 3/17 | Chunming Zhu, Rice, “Observation of solar eruptive filaments” |
| 3/24 | Paul OBrien, Aerospace, “Two recent results involving pitch angle diffusion in the Earth’s outer electron belt” |
| 3/31 | |
| 4/7 | Jerry Goldstein, SWRI, “Analytical model of rotating two-cell convection at Saturn” |
| 4/11 | [Friday, 12PM], Ivan Kantor, INPE, Brazil, “Ionospheric Total Electron Content and Scintillation measured with GPS over Brazil” |
| 4/14 | None scheduled (Visiting Committee) |
| 4/21 | SEMINAR CANCELLED – Scott Mcintosh, HAO, “TBA” |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/26 | Organizational Meeting |
| 9/2 | Labour Day – No Seminar |
| 9/12 | (Thurs. 12:05) Dan Baker, LASP, “New Radiation Belt Storm Probe (Van Allen Probes) Science Results” |
| 9/16 | Curt Michel, Rice, “Voyager 1 Magnetometer searches for the heliopause” |
| 9/26 | (Thurs. 12:05, Joint with AU) Linda Spilker, JPL/Caltech: “Cassini explores Saturn’s main rings in the thermal infrared” |
| 9/30 | Tom Hill, Rice, “Injection and drift dispersion of hot plasma in Saturn’s inner magnetosphere” |
| 10/7 | |
| 10/14 | Midterm recess – no seminar |
| 10/21 | Stephen Mackwell, LPI, “What can we learn about Venus from deformation experiments on Earth?” |
| 10/28 | |
| 11/4 | James Juno, Rice, “Benchmarking a Discontinuous Galerkin Vlasov-Poisson Solver in Gkeyll”, Aaron Schutza, Rice, “Thin filament simulations in the Earth’s magnetotail” |
| 11/11 | |
| 11/18 | Illia Silin, Rice, ” Development of an improved magnetospheric MHD/equilibrium code. “ |
| 11/25 | Amy SImon-Miller, GSFC, “OSIRIS-REx: NASA’s Asteroid Sample Return Mission” |
| 12/4 | (Wed, joint with AU), Michael Hesse, GSFC, “Some new insights into the kinetic physics of magnetic reconnection” [Also, a colloquium at 4: “The Sun-Planet System: A Laboratory for Fundamental Plasma Processes” |
| 12/16 | [Monday, 11 AM] Evgeny Panov, IWF, Graz, Austria, “Recent results on oscillatory flow Braking: 1. Period and damping of Pi2 pulsations, 2. Tailward retreat of oscillatory flows.” |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/07 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/14 | No seminar |
| 1/21 | MLK Holiday – No Seminar |
| 1/28 | Alysha Reinard, NOAA, “Using multispacecraft observations, modeling, and numerical simulations to interpret the compositional structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections” |
| 2/4 | Xin Liu, Rice, “Numerical simulations of injection-dispersion events in Saturn’s inner magnetosphere” |
| 2/11 | No seminar |
| 2/18 | Simon Wing, APL/JHU, ” What can DMSP observations tell us about the dayside M-I coupling and the nightside particle transport?” |
| 2/25 | No seminar (Spring Break) |
| 3/4 | Hui Li, LANL, [joint with AU], “A brief introduction to some of space and astrophysics research at Los Alamos National Laboratory” |
| 3/11 | Yaxue Dong, Rice, “A study of the Enceladus plume” |
| 3/18 | Vytenis Vasyliunas, MPI für Sonnensystemforschung, “Angular momentum transfer in the polar cap of Saturn and its relation (if any) to magnetospheric periodicities” |
| 3/19 | [Tuesday, 12.05] Jared Espley, NASA GSFC, “Did the Martian atmosphere blow away? “ |
| 3/25 | No Seminar |
| 4/1 | Liheng Zheng, Rice, “Three-dimensional stochastic modeling of radiation belts in adiabatic invariant coordinates” |
| 4/8 | |
| 4/15 | |
| 4/22 | Steve Bradshaw, Rice, “Some Challenges Associated with Numerical Modeling of Solar Flares” |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/20 | Organizational Meeting |
| 8/24 | (Friday) Frank Crary, CU/LASP, “Charging of dust in the Enceladus plume: Limits on free electron depletion” |
| 8/27 | Mark Matney, JSC, “The Challenge of Orbital Debris” |
| 9/3 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/10 | – |
| 9/17 | Pat Reiff, RIce, “Mapping and Predicting the Aurora” |
| 9/25 | (Tuesday, 12:05), James McAteer, NMSU, “Drowning in Data – The Battle for Science” |
| 10/2 | (Tuesday, 12:05, joint with AU), Vahe Petrosian, Stanford, “Cosmological evolution of Gamma-ray bursts and the star formation rate” |
| 10/8 | Leonard Kramer, Boeing, “International Space Station (ISS) Space Environment Effects” |
| 10/15 | Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Obs., “Using GPS to Study Earth’s Ionosphere and Magnetosphere” Note: Special additional history lecture at 4PM: “Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Fission” |
| 10/22 | Andrei Runov, UCLA, “Fast Flows, Depleted Flux Tubes, and Dipolarization Fronts in the Near Earth Plasma Sheet “ |
| 10/29 | Anthony Chan, Rice, ” Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) preview” |
| 11/5 | Jacob Bortnik, UCLA, “A chorus line of magnetospheric effects, challenges, and opportunities” |
| 11/12 | |
| 11/19 | Tim Warburton, CAAM, RIce, ‘The Rice Advanced SCALable Simulation Project” |
| 11/26 | Illia Silin, Rice, “EMIC Waves in the inner magnetosphere and at the magnetopause” |
| 12/3 | No Seminar (Fall AGU) |
| 12/10 | Evgeny Panov, IWF, Graz, “Oscillatory BBF Braking “ |
Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/09 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/16 | No Seminar – MLK Day |
| 1/23 | David Sibeck, NASA/GSFC “Poloidal Pulsations, Frequency-Doubling, and Field-Aligned Ion Streaming” |
| 1/30 | Tom Hill, Rice, ” Charged nanograins in the Enceladus plume“ |
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2/6 |
Michelle Thomsen, LANL, “Evidence at Saturn for an Inner Magnetospheric Convection Pattern, Fixed in Local Time” |
| 2/13 | No seminar |
| 2/20 | No seminar |
| 2/27 | No seminar (Spring Break) |
| 3/5 | Sorin Zaharia, LANL, “Understanding the Physics of the Near Earth Magnetosphere Through RAM-SCB Simulations” |
| 3/12 | No seminar |
| 3/19 | Josef Koller, LANL, “IMPACT: Integrated Modeling of Perturbations in Atmospheres for Conjunction Tracking – A new orbital dynamics model to prevent collisions in space.” |
| 3/26 | No Seminar |
| 3/30 | (Friday) Arthur Few, “Lightning and Ice in Volcanic Clouds” |
| 4/2 | No Seminar |
| 4/10 | (Tues.) Nick Omidi, , “Interaction of Saturn’s co-rotating plasma with Enceladus” |
| 4/16 | Joe Huba, NRL, “3D Modeling of Equatorial Spread F” |
| Date | Speaker / Topic | |||
| 8/22 | Organizational Meeting | |||
| 8/29 | Liheng Zheng, Rice, “The magnetospheric structure during substorm growth phase: a tentative calculation using satellite observed pressure.” | |||
| 9/5 | No seminar (Labor Day) | |||
| 9/12 | No Seminar | |||
| 9/21 | (Wed., joint with AU) Haihong Ch, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder,: “Kinetic Turbulence and Fast Magnetic Reconnection“ | |||
| 9/26 | No Seminar | |||
| 10/3 | Pat Newell, APL, “Substorm and Magnetosphere Characteristic Scales Inferred from the SuperMAG Auroral Electrojet Indices” | |||
| 10/10 | No seminar (Recess) | |||
| 10/17 | Colby Lemon, Aerospace, “Ensemble Simulations of Magnetic Storms using the RCM-E” | |||
| 10/24 | Steve Mende, SSL, UC Berkeley, “Simple model of the auroral current system – a case study” | |||
| 10/31 | Deirdre Wendel, NASA Goddard, “Turbulent Reconnection Rates from Cluster Observations in the Magnetosheath” | |||
| 11/7 | Nicki Viall, GSFC, “Patterns of Coronal Heating in Active Regions: A Statistical Analysis of SDO/AIA data and Modeling of Active Region Light Curves“ | |||
| 11/8 | (Tues, 12:05) Larry Kepko, GSFC, “Periodicities in heliophysics plasmas“ | |||
| 11/11 | (Friday, 12PM) Illia Silin, University of Alberta, “Electromagnetic ion-cyclotron (EMIC) waves in multi-ion plasmas and their resonant interaction with relativistic electrons“ | |||
| 11/11 |
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| 11/14 | Bei Hu, Rice, “Initial results from the two-way coupled OpenGGCM/RCM” | |||
| 11/21 | Faye Chen, Rice, ” ULF power spectral densities and radial diffusion coefficients of a high-speed-stream storm in 2002″ Chunming Zhu, Rice, “Observations of solar filament eruptions” |
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| 11/28 | Stan Sazykin, Rice, “Magnetosphere and ionosphere: Simulations versus reality” |
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker / Topic | |
| 1/11 | Organizational meeting (Tuesday) | |
| 1/17 | No seminar (MLK Day) | |
| 1/24 | Dick Wolf, Rice, “Advice to the Young Scientist” | |
| 1/31 | Gerald Share, University of Maryland, College Park, “Using Gamma-Rays to Probe Chromospheric Composition and Properties of Accelerated Ions and Electrons in Solar Flares” | |
| 2/8 | (Tues., 12:05) Jerry Fishman, NASA/MSFC, “The Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanche Process in Thunderstorms” | |
| 2/14 | Ping Zhu, Univ. Wisc, “Ballooning Instability of Near-Earth Magnetotail” | |
| 2/14 | (4 PM, HBH 254) Chris Crabtree, NRL, “Nonlinear Scattering of Whistler Waves in the Earth’s Radiation Belts” | |
| 2/21 | Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab., “The role of the chromosphere in providing the corona with hot plasma.” | |
| 2/28 | No seminar (Spring Break) | |
| 3/7 | Weichao Tu, LASP, “A case study of radiation belt electron dynamics – quantification of source, loss and transport” | |
| 3/15 | (Tues., 12:05) Jerry Goldstein, SWRI, “TWINS: First stereo magnetospheric imager” | |
| 3/21 | – | |
| 3/29 |
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| 4/4 | – | |
| 4/12 | (Tues., 12:05) Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung , ” The Magnetotail: An Unsolved Fundamental Problem of Magnetospheric Physics“ | |
| 4/18 | – |
Fall 2010
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/23 | Organizational Meeting |
| 8/30 | Xin Liu, Rice, “Numerical simulation of plasma transport in Saturn’s inner magnetosphere using RCM” |
| 9/6 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/13 | No seminar |
| 9/20 | Wendell Horton, UT Austin, “Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections driving Storms and Substorms: example from the 3-5 April 2010 event” |
| 9/27 | Dick Wolf, Jian Yang and Bei Hu, Rice, “Bubbles, Blobs and Reconnection” |
| 10/4 | Yang Song, Rice, “Challenges of modeling an isolated magnetospheric substorm” |
| 10/11 | No seminar (Recess) |
| 10/18 | Asher Pembroke, Rice, “Path, Surface, and Volume Integration for MHD models” |
| 10/25 | Gordon Holman, GSFC, “Origin and Co-Evolution of Energetic Particles and Thermal Plasma in the Impulsive Phase of Solar Flares” |
| 11/1 | Jerry Brackbill, ParticleSolutions, “On the Role of Tensor Pressure in Magnetic Reconnection“ |
| 11/8 | Yi Chen, Rice, “Centrifugally driven radial convection of plasma in Saturn’s inner magnetosphere” |
Spring 2010
| Date | Speaker/Topic |
| 1/11 | (2:00 pm , HB 355) CISM web seminar, Sarah Gibson, NCAR/HAO, “End-to-end observations and modeling of Whole Heliosphere Interval: Origins and impacts of fast solar wind streams” |
| 1/12 | (Tuesday 12:05 pm) Stephen Bradshaw , George Mason Univ. “The Dynamic Solar Corona“ |
| 1/18 | No seminar (MLK Day) |
| 1/22 | (Friday 12:05 pm) Shravan Hanasoge, Princeton Univ. , “Developing models of solar dynamo action“ |
| 1/26 | (Tuesday 12:05 pm) Ofer Cohen, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , “The role of magnetic reconnection in the large-scale solar corona“ |
| 2/5 | (Friday 12:05 pm) Franco Rappazzo, Inst. Astrofisica de Canaria, Tenerife, Spain ), “The Parker Scenario for Coronal Heating and MHD Turbulence“ |
| 2/8 | Elizabeth Jensen, ACS Consulting, “Investigations into the solar magnetic field with Faraday rotation” |
| 2/16 | (Tuesday 12:05 pm) Junwei Zhao, Stanford Univ. , “Validating helioseismology results using numerical simulations“ |
| 2/22 | Joe Kan, University of Alaska, “Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling model of substorms” |
| 3/1 | No Seminar (spring break) |
| 3/8 | Jack Gosling, LASP, Univ. Colorado, “Magnetic Reconnection in the solar wind” |
| 3/15 | Paul Cloutier, Rice, “What fell through the cracks between plasma physics and atomic and molecular physics in the understanding of processes in planetary atmospheres” |
| 3/23 | (Tuesday 12:05 pm) Tom Killian, Rice, “Ion Acoustic Waves in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas” |
| 3/29 | Paul Cassak, West Virginia Univ., “Scaling of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection and Magnetospheric Applications” |
| 4/5 | No seminar |
| 4/12 | No seminar |
| 4/19 | Larry Kepko, NASA Goddard,”Substorm dynamics inferred from THEMIS observations” |
Fall 2009
| Date | Speaker/Topic |
| 8/24 | First Day of Classes |
| 8/31 | Organizational Meeting |
| 9/7 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/14 | No seminar |
| 9/21 | Dick Wolf, Rice, “On field-aligned currents and bubbles” |
| 9/28 | Student Double header: Yi Chen, Rice, ” Rate of Plasma Radial Transport in Saturn’s Inner Magnetosphere”, Yaxue Dong, Rice, “Neutral H2O density in the Enceladus plume “ |
| 10/5 | Don Mitchell, JHU-APL, “Imaging Saturn’s magnetosphere using emissions of energetic neutral atoms” |
| 10/12 | No seminar (Midterm Recess) |
| 10/19 | Toshi Nishimura, UCLA, “Substorm auroral onset by earthward intrusion of new plasma: THEMIS imager and spacecraft observations” |
| 10/26 | Rod Heelis, UT Dallas, “The ionosphere and thermosphere under an extremely quiet sun: views from the CINDI – C/NOFS mission “ |
| 11/2 | (2PM HBH 355) CISM Access Grid Seminar: Ramon Lopez, UT, Arlington, “Generation of the transpolar potential” |
| 11/9 | David McComas, SWRI, “First Results from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer” |
| 11/16 | Asher Pembroke, Rice, “Measurements of the Magnetosphere: A Paradigm for Understanding Numerical MHD Simulations “ |
| 11/23 | Slava Merkin, Boston University, “Multi-fluid MHD simulations using the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry model“ |
| 12/2 | (Wednesday, joint with AU): Markus Aschwanden, Lockheed-Martin ATC, “The solar corona, flares, and coronal mass ejections observed with STEREO“ |
| 12/9 | (Wednesday): Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max-Planck-Institut, “Birkeland (magnetic-field-aligned) currents in mirror fields: their formation and their effects on magnetospheric dynamics and the aurora” |
Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/12 | Organizational meeting |
| 1/19 | No seminar (MLK holiday) |
| 2/9 | Joachim Raeder, Univ. NH, “OpenGGCM: Latest Science and Space Weather Forecasting “ |
| 2/17 | (TUESDAY, 12:10 PM) Ilia Roussev, Univ. Hawaii, “Recent advances from theory and 3-D numerical modeling in understanding the origin and evolution of CMEs and related SEP events“ |
| 2/23 | Jeremiah Brackbill, ParticleSolutions, Portland, OR., “Coupling Magnetohydrodynamic and Plasma Simulations” |
| 2/24 | (TUESDAY, 12:10 PM) David Tsiklauri, Univ. of Salford, UK, “Collisionless reconnection processes in space plasmas“ |
| 3/2 | No seminar (Spring break) |
| 3/9 | (CISM AG Seminar, HBH 355, 2 PM): Joel Mozer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space Weather Center of Excellence, “Future Directions in Air Force Space Weather Forecasting” |
| 3/10 | (TUESDAY,12:10 PM) Joanne Mason, Univ. Chicago, “NEW DIRECTIONS IN MHD TURBULENCE: Scale-Dependent Alignment“ |
| 3/16 | Deirdre Wendel, Rice, “The Topology and Convection of a Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field Reconnection Event“ |
| 3/23 | Jian Yang, Rice, “Inner magnetosphere modeling during geomagnetic active times” |
| 3/27 | (FRIDAY, 12:10 PM) Laurent Gizon, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, “Computed Tomography of Sunspots“ |
| 3/30 | Ramkumar Bala, Rice, “Forecasting Geomagnetic Activity Index using the Boyle Index through Artificial Neural Networks“ |
| 4//6 | Dae-Young Lee, Chungbuk National University, Cheongji, South Korea, now at JHU/APL, “Some effects of solar wind dynamic pressure changes on the Earth’s magnetosphere” |
| 4/13 | Jerry Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute, “A Tale of Two Plasmaspheres (Earth and Saturn)” |
| 4/13 | (CISM AG Seminar, HBH 355, 2 PM): Michael Stevens, MIT, “Exploring quasi-steady reconnection in the heliosphere with Voyager 2” |
Fall 2008
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/25 | Organizational meeting |
| 9/1 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/8 | No seminar |
| 9/15 | No seminar |
| 9/22 | Curt Michel, Rice, “Electrostatics on a Grid“ |
| 9/29 | Michael Wiltberger, NCAR/HAO, “Effect of O+ Ionospheric Outflow in a Multifluid MHD Model of the Magnetosphere“ |
| 10/6 | Xin Tao, Rice, “Numerical modeling of multi-dimensional diffusion in the radiation belts using layer methods.” |
| 10/13 | No seminar (Mid-term recess) |
| Friday 10/24 | CISM Access Grid Seminar, 1-2 PM, HBH 355 (Moon Room), Seth Claudepierre, Dartmouth,” Magnetospheric Cavity Modes Driven by Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure Fluctuations: Initial Results From LFM Simulations” |
| 10/27 | Paul Ontiveros, Rice, “Synthetic magnetogram calculations from magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling models” |
| 11/3 | Mikhail Sitnov, JHU/APL, “Structure and dynamics of the storm-time magnetosphere inferred from a high-resolution empirical magnetic field model” |
| 11/3 (2:30 PM) | Mikhail Sitnov, JHU/APL, 2:30 PM, HBH 355, “Dipolarization front: A distinctive feature of the reconnection onset in the magnetotail” |
| 11/10 | Mihaly Horanyi, Univ. Colorado @ Boulder, “Dusty Plasmas in the solar system” |
| 11/17 | No seminar |
| 11/24 | Chris Crabtree, MIT, “Magnetic Compressional Instabilities in Space Plasmas” |
| 12/1 | No seminar |
Spring 2008
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/7 | Organizational Meeting |
| 1/14 | Curt Michel, Rice / PIC Codes |
| 1/21 | No seminar (MLK holiday) |
| 1/28 | Paul Cloutier, Rice / Venus Lightning Again |
| 2/4 | David Alexander, Rice / Solar Transients |
| 2/11 | Ray Lopez, UTArlington / Saturation of the polar cap potential and the current-driven magnetosphere. |
| 2/11 | 2 pm, HBH 355, CISM Access Grid Seminar: Mathew Owens (Boston University) “The role of coronal mass ejections in the solar cycle evolution of the heliospheric magnetic field.” |
| 2/18 | Hugh Hudson, Berkeley / “Hard X-ray sources in the solar corona”? |
| 2/25 | |
| 3/3 | No seminar (Mid-term recess) |
| 3/10 | Asher Pembroke (tent.), Rice / TBA |
| 3/12 | (Department Colloquium – Wed. at 4pm) – George Siscoe, BU – “Heliophysics”, 210 Herzstein Hall |
| 3/13 | (Thursday) George Siscoe, BU / “The magnetosphere under extreme conditions” at 12:05 PM, Herman Brown 227 |
| 3/17 | Michelle Thomsen, LANL / “The Earth’s Magnetospheric Dynamics as Observed at Geosynchronous Orbit” |
| 3/24 | Jian Yang, Rice University /”Simulation of the 18 April 2002 sawtooth event using Rice Convection Model” |
| 3/24 | 2 PM, CISM Access Grid Seminar: HBH 355, Chia-Lin (Elly) Huang (Boston University). |
| 3/31 | |
| 4/7 | Tom Berger, Lockheed / “BUOYANT PLUMES IN SOLAR PROMINENCES: Hinode/SOT Observations of a New Phenomenon on the Sun” |
| 4/14 | Stan Sazykin, Rice / TBA |
| 4/21 | Paul Ontiveros (tent.) Rice / TBA |
Fall 2007
| Date | Speaker/Topic |
| 8/31 | (Friday) Organizational meeting |
| 9/3 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/10 | Edison Liang, Rice University, “PIC simulations of particle acceleration in relativistic expanding plasmas” |
| 9/17 | No seminar (Many people out of town) |
| 9/24 | F. C. Michel, Rice University, “The Gibbs phenomenon: What more is there to know?” |
| 10/1 | Tom Hill, Rice, “Currents & Plasmoids” |
| 10/8 | Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “Coupling the fluid and the kinetic approach to handle multiple scale problems in space, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas” |
| 10/15 | No seminar (Mid term recess) |
| 10/22 | Ramkumar Balasubramanian, Rice, “Real-time prediction of magnetospheric activity using the Boyle index” |
| 10/29 | No seminar (CAPS meeting @ Rice) |
| 11/5 | David McComas, Southwest Research Institute, “Diverse plasma populations and structures in Jupiter’s magnetotail” |
| 11/12 | Rui Liu, Rice, “The role of the kink instability in erupting filaments” |
| 11/19 | Tom Killian, Rice, “Fundamental plasma physics at ultracold temperatures” |
| 11/26 | Michael Hesse, NASA GSFC, “The inner workings of magnetic reconnection” |
| 12/5 | [Wednesday, 1:00 pm, room SS 106] Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max Planck Institute, “Meaning and time evolution of the Dst index, II: Does the tail wag the dog?” |
Spring 2007
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/12 | (FRIDAY) Organizational meeting |
| 1/19 | (FRIDAY) Josef Koller, Los Alamos National Lab., “Radiation belt data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter” |
| 1/22 | Harold “Sonny” White, NASA JSC, “Informational briefing on design/certification/sustaining of spaceflight hardware” |
| 1/29 | Paul Cloutier, Rice, “Updates from Mars” |
| 2/6 | (TUESDAY) Vahe Peroomian, UCLA, “Ion dynamics in the magnetotail during the April 17, 2002 magnetic storm” |
| 2/12 | Abigail Rymer, JHU/APL,”Saturn’s magnetosphere: a view from the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer” |
| 2/19 | B. C. Low, High Altitude Observatory, “Spontaneous electric current sheets in astrophysical magnetic fields” |
| 2/26 | J. T. Clarke, Boston Univ., ” The aurora on Jupiter and Saturn: initial results from the HST campaign” |
| 3/5 | Midterm Recess |
| 3/12 | Jacob Bortnik, UCLA, “Ray tracing of penetrating chorus and its implications for the radiation belts” |
| 3/19 | |
| 3/26 | Wendell Horton, UTA Institute for Fusion Studies, “Magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas” |
| 4/2 | |
| 4/9 | Fran Bagenal, Univ. Colorado, “The peculiar role of Io in the magnetosphere of Jupiter” |
| 4/16 | [Note Ed Stone (JPL) will give a P&A colloquium 4/18 and the Marlar lecture 4/19.] |
| 4/23 | Don Gurnett, Univ. Iowa, “Radio, plasma, and magnetic fields associated with a rotating outward flowing plume of plasma in Saturn’s magnetosphere” |
Fall 2006
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 9/4 | No seminar (Labor Day) |
| 9/5 | (Tuesday) Organizational meeting |
| 9/11 | Han Wu, Rice, “Fine structure in the Io plasma torus” |
| 9/18 | Tom Hill, Rice, “Saving the Io torus from itself” |
| 9/25 | Judith Karpen, Naval Research Lab., “Reconnection: the key to solar activity” |
| 10/2 | Eileen Stansbery, NASA JSC, “Sample return science: status of the Genesis and Stardust missions” |
| 10/9 | Xiaoyan Xing, Rice, “Interchange instability in a plasma connected to a conducting ionosphere” |
| 10/17 | (TUESDAY @ Noon) Mike Liemohn, Univ. Michigan, “Electrons as tracers of the Mars-solar wind interaction” |
| 10/23 | Jichun Zhang, Rice, “Modeling the global magnetosphere” |
| 10/30 | Aramis Martinez, Rice, “Forward-modeling field-aligned densities in the polar cap from IMAGE RPI X-mode traces” |
| 11/6 | Aaron Coyner and David Alexander, Rice, “Influence of solar source conditions on solar energetic particle variability” |
| 11/13 | (TWH gone) |
| 11/20 | Jim Horwitz, UT Arlington, “Dynamic fluid-kinetic simulations of high-latitude ionospheric outflow” |
| 11/27 | |
| 12/4 | AGU practice ? |
Spring 2006
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 1/13 | (Friday) Jichun Zhang, Univ. Michigan, “Understanding storm-time ring current sources: data analysis and modeling” |
| 1/16 | MLK Holiday |
| 1/23 | Organizational meeting |
| 1/30 | Sorin Zaharia, Los Alamos National Lab., “Three-dimensional quasi-static magnetospheric modeling and applications” |
| 2/6 | No seminar |
| 2/13 | Jean Perez, UT Austin, “Computing coherent structures using Chebyshev-Fourier pseudospectral techniques in confinement systems” |
| 2/20 | Trevor Garner, UT Austin, “The impacts of a negative ionospheric storm on the subauroral electric field” |
| 2/27 | Sam Jones, NASA Goddard SFC, “Studying O+ substorm injection using particle trajectory simulation” |
| 3/7 | (Tuesday) John Brown, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Univ. Glasgow, “Hard X-ray production in solar flares: the thick target model – alive and well or dying by a thousand cuts?” |
| 3/16 | (Thursday) Alex Dessler, Univ. Arizona, “Some disparate thoughts on ball lightning, the peak in world oil production, and the Vasyliunas theorem on E = -VxB” |
| 3/17 | (Friday) Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max-Planck-Institut für SonnenSystemForschung, “Physical origin of magnetospheric convection flow on closed field lines” |
| 3/20 | Holly Gilbert, Rice, “Chromospheric waves observed in the He I (1083 nm) line” |
| 3/31 | (Friday) David Cooke, Air Force Research Lab., “The spacecraft plasma interaction and lessons for space physics” |
| 4/3 | Ross Galloway, Univ. Glasgow, “Formation of fine structure in solar coronal loops: the influence of disordered magnetic fields” |
| 4/10 | Stan Sazykin, Rice, “Magnetospheric electric fields: How large can they get?” |
| 4/17 | Jay Albert, Air Force Research Lab., “Wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts” |
| 4/24 | Phillip Anderson, UT Dallas, “The sources and characteristics of subauroral electric fields” |
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 8/25 | Organizational meeting |
| 8/29 | Bin Yu, Rice University, “Dynamic Simulation of radiation belt electrons in a magnetic storm in the declining phase of the solar cycle” |
| 9/5 | Labor Day |
| 9/12 | Tom Hill, Rice University, “When the ionosphere drives the magnetosphere” |
| 9/19 | David Alexander, Rice University, “Exploring the nature of magnetic reconnection in solar transients” |
| 9/26 | John Shebalin (postponed to 11/28 because of Hurricane Rita travel difficulties.) |
| 10/3 | Paul Ontiveros, Rice University, “Towards a magnetic field model for the storm-time magnetosphere” |
| 10/10 | Mid-Term Recess |
| 10/17 | Katharine Jones, Rice University, “Wavelet time-frequency analysis with applications in solar physics” |
| 10/24 | Yi-Jiun Su, UT Arlington, “Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling at Earth and Jupiter” |
| 10/31 | Duane Pontius, Birmingham Southern College, “The Enceladus flux tube” |
| 11/7 | Mihir Desai, Southwest Research Institute, “The source population for solar energetic particles” |
| 11/14 | Dave Brain, UC Berkeley, “Auroral electrons in Mars’ neato magneto(sphere)” |
| 11/18 | (Friday) Alain Brizard, Saint Michael’s College, “Development and application of variational principles in plasma physics” |
| 11/28 | John Shebalin, UH-Clear Lake & NASA Johnson Space Center, “Broken symmetry and coherent structure in MHD turbulence” |
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 01/13 | Organizational meeting |
| 01/18 | (Tuesday) William H. Beasley (Rice ’67), Univ. of Oklahoma, “Do extensive air showers of cosmic-ray secondaries initiate lightning, and if so, how would we know?” |
| 01/27 | Paul Cloutier, Rice, “The curious tale of Venus lightning” |
| 02/03 | Kaan Ozturk, Rice, “Bifurcation of drift shells and static radial diffusion” |
| 02/10 | Deirdre Wendel, Rice, “Current structure and motion of a northward IMF X-line” |
| 02/17 | Terry Onsager, NOAA/SEC, “Radiation Belt Electrons – Where do they come from and where do they go?” |
| 02/24 | Joerg-Micha Jahn, SWRI, “From solar max to solar min: Energetic neutral atom observations of ICME and high speed stream induced storms” |
| 03/03 | Curt Michel, Rice, “Numerically calculating charged particle trajectories in magnetic (and electric) fields” |
| 03/10 | Spring Break |
| 03/16 | Jonathan Lunine, Univ. Arizona, “New results from Huygens” [P&A colloquium] and “Titan: unveiling a new world” [RSI talk] |
| 03/24 | Rosemary Killen — Cancelled |
| 03/31 | Tom Hill, Rice, “Cassini finds the smoking gun of the centrifugal interchange instability at Saturn |
| 04/07 | Recess |
| 04/14 | Dave Anderson, NOAA, “Theoretically modeling the ionospheric response to large geomagnetic storms” |
| 04/21 | Steve Naehr, Rice, “Inner magnetospheric data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter” |
| 04/28 |
Fall 2004
| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| 09/02 | Organizational meeting |
| 09/09 | Open |
| 09/16 | Bonnie Hausman, Curt Michel, Rice, “On determining the nature and orientation of magnetic directional discontinuities: Problems with the minimum variance method” |
| 09/23 | Open |
| 09/30 | Frank Toffoletto, Rice, TBD |
| 10/07 | Colby Lemon, Rice, TBD |
| 10/14 | Brian O’Brien, Australia, “From space science to environmental governance” |
| 10/21 | Jared Espley, Rice, “The effects of the 2003 Halloween solar storm at Mars” |
| 10/28 | David Alexander, Rice, “Fokker-Planck modeling of hard X-ray footpoint asymmetry in solar flares” |
| 11/04 | Jennifer Wightman, Rice, “Solution of the RCM electric potential equation via the finite element method” |
| 11/11 | Open |
| 11/18 | Yuhong Fan, High Altitude Observatory, “Twisted magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona” |
| 11/25 | Thanksgiving |
| 12/02 | Alphonse Sterling, National Space Science and Technology Center, “Filaments away!: Driving solar storms” |
| 12/09 | AGU practice |