Sciences and Exploration Directorate - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics Science Division Seminar

About the Seminar

The Heliophysics Science Division conducts weekly science seminars. Heliophysics is a division in the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1:00pm in the Building 21 Conference Room 183A at Goddard and virtually (the virtual link is sent to 670 staff and other interested parties). The topics cover the interests of the Heliophysics Science Division, including astrochemistry, interplanetary physics, solar physics, planetary systems, planetary magnetospheres, and electrodynamics.

Have an Idea for a Speaker?

The seminar organizer (currently Dylan Kee, dylan.kee@nasa.gov) always appreciates suggestions for seminar speakers. Please contact him EARLY to claim an open slot and avoid scheduling conflicts.

Outside of NASA?

If you are outside of the NASA network and would like to view weekly seminars remotely, please contact the seminar organizer and request to be added to the HSD Seminar distribution list.

Schedule

The current schedule for 2024 is below.

January
Jan 3	No Seminar
Jan 10	NOAA’s Spaced-Based Space Weather Observations: Present and Future Irfan Azeem
Jan 17	675 Director's Seminar
Jan 23	Particle Acceleration and Transport in Solar Flares Fan Guo
Jan 24	Horiba’s Custom Diffraction Grating Capabilities William Renard
Jan 31	Collisionless shocks, foreshock transients and high-speed downstream jets - recent findings and developments Savvas Raptis
February
Feb 7	Data Assimilation and Machine Learning in (Terrestrial &) Space Weather Applications Ricardo Todling
Feb 14	Streamers in Atmospheres of Earth and Jupiter Reza Janalizadeh
Feb 16	Into the Storm – Heliophysics Big Year, Solar Maximum Janet Kozyra
Feb 21	671 Director's Seminar
Feb 28	The Wizard of O(z) ----- Thermosphere physics revisited Jia Yue
March
Mar 5	Solar wind monitor introduced uncertainties in space weather predictions during ICME sheaths Matti Ala-Lahti
Mar 6	[9AM] How the Heliophysics Division (HPD) is addressing Orbital Debris – Space Situational Awareness Reiner Friedel
Mar 6	[1PM] Evaporation, condensation, and flare ribbons Malcolm Druett
Mar 13	Solar Wind Interactions at Jupiter’s Dawn Magnetopause: A Study of Magnetic Reconnection and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities Jake Montgomery
Mar 20	Cancelled for Goddard Space Science Symposium
Mar 27	Harnessing Large Language Models to Enable Search and Discovery and Accelerate Science In Heliophysics Kaushal Amancherla
April
Apr 3	Understanding the Impact of Coronal Mass Ejections on Space Weather: Integrating Observations and Modelling Ranadeep Sarkar
Apr 10	Cancelled due to eclipse
Apr 17	Cancelled
Apr 18	Transition region spectroscopy with the Hinode/EIS instrument Peter R. Young
Apr 22	Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis (SCHA) Modelling Robyn Fiori
Apr 24	Unveiling Mysteries in the Nighttime Ionosphere: Discoveries from NASA's GOLD Imager Deepak Karan
Apr 30	Machine learning techniques for ionospheric and space weather research Graciela Molina
May
May 1	Instrumentation and capabilities in Argentina for Ionospheric and Space Weather research Graciela Molina
May 2	Impact of Ionizing Radiation on habitability induced by Solar and Stellar Energetic Particles Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki
May 8	Solar Wind Turbulence and Low-Frequency Waves Upstream of Mars: MAVEN Observations Norberto Romanelli
May 14	672 Director's Seminar
May 22	Slot Available
May 29	Forced Vlasov-Poisson turbulence Michael Nastac
June
Jun 5	Cannibals in PARADISE: The effect of merging interplanetary shocks on SEPs Antonio Niemela
Jun 12	Space Weather Modelling at KU Leuven Christine Verbeke
Jun 19	Juneteenth
Jun 26	Evolution of research on floors in the magnetic fields of the Sun and the solar wind Ed Cliver
July
Jul 3	Slot Available
Jul 9	[10 AM] PUNCH and the IMAX effect Ritesh Patel
Jul 10	Exospheric Escape from Almost Everything Everywhere in the Universe Dolon Bhattacharyya
Jul 17	Slot Available
Jul 24	Heliophysics and the Search for Habitable Worlds Jason Dworkin (690) & Allison Youngblood (667)
Jul 25	A Statistical Study of Ion-Scale Waves in the Solar Wind Using Machine Learning Sam Fordin
Jul 31	674 Director's Seminar
August
Aug 1	Coronal loops are not one-dimensional: Scaling laws with respect to modelling stellar loops Cosima Breu
Aug 7	The Embassy Science Fellows Program Shannon Ewan
Aug 14	The short wavelength camera for Solar-C EUVST James McKevitt
Aug 21	675 Director's Seminar
Aug 22	Dependence of High-Latitude Neutral Wind Response Times on Geomagnetic Conditions Kat Davidson
Aug 28	The Magnetosphere's Response to Large and Rapid Southward Turnings of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Chiara Lazzeri
September
Sep 4	673 Director's Seminar
Sep 11	2024 Heliophysics Peer Award Picnic
Sep 16	Special seminar by Dr. Galera and a NASA DEVELOP project report
Sep 18	671 Director's Seminar
Sep 25	Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory Aki Roberge
October
Oct 1	Cosmic Dust in Planetary Atmospheres John Plane
Oct 2	Evolution of reconnection flux during eruption of magnetic flux ropes Samriddhi Maity
Oct 8	Complexity Heliophysics: A lived and living history and its grand opportunity Ryan McGranaghan
Oct 9	Plasma Composition Variations in the Solar Corona Teia Mihăilescu
Oct 15	672 Director's Seminar
Oct 25	Application of AI to the Sun's Magnetic Field Data Hyun-Jin Jeong
Oct 30	Shannon Hill
Oct 31	Productive Parallel Programming with the Chapel Language Michael Ferguson
November
Nov 6	Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares Andrew Inglis
Nov 13	Analysis and Simulation of Transient Plasma Outflows in the Solar Atmosphere Valmir Moraes
Nov 13	Artificial Intelligence Modeling Framework for Advancing Heliophysics Research (AIMFAHR) Hyunju Connor (1) & Gowtam Valluri (2)
Nov 20	673 Director's Seminar
Nov 27	Satabdwa Majumdar
December
Dec 4	Vincent Ledvina
Dec 5	Alexander Drozdov
Dec 6	Vicki Herde
Dec 11	AGU
Dec 18	Slot Available
Dec 25	Winter Holidays

History

Information for Speakers and Visitors

The duration of the seminar is typically one hour, with questions asked during and after the seminar. The audience is usually diverse, including scientists with interests ranging throughout the heliosphere. Visit the Heliophysics Science Division Home Page for a more complete summary of interests

As most of you know, in the last few years it has become harder to get visitors from outside of NASA on center, and the number of days needed to get unescorted access is subject to change. Thus we ask that if a visitor wants to attend a talk and needs a non-escort badge they should request one as soon as possible. We will help to the best of our ability, but can't make any guarantees.

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