Heliophysics Science Division
NASA/GSFC LEP Seminar

Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
Brown Bag Seminar

About the Seminar

The Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics (LEP) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center conducts weekly science seminars. They are held on Fridays at noon in the Conference Room (Room 8) in Building 2 (map) at Goddard. The topics cover the interests of the Laboratory, including astrochemistry, interplanetary physics, planetary systems, planetary magnetospheres, and electrodynamics. Since the seminar is conducted during the lunch hour, the audience often brings their lunch, hence the moniker "brown bag seminar."

Have an Idea for a Speaker?

The seminar organizers are always appreciative of ideas for seminar speakers. Please contact them EARLY to avoid scheduling conflicts. Contact information is located below.





Schedule

The current schedule for 2001-2002 is:

September 2001

  • 7     No seminar scheduled
  • 14   Spectra and Field Lines in the Nonlinear Heliosphere (Abstract)
              Dr. D. Aaron Roberts, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)
  • 21   MHD Simulation Study of the Effects of Transitions in the Solar Wind and IMF on the Magnetosphere (Abstract)
              Dr. Steve Slinker, Naval Research Laboratory (Bio)
  • 28   Gyrophased-bunched trapping of thermal electrons in the Earth's foreshock (Abstract)
              Dr. Adolfo Figueroa Vi�as, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)

October 2001

  • 5     Vesper: A Proposed Venus Discovery Mission (Abstract)
              Dr. Gordon Chin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)
  • 12   Direct Observations of Interstellar Neutral Atoms with IMAGE (Abstract)
              Dr. David Simpson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)
  • 19   Global Particle Simulation Study of Substorm Onset and Particle Acceleration (Abstract)
              Dr. Ken Nishikawa, Rutgers University (Bio)
  • 26   Self-Organized Criticality: What is it? How does it relate to substorm physics? (Abstract)
              Dr. Alex Klimas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)

November 2001

  • 2     The Gentle and not so Gentle Sun-Earth Connections Near Solar Minimum (Abstract)
              Dr. Daniel Berdichevsky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)
  • 9     Dynamics of Energetic Electron Fluxes in the Inner Magnetosphere: SAMPEX (Abstract)
              Dr. Dimitris Vassiliadis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Bio)
  • 16   Evidence for MHD Waves in the Solar Wind Near the Sun (Abstract)
              Dr. William Coles, UC San Diego (Bio)
  • 23   No seminar scheduled (Thanksgiving)
  • 30   Relativistic Electron Dynamics in the Inner Magnetosphere -- a Review (Abstract)
              Dr. Reiner Friedel, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Bio)

December 2001

  • 7     No seminar scheduled (Rm 8 not available)
  • 14   No seminar scheduled (Fall AGU Meeting)
  • 21   No seminar scheduled
  • 28   No seminar scheduled





Space Physics Meetings

Year 2001





List of Federal Holidays - year 2001

  • 1 January - Monday - New Year's Day
  • 15 January - Monday - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday
  • 19 February - Monday - George Washington's Birthday
  • 28 May - Monday - Memorial Day
  • 4 July - Wednesday - Independence Day
  • 3 September - Monday - Labor Day
  • 8 October - Monday - Columbus Day
  • 12 November - Monday - Veterans Day
  • 22 November - Thursday - Thanksgiving Day
  • 25 December - Tuesday - Christmas





Information for Speakers and Visitors

Speakers interested in speaking at the Brown Bag Seminar are encouraged to contact the organizer, currently Mei-Ching Fok (301-286-1083, mei-ching.fok@gsfc.nasa.gov). 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 (see the Laboratory homepage for a list of interests).


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Last revised: January 2, 2002