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. The seminars are held on Fridays at noon in the Conference Room (Room 8) in Building 2 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."

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

Scheduled seminars for the Spring 1998 are:

January

• 16 Particle acceleration by Alfvenic shocks and plasma effects in aurorae
  Dr. Evgenii Mishin, Max Planck Inst. Lindau
• 23 Lightning, Sprites, and ELF Radiation
  Dr. Steve Cummer, NRC, Code 690, GSFC
• 30 New INsights on CME's from LASCO Observations
  Prof. George Simnett, Univeristy of Birmingham

February

• 6 Magnetized Accreting Stars: Studies of the Inner Accretion-disk edge by an MHD approach
  Dr. Lutz Rastaetter, Code 696, GSFC
• 13 Evidence for coexistence of the weak and strong turbulence processes in type iii burst source regions and implications for theoretical models
  Dr. Thejappa Golla ,Dept. of Astronomy,University of Maryland
• 20 Geomagnetic activity prediction using data-derived analogues of the magnetospheric dynmaics
  Dr. Alex Klimas, Code 692, GSFC
• 27 A New index of Solar Activity
  Dr. Vladimir Osherovich

March

• 6 title to be announced
  Dr. Marian Greenspan, Dept. of Physics, University of maryland
• 13 title to be announced
  Dr. Joseph Dwyer, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
• 20 Radiowave imaging of ionospheric electron dynamics: Extending the physical scope of riometry.
  Dr. Greg Vanbavel, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
• 23 10.00 am Interpretation of recent AMPTE data at the magnetopause.
  Prof. Walter Heikkila, Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas
• 27 Doppler Velocity Measurements with the SOHO SUMER Experiment
  Dr. Harry Warren, Solar Terrertrial Relationships Branch, NRL

April

• 3 Transverse plasma waves in type III source regions and in the terrestrial electron foreshock
  Dr. Stuart Bale, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley
• 10 title to be announced
  Dr. Tim Livengood, USRA/GSFC
• 17 Collisonless Magentic reconnection or something like that
  Dr. Michael Hesse, Code 696 GSFC
• 24 New Simulations of Expanding 3-D Solar Wind Turbulence
  Dr. Aaron Roberts, Code 696 GSFC title to be announced
  

May

• 1 title to be announced
  Dr. Keith Ogilvie, Code 690 GSFC
• 8 title to be announced
  Dr.
• 15 LENA: The Instrument
  Dr. Fred Herrero,
• 22 NO SEMINAR
  AGU
• 29 NO SEMINAR
  AGU

Information for Speakers

Speakers interested in speaking at the Brown Bag Seminar are encouraged to contact one of the organizers below. The duration of the seminar is an hour, but the informal nature of the seminar often elicits questions from the audience. Speakers are therefore asked to expect interruptions to take up part of the hour. The audience generally includes scientists with interests ranging throughout the heliosphere. (See above list of interests of the Laboratory.) Therefore it is beneficial to include some background material for those who may not be familiar with your topic.

Seminar Organizers

The seminar is organized by Shri Kanekal (286-6517). Please contact him for further information or to provide suggestions about the seminar.