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Heliophysics Science Division Seminar

About the Seminar

The Heliophysics Science Division conducts weekly science seminars. Heliophysics is a new division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It has been formed out of portions of the former Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics (LEP, 690), Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics (680), and Space Science Data Operations Office (630). It was previously known as the Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics (LSSP). At present, seminars are held on Fridays at 1:00pm in the Conference Room (Room 183) in Building 21 at Goddard. The topics cover the interests of the Laboratory, including astrochemistry, interplanetary physics, solar physics, planetary systems, planetary magnetospheres, and electrodynamics.

Have an Idea for a Speaker?

The seminar organizer (currently Nicki Viall, 301-286-4054, nicholeen.m.viall@nasa.gov),always appreciates suggestions for seminar speakers. Please contact her EARLY to avoid scheduling conflicts.

NEXT SCHEDULED FRIDAY HELIOPHYSICS SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR

January 16, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Heliophysics Director's Seminar, 'The Origin of the Slow Solar Wind' (abstract)


Schedule

The current schedule for 2014 is:

January 2014


January 17,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 671) (abstract)
January 24,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 Scott Schaire, 'Selected GSFC CubeSat Activities with Emphasis on Wallops'(abstract)
January 31,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 Brian Walsh, 'The plasmaspheric plume and magnetospheric dynamics' (abstract)

February 2014


February 21,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 673) (abstract)

March 2014


March 7,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 Wieslaw M. Macek (Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences), 'Multifractal Turbulence and Reconnection at the Heliospheric Boundaries' (abstract)
March 14,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		 Glyn Collinson (NASA GSFC), 'The Ionospheric Holes of Venus' *note this was rescheduled from February 14* (abstract)
March 21,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 674). Doug Rowland, 'Letting off steam -- how imaging the ionospheric pressure cooker can constrain models of the auroral wind'; C. R. DeVore, 'Modeling Solar Jets: Polar Vortices with Alfvenic Winds'; and Larry Kepko, 'The value of comparative magnetospheres: The substorm current wedge at Mercury and Earth'. (abstract)
March 28,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Ryuho Kataoka (National Institute of Polar Research), 'Space weather forecast and extreme space weather' (abstract)

April 2014


April 4,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Elizabeth MacDonald (NASA/GSFC), 'Magnetosphere and ionosphere experiments to study plasma particle dynamics and space weather' (abstract)
April 10, *note special day*
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Li-Jen Chen, 'The diffusion regions of collisionless magnetic reconnection: Kinetic characteristics and evolution' (abstract)
April 18,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar: Rescheduled for May 16
April 25,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Thejappa Golla (NASA/GSFC 695 and the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland ), 'Solar Type III Radio Bursts: Non-linear Wave-wave Interactions' (abstract)

May 2014


May 2,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Bala Poduval (Space Science Institute in Boulder), 'Validating Solar Wind Prediction Using the Current Sheet Source Surface Model' (abstract)
May 9,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Stefan Lotz (South African National Space Agency), 'An overview of current GIC (Geomagnetically Induced Currents) research activities at SANSA (South African National Space Agency)' (abstract)
May 16,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar : Rescheduled for June 20 (abstract)

June 2014


June 13,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Chris Englert (Naval Research Laboratory) (abstract)
June 20,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 672). Allan Tylka ' Drivers and Impact of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Event-to-Event Variability'; EJ Summerlin ' Correlating few keV Energetic Neutral Atoms with soft x-rays'; and Eric Christian ' Motions in the Ribbon of Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs) observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)' (abstract)

July 2014


July 18,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 671). Steven Christe 'Observing the Sun in hard X-rays using grazing incidence optics: the FOXSI and HEROES projects' , Paul Bryans 'Using Comets as Solar Probes', and Andrew Inglis 'Measurements of coronal brightening from impacting prominence material' (abstract)

August 2014


August 1,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Alex Chartier (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), 'Ionospheric Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting' (abstract)
August 15,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 673) Adlofo Vinas 'Plasma Waves Menagerie', Shing Fung 'What do plasma waves (data) look like & how are they used in Heliophysics?', and Dan Gershman 'The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at Mercury' (abstract)
August 22,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Daniel Berdichekvsky (NASA/GSFC 691), 'On a few properties of very dilute matter frozen in space magnetic fields' (abstract)
August 29,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Sonya Lyatsky (NASA/GSFC 673), 'Interhemispheric Field-Aligned Currents: Simulation Results' (abstract)

September 2014


September 5,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Alex Klimas (Goddard Planetary and Heliophysics Institute, UMBC), 'New Expression for Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Rate' (abstract)
September 12,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Karen Fox (NASA/GSFC 670), 'What Can the Office of Communications Do For You? ' (abstract)
September 19,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 674) Tilaye Asfaw, 'Estimation of coronal free magnetic energy for forecasting space weather', Peter Chi, and Antti Pulkkinen, 'Science for Society: Establishing the Geomagnetic Disturbance Benchmark Event for Evaluation of the Space Weather Hazard on Power Grids' (abstract)
September 26,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Vyacheslav Lukin (Naval Research Laboratory), 'Multi-fluid modeling of magnetic reconnection in space and solar plasmas' (abstract)

October 2014


October 3,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 The CCMC/SWRC Team: M. Kuznetsova, A. Pulkkinen & L. Mays (NASA/GSFC 674), 'The CCMC Today: Review and Outlook' (abstract)
October 10,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Jan Thoemel (von Karman Institute, Belgium), 'STATUS OF THE QB50 CUBESAT CONSTELLATION MISSION' (abstract)
October 17,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 672), 'Listening to the Solar Wind - Audification of Wind Spacecraft Data', Robert T. Wicks; 'Validation of Coronal and Heliospheric Models Installed at the CCMC', Dr. Lan Jian; 'Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP): The Next STP Mission', Adam Szabo(abstract)
October 24,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Valbona Kunkel, 'A magnetically-driven model of flux-rope expansion from the Sun to 1AU in order to compute Bz at 1AU' (abstract)
October 31,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Andre Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences), 'A Computer Science Perspective to Big Solar Data' (abstract)

November 2014


November 7,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Tongjiang Wang (NASA/671),'The waves in solar coronal loops: overview of recent results' (abstract)
November 14,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Obiama Ohia (University of Maryland),'Two-Fluid Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection with a Kinetic Closure' (abstract)
November 21,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 HSD Director's Seminar (hosted by 671), 'The MAVEN EUV Instrument' by Phillip Chamberlin, 'What's Shaking? In the Solar Corona, Probably Not as Much as We Thought' by Jack Ireland, and 'The Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS): Where the Real Action Is?' by Adrian Daw (abstract)

December 2014


December 5,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm		 Suk-Bin Kang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 'Estimation of pitch angle diffusion rates for EMIC waves with realistic field models' (abstract)
The schedule for last year is archived here, but is no longer being maintained.


Space & Solar Physics Meetings

Year 2013

Information for Speakers and Visitors

Speakers interested in speaking at the Heliophysics Seminar are encouraged to contact the organizer, currently Nicki Viall, 301-286-4054, nicholeen.m.viall@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. 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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Webpage maintained by Nicki Viall ( nicholeen.m.viall@nasa.gov)
Last revised: January 9, 2014

Contact Us


General inquiries about the scientific programs at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center may be directed to the Office of Communications at 1.301.286.8955.