Space Physics Research Group at UCB/SSL

SPRG Seminars

The Space Science (Physics 290B) seminars take place at 1:10 PM every Tuesday in 325 OLC

February 17, 2009--S. Krucker (SSL): Direct Observations of the Coronal Acceleration Region of a Solar Flare
February 24, 2009--Y. Liu (SSL): Evolution of coronal mass ejections from the Sun to interplanetary space: A new view with STEREO
March 3, 2009--R. Schlickeiser (Uni. Bochum): Cosmic ray acceleration and transport with weak adiabatic focusing
March 10, 2008--J. Bortnik (UCLA): First observation linking the origin of plasmaspheric hiss to discrete chorus emissions
March 17, 2009--J. Slavin(NASA Goddard): MESSENGER Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Mercury's Magnetosphere
March 31, 2009--Joerg-Micha Jahn (Southwest Research Institute): Magnetospheric ENA Imaging--Past, Present and Future?
April 7, 2009--Dong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea): Effects of Heavy Ions on EMIC waves in Inhomogeneous Space
April 14, 2009--B. Grefenstette (Santa Cruz Instit. for Particle Physics): Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes: Bursts of x-rays and gamma rays from Lightning
April 21, 2009--TBA
April 28, 2009--TBA
May 5, 2009--TBA
May 12, 2009--E. Kontar
May 19, 2009--M. Balikin

Seminars Archive (click for abstract):
December 2, 2008--J. Wygant (U. Minn)November 25, 2008--J. Luhmann (SSL)
November 25, 2008--J. Luhmann
November 18, 2008--V. Petrosian: Stochastic Acceleration by Turbulence in Solar Flares: Enrichment of 3He and Heavy Ions in SEPs
November 14, 2008 (at 3:00 PM)--Y. Li: Analysis of CME events and the solar magnetic field
November 4, 2008--M. Aschwanden: Instant Tomography of Active Regions and Flare Modeling with STEREO
October 28, 2008--B. Lysak (U. Minn): Theory of the Alfvénic Aurora
October 21, 2008--G. Fisher (SSL): Estimating Electric Fields from Vector Magnetogram Sequences
October 14, 2008--J. Birn (LANL): Simulations of three-dimensional reconnection in low and high-beta current sheets: Implications for energy release in solar flares
October 7, 2008--V. Angelopoulos: Tail Reconnection Triggering Substorm Onset
September 30, 2008--F. Sahraoui (NASA/GSFC/CNRS/CETP): Fourier phase, coherent structures and intermittency in space plasmas: diagnosis using the surrogate data technique
September 23, 2008--S. Kahler: Prospects for Future Enhanced Solar Energetic Particle Events and the Effects of Weaker Heliomagnetic Fields
September 16, 2008--L. Svalgaard: Long-term Variations of Open Flux in the Solar Corona
September 9, 2008--J. Heerikhuisen: The Role of Energetic Neutral Atoms in Shaping the Heliosphere
August 26, 2008--E. Roelof (APL): What We Learn from Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Images of Planetary Magnetospheres
November 6, 2007 J. Eastwood: Evidence for collisionless reconnection at Mars
October 31, 2007 T. Forbes
October 29, 2007 L. Strueder: High Speed Semiconductor Detectors for Photons from the Infrared to Gamma Rays
October 23, 2007 I. Hannah: Microflares with RHESSI and Hinode
October 16, 2007 A. MacKinnon: Novel components of solar flare hard X-ray emission
October 9, 2007 (Cancelled)
October 2, 2007 H. Hudson: Measuring the shape of the Sun
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January 24, 2006
January 31, 2006
February 7, 2006
February 13, 2006
February 21, 2006
February 28, 2006
March 7, 2006
March 14, 2006
March 21, 2006
April 4, 2006
April 11, 2006
April 18, 2006
April 25, 2006
May 2, 2006
May 9, 2006

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Fall 2005
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