Fall 2019 Semester
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Spring 2019 Semester
Date: Wednesday, 16-Jan 2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Dr. Grzegorz Kalicy
Title: Closer Look at Challenges Before Building DIRC Detector
Host: Dr. John Philip
Date: Wednesday 23-Jan-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Dr. Adolfo F Viñas (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Title: Kinetic Scale Plasma Waves Measured by the MMS/Fast Plasma Investigation
Host: Robert Robinson
Date: Wednesday 30-Jan-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Anna DeJong
Title: The Aurora and Its Coupling to Magnetospheric Dynamics
Host: Robert Robinson
Date: Wednesday 6-Feb-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Gioia Rau
Title: How to Tackle a Giant Star: Multi-Wavelength Studies of Cool, Evolved Stars
Using HST and VLTI
Host: Steven Kraemer
Date: Wednesday 13-Feb-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Sonya Lyatsky
Title: Field-Aligned and Ionospheric Currents. Simulation Results.
Host: Steven Kraemer
Date: Wednesday 20-Feb-2019
Time: 4:00 pm POSTPONED
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Arkaprabha Sarangi
Title: Role of Supernovae as the Producers of Cosmic Dust
Host: Steven Kraemer
Date: Wednesday 27-Feb-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Title: The Effect of Ultrasmall Grain Sizes on the Thermal Conductivity of
Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films
Speaker: B. Jugdersuren (NRL)
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday 6-Mar-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Dr. Arkaprabha Sarangi
Title: Role of Supernovae as the Producers of Cosmic Dust
Host: Steven Kraemer
Date: Wednesday 20-Mar-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Matthew Abernathy (NRL)
Title: Gravitational Wave Detection and the Surprising Sensitivity Limits Driven by Amorphous Materials
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday 27-Mar-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Ryan McGranaghan
Title: Data Science and a New Scientific Frontier in Geospace: Addressing the Full Data Life-Cycle
Host: Robert Robinson
Date: Wednesday 3-April-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Emily Mason
Title: Magnetic Origins of Cool Plasma in the Sun’s Corona (Or, Rainy Days on the Sun)
Host: Vadim Uritsky
Date: Wednesday 10-April-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Speaker: Andres Vargas (PhD Candidate)
Title: What We Do at CERN
Host: Dr. John Philip
Date: Wednesday 17-April-2019
Time: 4:00 pm
(Refreshments served at 3:45)
Title: Spinning Objects in Space: The Geometric Phase of an Asymmetric Top
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Mecholsky
Host: Dr. Ian Pegg