Organiser: Jasmine Sandhu, MSSL.Ìý
If you are interested in giving a seminar on any space plasma physics related topic at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory please contact Jasmine Sandhu, Colin Forsyth, Chris Owen, or Daniel Verscharen.
Upcoming Talks
13 FebruaryÌý2020Ìý- 11:00 - MSSL Common Room
Speaker:ÌýDrÌýTadhg Garton
Title:ÌýUsing Neural Networks to Identify Reconnection Related Structures in Saturn's Magnetosphere
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Past Talks
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
9th March 2020 | Dr Clare Watt | University of Reading | Earth's Radiation Belts: the kinetic plasma physics of killer electrons |
13th February 2020 | Dr Philippe Escoubet | ESA/ESTEC | Cluster Highlights in Preparation for SMILE |
31st January 2020 | Prof Chris Lintott | University of Oxford | From Galaxy Zoo to LSST: Citizen Science in the age of big data |
28th November 2019 | Dr Jennifer Carter | University of Leicester | Finding our SMILE: from an X-ray astronomer's headache to imaging the Earth's magnetopause |
4th November 2019 | Dr Ramiz Quidsi | University of Delaware | A Statistical Comparison Between Proton Microinstabilities and Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasmas |
30th September 2019 | Dr Andrew Kavanagh | British Antarctic Survey | EISCAT? The past, present and glorious future |
19th August 2019 | Dr Andrew Dimmock | Swedish Institute of Space Physics | Space weather research at IRFÌýUppsala |
12 August 2019 | Prof. Sandra Chapman | University of Warwick | 'Data analytics’ approaches to space weather |
9th August 2019 | Prof. Quanqi Shi | Shandong University | Observations of Magnetic holes in near Earth space: from MHD to kinetic scale |
10 June 2019 | Joe Eggington | Imperial College London | Magnetopause Reconnection and its Ionospheric Signatures in Global Magnetospheric Simulations |
09 May 2019 | Dr Sarah Bentley | University of Reading | Towards a probabilistic model of Earth’s radiation belts: the uncertainty in ultra-low frequency plasma waves |
16 April 2019 | Dr John Coxon | University of Southampton | Temporal behaviour of Birkeland currents in AMPERE |
19 March 2019 | DrÌýMaria-Theresia Walach | Lancaster University | Time variability in high-latitude ionospheric convection at Earth. |
30 January 2019 | Dr Luca Franci | Queen Mary University of London | Hybrid Simulations of Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind: Comparison with In-situ Observations. |
22 January 2019 | Dr Kristopher Klein | University of Arizona | Thermodynamics far from Equilibrium: Studying Plasma Heating and Instabilities in the Solar Wind. |
29 November 2018 | Samuel Wharton | University ofÌýLeicester | The Resonant Response of the Magnetosphere to Changing Geomagnetic Conditions |
09 October 2018 | Dr Thomas Elsden | University of St Andrews | Magnetospheric Field Line Resonances in 3D |
08 October 2018 | Dr Ferdinand Plaschke | Space Research Institute, Graz | Jets in the Magnetosheath: Origin, Evolution, andÌýImpact |
17 September 2018 | David Stansby | Imperial College London | Preparing to re-visit the inner heliosphere |
22 August 2018 | Dr Imogen Gingell | Imperial College London | Instrument-induced production of negative hydrogen ions under solar wind bombardment |
10 July 2018 | Prof. Benjamin ChandranÌý | University of New Hampshire | Alfvén-Wave Turbulence and the Origin of the Solar Wind |
29 June 2018 | Dr. George Livadiotis | Southwest Research Institute | Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Space Plasmas |
23 May 2018 | Dr. Robert Burston | University of Bath | Planets, Plasmoids, Leaky Taps, Springs and ChaosÌý |
8 May 2018 | Dr. Christopher Chen | Queen Mary University of London | Turbulence and Heating in the Solar WindÌý |
1 May 2018 | Dr. Chadi Salem | SSL, UC Berkeley | Combining Radio Receivers and Electrostatic Analyzers for Accurate Measurements of Solar Wind Electrons: WIND Observations |
25 January 2018 | Dr. Owen Roberts | ESA ESTEC | The solar wind power spectrum observed from Cluster: insights in three dimensions and at sub ion scales |
22 October 2015 | Prof. Gerhard Haerendel | Max Planck Institute forÌý Extraterrestrial Physics | Current sheet avalanche and substorm breakup |
25 August 2015 | Dr. Luke Barnard | University of Reading | Solar Stormwatch CME Catalogue |
28 July 2015Ìý | Prof. Ken McCracken | University of Maryland | The temporal variability of the cosmic radiation, solar activity, and the heliospheric magnetic field over the past 10,000 years |
22 April 2015 | Dr. Laurence BillinghamÌý | British Geological Survey | The British Geological Survey Geomagnetism Team |
18 March 2015 | Dr. Heli Hietala | Imperial College London | Unravelling the solar wind drivers of the storm-time radiation belt response |
24 February 2015 | Nathan PilkingtonÌýÌý | °×С½ãÂÛ̳ | How does Plasma Shape Saturn's Magnetosphere?Ìý |
18 February 2015 | Dr. Robert Fear | University of Southampton | Observational tests of flux transfer event structure |
Ìý29 January 2015 | Dr. Mick Denton | Lancaster University | A new empirical model of ion and electron fluxes at geosynchronous orbit |
9 October 2014 | David Miles | University of Alberta | Next- Generation Fluxgate Magnetometry at the University of Alberta |
7 October 2014 | Dr. Hanna Dahlgren | Royal Institute ofÌý Technology KTH/ University of SouthamptonÌý | Energy and flux characteristics of dynamic fine scale aurora |
20 August 2014 | Prof. Ian MannÌý | University of Alberta | The Impacts of Ultra Low Frequency Waves on the Dynamics of the Earth’s Van Allen Belts |
14 August 2014 | Dr. Andrew WalshÌý | Ìý·¡³§´¡°ä | Automatic Georeferencing of Astronaut Auroral Photography: Providing A New Dataset for Space PhysicsÌý |
6 June 2014 | Dr. Lorenzo MatteiniÌý | Imperial College LondonÌý | ÌýKinetic Processes in the Solar Wind Ìý |
12 May 2014 | Prof. Michael BalikhinÌý | University of SheffieldÌý | System Approach to Solar-Terrestrial Physics: Advance in Physical Understanding and Space Weather Forcast |
7 April 2014 | John CoxonÌý | University of LeicesterÌý | The Birkeland current system and its place in the expanding/contracting polar cap paradigm |
18 March 2014 | Dr. Catriona JackmanÌý | University of SouthamptonÌý | Dynamics of the magnetotails of Jupiter and Saturn from magnetic field and plasma flow measurements |
10 October 2013Ìý | Dr. David KnudsenÌý | University of Calgary | Thermal Ion Imaging and its Role on Swarm and the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe SatellitesÌý |
07 June 2011 | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Imperial College | Cluster observations of magnetic reconnection and the ion diffusion region in the Earth's magnetotail |
20 April 2011 | Prof. E. Dubinin | ÌýMax Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Germany | Induced magnetospheres at Mars and Venus: Open questions |
01 February 2011 | Dr. Craig Leff | MSSL ExoMars PanCam Project Manager | A review of MER surface operations, with implications for MSL and ExoMars |
13 October 2010 | Dr. Yasir Soobiah | Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden | The search for Martian aurora signatures in MEX ASPERA-3 IMA observations |
20 September 2010 | Prof. Rajmal Jain | Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad | Indian missions to study solar and interplanetary plasma |