CPS Summer Meeting 2021
This year's Summer Meeting will be held on Thursday 9 September 2021 as a virtual event.
The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to host our 11th Summer Meeting on Thursday 9th September 2021, for CPS colleagues and associates.
With the success of the online event last year and uncertainties about when everyone will return to a fully-open campus, we have decided to adopt a virtual format again.
The online format is also an opportunity to share our research with a wider audience, so please contact the meeting organiser (joanna.fabbri at ucl.ac.uk) for the meeting link if you have not received this already and are interested in attending.
Please find the schedules for the morning and afternoon talk and poster sessions below.
The programme and abstracts can also be found in the following document, together with Zoom meeting guidance for attendees on the day:
Morning Session: Talks (10:00 - 12:30)
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Dr Dominic Papineau CPS Director, UCL Earth Sciences / LCN | Welcome |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Prof Geraint Jones Mullard Space Science Laboratory | The Comet Interceptor Mission |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Qasim Afghan Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Gaps in the dust tails of comets C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) and C/2002 F1 (Utsunomiya) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Dr Will Dunn MSSL / Harvard CfA | Mostly: Orbyts – Planetary Science Research-with-Schools Projects But also: X-rays from Jupiter and Uranus Highlights |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Affelia Wibisono Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Jupiter’s X-ray aurora during UV dawn storms and injections as observed by XMM-Newton, Hubble, and Hisaki |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Prof Nick Achilleos UCL Physics and Astronomy | The Magnetodisk Regions of Jupiter and Saturn |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Dr Dimitrios Millas UCL Physics and Astronomy | Compressibility of the Jovian magnetosphere |
Morning Session: Posters (12:20 - 12:30)
| 12:20 - 12:25 | Matthew Cheng UCL Physics and Astronomy | Automated bow shock and magnetopause boundary classification at Saturn using statistics of magnetic fields and particle flux |
| 12:25 - 12:30 | Zuri Gray MSSL / Armagh Observatory | Polarimetry of Comet 67P |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
Afternoon Session: Talks (13:30 - 16:00)
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Dr Dominic Papineau UCL Earth Sciences / LCN | The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life guided by biosignatures in sedimentary rocks from the Early Earth |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Dr Shahab Varkouhi UCL Earth Sciences | Biogenic silica diagenesis and anomalous compaction in deep-sea depositional systems |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Dr Lauren McKeown Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences | Spiders on Mars |
| 14:30 - 14:40 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Richard Haythornthwaite Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Deriving Cassini spacecraft potentials, cross-track and along-track ion velocities in Titan’s ionosphere using measurements from CAPS ELS and IBS |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Alexandra Thompson MSc Planetary Science student, UCL P&A | Characterising the Effects of Active Host Stars on Exoplanet Transmission Spectra |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Prof Andrew Coates Mullard Space Science Laboratory | PanCam: the ‘science eyes’ of the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars 2022) rover |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Lorenzo Pica Ciamarra Summer student, UCL P&A | Unified transit and eclipse atmospheric retrievals yield better-constrained chemical abundances and TP profiles |
| 16:00 | MEETING CLOSE |
Abstract submission: Now closed
CPS colleagues are invited to send an abstract for consideration, of no more than one A4 page, stating your preference for a talk or poster, which should be emailed to joanna.fabbri at ucl.ac.uk, by Friday 20 August.