CPS Summer Meeting 2015
The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to host its fifth annual Summer Meeting, which is being held on Thursday 25 June 2015 in UCL’s Front Quad marquee.
We have a detailed programme of science talks which is summarised below:
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Arrivals / Coffee | Posters | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Prof. Steve Miller UCL Physics and Astronomy |
Introduction; Europlanet Rides Again | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Prof. Andrew Coates Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
Keynote: Updates from MSSL Planetary Science: PanCam for ExoMars2018; The field-aligned potential near Titan; and Ion pickup observed at comet 67P with the Rosetta Plasma Consortium | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Prof. Hilary Downes Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
A bit of granite from another planet (maybe Mars?) | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Dr Louise Alexander Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
Effective discrimination of Apollo 12 basalts with small sample sizes | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Dr Bing Xiao UCL Earth Sciences |
Predicting Liquid-Vapour Phase Diagram of MgSiO3 by First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulation | |
| 12:30 - 12:45 |
Dr Laura McKemmish UCL Physics and Astronomy |
What you need to know to use the ExoMol Line Lists for Studying Exoplanetary Atmospheres | |
| 12:45 - 13:00 |
Dr Nick Achilleos UCL Physics and Astronomy |
Modelling the Compressibility of Saturn’s Magnetosphere | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Lunch | Posters | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 |
Jennifer Harris Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
Quantitative spectral analysis of hydrothermal deposits in Nili Patera, Mars | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Dr Roberto Scipioni UCL Earth Sciences |
A Model for the Electronic conductivity of SiO2 at extreme conditions | |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Dr Geraint Jones Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
Directly-detected electron beams near Enceladus | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
Prof. Hilary Downes Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
Iron silicides in the Solar System | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Prof. Graziella Branduardi Raymont Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
SMILE: Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee / Tea | Posters | |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Dr Pete Grindrod Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
Searching for Co-Seismic Displacement on Mars through Sub-Pixel Image Co-Registration and Correlation | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Amy Edgington UCL Earth Sciences |
The Properties of FeSSi and its Implications for Mercury’s Core | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Dr Anne Wellbrock Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
Heavy negative ions observed during Cassini’s Titan T16 flyby using the CAPS Electron Spectrometer (ELS) | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Prof. Ian Crawford Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
The science case for Lunar Mission One | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Dr Elliot Sefton-Nash Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences |
ExoMars 2018 Rover Candidate Landing Sites: The Aram Dorsum inverted channel and Hypanis Vallis deltaic system | |
| 16:30 | Wine reception |
Further information
Cost
Free
Open to
All