Solar Physics Seminars
Seminars
If you are interested in giving a seminar in any solar physics related topic at MSSL, please contact our seminar organiser Diego de Pablos (diego.pablos.18@ucl.ac.uk).
2021
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 25 March | Megan Maunder | University of Exeter | |
| 29 January | Samual Badman | UC Berkeley | Connecting Parker Solar Probe to the Sun : Global Coronal Modelling and Solar Wind Source Predictions |
2020:
| 25 August | Natalia Zambrana Prado | AS/CNRS Paris | Measuring changes in the elemental composition of the solar corona with SPICE, the EUV spectrometer on-board Solar Orbiter |
| 9 June | Diana Morosan | Helsinki University | The nature and origin of moving solar radio bursts associated with coronal mass ejections on the Sun |
| 2 June | Ryan Milligan | Queens University Belfast | Lyman-alpha Variability During Solar Flares |
| 21 April | Stuart Bale | UC Berkeley | The streamer belt below 30 Rs: some early results from PSP Encounter 4 |
| 16 January | Joanne Mason | University of Exeter | The Structure of Field-Guided Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence |
2019:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 10th December | Cristina Mandrini | Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics | |
| 9 September | Zihao Yang | Peking University | The spectroscopic evolution of a solar jet on 9 September 2017 |
| 24 June | David Brooks | George Mason University (NRL/JAXA) | Sources of the slow solar wind and solar energetic particle |
| 29 May | Emma Davies | Imperial College London | Radial Evolution of an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection: ACE/WIND, Artemis and Juno Observations |
| 28 March | Magnus Woods | Nagoya University | Serial Flaring in an Active Region: Exploring Why Only One Flare Is Eruptive |
| 19 March | Patrick Antolin | University of St. Andrews | Transverse MHD Waves and associated dynamic instabilities in the solar atmosphere |
| 14 March | Hamish Reid | University of Glasgow | The speed and expansion of escaping solar electron beams that produce radio bursts. |
| 14 February | Matt Owens | University of Reading | Observing coronal mass ejections in situ: Physics to forecasting |
| 16 January | Anne-Marie Broomhall | University of Warwick | Seismological insights into the magnetic activity of the Sun and other stars |
2018:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 6 November | Joel Dahlin | NASA/GSFC | A model for coronal mass ejection energy buildup and eruption onset |
2017:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 13 February | Luke Barnard | University of Reading | Improving coronal mass ejection forecasting with heliospheric imagers; what are we doing wrong |
| 8 February | Richard Morton | Northumbria University | A global view of velocity fluctuations in the corona |
| 26 January | Jack Carlyle | ESTEC | The St. Patricks day 2015 geomagnetic storm |
2016:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 6 December | Satoshi Inoue | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research | Onset and Dynamics of the Solar Eruption |
| 10 November | Pearse Murphy | Trinity College Dublin | A statistical analysis of the solar phenomena associated with global EUV waves |
| 27 September | Martin Laming | Naval Research Laboratory | Element Abundances and Turbulence in Slow and Fast Solar Wind Streams |
| 24 August | Alexander Russell | University of Dundee | Sunquake generation by coronal magnetic restructuring |
| 31 May | Michael Kennedy | Queen's University Belfast | Observations of the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrum of Hydrogen and Helium in Solar Flares |
| 16 March | David Brooks | Naval Research Laboratory | Measurements of non-thermal line widths in solar active regions and recent results from NRL |
| 14 March | Duncan Mackay | University of St. Andrews | Can an L5 Mission Magnetograph Improve the Predictive Capability of Global Magnetic Field Models? |
| 9 February | Hirohisa Hara | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Relationships between Fast Reconnection Outflows and Loop-Top HXR Sources at the Very Early Phase in 2013 May 15 Eruptive Flare |
| 6 January | Larisza Krista | CU/CIRES & NOAA/SWPC | Automated Detection of Coronal Dimmings |
2015:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 17 November | Mike Kosch | South African National Space Agency | Space Weather Forecasting |
| 27 October | Michael Kirk | NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre | Tracing the Chromosphere through the Corona with sequential chromospheric brightenings |
| 22 October | Erika Palmerio | University of Helsinki | Prediction of in-situ measurements from coronal observations |
| 12 October | Ian Jones | Goonhilly Earth Station | Goonhilly Earth Station - Goonhilly Past, Present and Future |
| 29 September | Marco Stangalini | Astronomical Observatory of Rome | Will next solar telescopes detect the smallest processes in the Sun's atmosphere? |
| 24 September | Antonia Savcheva | Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics | Data-constrained simulations and topology analysis of erupting sigmoids |
| 13 July | Andrew Hillier | University of Cambridge DAMTP | Theory and observations of MHD turbulence in solar prominences |
| 10 June | Marchos Trichas | Airbus | Carrington-L5: The Next Generation Space Weather Operational Mission. |
| 19 May | Alphonse Sterling | NASA/Marshall Space Flight Centre | A Revised view of solar X-ray jets |
| 13 May | Jason Byrne | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Studying Coronal Mass Ejections in the newly developed CORIMP Catalogue |
| 1 April | Tiago Pereira | Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo | Using IRIS to trace the flow of energy in the solar chromosphere |
| 11 March | Eoin Carley | Observatoire de Paris | Radio, EUV and white-light eyes on coronal shock waves |
| 18 February | Nathalia Alzate | University of Aberystwyth | Coronal "Puffs": Fast and slow ejections caused by active region jets |
2014:
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 3 December | Stan Gunar | University of St. Andrews | 3D Whole-Prominence Fine Structure Modelling |
| 18 September | Nobuharu Sako | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | A study for the acceleration mechanism of x-ray jets using Hinode/XRT |
| 17 September | Martin Laming | Naval Research Laboratory | The Connection Between MHD Turbulence and the First Ionization Potential Effect |
| 24 July | Scott McIntosh | HAO/National Center for Atmospheric Research | Observing Cycles, Seasons, and Storms |
| 15 July | Shaun Bloomfield | Trinity College Dublin | Fields, Features, & Flares: Predicting Solar Activity |
| 2 July | Joanna Haigh | Imperial College London | The Sun and the Earth's climate |
| 29 May | Iain Hannah | University of Glasgow | Emission measure distributions of solar eruptive events |
| 24 April | Graham Kerr | University of Glasgow | An Overview of White Light Sources in the 15th February 2011 Solar Flare |
| 10 April | Matsui Yuki | University of Tokyo | Imaging, spectroscopic and stereoscopic observations of the bi-directional inflow in the solar flare |
| 27 March | Antonia Savcheva | Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics | Solar Sigmoidal Active Regions: From Formation to Eruption |
| 12 March | Miho Janvier | University of Dundee | From MHD simulations to coronal observations: How to build a standard flare model in 3D |
| 19 February | Spiro Antiochos | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in the Genesis and Development of Major Solar Eruptions |
| 5 February | Clive Dyer | University of Surrey Space Centre | Space Weather: past, present and future |
| 29 January | Simon Thomas | University of Reading | Galactic Cosmic Rays: Probes for Space Weather and Climate |
| 15 January | Hugh Hudson | University of California, Berkeley | New Light on Loop Prominence Systems |
Resources:
Solar Physics Outreach:
EIS Science Nuggets
UK Solar Orbiter Website
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Seminars
Group Contact:
Prof. Sarah Matthews
+44 1483 204 208
sarah.matthews@