Programme of talks
The programme for the online Europlanet Society Ireland-UK Hub meeting on Tuesday 22 June can be found below.
Invited speakers:
Prof Marina Galand (Imperial College): Discovery of Cometary Aurora in the FUV
Rosie Cane / Tony Thompson (Thompson STEM Engagement): Tools for Science Public Outreach
Dr Will Dunn (UCL-MSSL): ORBYTS – Planetary Science Research-with-Schools Projects
Dr Angelos Tsiaras (UCL): ExoClock - A citizen science project to monitor transiting exoplanets
A PDF document of the programme and abstracts can be found below:
Morning Session: 10:00 - 12:20
| 10:00 | Nick Achilleos | Welcome |
| 10:05 | Marina Galand | Discovery of cometary aurora in the FUV (invited) |
| 10:35 | Affelia Wibisono | X-ray Emissions from the Giant Planets |
| 10:50 | Graziella Branduardi-Raymont | EXACT: Exploring the Earth’s aurora with a Cubesat |
| 11:05 | BREAK | |
| 11:20 | Leigh Fletcher | Exploring Jupiter’s Belt/Zone Structure as a function of Depth and Time |
| 11:35 | Dimitrios Millas | Compressibility of the Jovian magnetosphere |
| 11:50 | Nawapat Kayweeanun Imperial College London | The driving of Ganymede’s magnetosphere by plasma-magnetic interactions on the upstream magnetopause |
| 12:05 | Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell Imperial College London | Variability of the interplanetary magnetic field as a driver of electromagnetic induction in Mercury’s interior |
| 12:20 | LUNCH | Poster summaries |
Afternoon Session: 13:00 - 16:35
| 13:00 | Richard Haythornthwaite | Heavy positive ion groups in Titan’s ionosphere: Cassini Plasma Spectrometer IBS observations |
| 13:15 | Peter Stephenson | Cooling of electrons at a weakly outgassing comet |
| 13:30 | Qasim Afghan | Observations of a gap in the dust tail of C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) |
| 13:45 | Dimitri Veras | The future evolution of planetary magnetospheres: connecting solar system and extrasolar system science |
| 14:00 | Robert Kavanagh | Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs |
| 14:15 | BREAK | |
| 14:30 | Gordon Yip | Peeking inside the Black Box: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals |
| 14:45 | Gerard Hutchinson STFC | Introduction to SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) |
| 15:00 | Rosie Cane Thompson Stem Engagaement | Tools for Science Public Outreach (Invited) |
| 15:30 | Will Dunn UCL MSSL | ORBYTS – Planetary Science Research-with-Schools Projects (Invited) |
| 16:00 | Angelos Tsiaras UCL | ExoClock - A citizen science project to monitor transiting exoplanets (Invited) |
| 16:30 | Nick Achilleos | Closing remarks |
| 16:35 | MEETING CLOSE |