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The MSSL Planetary Science Group holds regular external speaker seminars in conjunction with other MSSL Solar System research groups:
Upcoming seminars:
Date | Speaker | Title |
| 11 June 2025 | Carly Howett, University of Oxford | TBA |
Past Seminars
Date | Speaker | Title |
| 22 January 2025 | Théo Vrignaud, Institute of Astrophysics in Paris (IAP) | Exocomets in the Beta Pictoris system |
| 27 November 2024 | Conor Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Investigating Saturn’s Moon Titan from spacecraft and space telescopes |
| 31 October 2024 | Prof. Lewis Dartnell, University of Westminster | Astrobiology and Outreach |
29 October 2020 | Dr. Cyrielle Opitom, University of Edinburgh | Investigating the Composition of (Interstellar) Comets using Ground-Based Optical Observations |
| 12 February 2020 | Dr. Dominic Papineau, Department of Earth Sciences, UCL | The Oldest Fossils on Earth |
| 23 January 2020 | Dr. Peter Kollman, APL, USA | Giant Planet Radiation Belts |
| 25 May 2018 | Dr. Jamie Jasinski, JPL, USA | Mercury's magnetosphere: recent results from MESSENGER |
| 23 May 2018 | Dr. Robert Bursten, University of Bath | Planets, Plasmoids, Leaky Taps, Springs and Chaos |
| 18 January 2017 | Dr. Matthew Knight, Maryland University, USA | Insights from 20 Years of SOHO Comets |
| 5 December 2016 | Dr. Nick Achilleos, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL | The Relation Between Energetic Particles and Magnetospheric Structure and Thermospheric Dynamics at Saturn |
| 13 October 2016 | Dr. Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, Leicester University | Martian ionospheric response to solar wind variability during the solar cycle |
| 13 June 2016 | Dr Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum | Acid and rust: Understanding alteration processes on Mars |
| 17 May 2016 | Dr Japheth Yates, ESA | ULF Waves at Saturn |
| 10 February 2016 | Dr Matt Taylor, ESA ESTEC | Results from the Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
| 20 November 2015 | Dr. Colin Snodgrass, Open University | Comet science through telescopes |
| 28 April 2015 | Dr. Norbert Krupp, Max Planck Institude of Solar System Research, Germany | Visualizing the Invisible and Other Wonders of Saturn's Magnetosphere - 10 years of Cassini results |
| 18 March 2015 | Dr. Heli Hietala, Imperial College London | Unravelling the solar wind drivers of the storm-time radiation belt response |
| 24 Feb 2015 | Nathan Pilkington, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL | How does Plasma Shape Saturn's Magnetosphere? |
| 18 February 2015 | Dr. Robert Fear, University of Southampton | Observational tests of flux transfer event structure |
| 29 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 of Technology KTH/ University of Southampton | Energy and flux characteristics of dynamic fine scale aurora |
| 1 September 2014 | Dr. Jonny Nichols, University of Leicester | Jupiter and Saturn's UV aurora |
| 20 August 2014 | Prof. Ian Mann, 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 Walsh, ESAC, Spain | Automatic Georeferencing of Astronaut Auroral Photography: Providing A New Dataset for Space Physics |
| 9 May 2014 | Prof. Tom Cravens, Kansas University, USA | The plasma environment of comets, Mars and Titan - Prospects for Rosetta and Maven |
| 6 June 2014 | Dr. Lorenzo Mattein, Imperial College London | Kinetic Processes in the Solar Wind |
| 12 May 2014 | Prof. Michael Balikhin, University of Sheffield | System Approach to Solar-Terrestrial Physics: Advance in Physical Understanding and Space Weather Forcast |
| 7 April 2014 | John Coxon, University of Leicester | The Birkeland current system and its place in the expanding/contracting polar cap paradigm |
| 18 March 2014 | Dr. Catriona Jackman, University of Southampton | Dynamics of the magnetotails of Jupiter and Saturn from magnetic field and plasma flow measurements |
| 10 October 2013 | Dr. David Knudsen, University of Calgary | Thermal Ion Imaging and its Role on Swarm and the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe Satellites |
| 7 August 2012 | Dr. Marissa Vogt, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester | The Structure and Dynamics of Jupiter's Magnetosphere |
| 3 July 2012 | Dr. Karen Aplin, Department of Physics, University of Oxford | Electrical processes in planetary atmospheres |
| 19 June 2012 | Dr. Sarah Badman Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA | Cassini VIMS insights into solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling at Saturn |
| 3 April 2012 | Dr. Lewis Dartnell, Space and Climate Physics, UCL | Cosmic rays and the search for life beyond Earth |
| 20 March 2012 | Prof. Jan-Peter Muller, Space and Climate Physics, UCL | 3D imaging and web-GIS for PanCam |
| 13 March 2012 | Dr. Licia Ray, Department of Physics, Imperial College | Limitations to the transfer of angular momentum in Saturn's middle magnetosphere |
| 28 February 2012 | Dr. Caitríona Jackman Physics and Astronomy, UCL | Comparative planetary magnetotails |
| 31 January 2012 | Dr. Nick Achilleos, Physics and Astronomy, UCL | Further Exploration of the Saturn System: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling and Plasmasheet Structure |
| 17 January 2012 | Dr. Yasir Soobiah Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Uppsala | Classification of plasma acceleration signatures above the Martian crustal magnetic fields |