Solar Physics 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

Solar Physics Meetings:
Calendar
Seminars

Group Contact:
Prof. Sarah Matthews
+44 1483 204 208
sarah.matthews@