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Organiser: Jasmine Sandhu, MSSL.
If you are interested in giving a seminar on any space plasma physics related topic at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory please contact Jasmine Sandhu, Colin Forsyth, Chris Owen, or Daniel Verscharen.
Upcoming Talks
13 February 2020 - 11:00 - MSSL Common Room
Speaker: Dr Tadhg Garton
Title: Using Neural Networks to Identify Reconnection Related Structures in Saturn's Magnetosphere
Abstract: --
Past Talks
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 9th March 2020 | Dr Clare Watt | University of Reading | Earth's Radiation Belts: the kinetic plasma physics of killer electrons |
| 13th February 2020 | Dr Philippe Escoubet | ESA/ESTEC | Cluster Highlights in Preparation for SMILE |
| 31st January 2020 | Prof Chris Lintott | University of Oxford | From Galaxy Zoo to LSST: Citizen Science in the age of big data |
| 28th November 2019 | Dr Jennifer Carter | University of Leicester | Finding our SMILE: from an X-ray astronomer's headache to imaging the Earth's magnetopause |
| 4th November 2019 | Dr Ramiz Quidsi | University of Delaware | A Statistical Comparison Between Proton Microinstabilities and Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasmas |
| 30th September 2019 | Dr Andrew Kavanagh | British Antarctic Survey | EISCAT? The past, present and glorious future |
| 19th August 2019 | Dr Andrew Dimmock | Swedish Institute of Space Physics | Space weather research at IRF Uppsala |
| 12 August 2019 | Prof. Sandra Chapman | University of Warwick | 'Data analytics’ approaches to space weather |
| 9th August 2019 | Prof. Quanqi Shi | Shandong University | Observations of Magnetic holes in near Earth space: from MHD to kinetic scale |
| 10 June 2019 | Joe Eggington | Imperial College London | Magnetopause Reconnection and its Ionospheric Signatures in Global Magnetospheric Simulations |
| 09 May 2019 | Dr Sarah Bentley | University of Reading | Towards a probabilistic model of Earth’s radiation belts: the uncertainty in ultra-low frequency plasma waves |
| 16 April 2019 | Dr John Coxon | University of Southampton | Temporal behaviour of Birkeland currents in AMPERE |
| 19 March 2019 | Dr Maria-Theresia Walach | Lancaster University | Time variability in high-latitude ionospheric convection at Earth. |
| 30 January 2019 | Dr Luca Franci | Queen Mary University of London | Hybrid Simulations of Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind: Comparison with In-situ Observations. |
| 22 January 2019 | Dr Kristopher Klein | University of Arizona | Thermodynamics far from Equilibrium: Studying Plasma Heating and Instabilities in the Solar Wind. |
| 29 November 2018 | Samuel Wharton | University of Leicester | The Resonant Response of the Magnetosphere to Changing Geomagnetic Conditions |
| 09 October 2018 | Dr Thomas Elsden | University of St Andrews | Magnetospheric Field Line Resonances in 3D |
| 08 October 2018 | Dr Ferdinand Plaschke | Space Research Institute, Graz | Jets in the Magnetosheath: Origin, Evolution, and Impact |
| 17 September 2018 | David Stansby | Imperial College London | Preparing to re-visit the inner heliosphere |
| 22 August 2018 | Dr Imogen Gingell | Imperial College London | Instrument-induced production of negative hydrogen ions under solar wind bombardment |
| 10 July 2018 | Prof. Benjamin Chandran | University of New Hampshire | Alfvén-Wave Turbulence and the Origin of the Solar Wind |
| 29 June 2018 | Dr. George Livadiotis | Southwest Research Institute | Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Space Plasmas |
| 23 May 2018 | Dr. Robert Burston | University of Bath | Planets, Plasmoids, Leaky Taps, Springs and Chaos |
| 8 May 2018 | Dr. Christopher Chen | Queen Mary University of London | Turbulence and Heating in the Solar Wind |
| 1 May 2018 | Dr. Chadi Salem | SSL, UC Berkeley | Combining Radio Receivers and Electrostatic Analyzers for Accurate Measurements of Solar Wind Electrons: WIND Observations |
| 25 January 2018 | Dr. Owen Roberts | ESA ESTEC | The solar wind power spectrum observed from Cluster: insights in three dimensions and at sub ion scales |
| 22 October 2015 | Prof. Gerhard Haerendel | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Current sheet avalanche and substorm breakup |
| 25 August 2015 | Dr. Luke Barnard | University of Reading | Solar Stormwatch CME Catalogue |
| 28 July 2015 | Prof. Ken McCracken | University of Maryland | The temporal variability of the cosmic radiation, solar activity, and the heliospheric magnetic field over the past 10,000 years |
| 22 April 2015 | Dr. Laurence Billingham | British Geological Survey | The British Geological Survey Geomagnetism Team |
| 18 March 2015 | Dr. Heli Hietala | Imperial College London | Unravelling the solar wind drivers of the storm-time radiation belt response |
| 24 February 2015 | Nathan Pilkington | University College London | 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 |
| 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 | Automatic Georeferencing of Astronaut Auroral Photography: Providing A New Dataset for Space Physics |
| 6 June 2014 | Dr. Lorenzo Matteini | 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 |
| 07 June 2011 | Dr. Jonathan Eastwood | Imperial College | Cluster observations of magnetic reconnection and the ion diffusion region in the Earth's magnetotail |
| 20 April 2011 | Prof. E. Dubinin | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Germany | Induced magnetospheres at Mars and Venus: Open questions |
| 01 February 2011 | Dr. Craig Leff | MSSL ExoMars PanCam Project Manager | A review of MER surface operations, with implications for MSL and ExoMars |
| 13 October 2010 | Dr. Yasir Soobiah | Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden | The search for Martian aurora signatures in MEX ASPERA-3 IMA observations |
| 20 September 2010 | Prof. Rajmal Jain | Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad | Indian missions to study solar and interplanetary plasma |