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:

iuk-europlanet-hub-22jun2021-abstracts-updated.pdf

Morning Session: 10:00 - 12:20

10:00	Nick Achilleos UCL	Welcome
10:05	Marina Galand Imperial College London	Discovery of cometary aurora in the FUV (invited)
10:35	Affelia Wibisono UCL MSSL	X-ray Emissions from the Giant Planets
10:50	Graziella Branduardi-Raymont UCL MSSL	EXACT: Exploring the Earth’s aurora with a Cubesat
11:05	BREAK
11:20	Leigh Fletcher University of Leicester	Exploring Jupiter’s Belt/Zone Structure as a function of Depth and Time
11:35	Dimitrios Millas UCL	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

13:00	Richard Haythornthwaite UCL MSSL	Heavy positive ion groups in Titan's ionosphere: Cassini Plasma Spectrometer IBS observations
13:15	Peter Stephenson Imperial College London	Cooling of electrons at a weakly outgassing comet
13:30	Qasim Afghan UCL MSSL	Observations of a gap in the dust tail of C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
13:45	Dimitri Veras University of Warwick	The future evolution of planetary magnetospheres: connecting solar system and extrasolar system science
14:00	Robert Kavanagh Trinity College Dublin	Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs
14:15	BREAK
14:30	Gordon Yip UCL	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