CPS Summer Meeting 2021

This year's Summer Meeting will be held on Thursday 9 September 2021 as a virtual event.

The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to host our 11th Summer Meeting on Thursday 9th September 2021, for CPS colleagues and associates.

With the success of the online event last year and uncertainties about when everyone will return to a fully-open campus, we have decided to adopt a virtual format again.

The online format is also an opportunity to share our research with a wider audience, so please contact the meeting organiser (joanna.fabbri at ucl.ac.uk) for the meeting link if you have not received this already and are interested in attending.

Please find the schedules for the morning and afternoon talk and poster sessions below.

The programme and abstracts can also be found in the following document, together with Zoom meeting guidance for attendees on the day:

cps-summer-meeting2021-programme-and-abstracts-web.pdf

Morning Session: Talks (10:00 - 12:30)

10:00 - 10:10	Dr Dominic Papineau CPS Director, UCL Earth Sciences / LCN	Welcome
10:10 - 10:30	Prof Geraint Jones Mullard Space Science Laboratory	The Comet Interceptor Mission
10:30 - 10:50	Qasim Afghan Mullard Space Science Laboratory	Gaps in the dust tails of comets C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) and C/2002 F1 (Utsunomiya)
10:50 - 11:10	Dr Will Dunn MSSL / Harvard CfA	Mostly: Orbyts – Planetary Science Research-with-Schools Projects But also: X-rays from Jupiter and Uranus Highlights
11:10 - 11:20	COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 11:40	Affelia Wibisono Mullard Space Science Laboratory	Jupiter's X-ray aurora during UV dawn storms and injections as observed by XMM-Newton, Hubble, and Hisaki
11:40 - 12:00	Prof Nick Achilleos UCL Physics and Astronomy	The Magnetodisk Regions of Jupiter and Saturn
12:00 - 12:20	Dr Dimitrios Millas UCL Physics and Astronomy	Compressibility of the Jovian magnetosphere

Morning Session: Posters (12:20 - 12:30)

12:20 - 12:25	Matthew Cheng UCL Physics and Astronomy	Automated bow shock and magnetopause boundary classification at Saturn using statistics of magnetic fields and particle flux
12:25 - 12:30	Zuri Gray MSSL / Armagh Observatory	Polarimetry of Comet 67P
12:30 - 13:30	LUNCH BREAK

12:20 - 12:25

Matthew Cheng

UCL Physics and Astronomy

Automated bow shock and magnetopause boundary classification at Saturn using statistics of magnetic fields and particle flux

12:25 - 12:30

Zuri Gray

MSSL / Armagh Observatory

Polarimetry of Comet 67P

12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session: Talks (13:30 - 16:00)

13:30 - 13:50	Dr Dominic Papineau UCL Earth Sciences / LCN	The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life guided by biosignatures in sedimentary rocks from the Early Earth
13:50 - 14:10	Dr Shahab Varkouhi UCL Earth Sciences	Biogenic silica diagenesis and anomalous compaction in deep-sea depositional systems
14:10 - 14:30	Dr Lauren McKeown Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences	Spiders on Mars
14:30 - 14:40	COFFEE BREAK
14:40 - 15:00	Richard Haythornthwaite Mullard Space Science Laboratory	Deriving Cassini spacecraft potentials, cross-track and along-track ion velocities in Titan’s ionosphere using measurements from CAPS ELS and IBS
15:00 - 15:20	Alexandra Thompson MSc Planetary Science student, UCL P&A	Characterising the Effects of Active Host Stars on Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
15:20 - 15:40	Prof Andrew Coates Mullard Space Science Laboratory	PanCam: the ‘science eyes’ of the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars 2022) rover
15:40 - 16:00	Lorenzo Pica Ciamarra Summer student, UCL P&A	Unified transit and eclipse atmospheric retrievals yield better-constrained chemical abundances and TP profiles
16:00	MEETING CLOSE

Abstract submission: Now closed

CPS colleagues are invited to send an abstract for consideration, of no more than one A4 page, stating your preference for a talk or poster, which should be emailed to joanna.fabbri at ucl.ac.uk, by Friday 20 August.