NSSTC Seminars

 

The default time and location for the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) Space Science Seminars will be Tuesdays at 10:30 am in NSSTC Room 2096 and/or on Teams. Deviations from the default will be prominently noted.



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Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2023 September 19, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid/Virtual: 2096, MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. P.S. Athiray / University of Alabama-Huntsville and Dr. Arthur Hochedez / Mines Paris - PSL
Seminar Title: Optimizing Spectroheliogram Deconvolution Methods: MaGIXS - A Case Study
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)



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Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2023 September 19, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid/Virtual: 2096, MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. P.S. Athiray / University of Alabama-Huntsville and Dr. Arthur Hochedez / Mines Paris - PSL
Seminar Title: Optimizing Spectroheliogram Deconvolution Methods: MaGIXS - A Case Study
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2023 August 29, Virtual: MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Yuhong Fan / HAO-UCAR, Boulder
Seminar Title: Towards Data-Driven MHD Simulations of Solar Coronal Mass Ejection Events
Abstract Link: Abstract TBD
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2023 April 4, Virtual: MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. María José Bustamante / University of California, Santa Cruz
Seminar Title: Kinematic Constraints on Supermassive Black Holes in the Local Group and Beyond
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Tyson Littenberg (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2023 March 7, Virtual: MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Robert Loper / NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: TBD
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: TBD
Speaker: Dr. Linda Krause / NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Ionospheric Scintillation and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 November 15, 10:30 a.m., Virtual: MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. David Falconer / Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville in Huntsville, Alabama
Seminar Title: Invention and Performance of MagPy for Forecasting Dangerous Space Weather
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: MONDAY, 2022 November 14, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid: MS Teams/NSSTC 20 96
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Kerr / U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Seminar Title: Using Gamma Rays to Search for Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Michelle Hui(Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 October 18, 10:30 a.m., Virtual: MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Dibyendu Sur / Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado and Narula Institute of Technology in Kolkata, India
Seminar Title: Design and Performance Validation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based Total Electron Content (TEC) Models for Low-latitude Regions of Earth's Ionosphere
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 October 11, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid: MS Teams and NSSTC Room 2096
Speaker: Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti / University of Alabama in Huntsville, Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair of Physics
Seminar Title: Towards Precision Measurements of Dark Matter
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 September 13, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid: MS Teams and NSSTC Room 2096
Speaker: Dr. Adam Kobelski / NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Seminar Title: New Observations of Transients and Small Flares throughout the Solar Atmosphere with ALMA
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 August 4, 10:30 a.m., Hybrid: MS Teams and room NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Aaron Tohuvavohu / University of Toronto
Seminar Title: Seeing into the Immediate Post-merger Environment of a Neutron Star Merger
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 July 12, 2:00 p.m., Hybrid: MS Teams and room NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Milena Crnogorcevic / University of Maryland
Seminar Title: Catching the Next Wave: Search for Gamma-ray Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Events from the Third Observing Run with Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Joshua Woods (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 July 12, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Prof. Petrus ("Piet") Martens / Professor in Physics and Astronomy / Georgia State University
Seminar Title: The Faint Young Sun Paradox -- Perhaps the Young Sun was not Faint
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 May 3 , 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Shadia Habbal / Institute for Astronomy / University of Hawaii
Seminar Title: Exploration of the Sources and Properties of the Solar Wind with Total Solar Eclipse Observations
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 April 12, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Denny Oliveira / NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Maryland, Baltimore
Seminar Title: Perspectives on Thermosphere Mass Density Modeling During Extreme Magnetic Storms: A Look to the Future with an Eye in the Past
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 POSTPONED, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Amy Winebarger / NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Seminar Title: TBD
Abstract Link: Abstract TBD
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 March 15, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Sushree Sangeeta Nayak / University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Seminar Title: MHD Modeling of Solar Transients
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2022 February 15, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Naïs Fargette / Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) / CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
Seminar Title: What are the 'Magnetic Switchbacks' Observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Spacecraft?
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 November 2, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Marcia Neugebauer / Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
Seminar Title: Microstreams, Switchbacks, and Coronal Jets
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2021 October 21, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Tanmoy Samanta / NASA/MSFC NPP Fellow
Seminar Title: Origin of Small Chromospheric Jets and Their Influence in the Corona
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 August 3, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams Speaker: Dr. Qiang Hu / University of Alabama in Huntsville
Seminar Title: What Have We/I Learned About Magnetic Flux Ropes: Large and Small?
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 June 29, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Janet Green / Space Hazards Applications, LLC
Seminar Title: Space Weather Impacts to Satellites: Science and Applications
Abstract Link: Abstract TBD
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling and Dr. Ghee Fry (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 May 11, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Marina Battaglia / University of Applied Sciences and Arts, NW Switzerland (FHNW)
Seminar Title: A Multi-Wavelength View on Electron Acceleration in Solar Flares
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13) and Dr. Haihong Che (UAH/CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 April 13, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Lapenta / Catholic University Leuven Belgium
Seminar Title: Reconnection Outflows as Laboratories to Understand Turbulence and Particle Acceleration
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13) and Dr. Haihong Che (UAH/CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 April 6, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Bin Chen / New Jersey Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: Solar Flare Energy Release: New Insights from Broadband Radio Imaging Spectroscopy
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13) and Dr. Haihong Che (UAH/CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 February 23 , 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Talwinder Singh / University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Seminar Title: The Missing Cool Corona in the Flat Magnetic Field Around Solar Active Regions
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2021 TBD, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Linda Krause / NASA / MSFC
Seminar Title: The Uniqueness of the Equatorial Ionosphere in the African Sector
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: POSTPONED -- DATE TBD Tuesday, 2020 November 10, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Phyllis L. Whittlesey / University of California, Berkeley / Space Sciences Lab
Seminar Title: Parker Solar Probe
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place:WEDNESDAY, 2020 October 28, 2:00 p.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas White / George Washington University
Seminar Title: The Gamow Explorer
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
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Host: Dr. Wayne Baumgartner (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 October 13, 10:30 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Amy Winebarger / NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center
Seminar Title: Probing the Sun with Imaging Spectrographs
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 September 22, 10:20 a.m., MS Teams
Speaker: Bernard Benson / University of Alabama in Huntsville
Seminar Title: Deep Neural Networks Applied to Three Problems in Heliophysics: Coronal Loop Configurations, Free Magnetic Energy, and Forecasting Solar Activity
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 June 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Tyler Parsotan / Oregon State University
Seminar Title: Photospheric Polarization Signatures of Long Gamma Ray Bursts
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 March 3 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Roy Smart / Montana State University
Seminar Title: Analyzing ESIS Observations Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Amy Winebarger (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 February 25 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Mauricio Pazianotto / Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil
Seminar Title: Simulation of the Cosmic Radiation Transport for Aeronautical Applications
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Mark Christl (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2020 February 18 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Hardi Peter / Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Seminar Title: Coronal Structure, Dynamics, and Heating
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Sabrina Savage (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2019 November 7 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Weijie Sun / University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Flux Transfer Events in Mercury's Magnetosphere
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Qiang Hu (Sponsored by UAH)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 November 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Meg Millhouse / University of Melbourne
Seminar Title: Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Rotating Neutron Stars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Tyson Littenberg (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 October 15 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David McKenzie / NASA/MSFC Heliophysics and Planetary Science Branch
Seminar Title: The Chromospheric Layer Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP2) Sounding Rocket Mission: First Results
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2019 September 26 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Nicola Fox / NASA Heliophysics Division Director
Seminar Title: Parker Solar Probe: A NASA Mission to Touch the Sun
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 September 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Mehmet ("Sarp") Yalim / CSPAR/UAH
Seminar Title: Overview of Data-Driven MHD Models of Solar Wind Propagation from Chromosphere to Earth’s Magnetosphere
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 August 13 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Joan Schmelz / Director, NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) / Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
Seminar Title: Hidden Obstacles to Success: Unconscious Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Impostor Syndrome
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Amy Winebarger (Sponsored by USRA)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2019 June 27 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. George Younes / George Washington University
Seminar Title: X-ray Emissions from Magnetars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Adam Goldstein (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2019 May 8 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Craig DeForest / Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)-Boulder
Seminar Title: A New Paradigm of the Young Solar Wind
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2019 March 21 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Noriyuki Narukage / National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
Seminar Title: Satellite mission PhoENiX: Physics of Energetic and Non-thermal plasmas in the X (= magnetic reconnection) region
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 February 19 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
(postponed due to furlough)
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Wissel / California Polytechnic State University
Seminar Title: Radio Searches for Cosmic Neutrinos
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Wednesday, 2019 January 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
(cancelled because of government furlough)
Speaker: Dr. Jay McDaniel / University of Oklahoma
Seminar Title: TBD
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Renee Weber (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2019 January 15 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
(cancelled because of government furlough)
Speaker: Dr. Dale Gary / New Jersey Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: TBD
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 December 4 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Robert J. Leamon / University of Maryland
Seminar Title: Termination of Solar Cycles and Correlated Tropospheric Variability
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2018 November 29 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo / SouthWest Research Institute
Seminar Title: The Rails Inside the Sun and the Butterflies that Ride Them
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 November 13 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Samuel Reid / Geometric Energy Corporation, Calgary, Canada
Seminar Title: Sensors and Communications for Heliophysics and Planetary Science
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Friday, 2018 November 2 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Toshi Hirabayashi / Auburn University
Seminar Title: Geophysical Structure of Top-Shaped Rubble-Pile Asteroids
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Caleb Fassett (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 October 23 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Juan Lorenzo / LSU, Department of Petroleum Engineering
Seminar Title: Seismic Properties of Soils on Earth and Possible Applications to Moon and Mars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Renee Weber (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 August 28 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Avijeet Prasad / Physical Research Laboratory, India
Seminar Title: Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Solar Corona Initiated with Extrapolated Non-Force-Free Magnetic Fields
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Qiang Hu (Sponsored by CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2018 August 23 10:00 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David Asner / Brookhaven National Laboratory
Seminar Title: Brookhaven National Laboratory Capabilities and Potential Partnering
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Jessica Gaskin (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 August 14 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Slava Turyshev / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seminar Title: Solar Gravity Lens Telescope for Exoplanet Detection
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Reginald Alexander (Sponsored by ST03)

Date/Time/Place: FRIDAY, 2018 July 27 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Hamilton / Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Seminar Title: Flood Lava Eruptions on Earth and Mars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Caleb Fassett (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 July 10 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Genevieve Vigil / USRA
Seminar Title: Super-Resolution Imaging for Biological Research Applications
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: MONDAY, 2018 June 4 10:00 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Debra Needham / NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Kilauea's 2018 Eruption, Data and Footage from the Hawaii Volcano Observatory
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 May 10 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Chien-Ting Chen / Pennsylvania State University
Seminar Title: Hidden monsters: cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Doug Swartz (Sponsored by USRA)

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2018 May 2 3:00 p.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Jon Hakkila / University of Charleston
Seminar Title: What Pulse Structure Reveals about Gamma-Ray Burst Kinematics
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Robert Preece (Sponsored by UAH)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2018 April 26 11:00 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Corrine Fletcher / Florida Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: X-rays From Magnetic B-type Stars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Adam Goldstein (Sponsored by USRA)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 March 27 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Katie Breivik / Northwestern University
Seminar Title: Exploring Compact-Binary Astrophysics with Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Tyson Littenberg (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: MONDAY, 2018 March 12 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Marcos Santander / University of Alabama
Seminar Title: Multi-Messenger Searches for the Sources of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2018 January 9 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Sean Lindsay / University of Tennessee/Knoxville
Seminar Title: A Characterization of Multiple Asteroid Systems
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 December 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Olga V. Khabarova / Heliophysical Laboratory, Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism (IZMIRAN), Moscow, Russia
Seminar Title: Magnetic Cavities in the Solar Wind as Natural Tokamaks
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Gary Zank (Sponsored by CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 November 28 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Angela Olinto / University of Chicago
Seminar Title: Space Probes of the Highest Energy Particles: POEMMA and EUSO-SPB
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Mark Christl (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 November 21 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Maxim Barkov / Purdue University
Seminar Title: 3D RMHD Modeling of Pulsar Bow-Shock Nebulae
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Nick Pogorelov (Sponsored by CSPAR)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2017 November 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Brice Orange / OrangeWave Innovative Science
Seminar Title: A Solar Physics Feature Database and Magnetic Energy Coupling Studies
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Patrick Champey (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 November 14 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Greydon Foil / Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Efficiently Sampling from Underlying Physical Models
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Jessica Gaskin (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 November 7 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Adam Goldstein / NASA/MSFC/USRA
Seminar Title: The First Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-Wave Signal: GRB 170817A and GW170817
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 October 24 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Tyson Littenberg / NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Results from the LIGO/Virgo Second Observing Run
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 October 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David Webb / Boston College
Seminar Title: CME Rates Over Four Solar Cycles
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 October 3 11:00 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Solomey / Wichita State University
Seminar Title: Technical Study of a Solar Neutrino Spacecraft Close to the Sun
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: FRIDAY, 2017 September 29 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Navdeep Panesar / NASA/MSFC/USRA
Seminar Title: Flux Cancelation: The Key to Solar Eruptions
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 September 19 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Donald Schmit / Lockheed Martin, NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: The Solar Transition Region: CLASP, IRIS, and What's Next
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Laurel Rachmeler (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 August 1 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Ed Dyster / Orbital ATK Space Systems Group
Seminar Title: Orbital ATK Solutions for NASA's Venture, Explorer, and Discovery Announcements of Opportunity
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michael Goodman (Sponsored by ST10)

Date/Time/Place: MONDAY, 2017 July 31 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari / LMSAL, BAERI, NASA/MSFC, CSPAR/UAH
Seminar Title: Sunspot Penumbral Jets: Magnetic Setting, Coronal Emission, and Twisting
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 July 18 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Tim Goudge / Jackson School of Geosciences, UT at Austin
Seminar Title: Sedimentary Rocks in Space: Reconstructing the Evolution of a Delta Deposit on Mars
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Caleb Fassett (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2017 July 6 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4068
Speaker: Christopher Moore / NASA Space Technology Fellow, University of Colorado
Exploring Solar Coronal Properties Through Soft X-ray Observations of the MinXSS (Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer) CubeSat
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Amy Winebarger (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 May 30 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Knupp / University of Alabama in Huntsville
Seminar Title: UAH's Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS) and its Use for the 2017 Eclipse
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2017 May 24 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Gary Zank / UAH's Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR)
Seminar Title: Turbulence in the Solar Wind and Potential Implications for Coronal Turbulence
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 May 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Zi-Wei Lin / East Carolina University
Seminar Title: The Little Bang: Smashing Nuclei at Big Accelerators
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2017 May 4 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Nour-Eddine Raouafi
Seminar Title: What Role Does Small-Scale Magnetic Activity Play in the Formation and Evolution of Coronal Plumes?
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Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2017 April 27 3:00 p.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Christina Richey / Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, NASA HQ
Seminar Title: Osiris-REx
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Host: Dr. Renee Weber (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 April 11 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Telepun / Amateur Astronomer
Seminar Title: Tips for Photographing a Total Solar Eclipse
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Host: Mitzi Adams (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 April 4 2:00 p.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton /
Seminar Title: TBD
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Host: PMPO (Stephanie Henry)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 April 4 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Albert / Los Alamos National Lab
Seminar Title: Probing Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays
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Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2017 Mar 30 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. James Klimchuk / NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: Why is the Solar Corona So Hot?
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Host: Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari (Sponsored by ST13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 Feb 28 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Gary Blackwood / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seminar Title: NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
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Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 February 21 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Naveen Vetcha / NASA Solar System Ambassador Volunteer
Seminar Title: James Webb Space Telescope - Future of Space Sight
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Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty (Sponsored by ST12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2017 January 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Nat Gopalswami / NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: Why is the 2012 July 23 Backside Solar Eruption an Extreme Event?
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Host: Dr. James Spann (Sponsored by ST01)


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Author/Curator/Contact: Mitzi L. Adams, mitzi.adams @ nasa.gov
NASA Official: Dr. Renee Weber, renee.c.weber @ nasa.gov
Last Updated: September 13, 2023