Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 August 26 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Peter Biermann/Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Seminar Title: Cosmic Backgrounds Due to the Formation of the First Super-Massive Black Holes
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 August 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Michael Pivovaroff/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Seminar Title: The Search for Solar Axions
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 July 29 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Roberto Lionello, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA
Seminar Title: Application of a 1D Model of the Solar Wind Driven by Turbulence Dissipation to a 2D Magnetic Field Configuration
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 July 22 1:00 p.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Katherine K. Reeves/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Seminar Title: Coronal and Magnetospheric Observations of Reconnection
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 July 1 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Annette Lee/St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
Seminar Title: Native Skywatchers -- Revitalization of Ojibwe and D(L)akota Star Knowledge
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 June 24 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Alphonse Sterling/NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Cascading Solar Eruptions

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 June 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Prof. Werner Becker/MPE Garching, Germany
Seminar Title: Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation with Pulsars
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 June 10 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Sanjiv K. Tiwari/NASA MSFC
Seminar Title: Small-scale to global structure of sunspots: recent advances
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 May 27 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Véronique Pelassa/CSPAR
Seminar Title: Analysis of a X4.9-Class Solar Flare Observed by Fermi

Date/Time/Place: Thursday, 2014 May 22 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker:Dr. Peng Jiang/University of Florida
Seminar Title: Novel Pressure-Responsive Memory Polymers
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 May 20 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker:Dr. Ilias Cholis/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Seminar Title: The cosmic ray positron fraction measurement with AMS: Its implications on dark matter, local pulsars and near-by supernova remnant sources
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 May 13 1:30pm, NSSTC/2096
Speaker:Dr. Tom Pardini/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Seminar Title: X-ray mirrors: applications from inertial confinement fusion to free electron lasers
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 May 6 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Mian Abbas/NASA MSFC
Seminar Title: Exploration of the Saturn System by the Cassini Mission: Observations with the Cassini Infrared Spectrometer
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Thursday, 2014 May 1 10:30am, NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Ed van den Heuvel/University of Amsterdam
Seminar Title: OB Associations, Runaway O-stars, High Mass X-ray Binaries and Double Neutron Stars: The Legacy of Adriaan Blaauw (1914-2011) at his Hundredth Birthday
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 April 22 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Tyson Littenberg/Northwestern University
Seminar Title: Improving the Odds (Ratio) for Gravitational Wave Detection
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 April 15 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Prof. Robert O'Dell/Vanderbilt University
Seminar Title: Spectacular Star-Birth in the Orion Nebula Discovered with the HST
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 April 8 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Linda Habash Krause/MSFC
Seminar Title: The Physics of Sprites
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 April 1 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Prof. Nikolai Pogorelov/Department of Space Science, UAH
Seminar Title: Voyager 1 Near the Heliopause
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 March 25 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Cohen/MSFC
Seminar Title: The Antarctic Search for Meteorites 2013-14 Field Season
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Friday, 2014 March 14 2:00pm, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Allan Wirth/AOA-Xinetics
Seminar Title: Recent Developments in Adaptive X-ray Optics at AOA-Xinetics
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 March 11 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Martin Weisskopf/MSFC
Seminar Title: Observations of the Crab Nebula and its Pulsar: New Results
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 March 4 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Lisa Upton/Vanderbilt University/CSPAR
Seminar Title: Characterizing and Modeling Magnetic Flux Transport in the Sun's Photosphere and Determining Its Impact on the Sunspot Cycle
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 February 4 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins/CalTech
Seminar Title: Dark matter signals from the Inner Galaxy?
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 January 21 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Sylvia Zhu/NASA GSFC/University of Maryland
Seminar Title: The record-breaking Fermi observations of GRB 130427A
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2014 January 14 10:30am, NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Naoto Nishizuka/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Seminar Title: Magnetic Reconnection in Chromospheric and Coronal Jets
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file