Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 December 1 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/1010
Speaker: Dr. Adam Kobelski / Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) / University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Seminar Title: The Solar Corona and Chromosphere with Large Radio Telescopes
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Sabrina Savage

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2015 November 18 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2257
Speaker: Dr. Warren Skidmore / Thirty-Meter Telescope Observatory
Seminar Title: The Thirty-Meter Telescope Project
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Linda Sparke

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 October 22 1:30 p.m., NSSTC/1010
Speaker: Dr. Jochen Greiner / Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Munich, Germany
Seminar Title: Do GRBs Signal the Formation of Black Holes?
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michael Briggs (UAH)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 October 13 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Fan Guo / Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Laboratory Seminar Title: Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetically-dominated Flows
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Colleen Wilson-Hodge (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 October 1 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Edward Kintzel / NOVA Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Western Kentucky University
Seminar Title: The Large Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope: Nondestructive Astrophysical Applications
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Jessica Gaskin

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2015 September 23 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Eric Grove / High Energy Space Environment Branch, Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C.
Seminar Title: Proing the Particle Accelerator that Lives in Thunderstorms
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Michael Briggs (UAH)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 August 20 1:30 p.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Chiumun Michelle Hui / Physics Department, Michigan Technological University
Seminar Title: TeV Sky with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host:

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 August 18 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David Staszak / Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal
Seminar Title: Particle Astrophysics with VERITAS
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host:

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2015 July 22 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Kocevski / Astrophysics, NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: Time-Domain Astrophysics with Fermi Spacecraft
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Linda Sparke

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 July 21 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Michael Hesse / Heliophysics Director, NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: Energy Transfer in the Earth's Magnetosphere: The Role of Magnetic Reconnection
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. James Spann

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 July 14 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Zellner / Physics Department, Albion College
Seminar Title: Impacts on the Moon: When, Where, and Why Should We Care?
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Barbara Cohen

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 June 23 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Daigle / Astrophysics, NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Development of a Hard X-ray Polarimeter for Studying Gamma-Ray Bursts
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 June 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Martin Weisskopf / Astrophysics, NASA/MSFC / on Behalf of the IXPE Collarboration
Seminar Title: The Imaging X-ray Explorer (IXPE): An International Collaboration
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file

Date/Time/Place: FRIDAY, 2015 June 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Neil Gehrels / Chief, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: Future Mission Concepts for Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Linda Sparke

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 May 19 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Herman Marshall / Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: Progress toward a Soft X-ray Polarimeter for Astrophysics
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Martin Weisskopf

Date/Time/Place: MONDAY, 2015 May 18 2:00 p.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Robert Leamon / Heliophysics Division, NASA HQ
Seminar Title: Deciphering the Solar Magnetic Activity Cycle(s)
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Jonathan Cirtain

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 May 12 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Michael L. Cherry / Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Seminar Title: Terrestrial Gamma Flashes Observed from Nearby Thunderstorms at Ground Level
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 May 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Henric Krawczynski / Physics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Seminar Title: X-Ray Spectropolarimetric Observations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars with the Balloon-Borne X-Calibur Experiment
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Jessica Gaskin (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 April 28 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Mark McConnell / University of New Hampshire
Seminar Title: Gamma-ray Polarimetry as a Probe of the Central engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Linda Sparke (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Friday, 2015 April 24 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Navdeep Panesar / UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
Seminar Title: Structure and Dynamics of Quiescent Prominences
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: sponsored by ZP13

Date/Time/Place: Friday, 2015 April 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Dan Seaton / Royal Observatory of Belgium
Seminar Title: The SWAP EUV Imager on Board PROBA2
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Amy Winebarger

Date/Time/Place: Monday, 2015 April 13 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Bradshaw / Rice University
Seminar Title: Plasma Physics in an Extreme Environment
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Amy Winebarger

Date/Time/Place: FRIDAY, 2015 April 3 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Neil Cornish / Department of Physics, Montana State U, Bozeman
Seminar Title: First Sound: The Race to Detect Gravitational Waves
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Jonathan Cirtain

Date/Time/Place: WEDNESDAY, 2015 March 25 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Seiji Sugita / University of Tokyo
Seminar Title: The Hayabusa 2 mission to a C-type Asteroid
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Barbara Cohen

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 March 19 2:00 p.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David McKenzie / Department of Physics, Montana State University
Seminar Title: Turbulent Velocity Fields in the Plasma Sheets of Eruptive Solar Flares: Two-Dimensional Analysis
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 March 12 10:45 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Peter L. Biermann / MPI for Radioastronomy, Bonn; U. Bonn (emeritus); U of Alabama; U Karlsruhe
Seminar Title: Cosmological and Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2015 March 10 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Tilaye Tadesse Asfaw / NASA / GSFC - Heliophysics
Seminar Title: Non-linear Force-Free Modeling of the Coronal Magnetic Field in Spherical Geometry
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2015 February 19 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Leo Singer / NASA / GSFC - Astrophysics
Seminar Title: From FERMI GRBs to LIGO Discoveries: The Needle in the 100-Square-Degree Haystack
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-file