NSSTC Seminars

 

The default time and location for the NSSTC Space Science Seminars will be Tuesdays at 10:30 am in NSSTC Room 2096. Deviations from the default will be prominently noted. Donuts will be available 15 minutes prior to the start of each seminar.


Past Seminars
2016    2015    2014    2013    2012


Schedule 2016

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 November 29 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Michael Hahn / Columbia University
Seminar Title: Wave Heating of the Solar Corona
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari (Sponsored by ZP13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 November 15 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Rasha Abbasi / University of Utah
Seminar Title: Recent Results from the Telescope Array Experiment
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Sponsored by ZP12

Distinguished Lecture
Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 November 8 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. W.D. Gonzalez / National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil
Seminar Title: Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. James Spann (Sponsored by ZP01)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 November 1 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Svinkin / Ioffe Institute
Seminar Title: Konus-WIND: Results for 20+ Years in Space
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Sponsored by ZP12

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 October 18 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Alan Rubin / Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences; UCLA
Seminar Title: The Origin of Chondrules
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Bastian Baecker (sponsored by ZP13)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2016 October 6 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. David Hathaway / NASA/Ames Research Center
Seminar Title: The Top Half of the Sun's Magnetic Dynamo
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (sponsored by ZP13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 September 27 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Kendall Ackley / University of Florida
Seminar Title: Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up Using Shapelet Analysis for Automated Transient Detection
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Sponsored by ZP12

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 August 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Gunji / Yamagata University
Seminar Title: The Development of a Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter: From GAP to LEAP
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Stephen Daigle (sponsored by ZP12)
Journal Club: Friday, 2016 August 12, 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096, Paper Link

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2016 August 11 11:00 a.m., NSSTC/1010
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Kocevski / NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: An Overview of Time-Domain Astrophysics with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 August 2 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Mauricio Bustamante / Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) of Ohio State University
Seminar Title: Multi-Messenger Light Curves from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 July 26 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Peter Wyper / NASA/GSFC
Seminar Title: TBD
Abstract Link: Abtract TBD
Host: Dr. Alphonse Sterling (sponsored by ZP13)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 July 12 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Karelle Siellez / Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: A Dual Population of short Gamma-ray Burst Observations and the Coincident Detection with aLIGO
Abstract Link: Abtract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 July 5 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Alphonse Sterling / NASA/MSFC
Seminar Title: Revised View of Solar Coronal Jets
Abstract Link: Abstract TBD

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 June 7 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Richard Miller / University of Alabama in Huntsville
Seminar Title: Lunar True Polar Wander Inferred from Polar Hydrogen
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Renee Weber (sponsored by ZP13)
Journal Club: Friday, 2016 May 27, 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 May 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Richard Eastes / GOLD Mission PI
Seminar Title: A New Perspective on the Thermosphere-Ionosphere System from the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Jim Spann (sponsored by ZP01)
Journal Club: Friday, 2016 May 13, 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 April 12 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Raffaella Margutti / New York University
Seminar Title: Fully Successful, Failed, or Barely Failed? The Fate of Jets Trying to Break Through Their Stellar Progenitors
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Valerie Connaughton and Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 March 22 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Martino Marisaldi / National Institute of Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy and Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Seminar Title: High-Energy Radiation from Thunderstorms and Lightning: A Multi-Wavelength Approach
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michael Briggs and Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: THURSDAY, 2016 March 17 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Ignacio Taboada / Georgia Tech
Seminar Title: Observation of Very-High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux with IceCube
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Valerie Connaughton and Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 February 23 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Wen-fai Fong / Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Seminar Title: Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Michelle Hui (sponsored by ZP12)

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 Februry 16 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/4078
Speaker: Dr. Tyson Littenberg / CSPAR/UAH/USRA
Seminar Title: Overview of the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host:

Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, 2016 Februry 2 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. Nickolas Solomey / Professor of Physics, Wichita State University
Seminar Title: Discovering the Secrets of the Elusive Neutrino and Going Beyond
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Nasser Barghouty

Date/Time/Place: FRIDAY, 2016 January 22 10:30 a.m., NSSTC/2096
Speaker: Dr. G.D. Earle / Virginia Tech
Seminar Title: Investigations of Plasma and Neutral Gas Dynamics in LEO
Abstract Link: Abstract PDF-File
Host: Dr. Dennis Gallagher


Seminar Archives 2016  Seminar Archives 2015   Seminar Archives 2014
 Seminar Archives 2013  Seminar Archives 2012


Author/Curator/Contact: Mitzi L. Adams, mitzi.adams @ nasa.gov
NASA Official: Dr. Renee Weber, renee.c.weber @ nasa.gov
Last Updated: January 09, 2017