SPRG Seminars

NOTE: The Space Science (Physics 290B) seminars take place at 1:10PM every Tuesday in 325 OLC (Old LeConte Building - Physics Department on campus).
NEW: Special seminars usually take place at the Space Sciences Lab, in one of the conference rooms. Please check email announcements for exact time and location.

If you wish to subscribe to the email seminar announcements, please send an email to the seminar organizer, Chadi Salem at salem@ssl.berkeley.edu.

January 21, 2014 ~~ A. Muñoz-Jaramillo (Montana State University/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): Building the Next-Generation of Model-Based Solar Cycle Predictions
January 27, 2014 ~~ Special Seminar: P. Antolin (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NAOJ): Fine strand-like structure in the corona from MHD transverse oscillations
January 28, 2014 ~~ Y. Kato (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NAOJ): The generation mechanism of MHD waves in flux tubes
February 4, 2014 ~~ O. Agapitov (SSL/UCB, University of Orleans - France, and University of Kyiv - Ukraine): Wave-particle interaction in the Radiation Belts: Effects of Whistler Waves Oblique Propagation
February 11, 2014 ~~ J. F. Drake (University of Maryland, College Park MD, and SSL/UCB): Voyager Crosses the Heliopause
February 18, 2014 ~~ B. T. Welsch (SSL/UCB): Future Problems in Photospheric Fields and Flows
February 25, 2014 ~~ K. Greer (University of Colorado, Boulder): The Polar Vortex and Winter Weather Disturbances in the Middle Atmosphere
March 4, 2014 ~~ C. Geddes (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): Particle acceleration in laser-driven laboratory plasma waves
March 10, 2014 ~~ Special Seminar: S. Lejosne (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK): Contribution of a scale-changing technique to the characterization of radial diffusion
March 11, 2014 ~~ A. Poppe (SSL/UCB): Plasma-Neutral Interactions in the Lunar Exosphere
March 18, 2014 ~~ M. Pulupa (SSL/UCB): Solar wind electrons: potential modulation and heating in reconnection exhausts
March 25, 2014 ~~ SPRING BREAK ~~ NO SEMINAR
April 1, 2014 ~~ S. A. Ledvina (SSL/UCB): Titan's Interaction with its Surrounding Plasma Environment
April 8, 2014 ~~ M. Mendillo (Boston University): An All-Sky-Imager Network for Studies of Ionospheric Processes from Sub-Auroral to Equatorial Latitudes
April 15, 2014 ~~ TBA
April 22, 2014 ~~ TBA
April 29, 2014 ~~ TBA
May 6, 2014 ~~ Bart DePonthieu (Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab): ?

Related Links:
Bay Area Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Space Sciences Laboratory Colloquia
UC Berkeley Physics Department Seminars and Colloquia

Seminars Archive (click for abstract):

August 27, 2013 ~~ F. Mozer (SSL/UCB): Double Layers and Relativistic Electron Acceleration
September 3, 2013 ~~ S. D. Bale (SSL/UCB): Electron heat conduction in the solar wind: transition from Spitzer-Härm to the collisionless limit
September 10, 2013 ~~ T. Immel (SSL/UCB): The Ionospheric Connection Explorer : A New NASA Mission to Geospace
September 17, 2013 ~~ S. Curry (SSL/UCB): Virtual detections of O+ at Mars compared with MEX using a test particle simulation
September 24, 2013 ~~ E. C. Roelof (APL/JHU): Voyager 1 enters the disturbed interstellar plasma
October 1, 2013 ~~ No seminar
October 8, 2013 ~~ A. Malanushenko (Lockheed Martin): On Cross-Sectional Properties of Coronal Loops
October 15, 2013 ~~ J. Martinez-Sykora (Lockheed Martin): Impact of partial ionization effects in the solar atmosphere using radiative-MHD simulations
October 22, 2013 ~~ M. Spasojevic (Stanford): Quantifying the Role of VLF Transmitters in Radiation Belt Losses
October 29, 2013 ~~ D. Verscharen (University of New Hampshire): Kinetic Instabilities Driven by Anisotropic Ion and Electron Beams in the Solar Wind
November 5, 2013 ~~ J. Huba (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC): Non-Ideal MHD Physics: Hall and FLR
November 12, 2013 ~~ V. Krasnoselskikh (LPCE/CNRS, Orleans, France): Particle Diffusion due to Oblique Chorus and Hiss Waves
November 19, 2013 ~~ B. Walsh (Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland): The plasmaspheric plume and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling
November 26, 2013 ~~ THANKSGIVING WEEK ~~ NO SEMINAR
December 3, 2013 ~~ H. Takahashi (Hiroshima University, Japan): Pathfinder flight of Polarized Gamma-ray Observer (PoGOLite) in 2013
December 10, 2013 ~~ AGU WEEK ~~ NO SEMINAR
December 16, 2013 ~~ L. Kocharov (University of Oulu, Finland): Semi-transparent shock model for major solar energetic particle events (Special Seminar)

January 22, 2013 ~~ G. Parks (SSL/UCB): Density Holes, Hot Flow Anomalies and SLAMS Upstream of Earth's Bow Shock
January 29, 2013 ~~ G. Guerrero (Stanford): Magnetic helicity fluxes and dynamo saturation
February 5, 2013 ~~ M. Fillingim (SSL/UCB): Observations of Ionospheric Currents at Mars
February 12, 2013 ~~ G.T. Delory (SSL/UCB): New Views of the Moon: The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
February 19, 2013 ~~ J. She (Colorado State Univ): Metal Resonance Lidar for Investigating Atmospheric Wave Dynamics
February 26, 2013 ~~ B.T. Welsch (SSL/UCB): Using Photospheric Data to Drive Coronal Field Models
March 5, 2013 ~~ Y.C. Wang (SSL/UCB): Modeling of the Sputtering Efficiency for Martian Atmosphere
March 12, 2013 ~~ P. Hellinger (Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic): Proton energetics in the solar wind: Helios reloaded
March 19, 2013 ~~ NO SEMINAR
March 26, 2013 -- SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
April 2, 2013 ~~ P. Travnicek (SSL/UCB): Proton Heating by Pick-up-generated Waves in the Expanding Solar Wind: Hybrid Simulations
April 9, 2013 ~~ F. Bagenal (Univ. of Colorado): Is Jupiter a colossal comet? Will Juno decide?
April 16, 2013 ~~ NO SEMINAR
April 23, 2013 ~~ D. Sundkvist (SSL/UCB): Collisionless Shocks at Electron Scales
April 30, 2013 ~~ H. Bain (SSL/UCB): Radio Observations of Coronal Mass Ejections
May 7, 2013 ~~ G.H. Fisher (SSL/UCB): The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM)

August 28, 2012 -- B. Hnat (Univ. of Warwick, UK): Impact of observational uncertainties on universal scaling of MHD turbulence
September 4, 2012 -- Y. Liu (SSL): Sun-to-Earth Propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections
September 11, 2012 -- A. Sandroos (SSL): Shock Acceleration of Particles
September 18, 2012 -- No Seminar!
September 25, 2012 -- N. Omodei (Stanford): Fermi LAT observation of high energy emission from Solar Flares
October 2, 2012 -- No Seminar!
October 9, 2012 -- P. Damiano (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab): Electron energization and wave dispersion in a mirror kinetic Alfven wave
October 16, 2012 -- H. Karimabadi (UCSD/Sciber-Quest): Emerging Link Between Magnetic Reconnection and Cascading Turbulence
October 23, 2012 -- S. M. Krimigis (JHU/APL): The Voyager spacecraft after thirty-five years in space: The quest for exiting the heliosphere
October 30, 2012 -- N. Lin (SSL) and Y. Song (Univ. of Minnesota): Exploring the mechanism of substorm onset: A study of substorm timing sequence and the effect of solar wind variations
November 6, 2012 -- L. Sorriso-Valvo (SSL and IPCF/CNR, Cosenza, Italy): MHD turbulence in the Solar Wind: the energy cascade
November 13, 2012 -- F. Mozer (SSL/UCB): A simplified discussion of Reconnection and myths that you should not believe -- PDF of slides
November 20, 2012 -- THANKSGIVING WEEK -- NO SEMINAR
November 27, 2012 -- S. B. Mende (SSL): Plasma Pressure Generated Auroral Current System
December 4, 2012 -- AGU WEEK -- NO SEMINAR
December 11, 2012 -- S. Curry (University of Michigan): Test Particle Analysis of High Altitude Ions at Mars (Special Seminar)

January 17, 2012 -- Seminar cancelled
January 24, 2012 -- Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros (SSL): Determination of Electromagnetic Source Direction as an Eigenvalue Problem
January 31, 2012 -- P. Saint-Hilarie (SSL): First Allen Telescope Array (ATA) Observations of the Sun
February 7, 2012 -- S. Christe (NASA/GSFC): The Statistics of Solar Microflares, the Coronal Heating Problem, and FOXSI
February 14, 2012 -- L. Svalgaard (Standford): Polar Fields in 17GHz
February 21, 2012 -- R. Lillis (SSL): The Martian nightside ionosphere: particle precipitation and its consequences
February 28, 2012 -- E. Möbius (UNH, Sabbatical at LANL): Astronomy with Neutral Atoms: IBEX Catches the Interstellar Wind and Probes the Heliospheric Boundary
March 6, 2012 -- R. Millan (Dartmouth College): Relativistic Electron Precipitation and the BARREL Experiment
March 13, 2012 -- D. Turner (UCLA, IGPP): Outer radiation belt science with the THEMIS mission: Preparing for the RBSP era
March 20, 2012 -- N. Murphy (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge): Plasma Heating and Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection During Solar Eruptions
March 27, 2012 -- SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
April 3, 2012 -- M. Hartinger (IGPP, UCLA): Energy transfer via Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves: Global perspectives from multi-spacecraft observations
April 10, 2012 -- S. Close & I. Linscott (Stanford): Electromagnetic Effects from impacts on spacecraft 
April 17, 2012 -- M. Kazachenko (SSL): Predictions of Energy and Helicity in Four Major Eruptive Solar Flares
April 24, 2012 -- A. Burrell (University of Texas, Dallas): Equatorial Topside Magnetic Field-Aligned Ion Drifts at Solar Minimum
May 1, 2012 -- J. Liu (IGPP, UCLA): The Properties of the Dipolarization Front Current Sheet: Statistics
May 8, 2012 -- G. Parks (SSL)

August 30, 2011 -- J. Halekas (SSL): Lunar precursor effects observed by Lunar Prospector and ARTEMIS
September 6, 2011 -- C. Raftery (SSL): Imaging spectroscopy of solar flares with AIA diffraction patterns
September 13, 2011 -- B. Welsch (SSL): More Than You Want to Know About Estimating Photospheric Electric Fields
September 20, 2011 -- A. Shih (NASA/GSFC): Solar flares, accelerated ions, and the upcoming GRIPS instrument
September 27, 2011 -- A. Schekochihin (Oxford): Kinetic Turbulence in Magnetised Plasma: What would we like to know?
October 4, 2011 -- J. Tao (U. Colorado, Boulder): THEMIS Observations of Electron Phase-Space Holes and ARTEMIS Observations of the Lunar Wake
October 11, 2011 -- NO SEMINAR
October 18, 2011 -- T. Intrator (Los Alamos National Lab): Laboratory Access to the Physics of Magnetosphere and Astrophysical Plasmas
October 25, 2011 -- NO SEMINAR
November 1, 2011 -- B. Abbett (SSL): Modeling the Physical Connection Between the Solar Interior and Atmosphere
November 8, 2011 -- A. Poppe (SSL): ARTEMIS Observations of the Dayside Lunar Plasma Environment
November 15, 2011 -- M. Wilber (SSL): Survey results for electron scale magnetic depletions in Earth's magnetotail following dipolarizations
November 22, 2011 -- THANKSGIVING WEEK -- NO SEMINAR
November 29, 2011 -- T. Hoeksema (Stanford)
December 6, 2011 -- AGU WEEK -- NO SEMINAR

January 18, 2011 -- C. Chen (SSL): Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence
January 25, 2011 -- C. Foullon (U. Warwick): Magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in the Sun-Earth system
February 1, 2011 -- K. Khurana (UCLA): Evidence of a global magma ocean in Io's interior
February 8, 2011 -- G. Simnett (U. Birmingham): The Role of Energetic Ions in Heating the Solar Corona, Powering Flares and Triggering CMEs
February 15, 2011 -- L. Fisk (U. Michigan): Energetic Particle Acceleration in the Heliosphere
February 22, 2011 -- F. Fraschetti (U. Arizona): Time-dependent perpendicular transport of charged particles in a turbulent magnetic field beyond quasi-linear theory
March 1, 2011 -- C. Salem (SSL): Solar Wind Electrons
March 8, 2011 -- L. Wang (SSL): Solar Impulsive Energetic Electron Events
March 15, 2011 -- Y. Lin ( Auburn): 3-D Global Hybrid Simulation of Plasma Processes in the Bow Shock and Dayside 
March 22, 2011 -- SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR
March 29, 2011 -- Y. Ma (UCLA): New Perspectives of Titan's Plasma Interaction from MHD modeling of the Cassini flybys 
April 5, 2011 -- R. Wicks (Imperial): Anisotropic EM-fields in solar wind turbulence
April 12, 2011 -- I. Garrick-Bethell (UCSC): .Lunar magnetic anomalies and the formation of swirl-shaped surface markings
April 19, 2011 -- G. Haerendel (MPI): Hard X-Rays from Solar Aurora?
April 26, 2011 -- G. Bering (U. Houston): The VASIMR Project: An Industrial Application of Auroral Physics and New Opportunities for Simulation Studies
May 3, 2011 -- E. Zweibel (U. of Wisconsin): Magnetic reconnection in Partially Ionized Gases
May 10, 2011 -- M. Oka (SSL): Electron Acceleration at Shocks: Geotail Observations

August 24, 2010 -- D. Summers (Memorial U. Newfoundland, Canada / Kyung Hee U., Korea): Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in Planetary Radiation Belts
August 31, 2010 -- A. Caspi (SSL): Super-hot (T > 30 MK) Thermal Plasma in Solar Flares
September 7, 2010 -- Hari Om Vats (PRL, India): Estimates of solar coronal rotation by different observing techniques
September 14, 2010 -- M. Cartwright (SSL): Properties of small-scale flux ropes and magnetic reconnection exhausts in the solar wind
September 21, 2010 -- J. Gosling (LASP): Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind
September 28, 2010 -- S. Bale (SSL): Solar wind plasma heating: some recent progress and future prospects
October 5, 2010 -- L. Wilson (GSFC): Atypical Waves and Particle Heating at an Interplanetary Shock
October 12, 2010 -- P. Delamere (LASP): Solar wind interaction with the giant magnetospheres
October 19, 2010 -- F. Eparvier ( LASP): "Quiet Sun? What Quiet Sun?" First Results from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE)
October 26, 2010 -- B. Daughton (Los Alamos): New Insights into the Development of Turbulence in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
November 2, 2010 -- M. Desai (SWRI): Particle Acceleration at CME-driven shocks near the Sun and in Interplanetary Space
November 9, 2010 -- M. Pulupa (SSL): Solar Wind and Foreshock Electrons
November 16, 2010 -- L. Dai (U. Minnesota): Cluster observation of shear-mode surface waves in the outflows from magnetotail reconnection
November 23, 2010 -- THANKSGIVING WEEK
November 30, 2010 -- I. Hutchinson (MIT): Interaction of moving ion absorbing objects with plasmas
December 7, 2010 -- D. Ulusen (SSL): Bi-directional electron distributions at Mars

February 2, 2010 -- H. Hudson (SSL): Flare waves and the impulsive phase
February 9, 2010 -- D. Brain (SSL): Space Weather Influences on the Atmospheres of
Unmagnetized Planets (mostly Mars)
February 16, 2010 -- G. Parks (SSL): Solar Wind Dissipation across Earth's Bow Shock
February 23, 2010 -- S. Mende (SSL): Optical and ground based magnetic observations of substorms - Could they fit a simple qualitative model?
March 2, 2010 -- H. Wang (NJIT): A New Look at the Initiation of Solar Flares
March 4, 2010 -- Bart de Pontieu (Lockheed)
March 9, 2010 -- B. Ergun (LASP): Large-Scale Effects of Parallel Electric Fields
March 16, 2010 -- A. Poppe (CU Boulder): Simulations of the Near-Surface Lunar Dusty Plasma Environment
March 23, 2010 -- SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR
March 30, 2010 -- Marc De Rosa(Lockheed): Adventures in Solar Magnetic Field Modeling
April 6, 2010 -- P. Yoon (UMD): Non-Extensive Entropy and Turbulent Quasi-Equilibrium for Space Plasmas
April 13, 2010 -- K. Nykyri (Embry Riddle): Potential Consequences of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Ionopause of Mars
April 20, 2010 -- TBA
April 27, 2010 -- B. Welsch (SSL)

February 17, 2009 -- S. Krucker (SSL): Direct Observations of the Coronal Acceleration Region of a Solar Flare
February 24, 2009 -- Y. Liu (SSL): Evolution of coronal mass ejections from the Sun to interplanetary space: A new view with STEREO
March 3, 2009 -- R. Schlickeiser (Uni. Bochum): Cosmic ray acceleration and transport with weak adiabatic focusing
March 10, 2009 -- J. Bortnik (UCLA): First observation linking the origin of plasmaspheric hiss to discrete chorus emissions
March 17, 2009 -- J. Slavin(NASA Goddard): MESSENGER Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Mercury's Magnetosphere
March 31, 2009 -- Joerg-Micha Jahn (Southwest Research Institute): Magnetospheric ENA Imaging--Past, Present and Future?
April 7, 2009 -- Dong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea): Effects of Heavy Ions on EMIC waves in Inhomogeneous Space
April 14, 2009 -- B. Grefenstette (Santa Cruz Instit. for Particle Physics): Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes: Bursts of x-rays and gamma rays from Lightning
April 21, 2009 -- TBA
April 28, 2009 -- TBA
May 5, 2009 -- TBA
May 12, 2009 -- E. Kontar
May 19, 2009 -- M. Balikin

November 18, 2008
November 14, 2008
November 4, 2008
October 28, 2008
October 21, 2008
October 14, 2008
October 7, 2008
September 30, 2008
September 23, 2008
September 16, 2008
September 9, 2008
August 26, 2008

November 6, 2007
October 31, 2007
October 29, 2007
October 23, 2007
October 16, 2007
October 2, 2007

January 24, 2006
January 31, 2006
February 7, 2006
February 13, 2006
February 21, 2006
February 28, 2006
March 7, 2006
March 14, 2006
March 21, 2006
April 4, 2006
April 11, 2006
April 18, 2006
April 25, 2006
May 2, 2006
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