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Research Seminar

27 August, 2007

Nikolai Yampolsky

  • Time: 1:00pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 301

Friday Space Science Journal Club

21 September, 2007

Cancelled - talk moved to November 30th.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

5 October, 2007

Bin Miao will present " Scattering of field-aligned beam ions upstream of Earth's bow shock" by Kis et al., Ann. Geophys., 25 (3), 785, 2007.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 301

19 October, 2007

Matthew Argall will present "In situ Discovery of an electrostatic potential, trapping electrons and mediating fast Reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail" by Egedal et al., PRL, 94, 025006, 2005 and "Laboratory Observations of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnection" by Egedal et al., PRL, 98, 015003, 2007.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

26 October, 2007

Hyun Ju Kim will present "Reconnection sites of spatial cusp structures" by Trattner et al., JGR, 110(04), 207, doi:10.1029/2004JA010722, 2005.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

2 November, 2007

Matt Gilson will present a talk on his research concerning numerical experiments on Coronal heating using Parker's Model. Background provided in Section 3.4 of "Coronal Heating-Numerical Experiments" by Galsgaard, Adv. Sp. Res., 37, 1323, 2006.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

9 November, 2007

Kristen Simunac will present "STEREO-PLASTIC: The First Year" covering basics of the instrument and mission as well as her own research results. Some background for this talk can be found in section 3.2 of "Physics of the Inner Heliosphere", by Schwenn and Marsch, Springer-Verlag, 1990. One can also view the SSC website on STEREO and PLASTIC at http://stereo.sr.unh.edu/stereo.html.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

16 November, 2007

Xin Qian will present "Multi-scale structure of the electron diffusion region" by Karimabadi et al., GRL, 34, L13104, doi:10.1029/2007GL030306, 2007.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

30 November, 2007

CANCELED Li Wei Lin will present "The form of ideal current layers in line-tied magnetic fields" by Longcope and Strauss, Astrophys. J., 437, 851, 1994.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401

7 December, 2007

Open for practice AGU talks. To sign up, send request to bernie.vasquez@unh.edu.

  • Time: 12:10-1pm
  • Place: Morse Hall room 401