Past HAO Colloquia

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Speaker & Institution Colloquium Title & Abstract

2012:

Alexander Fournier, IPGP (12/10/12) Data assimilation in models of the geodynamo [abstract]
Roger Varney, HAO (11/28/12)
Dynamics of Photoelectrons in the Daylit Polar Cap Ionosphere and Their Relationship to Ion Upflow and Outflow [abstract]
Stephen Bougher, Univ. Michigan (11/14/12) The 2013 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mission: Status and Science Preparations [abstract]
Don Schmit, HAO/CU (11/7/12) Diagnosing the Prominence-Cavity Connection [abstract]
Larisza Krista, NOAA/SWPC (10/31/12) Study of the recurring dimming region detected at AR 11305 using the Coronal Dimming Tracker (CoDiT) [abstract]
Alan Plumb, MIT (10/24/12) Stratospheric warmings and their remote effects throughout the atmosphere [abstract]
Gary Glatzmaier, UC Santa Cruz (10/10/12) Computer simulations of convective dynamos in giant planets [abstract]
Delores Knipp, HAO (10/3/12) Thermospheric Upheavals Driven by Pressure Pulses Ahead of Interplanetary Disturbances [abstract]
Leif Svalgaard, Stanford University (9/19/12) How well do we know the sunspot number? [And what we are doing to answer that question] [abstract]
Sabrina Savage, NASA / MSFC (9/12/12) A history of supra-arcade downflows and their connection to reconnection [abstract]
Nobumitsu Yokoi, Univ. of Tokyo(9/5/12) Cross helicity and related dynamo [abstract]
Douglas Gough, Univ. of Cambridge(9/29/12) Stoked nondynamos [abstract]
Juan Fontenla, LASP/NWRA, CU(9/22/12) Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI) changes, atmospheric effects? [abstract]
Hideyuki Hotta, University of Tokyo (9/8/12) Studies of the solar convection zone using Reduced Speed of Sound Technique and Adaptive Mesh Refinement [abstract]
Fang Fang, HAO (8/25/12) Magnetic Flux Emergence from the Convection Zone into the Corona [abstract]
Piyali Chaterjee, HAO (8/18/12) Magnetic Buoyancy Instability: The formation of twisted flux tubes and chiral symmetry breaking [abstract]
Bill Lotko, Affiliate Scientist (Dartmouth) (8/11/12) Magnetic Reconnection and Convection in Geospace How the Ionosphere Controls Their Distributions (abstract)
Bidya Binay Karak, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (7/27/12) The grand minima and the predictability of the solar cycle [abstract]
Mei Zhang,
National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Consequences of Magnetic Helicity Accumulation in the Corona [abstract]
BC Low,
HAO
The restless interior of quiescent prominences [abstract]
Yosuke Yamazaki,
Kyushu University
Effects of stratospheric sudden warming on the ionospheric current system [abstract]
Michael Gruberbauer,
St. Mary's University, Halifax
Monty Hall and the Search for a Solar Model [abstract]
Enrico Landi,
University of Michigan
Diagnostics of the solar wind using in-situ and spectroscopic observations [abstract]
Hardi Peter,
Max-Planck-Institute
Comparing 3D MHD Coronal Models to Observations [abstract]
Bill Livingston,
NSO
My love affair with Fe 1564.8 nm [abstract]
Peter Young,
George Mason Univ/NRL.
Flare spectroscopy with the Hinode/EIS instrument [abstract]
Jeffrey Love,
USGS
Geomagnetic detection of the sectorial solar magnetic field and the historical peculiarity of minimum 23–24 [abstract]
Scott McIntosh,
HAO
ChroMag Science: Looking Forward to Sunrise II [abstract]
Rafael Garcia,
CEA Saclay
From the core of the Sun to the stars with SoHO, CoRoT and Kepler: An amazing journey of 16 years [abstract]
Jan Stenflo,
Institute of Astronomy, Zurich
Bipolar magnetic regions on the Sun [abstract]
Hanli Liu,
HAO/NCAR
Atmospheric waves and upper atmosphere variability [abstract]
Sarah Gibson,
HAO/NCAR
Magnetism and the Invisible Man: The Mysteries of Coronal Cavities [abstract]
Shravan Hanasoge,
Princeton Univ/MPS
The Rapidly Rotating Solar Convection Zone [abstract]
Antoine Strugarek, CEA/Saclay Magnetic confinement of the solar tachocline : impact of the magnetic topology in 3D MHD global simulations. [abstract]
Jonathan Cirtain
NASA/MSFC
The Solar Instrumentation and Technology Development Programs at Marshall Space Flight Center and What can we learn about the solar dynamo from polar coronal bright points? [abstract]
Nick Pedatella
HAO/NCAR
The atmospheric lunar tide simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) [abstract]
Vlacheslav Merkin
Johns Hopkins University
Mesoscale structure of the heliospheric current sheet: Initial results of MHD modeling [abstract]
Seth Claudepierre
The Aerospace Corp., LA
Global MHD Simulations of Magnetospheric Field Line Resonances and Waveguide Modes [abstract]
Marek Steslicki
Univ. of Wroclav, Poland
Pulsating stars in the region of Carina Nebula [abstract]
Amitava Bhattacharjee
Univ. of New Hampshire
Onset of Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability [abstract]
Gustavo Guerrero, Stanford University Dynamo action and magnetic buoyancy in convection simulations with vertical shear [abstract]
Qian Wu
HAO/NCAR
HIWIND Daytime Thermospheric Wind Observation [abstract]

2011:

Mausumi Dikapati, HAO The solar dynamo: Recent progress and unsolved problems [abstract]
Zbigniew Piotrowskim, NCAR/GTP Under-resolved simulations of Rayleigh-Benard convection; effects of anisotropic viscosity and Prandtl number [abstract]
Troy Carter, UCLA Laboratory studies of waves, instabilities, transport and reconnection using the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA [abstract]
Shaela Jones, University Maryland/NASA Goddard Rigid Rotation: Coronal Conundrum or Observation Effect? [abstract]
Arakel Petrosyan, Space Res. Inst./Russian Academy of Sciences/Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology Large eddy simulations of compressible MHD turbulence [abstract]
Phil Judge, HAO/NCAR This is the dawning of the age of the chromosphere [abstract]
Hiroko Miyahara, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, U. of Tokyo Variations of solar activity and cosmic rays at the Maunder Minimum [abstract]
Leon Ofman, CUA/NASA GSFC Modeling the acceleration and heating of the solar wind [abstract]
Jerry Harder, LASP Measured and modeled trends in solar spectral irradiance variability and application to earth atmospheric studies [abstract]
Lynn Harvey, LASP Mesospheric Transport in WACCM [abstract]
Steven Bougher, Andrew F. Nagy Collegiate Research Professor, University of Michigan Solar Cycle & Seasonal Variability of the Mars Thermosphere-
Ionosphere and Potential Impacts of Gravity Wave Momentum
Deposition [abstract]
Wes Lockwood, Lowell Observatory Solar variability after dark: Evidence and some dead ends from stars and planets [abstract]
Peter Williams, NASA Goddard Analysis of supergranulation characteristics using SDO/HMI and SOHO/MDI dopplergrams [abstract]
Allen Boozer, Columbia University Constraints on magnetic reconnection and the solar corona from fundamental electrodynamics [abstract]
Liang Zhao, HAO/NCAR Understanding the behavior of the Heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind during the unusual solar minimum between Cycles 23 and 24 [abstract]
Justin Edmondson, NASA JPL Dynamic Current Sheet Formation and Dissipation with Application to Inter-(Super)granular Flow Lanes and Quasi-Homologous Jet Activity [abstract]
Lucia Kleint, HAO/NCAR Solar spectropolarimetry—From turbulent magnetic
fields to sunspots [abstract]
David Hathaway, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center The Characteristic Depth of Supergranulation and the Meridional Return Flow [abstract]
Kathy Reeves, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Current sheet energetics, flare emissions, and energy partition in a simulated solar eruption [abstract]
Travis Metcalfe, HAO/CISL First Results from the TeraGrid Asteroseismic Modeling Portal [abstract]
Paul Cally, Monash University Making Waves [abstract]
Delores Knipp, HAO Where It's Hot and Where It's Not: Control of Upper Atmosphere Poynting Flux by the Solar Wind and Magnetosphere [abstract]
Alberto Sainz Dalda, Lockheed Martin/Stanford University Spectropolarimetric study of the sea-serpent penumbral filaments and a naked sunspot (is it really naked?) [abstract]
Urszula Bak-Steslicka, Astronomical Institute, University of Wroclaw, Poland Coronal mass ejections associated with slow LDE flares [abstract]
Bruce Lites, HAO/NCAR Hinode Observations Suggesting the Presence of a Local Small-Scale Turbulent Dynamo [abstract]
Binzheng Zhang
Dartmouth College
Effects of Soft Electron Precipitation on the Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere [abstract]
Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard
University of Aarhus, Denmark
News from Kepler [abstract]
Javier Trujillo Bueno
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Tenerife, Spain
Modeling Scattering Polarization for Probing the Magnetism of the Solar Atmosphere [abstract]
Larisza Krista
HAO/NOAA
The Evolution and Space Weather Effects of Solar Coronal Holes [abstract]
Craig DeForest
SwRI
Imaging the Solar Wind with Stereo/HI-2 [abstract]
Dr. Lidong Xia
Shandong University, Weihai
Streamer Waves and Associated Coronal Seismological Study [abstract]
Youhei Masada
Kobe University, Japan
A Possible Role of MRI-driven MHD Turbulence in the Solar Interior [abstract]
Jeffrey Linsky
JILA/Univ. of Colorado
What very deep UV Spectra are telling us about Pre-main Sequence Stars and Solar Mass Stars of Different Ages [abstract]
Matthew (Geoff) Mcharg
USAF Academy
Peregrine: A deployable solar imaging CubeSat mission [abstract]
Brian Welsch
SSL/Berkeley
More Than You Want to Know About Estimating Photospheric Electric Fields [abstract]
Ingrid Cnossen
HAO
The effects of changes in the Earth's magnetic field on the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system [abstract]
Brian Wood
NRL
Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of CMEs and CIRs from STEREO [abstract]
John Emmert
NRL
Whither the thermosphere? The evolving climate of the near-Earth space environment [abstract]
Nicholas Featherstone
HAO/NCAR
Probing Subsurface Flows Around Sunspots with 3-Dimensional Ring Inversions [abstract]
BC Low
HAO/NCAR
Solar Quiescent Prominences [abstract]
Gulnur Dogan
HAO/NCAR
Asteroseismic analysis of Sun-like stars using Kepler data [abstract]
Judy Karpen
NASA GSFC
Reconnection and Eruption in the Breakout Model for Fast Coronal Mass Ejections and Eruptive Flares [abstract]
Marty Snow
LASP, CU
Magnesium II Index: The Long and Short of It [abstract]
Cary Forest
Wisconsin
Magnetic Dynamos in the Lab: Progressing from Liquid Metal to Plasmas [abstract]

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