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Dr. Mausumi Dikpati
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Education
Post-Degree Appointments
Talks
Posters Presentations
Community Work
Successful Proposals
 
 
Education
Degrees
1985 B.Sc (Honours in Physics) at Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University, India. [Rank -6th]
1987 Dec. M.Sc. in Physics, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India. [Rank -5th]
1989 Post M.Sc. Associateship in Physics at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India. [Rank -3rd]
1996 Ph.D. in Physics at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (degree certi.cate awarded April 1996)
Post-Degree Appointments
Presently Scientist II at HAO/NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
2003 - 2006(April) Scientist I at HAO/NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
2000-2003 Project Scientist at HAO/NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
1996-2000 Post Doc. at ASP/NCAR & HAO/NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
1996, Feb.-Sep., Guest Position, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
1995, Nov. 1-18, Guest Position, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
1995, June 1-25; Guest Position, The Eöt vös University, Budapest, Hungary
Talks
  • Space Weather Week, Boulder, Colorado, (April 2006), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Simulating and predicting solar cycles using a flux-transport dynamo’
  • Atmospheric Neutral Density Forecast Workshop, Colorado Springs, Colorado, (April 2006), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Simulating and predicting solar cycles using a flux-transport dynamo’
  • IAU Symposium 233, Cairo, Egypt, (March 2006), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Simulating and predicting solar cycles using a flux-transport dynamo’
  • ESSL Advisory Panel meeting, Boulder, Colorado (February 2006), 15 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Simulating and predicting solar cycles using a flux-transport dynamo’
  • NCAR’s Director’s Committee meeting, Boulder, Colorado (January 2006), 45 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Simulating and predicting solar cycles using a flux-transport dynamo’
  • CCMC (Community Coordinated Modeling Center) workshop, Clearwater Beach Hilton, Florida (October 2005), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Solar dynamo models’
  • ISSI workshops, Bern, Switzerland (October, 2005 and March, 2005), Participation by invita­tion:
    1. a one hour’s talk on ‘Predicting mean features of upcoming solar cycles’
    2. a one hour’s talk on ‘Di.usion of dynamo .elds into solar interior’
    3. a one hour’s talk on ‘Global solar dynamos: Mean .eld theory’
    4. another 30 minutes’ talk on ‘Constraints on applicability of an interface dynamo to the Sun’
  • 22nd NSO/SP workshop, Sac Peak, USA (October, 2004), one hour’s INVITED talk on ‘Large scale organization in the solar dynamo and its observational signature’
  • 35th COSPAR meeting, Paris, France (July, 2004), two invited talks:
    1. 35 minutes’ talk on ‘Solar magnetic .elds and the dynamo theory’
    2. 20 minutes’ talk on ‘The importance of the solar tachocline’
  • GONG/SoHO 14 meeting, New Haven, USA (July, 2004), 40 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Global MHD theory of tachocline and the current status of large-scale solar dynamo’
  • AAS/SPD meeting, Denver, USA (May-June, 2004), Press Conference Presentation on ‘A physics-based model for predicting timings and amplitudes of upcoming solar cycle’
  • SORCE meeting, Sonoma, USA (December, 2003), 30 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘The solar dynamo’
  • 5th Solar-B meeting, Tokyo, Japan (November, 2003), 40 minutes’ INVITED talk on ’Solar dy­namo models’
  • AAS/SPD, Baltimore, USA (June, 2003), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘The solar dynamo’
  • EGS/AGU/EUG, Nice, France (April, 2003), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ’Flux-transport type solar dynamos’
  • Rice University, Houston, USA (February, 2003), two interview presentations for Tenure-track faculty selection:
    1. a one hour’s talk on ‘Flux-transport dynamos’
    2. another one hour’s talk on ‘Magnetic parity selection in solar cycle dynamo models’
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (November, 2002), one hour’s interview presentation for NCAR Scientist I selection on ‘Flux-transport solar dynamos’
  • London Mathematical Society – Symposium on Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics, Durham, UK (Au­gust, 2002) 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Global instabilities in the solar tachocline’
  • AAS/SPD, Albuquerque, USA (June, 2002), 20 minutes’ contributed talk on ‘E.ect of turbulent pumping on flux-transport solar dynamos’
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (March, 2002), one hour’s colloquium on ‘Global MHD instabilities in a shallow-water model of solar tachocline’
  • AGU, San Francisco, USA (December, 2001), 20 minutes’ INVITED talk on ‘Flux-transport type solar dynamos: where are we now and what’s next?’
  • ASP Conference Series on Magnetic Fields Across The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Chile (January 2001), 20 minutes’ contributed talk on ‘Symmetry selection in solar cycle dynamo models’
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (July, 2000), joint science discussion with P. Charbonneau on ‘Stochastic .uctuation in a Babcock-Leighton dynamo model’
  • AGU, San Francisco, USA (December, 1999), 15 minutes’ contributed talk on ‘Intermittency in solar cycle caused by caused by stochastic fluctuation in meridional circulation’
  • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA (November, 1999), colloquium
  • CFA, Boston, USA (July, 1999), (interview presentation for a research associate position)
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (March, 1999), colloquium
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (September, 1998), colloquium
  • Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, USA (June 1998)
  • Pacifc Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. (August, 1997).
  • Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Berlin, Germany (November, 1995)
  • Marshall Space Flight Centre, Huntsville, USA (October, 1995)
  • High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA (October, 1995)
  • National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA (October, 1995)
  • 16th NSO/SP Workshop on Solar Drivers Of Interplanatory and Terrestrial Disturbances, Sacra­mento Peak, USA (October, 1995)
  • Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain (July, 1995)
  • ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland (June 1995)
  • The Institute of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (May, 1995)
  • Kiepenheüer-Institut of Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany (May, 1995)
  • 154th IAU Colloquium on Solar and Interplanetary Transients, Pune, (January, 1995)
Posters Presentations
  • GONG/SoHO 14 Meeting, New Haven, USA (July 2004)
  • AAS/SPD Meeting, Denver, USA (May-June 2004)
  • LWS workshop, Boulder, USA (March 2004)
  • AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (Dec 2003)
  • AAS/SPD Meeting, Albuquerque, USA (June 2002)
  • AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (Dec 2001)
  • Joint AGU/SPD Meeting, Boston, USA (May, 2001)
  • ASP Conference on Magnetic Fields Across The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Chile (January 2001)
  • Solar Physics Division Meeting, Lake Tahoe, (June, 2000)
  • Magnetic Helicity Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, (July, 1998)
  • Solar Physics Division Meeting, Bozeman, Montana, (June, 1997)
  • 6th Asian Paci.c Meeting, IUCAA, Poona, (August, 1993)
  • ASI meeting, BARC, Bombay (March 1993)
Community Work (including Education and Public Outreach)
  • 2009 - present -- DAC (Director's Advisory Committee), HAO
  • 2009 -- search committee for HAO Director position
  • 2009 -- PhD thesis committee for G. Guerrero (Univ. of Sao Paulo)
  • 2009 -- LOC for workshop celebrating Dimitri Mihalas' 70th birthday
  • 2009 -- Organized a special session in SPD 2009
  • 2008 -- LOC chair and SOC co-chair of GONG 2008/SOHO XXI meeting
  • 2008 -- Organized a session in joint AGU/SPD 2008
  • 2008 - present -- editorial board of Space Science Reviews
  • 2007 - present -- Deputy Section Head of "Solar Interior and Variability" section, HAO
  • 2006 - 2009 -- Cycle 24 Prediction Panel, organized by NASA and NOAA
  • 2005 -- co-leader in Group A in SSPVSE (Solar and Space Physics & and the Vision for Space Exploration) organized by NASA & NRC
  • 2004 - 2005; CAWSES (Climate And Weather for the Sun-Earth System) Theme 4 WG1
  • 2004 -- SOC in 22nd NSO workshop at Sac Peak
  • 2003 - 2009 -- HAO visitor committee (Chair: 2008-2009)
  • worked several times as a member in NASA's SR&T, LWS review panel boards.
  • reviewed scientific papers for the publication in `Solar Physics', in `ApJ', `A&A', `MNRAS', & `ATP', in the `Bulletin of Astronomical Society of India'.
  • continued serving as a mail-in reviewer for NASA SR&T and LWS proposals, and NSF career opportunity proposals until present
  • supervised summer undergrad students (Eric McDonald from Central Michigan Univ. during June-August 2002; Night Song from the Evergreen State College during June-July 2004)
  • presented ”Career in Physics Talk” in summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program at UConn, Storrs, in 2001
Successful proposals
Title Competition PI Co-I/Collaborators Status
Predicting the strength of new solar cycles by fitting old cycles magnetic field and meridional flow data NASA LWS M. Dikpati D.H. Hathaway (MSFC)
P. A. Gilman (HAO)
J. Schwitzer
N. Jevtic (UConn/Storrs)		 awarded (2003)
A 3D flux-transport dynamo for the Sun NASA SR&T M. Dikpati P. A. Gilman (HAO)
M. S. Miesch (HAO)
A. vanBallegooijen (CFA)		 awarded (2003)
Predicting global scale solar cycle features using a flux-transport dynamo model NASA LWS M. Dikpati P. A. Gilman (HAO)
G. de Toma (HAO)
O. R. White (HAO)
T. Corbard (Nice)
E. Rhodes (USC)
D. Haber (CU/JILA)		 awarded (2005)
Building a large-scale non-axisymmetric flux-transport dynamo to simulate longitude-dependent solar cycle features NCAR Opportunity Fund M. Dikpati P. A. Gilman (HAO)
G. de Toma (HAO)
P. S. Cally (Monash Univ.)		 awarded (2005)
A large-scale spherical 3D MHD model of emerging magnetic fields in solar convective envelope NCAR Opportunity Fund Y. Fan M. Dikpati (HAO)
K. B. Macgregor (HAO)
P. A. Gilman (HAO)
P.S. Cally (Monash Univ.)		 awarded (2005)
Numerical modeling of the solar tachocline and its role in solar dynamo NASA SR&T K. B. MacGregor
M. S. Miesch (Science PI)		 M. Dikpati (HAO)
P. A. Gilman (HAO)		 awarded (2003)
Solar synoptic map database for Mauna Loa solar observatory NCAR Opportunity Fund G. de Toma M. Dikpati (HAO)
P. A. Gilman (HAO)
P. Fox (HAO)
J. Burkepile (HAO)
S. Gibson (HAO)
T. Holzer (HAO)
B.C. Low (HAO)
A. Stanger (HAO)
R. Jenne (SCD)
S. Worley (SCD)
D. Haber (CU)
B. Hindman (CU)
N. Arge (NOAA/SEC)
P. McIntosh (Helio synoptics)
J. Harvey (NSO/KP)		 awarded (2003)
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