Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title / Video Link |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 18 | Oshadha Ranasingha | Convertible Inks for Printed Electronics: Potential Novel Fabrication method for in-space manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics Circuits |
| Jan. 25 | Jeffrey Basara | The Ever-Present and Growing Threat of Flash Drought in an Accelerating Hydroclimate |
| Feb. 1 | Martin Rubin | Investigating the ices in comets by in situ mass spectrometry |
| Feb. 8 | Caue Borlina | Understanding the Evolution of the Early Solar System through Paleomagnetism of Meteorites |
| Feb. 22 | Alissa J. Haddaji | Space Law, Policy & Ethics 101 |
| March 14 | Viacheslav Sadykov | Prediction of Solar Transient Events with Machine Learning |
| March 21 | Linda Sohl | Looking Ahead to the Future of Exoplanet Climate Modeling |
| March 28 | Claire Lamman | High-Impact Outreach: Methods to effectively bring research to wider audiences |
| April 4 | Jenny Calahan | Astrochemistry as the Bridge Between Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanets |
| April 11 | Mei-Yun | Heavy Ions in Earth’s Magnetosphere: Where Are They From? |
| April 18 | Jennifer Winters | Small stars rule the galaxy! |
| April 25 | John McCloskey | An overview of the general concept of grounding, and the related topics of bonding and shielding, with emphasis on space flight applications. |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title / Video Link |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 14 | Herman Marshall | Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) |
| Sept. 21 | Yuta Notsu | Recent observational attempts to observe stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) |
| Sept. 25 | Emiel Por | HiCAT testbed |
| Oct. 5 | Wajih Elsallal | Introduction to MITRE FUSE |
| Oct. 12 | Glenn Howe | Tailored Photoacoustic Apertures with Superimposed Optical Holograms |
| Oct.19 | Derek Capon | Freeform Optical Systems with NURBS Surfaces |
| Oct. 26 | Azim Ahmadzadeh | Real-time Analysis of Solar Filaments: the Challenges and the Solutions |
| Nov. 2 | John Meriwether | Application of the modern-day Fabry-Perot interferometer to study aeronomy and space physics dynamics |
| Nov. 6 | Jung-Tsung Li | Small-Scale Magnetic Fields are Critical to Shaping Solar Gamma-Ray Emission |
| Nov. 9 | Keith Groves | The Science of Forecasting Instabilities in the SPARTA Center of Excellence |
| Nov. 16 | Joseph Samaniego | Fusion Propulsion |
| Nov. 30 | Richard Woolf | ComPair |
| Dec. 7 | Todd Hoeksema | COFFIES Drive center |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title / Video Link |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 26 | Kristina Monsch | Protoplanetary Disks |
| Feb. 2 | Yeimy Rivera | Simulating the Thermal Evolution of a Coronal Mass Ejection Using a 3D MHD Model and Time-Dependent Ionization of Heavy Ions |
| Feb. 9 | Erin R. Bertelsen | Understanding Extraction Chromatography Materials for f-element Separations |
| March 2 | Tirna Deb | The social life of galaxies: unfolding the mystery of galactic interactions and transformations in different environments |
| March 16 | Carl Schmidt | Alkali emissions in the lunar atmosphere |
| March 23 | Seth Gossage | Magnetic Braking in Open Clusters and Low Mass X-ray Binaries |
| March 30 | Macy Huston | An Overview of SETI and Technosignatures |
| April 6 | Rebecca Masterson | REXIS (REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer) – a Student Instrument on OSIRIS-REx: The Short Story video |
| April 20 | Graham Kerr | Interrogating Solar Flare Models with IRIS Observations and Looking to the Future |
| April 27 | Eleonora Puzzoni | Developing a theoretical model for the Gamma Ray Mission from the sun |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 8 | Philip Mannheim | Is dark matter fact or fantasy - clue from the data |
| Sept. 15 | Susanna Finn | Highlights and Updates from the NASA Heliophysics Division. |
| Sept. 22 | Andre-Nicolas Chene | The fabulous journey of observatory staff |
| Sept. 29 | Keith Brown | Dielectrophoresis of Fluids from Fundamentals to Propellant-free Propulsion |
| Oct. 6 | Shanti Rao | Carbon Mapper mission architecture |
| Oct. 13 | XY Zhou | Unveiling the Secret Covered by Sunlight |
| Oct. 20 | Susan Redmond | To the stratosphere and beyond: Quasi-static wavefront error drift correction for balloon-based wide-field instruments and space-based coronagraphic instruments |
| Oct. 27 | Cheng Sheng | Multi-scale Geomagnetic Forcing and Their Impact on the Earth’s Upper Atmosphere |
| Nov. 3 | Michael Stenner | Innovation that Makes a Difference |
| Nov. 10 | Pablo Reig | Be/X-ray binaries |
| Nov. 17 | Yifan Huang | A Numerical Model for Understanding Pickup-Ion Dynamics in the Outer Heliosphere and IBEX Observations of the ENA Ribbon |
| Dec. 1 | Stephen Merkowitz | The Critical Role that Space Geodesy Plays in Earth Observation |
Summer 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| June 3 | Kalpa HenadhiraArachchige | Predicting the Solar Wind at the Parker Solar Probe Encounter |
| June 10 | Lukas Hanson | Modeling the solar wind in time with SWMF |
| June 17 | Thaddeus Potter | The PICTURE-C Observatory: Thermal Model |
| June 24 | Charmi Patel | Ultraviolet Airglow Intensities as seen by LITES |
| July 1 | Sunip Mukherjee | Exploring the upper atmosphere using multiwavelength imaging |
| July 8 | Guangfeng Yu | Progress report on MANIC Performance Test |
| July 15 | Liam Neeley | Automation of Schueller Observatory |
| July 22 | Dimitris Christodoulou | Some Obviously Damped Exoplanets |
| July 29 | Sayantan Bhattacharya | Multi-Wavelength Observations Of IC 10 X-1 |
| Aug. 5 | Mitchell Bailey | LunaSat and GLEE2023: Lunar Experiments and Operations |
| Aug. 12 | Nicholas Sorabella | S.M.I.L.E: A Self-Lensing and Doppler Boosting Model with Wide Application Across the Entire Mass Spectrum |
| Aug. 19 | Ankur Roy | Initial discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 20 | Monica Young | Science Journalism: An Astronomer's Perspective |
| Jan. 27 | Amy Peterson | Interfacial Phenomena in Additive Manufacturing |
| Feb. 3 | Prantika Bhowmik | Magnetofrictional Modeling of the Global Coronal Magnetic Field |
| Feb. 10 | Jeremy Drake | Returning to the Unobservable Extreme Ultraviolet |
| Feb. 17 | Philip Stahl | Webb Space Telescope: The First Light Machine |
| Feb. 24 | Mehr Un Nisa | Mapping the TeV Sky with HAWC |
| March 3 | James Heiss | Saltwater intrusion into aquifers along estuaries and open coasts: The role of sea level rise, tidal flooding, and estuarine circulation |
| March 17 | Ioannis Contopoulos | Quantum interference: reality, or just an illusion of our detectors? |
| March 24 | Dag Evensberget | Constraining the history of the Solar wind from stellar magnetic field observations |
| March 31 | Kaitlin Rasmussen | Are we alone in the Universe? |
| April 7 | Jon Laptington | VHE Gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| April 14 | Jayachandran P. Thayyl | Monitoring the Arctic Ionosphere – Research and Applications |
| April 21 | Ennio Sanchez | Test of Energetic Particle Precipitation Theories: Van Allen Probes, ARASE and Incoherent Scatter Radar Coordinated Measurements |
| April 28 | Xeuyi Wang | Kinetic Modeling of the Magnetosphere : Global Hybrid Simulation |
| May 5 | Itumeleng M. Monageng | A multiwavelength study of neighboring Be X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| May 12 | Joy Winbourne | Nature-based solutions to climate change? |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 9 | Chris Beaudoin, Ph.D. | The Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponser for Small Satellites (GRITSS) and the Space Geodetic Constellation (GEOCON) concept |
| Sept. 23 | Bob Broughton | Understanding the Phased Array Antenna, an Intuitive Approach |
| Sept. 30 | Thaddeus Potter, Kalpa HenadhiraArachchige, Sayantan Bhattacharya | STOP modeling for the PICTURE-C telescope, Comparing the Performance of a Solar Wind model from the Sun to 1 au using Real and
Synthetic Magnetograms, Spectroscopic Monitoring of WR+BH High Mass X-ray Binary: IC 10 X-1 |
| Oct. 7 | J.J. Hermes | Searching for Signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae |
| Oct. 14 | Breanna Binder | The Effects of Metallicity on X-ray Binary Populations |
| Oct. 22 | David Wexler | FETCH Concept: Investigating Quiescent and Transient Magnetic Structures |
| Oct. 28 | Saurav Aryal | GOLD mission's solar eclipse observations in the thermosphere
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| Nov. 5 | Demos Kazanas | Faraday rotation of Spacecraft Radio Signals |
| Nov. 19 | Lawrence Townsend | Extreme Solar Particle Events: Safe or Sorry? |
| Dec. 2 | Farzad Kamalabandi | Toward Milli-Arcsecond Imaging: Diffraction-Limited UV Telescopes Enabled by Formation Flying |
| Dec. 9 | Shu Lai | Spacecraft Charging in Sunlight; Physical Mechanisms; Mitigation Techniques |
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 21 | Caroline Nowlan | Monitoring Air Quality from Space: Observations from Global to Urban Scales |
| Jan. 28 | Soumitra Hazra | Modeling Solar Wind Variations over an 11-year Cycle with Alfvén Wave Dissipation: a Parameter Study |
| Feb. 4 | Evgenya Shkolnik | A Holistic View of Exoplanets, their Environments, and their Potential to Host Life |
| Feb. 11 | Stella Kafka | The AAVSO Program: A Resource for Variable Star Research |
| Feb. 18 | Vanessa McBride | Astronomy for Development |
| Feb. 25 | Frans Snik | A polarized view of exoplanets |
| March 4 | Stephen Frasier | Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Severe Storms with X-Band Radar |
| March 11 | Ruolin Zhou | Deep Learning-Enabled Intelligent Radio |
| March 18 | Meredith Elrode | PEDE 2018 as observed by MAVEN NGIMS |
| March 25 | Lara Waldrop | Wide-field UV Imaging of Earth's dynamic exosphere by NASA's GLIDE mission |
| April 1 | Dimitris Christodoulou | On the observed clustering of major bodies in (extra)solar subsystems |
| April 8 | Parisa Mustafavi | Heliospheric shock waves propagating into the outer heliosphere and interstellar medium |
| April 15 | Kathleen Oram | Hadamard Transform Spectral Imaging with Digital Mircomirror Devices (DMDs) |
| April 22 | Pallamraju Duggirala | Recent results in the upper atmospheric dynamics over low latitudes |
| April 29 | Xuejun Lu | Plasmonic optical antenna enhanced infrared sensing and imaging |
| May 6 | Ruizhe Ma | Time Series Analysis of of Solar Events |
| May 13 | Allona Vazan | New insights on interiors of exoplanets |
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 24 | Yash Sarkango | Understanding Jupiter's magnetosphere through large scale MHD simulations and small scale in-situ observations |
| Oct. 1 | Jared Bell | Atmospheric Escape from Alien Worlds |
| Oct. 15 | Brian Kilpatrick | Probing the Three Dimensionality of Exoplanet Atmospheres |
| Oct. 22 | Wei Guo | Integrated Photonics Research and Potential Space Applications |
| Oct. 29 | Mary Knapp | Searching for small exoplanets with a tiny spacecraft: the story of ASTERIA |
| Nov. 5 | Matthew Horsley | Nanosat-based Stellar Occultation: Developing inexpensive methods to observe atmospheric gravity waves and high-altitude turbulence |
| Nov. 12 | Randy Gladstone | Lyman Alpha at Pluto and Beyond |
| Nov. 19 | Andrew Rogers | Impacts of exotic nuclei on the ashes of accreting neutron stars |
| Dec. 3 | Marina Galand | Ultraviolet aurora revealed at comet 67P |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 31 | Marcos Diaz Quezeda (University of Chile, Santiago) | Potentialities of nano-satellites of Cubesat type: The case of the SUCHAI space program |
| Feb. 7 | SeungWoo Son (UMass Lowell) | AD2: Improving Quality of IoT Data through Compressive Anomaly Detection |
| Feb. 21 | Carl Schmidt (Boston University) | Observing the Exospheres of Mercury and the Moon |
| Feb. 28 | William Kammerer | CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission Development Status |
| March 20 | Caroline Nowlan (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) | Monitoring Air Quality from Space: Observations from Global to Urban Scales |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 13 | Avi Shporer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Science with orbital phase curves in the space age |
| Sept. 20 | David Wexter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | On the Fluctuations of Electron Density and Magnetic Field in the Solar Mid-Corona: Spacecraft Radio Observations |
| Sept. 27 | Wen Li and Qianli Ma (Boston University) | Recent Advances in Understanding Energetic Electron Precipitation in the Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts. |
| Oct. 4 | Ankur Roy, UML LoCSST | Presenting a comprehensive library of SMC X-Ray Pulsars: A Public Resource for Scientific Analysis |
| Oct. 11 | Toshi Nishimur (Boston University) | STEVE: A new type of upper atmospheric emission and unusual magnetosphere-ionosphere processes |
| Oct. 25 | Erno Sajo (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Physics) | Nano-Film, X-ray Detectors with Potential Large-Area Space Application |
| Nov. 1 | Archana Kamal (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Physics) | Quantum reservoir engineering: beating dechoherence at its own game |
| Nov. 8 | Nick Murphy ( CfA, Harvard University) | Building an open source Python ecosystem for plasma physics |
| Nov. 15 | Derek Buzasi (Florida Gulf Coast University) | A New Window Into Massive Stars: Asteroseismology over Multiple Epochs |
| Nov. 22 | Antonija Oklopcic (CfA, Harvard University) | Probing the Escaping Atmospheres of Exoplanets |
| Dec. 6 | American Geophysical Union | AGU Practice Talks |
Alternate speaker: Jiannan Tu (UMass Lowell) - A simulation study of neutral dynamo in the ionosphere.
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 14 | Seth Redfield (Wesleyan) | Properties of the Interstellar Medium Surrounding the Sun and Nearby Stars |
| Sept. 21 | William Longley (Boston University) | Chromospheric heating by the Farley-Buneman instability |
| Sept. 28 | Juliette Rooney-Varga (UMass Lowell, Biological Sciences) | An adventure in science communication: Understanding the drivers of climate change, mental models, and human decision-making |
| Oct. 5 | Tony Case (CfA) | Solar Probe Cup on Parker Solar Probe |
| Oct. 12 | Sagi Ben-ami (CfA) | High Resolution Spectographs for Extremely Large Telescopes |
| Oct. 19 | Saurav Aryal (Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology) | Multi-spectral observation of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances |
| Oct. 26 | Rick Eason, University of Maine | High Altitude Ballooning for student research, incl. the 2017 Eclipse Ballooning project |
| Nov. 2 | Majd Mayyasi (Boston University) / Kim Mcleod | |
| Nov. 9 | Paul Song (Space Science Lab) | |
| Nov. 16 | Kate Follette (Amherst College) | |
| Nov. 30 | Raphaelle Haywood (Harvard College Observatory) | |
| Dec. 7 | AGU practice talks | |