LASP Magnetosphere Seminars

The Friends of Magnetospheres (FOM) seminar series focuses on space physics research within planetary magnetospheres. Topics of interest include space weather, fundamental plasma processes within the magnetosphere and coupling to other systems (such as the ionosphere or solar wind).

The FOM seminars are hybrid, with the in-person component held in LASP SPSC and virtual access through zoom. These seminars are aimed at the graduate level and higher.

For more information, please contact Sergey Shuvalov. To subscribe to the FOM mailing list, send an email to lasp-form+subscribe@colorado.edu with an empty subject and body.

Seminars will be advertised through the mailing list and LASP website at least a week ahead of time.

Upcoming

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Past

May 5, 2026 2:00 PM

Tracing Thermal Plasma at the Outer Planets: Insights from Juno and Voyager

Rob Wilson

(LASP)

In this friendly seminar I’ll recap several recent publications on Jupiter’s magnetosphere, and fill-in a few topics raised in recent Jupiter FOMs that I’ve heard people ask. Jupiter’s magnetosphere is enormous, yet I’ll show observations of an unexpectedly tiny Jovian magnetosphere. There are different ways to obtain plasma parameters from …

April 21, 2026 2:00 PM

Spatial and Energy Dependence of Energetic Electron Precipitation Originating from Jupiter’s Inner and Middle Magnetosphere

Domenique Freund

(CU Boulder/LASP)

Energetic electron precipitation links Jupiter’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere by transferring trapped particle energy into the upper atmosphere. While the main auroral oval is well studied, the contribution from regions equatorward of the oval, including the diffuse aurora, remains less well quantified. In this seminar, I present a statistical analysis …

April 14, 2026 2:15 PM

Jupiter's Magnetosphere Observed by Juno: Plasma Disk, Io's Torus, and Polar H3+ Outflow

Jian-Zhao Wang

(LASP)

The Jovian magnetosphere is characterized by mass loading from the volcanic moon Io, centrifugal force driven dynamics, and strong magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling. Since its arrival at Jupiter in 2016, the Juno mission has conducted a global survey of the magnetosphere with high-resolution thermal plasma data, providing an excellent opportunity for investigation. …

March 31, 2026 2:00 PM

The low-energy/cold particle populations of the Earth’s magnetosphere and (some of) their mysteries

Gian Luca Delzanno

(Los Alamos National Laboratory)

The Earth’s magnetosphere comprises different particle populations with widely different energies that coexist and interact with a variety of waves. It is commonly referred to as a ‘system of systems’ to acknowledge its complex behavior that could not be understood by analyzing the individual components alone. Unfortunately, the low-energy (cold,

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