LASP Science Seminars

LASP seminars are generally held every Thursday at 4:00 PM on Zoom and in person.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Heather Mallander to be added to the mailing list.

We are currently seeking speakers for our Spring 2024 seminar series. If you or a colleague would like to give a seminar, please contact one of our Science Seminar Committee members:

Sonal Jain (Planetary)
Yi Qi (Space Physics)
David Wilson (Solar/Stellar)
Chihoko Cullens (Earth Atmospheres)

Upcoming Science Seminars

Check back soon for a list of upcoming Science Seminars.

Past Science Seminars

May 30, 2024

Observations of Massive Coronal Mass Ejections from Young Sun-like Stars: Insights into How the Young Sun Affected the Early Earth

Kosuke Namekata

(Kyoto University/NAOJ)

Abstract: Young Sun-like stars frequently produce “superflares”, serving as models for the young Sun-Earth environment. Large solar flares are closely linked to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with filament/prominence eruptions, but its evidence for stellar superflares...

May 23, 2024

Nanodust and Enceladus and Saturn’s Rings, oh my! - Probing Saturn’s ring-moon system with nanodust.

Sean Hsu

(LASP, CU)

After exploring the Saturn system for more than 13 years, September 15th, 2017 marked the end of the NASA-ESA joint Cassini-Huygens mission. Before diving into and becoming a part of Saturn, the spacecraft witnessed a once-in-decades...

May 16, 2024

A Tale of Planetary Adolescence and Evolution

Adina Feinstein

(LASP)

Within the past decade, we have discovered only a dozen young (< 300 Myr) short-period exoplanets, compared to ~5,600 mature exoplanets. The radii of these young planets are larger than older planets on similar orbital periods....

May 2, 2024

Improving Whole Atmospheric Reanalysis by Assimilating GOLD Observations in WACCMX

Fazlul Laskar

(LASP)

Remember the saying “All models are wrong, but some are useful”. Well, some of the useful models can be made realistic by ingesting experimental measurements through data assimilation. This presentation will show examples of how Global...

April 25, 2024

Understanding and Modeling the Mysterious Dropout of Radiation Belt Electrons

Weichao Tu

(West Virginia University)

The discovery of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts in 1958 revealed the hazardous radiative environment for spacecraft operating within. Understanding, modeling, and eventually predicting the dynamics of energetic electrons in the radiation belts have long been...