Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Seminars for Spring 2012

Room CSS 2400 at 4:30 pm, Tea and Cookies 4:15-4:30 pm


Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Seminars for Spring 2012
CSS Room 2400 at 4:30 pm, Tea and Cookies 4:15-4:30 pm
DATE SPEAKER INSTITUTION TOPIC (click link for abstract)
30 Jan   No Seminar No Seminar
06 Feb Reinhard Schlickeiser The Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany Focused acceleration of cosmic rays: A new universal first-order Fermi mechanism
13 Feb Rogelio A. Caballero-Lopez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico The modulation of galactic cosmic-ray electrons in the heliosheath
20 Feb Presidents' Day No Seminar No Seminar
27 Feb      
05 Mar Jan V. Sengers IPST, University of Maryland Reflections on ethics and science
12 Mar George Gloeckler University of Maryland and University of Michigan Acceleration of particles in the heliosphere and beyond
by the pumping mechanism
19 Mar Spring Break No Seminar No Seminar
26 Mar Dr. Sabrina Savage GSFC Re-interpretation of Supra-Arcade Downflows in Solar Flares
02 Apr      
09 Apr Galina Korotova University of Maryland Bow Shock Motion, and a Transient Event at the Magnetopause:
THEMIS Observations.
16 Apr Harm Moraal North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Atmospheric Cosmic-Ray Measurements in the 21st Century
23 Apr Kenneth McCracken Jellore, Australia Periodic variations of the cosmic radiation over the past 9,400 years, and their correlation with solar system phenomena
30 Apr Robert D. DiFabio University of Maryland Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Suprathermal (3-220 keV/e)
Ion Composition in Saturn’s Equatorial Magnetosphere
07 May David Angelaszek University of Maryland Ph.D Preliminary Research Presentation: Measurement of Cosmic Ray Nuclei with the Cosmic Ray Energetic and Mass (CREAM) Experiment.

Sponsored by: Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland
Visit the seminar archive for a list of old seminars. Contact Debbie Jenkins for more information about the seminars.