The slides of selected talks have been added to the announcement below.
Past
Talks
2009 - 2010 Academic Year
2008 - 2009 Academic Year
Thursday, June 11,
2009 - 12:45 pm
(refreshments @ 12:45) - LB 335
Fred Hall, Univ North Carolina
Numerical modeling of current sheet
thinning in the growth phase of magnetospheric substorms
Wednesday,
May 20, 2009 - 4:00 pm
(refreshments @ 3:55) - LB 329
Fernanda Sao Sabbas, INPE,
Brazil
Overview of sprites, other TLE and
TGF research and its current status in South America
Wednesday, April
15, 2009 - 12:45 pm
(refreshments @ 12:40) - LB 335
Leon Hardy, ERAU
On the quantum dynamics of
measurement
Slides
(600
kb)
Friday,
April 10, 2009 - 12:45 pm
(refreshments @ 12:40) - LB 335
C. Vineeth, SRI International
Coupling processes in the
equatorial mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere (MTI)
region
Tuesday, March 31,
2009 - 1:00 pm (refreshments
@ 12:45) - LB 329
Tao Yuan, Colorado State
Univ
LIDAR: Light Detection and
Ranging
Thursday, March 26,
2009 - 2:30 pm (refreshments
@ 2:25) - LB 329
Eric Van Stryland, Univ Central
Florida
Optics at high intensity and
other research at CREOL
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 4:00 pm (refreshments @ 3:55)
- LB 335 (note location)
Jason Steffen, Fermilab
Detecting
additional planets from the transits of known
extrasolar planets
Tuesday,
February 24, 2009 - 1:00 pm
(refreshments @ 12:45) - LB 329
Matthew Zettergren, Boston Univ
Model-based optical and radar
remote sensing of the aurora
Thursday, February
19, 2009 - 1:00 pm
(refreshments @ 12:45) - LB 329
Akshay Malhotra, Penn State Univ
Solving long standing meteor
mysteries
Tuesday, February
17, 2009 - 1:00 pm
(refreshments @ 12:45) - LB 329
Yihua Zheng, Johns Hopkins Univ
Dynamics of the Earth's Inner
Magnetosphere: Current Understanding and Challenges
Thursday, February
12, 2009 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Bob Fleck, ERAU
Galileo's occhiale,
Kepler's Astronomia
nova, and the "Devil's Chaplain" and his Origin of Species
Thursday, January
8, 2009 - 3:30 pm - LB 335
Svetlana Petelina, Latrobe University
Recent developments in mesospheric studies
Monday, December 1,
2008 - 7:00 pm - IC Auditorium (Honors Speakers Series)
Mike Brown, California Institute of
Technology
How I killed Pluto and why it had it
coming
Saturday,
November 8, 2008 - 7:00 pm - IC Auditorium (ERGS Lecture)
Alexei
Filippenko, Univ California Berkeley
Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
Thursday,
November 6, 2008 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Mike Hickey, Embry-Riddle
Univ
Simulation of Tsunami
Effects in the Ionosphere
Friday,
October 24, 2008 - 4:00 pm - IC 104
Alan Boss, The Carnegie Institution
of Washington
The Crowded Universe: The
Search for Living Planets
Monday,
October 13, 2008 - 11:30 am - LB 335 (Sponsored by the American
Chemical Society)
Jay Huebner, Univ North Florida
Photo-Electric Chemical Sensors
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 7:00 pm - COB 114 (Sponsored by the American Chemical
Society)
Jay Huebner, Univ North Florida
The Impact of Asteroids
2007 - 2008 Academic Year
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 12:45 pm - LB 329Thursday, March 13, 2008
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Jing Wang , Bethune-Cookman
University
Cooperative Control Design for
Consensus of Dynamical Systems and Applications to Autonomous
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Wayne Evans, York
University
Investigation of hurricane
structures with CloudSat
Thursday, February 14, 2008
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Andri Gretarsson, ERAU -
Prescott
Gravitational wave detectors -
Grand ambitions and some nitty gritty
Friday, January 25, 2008
- 3:00 pm - LB 329
MIchael Danielides, Univ Alaska
Fairbanks
Parameterization for Ion
Upwelling for Auroral Precipitation
Thursday, January 10, 2008
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Gregory Earle, Univ Texas at
Dallas
Near Earth Space Plasma Science
and Instrumentation
Thursday,
November 08, 2007 - 12:45 pm - LB 335
Katariina Nykyri, ERAU
Plasma transport due to the
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability: 2D and 3D MHD simulations and
Cluster observations
Thursday, October 25,
2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 335
Jason Aufdenberg, ERAU
Weighing
Massive Double Stars: An Interferometric Analysis of the
Tidally Distorted Spica System
Tuesday,
October 9, 2007 - 12:45 - LB
335
Larry
Paxton,
Applied
Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
UV
Remote Sensing
2006 - 2007 Academic Year
Thursday, April 12, 2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
David Shriver, UCLA
Global Kinetic Simulations of the Solar Wind
Interaction with Planets and Moons
Saturday, April 7, 2007 - 4:00 pm -
IC 104
Lee
Smolin, Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada
Finishing Einstein's Revolution
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Sergey Drakunov, Tulane
University
Variable Structure Dynamic Systems with Sliding
Modes
Thursday, March
29, 2007 - 12:45 pm - LB
329
Murtadha Khakoo, California
State University - Fullerton
Low energy electron scattering
from fundamental gaseous atomica and molecular targets
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Hui Yan, Texas A&M University
Pseudospectral optimal control
for spacecraft trajectory design and attitude stabilization
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Michael Mendillo, Boston
University
The Exospheres of the Moon and
Mercury
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
- 3:35 pm - LB 335 NOTE TIME AND PLACE
Paul
Bernhardt, Naval Research Laboratory
The Precision Expandable Radar Calibration
Sphere (PERCS)
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
- 12:45 pm - LB 329
Aroh Barjatya, Utah State University
Spacecraft Charging
Thursday,
February 22, 2007 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Ed Winkler,
Boeing
Effects of Acceleration on
Humans
Wednesday,
February 14, 2007 - 3:30 pm - LB 335
Ossama Abdelkhalik, ERAU
Optimal Orbit Design for Ground Surveillance
Missions Using Genetic Algorithms
Thursday,
February 8, 2007 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
James Wanliss, ERAU
Cosmic Love: Space Storm as a Dynamical
Phase Transition
Tuesday,
November 28, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Chris Vuille, ERAU
Warped
Spacetime 7: The Quantum Quest Continues
Tuesday,
October 31, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Bereket Berhane, ERAU
Entanglement:
From EPR paradox to Quantum Information Processing
Thursday,
October 26, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Jason Aufdenberg, ERAU
Interferometric Observations and Modeling
of the Close Binary Star Spica (Alpha Virginis)
Slides
(5 Mb)
2005 - 2006 Academic Year
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Katariina Nykyri, Imperial
College
The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
at the low-latitude boundary layer and turbulence in the
high-altitude cusp
Thursday,
Apr 13, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Jason Aufdenberg, Kitt Peak
National Observatory
Stellar Atmospheres at High
Resolution
Thursday,
Mar 16, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Cecilia
Barnbaum, Valdosta State University
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and
Buckyballs: The Search for C60 in Space
Saturday,
Mar 11, 2006 - 5:00 pm - IC 104
Clifford
Will, Washington University
Was Einstein Right?
Thursday,
Mar 9, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Stephen
Watson, University of Central Florida and Florida Space
Institute
Phase statistics in scattered
radiation
Tuesday,
Feb 28, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Reza
Mani,
University of Toronto
Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For
Transport studies (SWIFT): A proposed
satellite instrument
Thursday,
Feb 23, 2006 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Larry
Fredrick,
University of Virginia
The Great Impactor
Tuesday,
Dec 6, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Jeff
Van
Patten
The Production and Usage of Stable
Isotopes
Tuesday,
Nov 29, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Mahmut
Reyhanoglu, ERAU
Feedback Tracking and Stabilization of a Nonholonomic
Control Moment Gyroscope: Theory and Experiments
Tuesday,
Nov 22, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Tom
Slanger,
SRI
International
Astronomical Sky Spectra and their Impact
on Current Aeronomical Research: OH Spectroscopy, the Oxygen
Red Lines, and the O2 Atmospheric Bands
Thursday,
Nov 17, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Elsayed Talaat, Johns Hopkins
University
Thermosphere, Ionosphere,
Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission: Science
highlights and future directions in atmospheric dynamics
Thursday,
Nov 10, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Derrill
Goldizen, Air Force Institute of Technology
Educating a New
Generation of Military “Space Weather” Experts – A History
Lesson
Thursday,
Oct 27, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
James
Wanliss,
ERAU
The Physics of Love and a Brief
Introduction to ERAU-SSL
Wednesday,
Sep 28, 2005 - 10:30 am - LB 335
Robert
Peale, University of Central Florida
Toward a Silicon-based Terahertz
Laser
2004 - 2005 Academic Year
Tuesday,
May 10, 2005 - 12:30 am - LB 367
Michael
Bodri, Northwestern State University
No, Low or Full Funding: The Role
of Research in Undergraduate Education
Friday,
May
6, 2005 - 1:00 pm - LB 329
Michael
Reiter, Delaware State University
Linking Changes in Valued Ecosystem
Components to Human Use of Coastal Resources: Using
"Four-Component" Models for Integrated Assessment
Tuesday,
May 3, 2005 - 11:00 am - LB 329
Thomas
Dreschel, NASA
NASA and Life Sciences
Thursday,
April 14, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Chris
Mertens,
NASA
Langley
Retrieval of Kinetic Temperature
and Carbon Dioxide Abundance from Satellite Infrared Limb
Emission Measurements Under Non-Local Thermodynamic
Equilibrium Conditions
Thursday,
March 17, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Robert
Fleck, ERAU
Einstein’s Universe: A Centennial
Celebration of Einstein's annus mirabilis
Tuesday,
March 15, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Lior
Burko,
Bates
College
The Fate of an Astronaut who
Falls Inside a Black Hole - and the Fate of the Universe
Thursday,
March 3, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
John
Hughes,
University
of Alaska, Fairbanks
The SuperDARN View of HAARP
Thursday,
February 24, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Phillip
Webb, Goddard Space Flight Center
Plasmaspheric Electron
Densities Determined from IMAGE RPI Dynamic Spectra
Tuesday,
February 15, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Young-In
Won, ERAU
Remote Sensing of the Upper
atmosphere from ground-based airglow measurements
Tuesday,
February 1, 2005 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Katherine
Rawlins, M.I.T.
The most funny-looking telescopes in
the world, and how they're exploring the high-energy universe
Tuesday, November 16,
2004 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Leonardo
Milano, University of Delaware
Waves and Turbulence in Space
Tuesday, November 9,
2004 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Eduardo
Araujo-Pradere, Space Environment Center, NOAA
Ionospheric behavior under
geomagnetic perturbed conditions
Thursday, November 4, 2004 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Elizabeth
Gerken, Cornell University
Remote sensing of the upper atmosphere by
imaging sprites and HF-induced airglow
Thursday, October 21, 2004 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
Mahmut
Reyhanoglu, ERAU
Lyapunov's second method and its
impact on control theory
Thursday,
August 12, 2004 - 1:30 pm - LB
335 - Note special time
and place
Steve
Downey,
Orlando,
FL
Photoionization studies using an
ultra high intensity laser
2003 - 2004 Academic Year
Monday, March 22, 2004
- 5:00 pm - LB 329 - Note special time
Mike
Kelley,
Cornell
University
Long duration naked eye visible
meteor trains
Thursday, March 11, 2004
- 12:45 - LB 329
James
Wanliss, ERAU
The significance of magnetic
dipole tilt on space weather
Slides (3.7 Mb)
Thursday,
February 26, 2004 - 12:45 - IC
104
Larry
Paxton,
Applied
Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Exploring the Earth’s Upper
Atmosphere: NASA’s TIMED Mission and GUVI
Slides (30 Mb)
Thursday,
February 12, 2004 - 12:45 - LB
329
Jose
Massa, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research
(INPE)
Experimental
development and theoretical studies of radio-frequency
absorbers
Tuesday, February 3,
2004 - 12:45 - IC 104
Don McEwen, University of
Saskatchewan
The polar atmosphere
Thursday, January 29,
2004 - 12:45 - LB 329
Bereket
Berhane, ERAU
Ultra-cold Atoms
and Quantum Gases: An introduction
Tuesday, November 18,
2003 - 12:45 - LB 162
Mahmut
Reyhanoglu, ERAU
What do falling cats, space robots,
wheeled mobile robots, and robot manipulators have in common?
Tuesday,
November 11, 2003 - 12:45 - SH
206
Dennis
Killinger, University of South Florida
Lidar and Laser Remote Sensing of the
Atmosphere
Thursday,
October 30, 2003 - 12:45 - SH
206
Henry
Robinson,
National
Weather Service and Montgomery College, Germantown, MD
Clouds,
Rain,
and Wonder
Thursday,
October 16, 2003 - 12:45 - IC
104
Anthony
Reynolds, ERAU
Quantum
Mechanics
as a first physics course
Slides (180 kb)
Thursday,
October 2, 2003 - 12:45 - IC
104
Michael Hickey, ERAU
Atmospheric
Acoustic-Gravity
Wave Studies at ERAU