Physical Sciences Colloquium Series
Sponsored by the Department of Physical Sciences


The slides of selected talks have been added to the announcement below.


Past Talks

2013 - 2014 Academic Year


Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Saurav Dhital, ERAU  
    Wide binaries: Stellar coeval laboratories to probe everything from formation to general relativity

Tuesday, April 1, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  -
COAS 207

    Brian Murphy, Butler University     
    The Evolution of the Galactic Nucleus and Growth of its Supermassive Black Hole

Thursday, March 27, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  -
COAS 207
    Ron Oliversen, NASA-Goddard  
   
The Juno mission: Lifting the veil of Jupiter 

Thursday, March 13, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  -
COAS 207
    Qian Wu, NCAR HAO  
   
Upper atmospheric wind observation research at NCAR/HAO 

Thursday, March 6, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  -
COAS 207
    Gary Swenson, University of Illinois  
    Engineering developments in upper atmospheric remote sensing at the University of Illinois  
 

Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  COAS 207
    Frederick Mosher, ERAU   
    Weather on other planets  

Thursday, February 20, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45) 
COAS 207
    Chris Heale, ERAU   
    Long-range gravity wave propagation at high altitudes 
    Ryan Agner, ERAU   
    Local time variation of high-frequency gravity wave forcing and its relationship with background wind derived from LIDAR measurements 

Thursday,
February 13, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Richard Eastes, UCF   
    Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission: A new view of the thermosphere-ionosphere system 

Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Marcos Diaz, University of Chile   
    Naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines: Measurements, models, simulations and trends 

Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Giorgio Turri, ERAU  
    Optical investigation of materials for solid state lasers and optical windows 

Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Riccardo Bevilacqua, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
    Sailing through LEO: Engineering and science using drag-controlled nano-satellites 

Thursday, January 16, 2014
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - COAS 207
    Michele Zanolin, ERAU - Prescott 
   
Searching for transients: Gravitational waves with laser interferometers 

Tuesday, November 26, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Mark Engebretson, Augsburg College   
    Multi-instrument Observations from Svalbard 

Thursday, November 21, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Rick Lind, University of Florida  
    Stochastic modeling of flight dynamics in turbulence 

Thursday, November 14, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Stefan Kautsch, Nova Southeastern University  
    The 3-D structures and morphologies of edge-on disk galaxies  

Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Adam Wickenheiser, George Washington University  
    Gust Alleviation at Low Reynolds Number through Controlling Semi-Active Wing Deformation  

Thursday, October 31, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    David Cameron, ERAU  
   
Magnetic Detection of Ether Drift  

Thursday, October 24, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Warren Dixon, University of Florida  
    Concurrent Learning-Based Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Autonomous Agents   

Thursday, October 17, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jon French, ERAU  
    Alchemy and AI   

Thursday, October 3, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Clint Sprott, University of Wisconsin  

    Self-Organization - Nature's Intelligent Design   

Thursday, September 26, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Bill Price, ERAU  
    Self-reconfigurable control for dual-quaternion/vector systems  

Thursday, September 19, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Chau Ton, ERAU  
   
Nonlinear control methods for dynamic systems with model uncertainty and actuator anomalies 

Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Laura Seward, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space  
    Flying your experiment on the International Space Station 

Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ted von Hippel, ERAU  
    What proposal pressure is too high to apply? 


2012 - 2013 Academic Year


Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jeremy Riousset, Georgia Tech     
 
   Novel modeling of Mars' ionospheric electrodynamics  

Thursday, April
4, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Bob Hamilton, George Fox University     
    Nonlinear Alfven Waves: Sun, Solitons, and Solar Wind 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- 5:30 pm - Special 25th Anniversary Colloquium  - LB 329
    Andrew Nicholas, Naval Research Laboratory  
    
    Twenty Five Years Later: A Retrospective on the Engineering Physics Program 

Thursday, March 28, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Meghan Burleigh, ERAU  
    Optical Properties of Astronomical Silicates with Infrared Technologies 
    Zach Tejral, ERAU  
    Optical Communication on Space Based Platforms   

Thursday, March 14, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Anatoly Streltsov, ERAU  
    Killer Electrons from Radiation Belt 

Thursday, March 7, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Alan Liu, ERAU  
    LIDAR remote sensing of the upper atmosphere 

Thursday, January 31, 2013
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    John Mathis, ERAU  
    Mind the Gap: Modifying TiO2's electronic structure for technical applications  

Thursday, November 29, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jimmy Raeder,  University of New Hampshire  

     Modeling Earth's Magnetosphere: From Science to Space Weather  

Thursday, November 8, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Terry Oswalt, Florida Institute of Technology  

    Fragile Binary Stars: Observational Leverage on Difficult Astrophysical Problems 

Thursday, November 1, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Stephen Robinson, Univ California, Davis  
    Adventures in Hypersonic Transition on the Space Shuttle 

Thursday, October 25, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Andrew Dimmock, ERAU  
    The application of in-situ spacecraft measurements to the study of the interaction between the solar wind and planetary magnetospheres

Thursday, October 18, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Matthew Zettergren, ERAU  
   
Radar remote sensing and modeling of auroral ionospheric structure 

Thursday, October 11, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Aroh Barjatya, ERAU  
    CubeSats: Tiny satellites that can and do 

Thursday, October 4, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ted von Hippel, ERAU  
    A new look at stellar evolution: Chi-by-eye evolves to Bayesian statistics 

Thursday, September 27, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Mahmut Reyhanoglu, ERAU  
    Lyapunov's second method and nonlinear control theory 

Thursday, September 20, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Eric Adamson, ERAU  
    MHD simulations of solar coronal dynamics: The role of current dissipation in the energization of coronal bright points 

Thursday, September 13, 2012
- 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jonathan Snively, ERAU  
    Airborne observations of spacecraft re-entry 



2011 - 2012 Academic Year

Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Doug Barlow, ERAU  
   
Model for the drag coefficient through the transonic region during free fall 

Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Kaiming Huang, Wuhan University  

    Nonlinear propagation and interaction of atmospheric waves

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Katariina Nykyri, ERAU  
    Three Easy Pieces

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Richard Walterscheid, Aerospace Corporation  
    Waves in Planetary Atmospheres

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Joran Moen, University of Oslo, Norway  
    Polar ionospheric space weather research by sounding rockets 

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    John Hughes, ERAU  
    Things that seem strange 

Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Edwin Mierkiewicz, University of Wisconsin, Madison  
    Exospheric Science & High-Throughput Interference Spectroscopy 

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jian Chen, IdaTech LLC  
    Control of Dynamic Engineering Systems 

Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jia Yue, NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)  
    Laser spectroscopy in the sky 

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Will MacKunis, ERAU  
    Nonlinear Maximum Power Point Tracking for Photovoltaic Power Systems in the Presence of Rapidly Changing Atmospheric Conditions

Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Gaopeng Lu, Duke University  
    Terrestrial bursts of gamma-rays and intracloud lightning 

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Anatoly Streltsov, ERAU   
    Artificial Aurora

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ata Sarajedini, University of Florida  
    RR Lyrae stars in M31, M32, and M33  

Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Geuorgui Bourov, ERAU  
    DNA nanotechnology: How to build structures, computers and robots 

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 3:30 pm (refreshments @ 3:30)  - LB 329
    Alan Stern, Florida Space Institute and Southwest Research Institute  
    New Horizon mission to Pluto 

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 1:00 pm (refreshments @ 1:00)  - LB 329
    Claire Foullon, University of Warwick
    Plasmoids and flow-driven instabilities in the eruptive corona 

Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ningyu Liu, FIT
    Transient Luminous Events in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere 

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Mahmut Reyhanoglu and Alonzo Alvarado, ERAU 
    Feasibility of Space Vehicle Debris Hazard Airspace Stratification 

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jason Aufdenberg, ERAU 
    Stellar Astrophysics Revealed by the Very Large Telescope Interferometer   

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 3:30 pm (refreshments @ 3:25)  - LB 335
    Anil Raj,  Institute for Human and Machine Cognition 
    Anthro-Centric Multisensory Interfaces for Augmenting Human Performance 

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Bob Fleck, ERAU 
    Art History as Science History



2010 - 2011 Academic Year

Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Taeyoung Lee, Florida Institute of Technology  
    Geometric control on nonlinear manifolds for complex aerospace systems

Saturday, April 9, 2011
- 7:00 pm  - IC Auditorium - Elston Memorial Lecture
    David Garfinkle, Oakland University 
    Einstein's Legacy: From Black Holes to the Accelerating Universe

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Steven Tidrow, University of Texas - Pan American 
    Engineering of Perovskite Materials for and Developments Toward Frequency Agile and Energy Conversion Device Technologies

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Vladimir Semak, Pennsylvania State University  
    Physics of energetic laser pulse interaction with condensed and gaseous media 

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Peter Bernath, University of York, UK  
    The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Spectroscopy from orbit 

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jichun Zhang, University of New Hampshire 
    Modeling the Inner Magnetosphere

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ted von Hippel, Siena College  
    White dwarf debris disks and the fate of planetary systems 

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Rolando Garcia, NCAR 
    A "world-avoided" simulation using a fully coupled climate-chemistry model 

Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Fathallah Alouani Bibi, George Mason University  
    Interaction of solar wind with the local interstellar medium

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Anatoly Streltsov, Dartmouth College 
    Ultra-Low-Frequency Electrodynamics of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions at High Latitudes

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Ray DeCarlo, Purdue University
    Optimal Control of Switched Systems 

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
     John Olivero, ERAU 
    Clouds at the Edge of Space 

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Michele Zanolin, ERAU - Prescott 
    How do we look for gravitational waves, and why we should 

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Josh Colwell, University of Central Florida
    Running rings around Saturn 

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Kolbjorn Dahle, Andoya Rocket Range

   
The Andoya Rocket Range - Programs for both students and faculty 

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Christian Steigies, Institut fur Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Kiel, Germany 
    Real-time database for high resolution neutron monitor measurements 
        Slides  (4 Mb)

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Chris Vuille, ERAU 
    Lucid Dreams, Einstein-Maxwell-Proca and the Holy Grail


2009 - 2010 Academic Year 

Saturday, April 10, 2010 - Elston Memorial Lecture  - 7:00pm - IC Auditorium
    Jim Gates, Univ Maryland
    Supergravity


Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Dermot O'Reilly, ERAU
    Geometrical Gravity: Fundamental or Emergent? 

In conjunction with Aerospace Engineering
Thursday, March 11,
2010 -  12:45 - 1:45  - LB 329
    Fred Herrero, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    The Gas Kinetic Method for Measurements of the Neutral Wind Vector, Temperature and Densities in the Thermosphere 

Friday, February 26, 2010 - 3:30 pm (refreshments @ 3:30)  - LB 329  *** NOTE DAY and TIME
    Johnathan Burchill, University of Calgary
    Rocket and satellite observations of ionospheric structure and particle acceleration

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Hui Zhang, Goddard Space Flight Center
    Hot Flow Anomaly: Explosions at the Earth's Bow Shock

Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jing Wang, Bethune-Cookman University
    Distributed cooperative control of networked dynamical systems: Design and application 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Endawoke Yizengaw, Boston College
    Multi-instrument observations to mitigate space weather impacts on our technological systems 

Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jonathan Snively, Utah State University
    Observation and modeling of mesospheric gravity waves 

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Antti Pulkkinen, University of Maryland-Baltimore County & Goddard Space Flight Center
    Usage of modern physics-based models in space weather forecasting: Current capabilities and future prospects 

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    William MacKunis, Air Force Research Laboratory
    Nonlinear Control Design and Stability Analysis of Dynamic Systems Containing Input Uncertainty

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Alan Liu, University of Illinois
    Gravity Wave Dynamics in the Upper Atmosphere

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Riccardo Bevilacqua, Naval Postgraduate School
    Multiple Spacecraft Autonomous Systems
       Slides (1.5 Mb)

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    N. Harris McClamroch, Univ Michigan    
    Attitude control of a nanosatellite using passive magnetic devices

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Bereket Berhane, ERAU     
   
Quantum control: The quest for reliable quantum information systems

Monday, November 16, 2009 - 10:30 am  - IC Auditorium
    Bruce Jakosky, Univ Colorado    
   
The 2013 MAVEN mission to Mars 

Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    Jason Aufdenberg, ERAU     
    What's the matter with Vega?  Stellar Atmospheres for Self-Consistent Field Rotating Star Models

Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 329
    John Mathis, ERAU
   
Growing oxide nanorods and nanowires by Pulsed Laser Deposition 

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 12:50 pm (refreshments @ 12:45)  - LB 335 
    Bob Fleck, ERAU
    The International Year of Astronomy: 400 years since Galileo and Kepler 


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 329
    Charles Lee, Univ Texas-Austin

   
Electric Propulsion

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
    Shabari Basu, Texas A&M Univ

   
Simulations of the Martian dust cycle with a general circulation model 

Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 4:00 pm - IC 104
    Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University

   
Quasicrystals 

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 12:45 pm - LB 329
    Geuorgui Bourov, ERAU 

   
Molecular dynamics of self-assembling organic molecules and applications in nanotechnology  

Thursday, 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 Mobile Robots   

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

 


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