Seminars
SPATE holds a weekly seminars on Tuesday afternoons allowing visitors, staff and students to give talks on their current work. The group welcomes guests; if you would like to attend or participate by giving a talk, contact our seminar organiser, Shannon Jones.
Talks are usually held at 15:00, room 1L43, in the Meteorology Building.
Seminars 2018-19: Spring
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
15/01/19 |
Discussion |
Bring a plot |
22/01/19 |
Chris Scott |
Do Chinese Astronomical Records Dated A.D. 776 January 12/13 Describe an Auroral Display or a Lunar Halo |
29/01/19 |
Heather Ratcliffe |
Simulation Methods for Space Plasma Physics – an Overview. |
05/02/19 |
Matt Owens |
Applying Data Assimilation to the Solar Wind |
12/02/19 |
Sarah Bentley |
A probabilistic model of the ULF waves driving radial diffusion in Earth’s radiation belts |
19/02/19 |
No SPATE |
Cancelled |
26/02/19 |
David Barnes |
Tomographic Inversion of HI Data to Determine Electron Densities in the Heliosphere |
05/03/19 |
Meeting new staff |
Introductions with snacks and drinks! |
12/03/19 |
Mike Lockwood |
Adding Solar Wind Poynting Flux to Solar Wind—Magnetosphere energy coupling functions |
19/03/19 |
Rhys Thompson |
TBA |
26/03/19 |
Carl Haines |
TBA |
Seminars 2018-19: Autumn
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
9/10/18 |
Ben Courtier |
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16/10/18 |
Allan Macneil |
Solar Wind Origins in Advance of The Solar Orbiter Mission |
23/10/18 |
Hisashi Hayakawa |
Reconstructing sunspot data from historical records, with particular reference to the 14th century. |
30/10/18 |
Discussion |
Sarah Glauert’s paper: “A 30-year simulation of the outer electron radiation belt”. |
06/11/18 |
James Gilmore |
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13/11/18 |
Téo Bloch |
Towards the Objective Classification of Coronal Hole and Streamer Belt Solar Wind |
20/11/18 |
Martin Airey |
Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning on Venus |
27/11/18 |
Graeme Marlton |
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04/12/18 |
Clare Watt |
Determining the substorm onset instability using ground- and space-based measurements |