Upcoming SwRI Boulder Colloquia

Colloquia are normally on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in the 4th-floor conference room, except as indicated below in bold text.
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For questions or suggestions for speakers, please contact the SwRI colloquium organizers:
Raluca Rufu, 303-226-0879 or raluca(at)boulder.swri.edu
Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
Sierra Ferguson, sierra.ferguson(at)swri.org
Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu

To be added to the SwRI Boulder Colloquia email list, please contact Kelsi Singer, ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu

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Tue Jan 21, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Lindsay Glesener Exploring the high-energy Sun: Flares and how to find them

Tue Feb 4, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex 11:00 am Isaac Smith York University, Toronto Ice and Climate at the Poles of Mars

Webex info will be sent to our e-mail list, if you are not on our e-mail list and would like the dail-in please contact kelsi.singer@swri.org
Tue Feb 11, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Jacob Kegerreis Durham University, UK The destructive formation of moons and rings

Abstract: How did Mars's moons and Saturn's rings and mid-sized moons form? In spite of the dramatically different planetary environments, the leading (though much debated) explanations for both topics involve violent collisions. Ancient Mars and Saturn's ocean-rich icy moons are also among the most promising places where life could survive beyond Earth, adding to both systems being primary targets for upcoming spacecraft missions like MMX and Enceladus Orbilander. I will talk about how we study the competing origin scenarios for each system using high-resolution SPH simulations, and will present some new advances in the modelling of challenging aspects like mixing. For Saturn's rings -- indicated by Cassini to be remarkably young, in conflict with most established origin ideas -- a giant impact between two precursor moons could scatter debris throughout the system to evolve into the nearly pure-ice rings and varied moons we see today. For Mars's moons, we explored a new alternative hypothesis, disruptive partial capture, wherein fragments of a tidally disrupted asteroid are captured and evolve into a collisional proto-satellite disk.

Tue Feb 18, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Matt Hedman University of Idaho The Uranian rings and small satellites are really unusual things

Tue Mar 4, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Ankit Barik Johns Hopkins University TBD

Tue Mar 25, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex 11:00 am Joe Masiero Caltech/IPAC TBD

Tue Apr 1, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Douglas Hemingway University of Texas TBD

Tue Apr 8, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Alessandro Morbidelli Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints

Tue May 6, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Mike Wong University of California-Berkeley TBD

Tue May 27, 2025
In Room 4.615 11:00 am Rutu Parekh Jet Propulsion Laboratory TBD

Tue Jan 21, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Lindsay Glesener		Exploring the high-energy Sun: Flares and how to find them
Tue Feb 4, 2025 In 4th Floor CR + Webex	11:00 am	Isaac Smith	York University, Toronto	Ice and Climate at the Poles of Mars
	Webex info will be sent to our e-mail list, if you are not on our e-mail list and would like the dail-in please contact kelsi.singer@swri.org
Tue Feb 11, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Jacob Kegerreis	Durham University, UK	The destructive formation of moons and rings
	Abstract:	How did Mars's moons and Saturn's rings and mid-sized moons form? In spite of the dramatically different planetary environments, the leading (though much debated) explanations for both topics involve violent collisions. Ancient Mars and Saturn's ocean-rich icy moons are also among the most promising places where life could survive beyond Earth, adding to both systems being primary targets for upcoming spacecraft missions like MMX and Enceladus Orbilander. I will talk about how we study the competing origin scenarios for each system using high-resolution SPH simulations, and will present some new advances in the modelling of challenging aspects like mixing. For Saturn's rings -- indicated by Cassini to be remarkably young, in conflict with most established origin ideas -- a giant impact between two precursor moons could scatter debris throughout the system to evolve into the nearly pure-ice rings and varied moons we see today. For Mars's moons, we explored a new alternative hypothesis, disruptive partial capture, wherein fragments of a tidally disrupted asteroid are captured and evolve into a collisional proto-satellite disk.
Tue Feb 18, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Matt Hedman	University of Idaho	The Uranian rings and small satellites are really unusual things
Tue Mar 4, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Ankit Barik	Johns Hopkins University	TBD
Tue Mar 25, 2025 In 4th Floor CR + Webex	11:00 am	Joe Masiero	Caltech/IPAC	TBD
Tue Apr 1, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Douglas Hemingway	University of Texas	TBD
Tue Apr 8, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Alessandro Morbidelli	Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur	Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints
Tue May 6, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Mike Wong	University of California-Berkeley	TBD
Tue May 27, 2025 In Room 4.615	11:00 am	Rutu Parekh	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	TBD