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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
Suggest a New Speaker HERE| Tue Jan 21, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Lindsay Glesener | Exploring the high-energy Sun: Flares and how to find them | ||
| Abstract: | Solar eruptive events are the highest energy transient processes on the Sun. They dramatically heat solar plasma, accelerate particles to mysteriously high energies, and produce ejections of plasma, particles, and waves that can have extreme effects throughout the solar system. To truly understand the high-energy aspects of these marvelous and dynamic events, we will need dedicated investigations by high-sensitivity spectroscopic X-ray imagers. The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) sounding rocket experiment was developed to meet this need, and its first three flights established the technological feasibility of this approach. Those flights successfully used new X-ray imaging methods to investigate the energetics of the quiescent Sun, but due to the unpredictable timing of solar flares, could not study particle acceleration and heating in actual flares or eruptions. This has changed with NASA’s very first solar flare sounding rocket campaign, which took place in April 2024. In this campaign, the FOXSI-4 and Hi-C rocket experiments flew simultaneously and observed a GOES M1 class solar flare. This campaign demonstrates that flare observations are possible with a rocket payload, and points the way to what will be achieved in the future with a space-based platform. This talk will introduce the FOXSI mission and its technology; will give an overview of the solar flare sounding rocket campaign; and will discuss the prospects for future high-energy investigations of the Sun with a spaceborne mission. | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |