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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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 | ||
| 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 | |
| Abstract: | Uranus has a complex system of rings and small moons that occupy the space between the planet and the five largest satellites. Many of the Uranian rings are remarkably narrow, suggesting that the ring material is being actively confined at specific locations. While a couple of rings are probably confined by the gravitational perturbations from known moons, many more probably cannot be confined in this way, and so require alternative explanations that might involve oscillations and asymmetries in the planet itself. Meanwhile, the small moons between the rings and Miranda are the most tightly packed satellite system known, and their surface properties are strikingly different from Uranus' larger satellites. This could either reflect the peculiar evolutionary history of these objects that may have involved material cycling back and forth between being rings and moons multiple times, or document a primordial compositional gradient created during the impact event that may have produced Uranus' extreme tilt. | ||||
| 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 | |