Fall 2006 Plasma Astrophysics Seminar Series

Date

Speaker

Topic

October 17

Richard Lovelace

Torsional Magnetic Oscillations in Type I X-ray Bursts
(with Akshay Kulkarni & Marina Romanova; astro-ph/0609596)

October 24

Merav Opher (George Mason University)

Living in an Asymmetric Heliosphere: Magnetic Effects in the Heliosphere (what the Voyagers are telling us and implications to other astrospheres)

October 31

David Rothstein

The Scariest Accretion Disk in the Galaxy

November 7

Min Long

Accretion to Stars with Non-dipole Magnetic Fields
(astro-ph/0610487)

November 14

Richard Lovelace

Advection/Diffusion of Large Scale Magnetic Field in Accretion Disks
(with Gena Bisnovatyi-Kogan and David Rothstein)

November 21

Steve Lantz

Collisional Shear Instability in the Equatorial F Region Ionosphere
(a review of Hysell and Kudeki 2004)

November 28
@ 2:30 pm

Akshay Kulkarni

Instabilities at the Disk-Magnetosphere Boundary
(a review of Li and Narayan 2004)

December 5

Cancelled

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December 12

Akshay Kulkarni

Instabilities at the Disk-Magnetosphere Boundary
(a review of Li and Narayan 2004)
continued from November 28