Lectures

The lecture schedule for the 2020 session will be available in late May 2020.

Students receive lectures from top scientists on a variety of topics including plasma physics, radiation belts, numerical modeling, solar wind physics, spacecraft charging and others.

Lectures from the 2018 program

• Introduction to the Magnetosphere (Geoff Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Introduction to the Solar Wind (Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Overview of LANL's Space Program (Brian Larsen, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Particle Transport and Adiabatic Convection (Michael Henderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Geomagnetic Storms: Ring Current and Plasmasphere Dynamics (Vania Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Comparative Magnetospheres (Michelle Thomsen, Planetary Science Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (Jesse Woodroffe, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Historical Space Weather (Delores Knipp, U. Colorado Boulder)
• The Sun and Solar Activity (Lisa Winter, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Radiation Effects in Electronics (Heather Quinn, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Radio Waves in Geospace (Jesse Woodroffe, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Atmospheric Drag (Andrew Walker, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Hybrid and Particle-in-Cell Simulations (Xiangrong Fu, New Mexico Consortium)
• Quiet-Time Evolution of the Radiation Belts (Jean-Francois Ripoll, CEA France)
• Introduction to Magnetic Reconnection (Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Introduction to the Detectors for High Energy Particles, X-rays and Gamma rays (Richard Schirato, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Spacecraft Charging (Mick Denton, New Mexico Consortium)

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