Lectures

The lecture schedule for the 2018 session will be available in late May 2018.

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 2016 program

• Introduction to the Magnetosphere (Joe Borovsky, SSI and LANL)
• Introduction to the Solar Wind (Joe Borovsky, SSI and LANL)
• Solar Eruptive Events and the Acceleration of High Energy Particles (Tom Vestrand, LANL)
• Autoplot Short Course (Jeremy Faden, U. Iowa)
• Introduction to the Ionosphere (Erin Lay, LANL)
• Particle Transport and Adiabatic Convection (Michael Henderson, LANL)
• Kinetic Waves in Plasmas (Peter Gary, SSI and LANL)
• Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (Yiqun Yu, Beihan University)
• Particle-in-Cell Simulation Technique (Xiangrong Fu, NMC)
• Introduction to the Detectors for High Energy Particles, X-rays, and Gamma rays (Richard Schirato, LANL)
• Geomagnetic Storms: Ring Current and Plasmasphere Dynamics (Vania Jordanova, LANL)
• Introduction to Magnetic Reconnection (Ari Le, LANL)
• Overview of LANL's Space Program (Brian Larsen, LANL)
• Radiation Belt Diffusion (Greg Cunningham, LANL)
• Electromagnetic Wave Derivation (Max Light, LANL)
• Introduction to Data Assimilation (Humberto Godinez, LANL)
• Energetic Electron Pitch-Angle Distributions in the Radiation Belts (Reiner Friedel, LANL)
• The Earth's Plasma Sheet (Mick Denton, NMC)
• NASA GENESIS Mission: Search for Origins (Karen Rieck, LANL)
• History of the Term 'Space Weather' (Trey Cade, Baylor University)

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