Seminars 2023 – 2024
The group regularly holds seminars on Wednesday afternoons, allowing visitors, staff, and students to give talks on their current work. Guests are very welcome; if you would like to participate by giving a talk, please contact our seminar organiser, Dr Jack Reid.
Unless stated otherwise, our seminars start at 1:30 p.m. in Lecture Theatre B, Mathematical Institute, School of Mathematics and Statistics. Since 16 March 2022, we have introduced a hybrid format, combining in-person talks and live casting via the SMTG’s seminar Teams channel.
The affiliation of external speakers is listed as when they presented.
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | ROOM |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANDLEMAS SEMESTER: JAN – JUN 2024 | |||
| 17/01 | Biswajit Mondal (NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre) | Heating of coronal X-ray bright points (XBP) | Teams (Theatre B) (3 p.m.) |
| 24/01 | Tony Arber (Warwick) | Improved thermal conduction models for the solar corona | Theatre B |
| 31/01 | Cosima Breu (St Andrews) | A Comprehensive Simulation of Solar Wind Formation from the Solar Interior: Significant Cross-field Energy Transport by Interchange Reconnection near the Sun | Theatre B |
| 07/02 | Thomas Williams (Durham) | Automated Detection of coronaL MAss Ejecta origiNs for Space Weather AppliCations (ALMANAC) | Theatre B |
| 14/02 | Georgios Chouliaris (St Andrews) | Effects of partially ionized plasma to the magnetic flux emergence process | Theatre B |
| 21/02 | Staff Council | ||
| 28/02 | Kate Mowbray (St Andrews) | Estimating particle energisation in collapsing magnetic trap (CMT) models for solar flares | Theatre B |
| 06/03 | Postponed | ||
| 13/03 | Takayoshi Oba (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) | Three-dimensional convective velocity fields in the solar photosphere | Teams (Theatre B) |
| 20/03 | Daniel Johnson (St Andrews) | The Properties and Consequences of Thermal Conduction at X-Points | Theatre B |
| 27/03 | Ross Pallister (Northumbria) | Constraining the Properties of the Acceleration Region Plasma Environment with Solar Energetic Electrons | Theatre B |
| 03/04 | Craig Stark (Glasgow) | Substellar atmospheres: a laboratory for non-equilibrium plasmas | Physics Theatre C |
| 10/04 | Mathew Owens (Reading) | Space-weather forecasting: When less is more | Theatre B |
| 17/04 | Lilli Nadol (St Andrews) | Analytical 3D MHS magnetic field line modelling | Theatre B |
| 24/04 | Jonah Klowss (St Andrews) | The contribution of magnetic helicity condensation to ambient increase in the Solar Open Flux | Theatre B |
| 01/05 | Thomas Neukirch (St Andrews) | Theatre B | |
| 08/05 | Andy Wright (St Andrews) | Theatre B | |
| 10/05 | Harry Callingham (St Andrews) | ||
| 15/05 | Sophie Boswell (St Andrews) | Theatre B | |
| 23/05 | Ann Vaseekar (St Andrews) | ||
| 24/05 | Anmol Kumar (St Andrews) | ||
| MARTINMAS SEMESTER: SEP – DEC 2023 | |||
| 07/09 | Alexander Degeling (Shandong University) | Chaos in Space! Surfing Electrons Wreak Havoc! | Theatre B |
| 13/09 | Ruhann Steyn (Northumbria University) | The connection between L1 solar wind observations and their solar sources during the 2008/2009 and 2019/2020 solar minima using the Fisk heliospheric magnetic field | Theatre B |
| 20/09 | Mariana Andrea Cécere (Córdoba, Argentina) | Numerical Study of Coronal Loop Oscillations: Triggers and Emission | Theatre B |
| 27/09 | Valentin Aslanyan (Dundee) | Interchange reconnection in the solar corona and how to observe it | Theatre B |
| 04/10 | No seminar | ||
| 11/10 | Staff Council | ||
| 18/10 | Sargam Mulay (Glasgow) | A detailed investigation of molecular hydrogen at three flare ribbons | Theatre B |
| 25/10 | Oliver Rice (Durham) | Solar Coronal Models and the Potential Prediction of Solar Eruptions | Theatre B |
| 01/11 | Clare Parnell (St Andrews) | 3D Magnetic Reconnection: On the creation and significance of Cluster and Intercluster Separators | Theatre B |
| 08/11 | No seminar | ||
| 15/11 | Jack Reid (St Andrews) | Quantifying when and where strong magnetic skew forms in a data-driven global, non-potential model of the solar corona: the importance of when and where flux is observed to emerge and the limitations imposed by an Earth-bound field of view | Theatre B |
| 22/11 | Jordi De Jonghe (St Andrews) | The Legolas code: features and applications | Theatre B |
| 29/11 | Graduation | ||
| 06/12 | Ravindra Desai (Warwick) | Modelling extreme space weather events | Theatre B |
| 13/12 | Alex Russell (St Andrews) | 3D vs. 2.5D Plasmoid-Mediated Reconnection: Reconnection Rates, Mean Fields and Wings | Theatre B |
| 14/12 | Jaume Terradas (University of the Balearic Islands) | 3D magnetohydrostatic models of coronal structures and their stability using Euler potentials | Theatre B |