Colloquium
Fall 2025
Nov 6, 2025
Azim Ahmadzadeh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Ten Thousand Filaments, Manually Annotated: Can AI Tell Their Chirality?
[more info]
Oct 23, 2025
Berkay Aydın, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Building Bridges: Contemporary Developments in Data-driven Space Weather Analytics
[more info]
Sep 18, 2025
Joel Dahlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist at University of Maryland (sitting at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, GSFC)
Inferring Reconnection Dynamics from the Fine Structure of Flare Ribbons
[more info]
Spring 2025
May 8, 2025
India Jackson, Ph.D.
NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
Developing a Real-Time Solar Event Detection Framework Using CV/ML and Cloud Integration: An Invitation for Collaboration
[more info]
April 30, 2025
Alexander Pietrow, Ph.D.
Researcher
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Sun-as-a-Star Flare Observations with High-Resolution Telescopes
[more info]
April 10, 2025
Viggo Hansteen, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
SETI Institute
Flux cancellation in the Solar Photosphere: What do we mean by that? And what are the consequences for the upper atmosphere?
[more info]
Fall 2024
December 5, 2024
Seray Şahin Solakcı
Northumbria University and Antalya Bilim University
From Chromospheric Evaporation to Coronal Rain: An investigation of the mass and energy cycle of a flare
[more info]
November 21, 2024
Louis Lanzerotti, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
NJIT
Size of the Solar System
[more info]
November 7, 2024
Lindsay Glesener, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
FOXSI-4and the First Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign
[more info]
October 31, 2024
Maria Kazachenko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder
Solar Magnetic Fields Before and During Eruptions
[more info]
October 24, 2024
Carsten Denker, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Potsdam
Synoptic Solar Observations – The Ground-based Perspective
[more info]
October 17, 2024
Aabha Monga, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
NJIT
Toward Unveiling the Origins of Solar Geysers: Insights into Recurrent Jet Eruptions
[more info]
October 10, 2024
Asti Bhatt, Ph.D.
Research Engineer, Geospace Studies
SRI International
Studying Energy Coupling between the Earth’s Atmospheric Regions: from High to Mid-latitudes Using Ground-based Techniques
[more info]
October 3, 2024
Xudong Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Astronomer
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Probing Solar Photospheric Magnetic Fields with DKIST Observations
[more info]
September 26, 2024
Francesco Azzollini
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Plasma Motions and Compressive Wave Energetics in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind from Radio Wave Scattering Observations
Spring 2024
March 07, 2024
Manolis Georgoulis, Ph.D.
Senior Professional Staff Physicist
JHU - APL
Prediction of Solar Energetic Events Directly from Solar Sources: Progress, Challenges, Expectations
[more info]
February 29, 2024
Steve Kaeppler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clemson University
Why We Need Better Understanding of Auroral Conductance and One Approach to Address that Problem
[more info]
February 22, 2024
Matina Gkioulidou, Ph.D.
Space Physicist
JHU - APL
Mesoscale Processes in the Magnetosphere: The Elusive Mode of Plasma Transport and Energization and the Measurements Needed to Bring it to Light
[more info]
February 15, 2024
Sijie Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
NJIT
Long-Lasting Aurora-like Radio Emission Above a Sunspot and Implications for Solar–Stellar Connection
[more info]
February 8, 2024
Yuta Notsu, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Univ of Colorado Boulder / LASP / NSO
Recent Spectroscopic Observations of Stellar Flares and Possible Stellar Mass Ejections
[more info]
February 1, 2024
Dale Gary, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
NJIT
History of the Solar Physics Division
[more info]
Fall 2023
November 30, 2023
Seth Garland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Space Physics
Air Force Institute of Technology
Analysis of Coronal Magnetic Field Parameters during X- and M-Class Solar Flares
[more info]
November 09, 2023
Andrei Zhukov, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Royal Observatory of Belgium
ASPIICS, a Giant Solar Coronagraph Onboard the PROBA-3 Mission
[more info]
November 02, 2023
David Fouhey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
New York University
Adventures in Using Computer Vision for Solar Physics and Space Weather
[more info]
October 26, 2023
Alphonse Sterling, Ph.D.
Astrophysicist
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Solar Coronal Jets and Jet-like Features: Some Recent Investigations and Possible Heliospheric Connections
[more info]
October 19, 2023
Gelu Nita, Ph.D.
Research Scietist
New Jersey Institute of Technology
GX Simulator in the Era of Stereoscopic Hard X-ray Observations
[more info]
October 12, 2023
Rahul Sharma, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Northumbria University, UK
Transverse Dimensions Associated with Alfvenic Turbulence in the Corona
[more info]
October 5, 2023
Yuhong Fan, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
High Altitude Observatory
Towards Data-Driven MHD Simulations of Solar Coronal Mass Ejection Events
[more info]
Spring 2023
April 6, 2023
Dibyendu Nandi, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
TBA
[more info]
March 23, 2023
Ilya Kuzichev, Ph.D.
NJIT Alumni
Generation of Quasi-Parallel Whistler Waves in the Solar Wind
[more info]
March 9, 2023
Sophie Musset, Ph.D.
ESA/ESTEC Research Fellow
European Space Agency
Coronal Jets, Their Impact on the Heliosphere, and How to Catch Them with Citizen Science
[more info]
February 23, 2023
Jenna Samra, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
High-Altitude Instrumentation for Infrared Observations of the Solar Corona
[more info]
February 16, 2023
Yeimy Rivera, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Investigating the Thermal Evolution of the Bastille Day CME Using Time-Dependent Ionization of Heavy Ions in a 3D MHD Model
[more info]
February 9, 2023
Yu Lin, Ph.D.
Professor
Auburn University
Magnetic Flux Ropes at the Magnetopause and the Associated Ion Transport
[more info]
February 2, 2023
Lindsay Goodwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Solar and Magnetospheric Drivers of Plasma Density Variations in the High-Latitude Ionosphere
[more info]