Join us for this Special Colloquium with our guest speaker, Brian Walsh, Ph.D., with the topic: Exploration of soft x-rays for advancing space weather research.
Abstract: The dynamics inside planetary magnetospheres are driven, in most cases by coupling between a planetary environment and a stellar wind. At Earth, solar wind-magnetosphere coupling fuels space weather impacting our human connection to space. This talk reviews some outstanding problems in space weather research and prediction and presents opportunities to move forward through X-Ray Imaging of Earth's magnetosphere.
Bio: Brian Walsh, Ph.D., is an associate professor and researcher in space physics at Boston University. His research focuses on the transfer of energy from the sun and Earth's space environment. As an experimentalist he develops X-ray instrumentation and imaging systems to study Earth's space environment.
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