The 2011-2012 ISR Seminars are held on Tuesdays  at 2:00pm in the ISR Conference Room at St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. on the Brighton Campus of Boston College. See below for schedule times and topics.

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Speaker: Kathleen Kraemer, Senior Research Physicist
Title: Dust & Gas around Stars Young & Old, Near & Far
When: June 5th, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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PAST SEMINARS AND EVENTS:

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Speaker: Neil Grossbard, Senior Research Analyst
Title: Monte-Carlo Techniques and Power Spectral Analysis
When: May 22, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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Speaker: Sean O'Connell, Technology Specialist
Title: New Technology Ideas for ISR
When: May 8, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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There Were No Seminars in April 2012

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Speaker: Greg Bishop, Visiting Scholar
Title: Operational Assessment of Ionospheric Data Sets
When: March 7, 2012 at 2:00pm
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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Speaker: Dr. Paul Noah, Research Scientist
Title: Modeling the Celestial Background
When: February 21, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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Speaker: Dr. Keith Groves, Senior Research Physicist
Title: The NASA Shuttle Columbia Mishap: A Space Weather Connection?
When: February 7, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St. Brighton Campus

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Speaker: Dr. Andrew J. Mazzella, Research Physicist
Title: TEC Measurements for the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere
When: January 24, 2012 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Dr. Bamandas Basu, Senior Research Physicist, ISR, Boston College
Title: Kappa Distributions: Theory and Application in Space Plasmas
When: December 12, 2011 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Dr. John Ebel, Professor - Dept of Earth and Environmental Science
Director of the Weston Observatory of Boston College
Title: Using Wavelet Transforms and Bayesian Probabilities for Automatic Earthquake Detections, Identifications and Locations in New England and Vicinity
When: November 29, 2011 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Speaker: Dr. Frank Marcos, Senior Research Physicist, ISR, Boston College
Title: Thermospheric Space Weather Modeling
When: November 15, 2011 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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SPECIAL EVENT
Speaker: Dr. Baylie Damtie, President of Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Title: Highlights of space physics research activities at the Bahir Dar University and the future prospects
When: October 31, 2011 at 3:30pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Speaker: Dr. John Jasperse, Senior Research Physicist, ISR, Boston College
Title: Anomalous Transport Effects in Auroras
When: October 25, 2011 at 2:00pm.
Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Speaker: Dr. Sunanda Basu, Senior Research Physicist, ISR, Boston College
Title: Global Space Weather Impacts of a Moderate Magnetic Storm on 3 August 2010
When: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 at 2:00pm.Where: ISR Conference Room, St. Clement's Hall, 4th Floor, 201 Foster St.

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Speaker: Dr. John Retterer, ISR
Title:  Scintillation Modeling
When: Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, 3:00pm EDT.
Where: ISR Conference Room

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Speaker: Dr. Lee Ann McKinell, Managing Director, SANSA
Title:  South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Efforts to Develop Space Science Research Programs Over Africa
When: Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, 2pm EDT.
Where: ISR Conference Room

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The ISR  co-sponsored the  "Workshop on Science Applications of GNSS in Developing Countries" on 11-27 April 2012, and the "Seminar on Development and Use of the Ionospheric NeQuick Model" on 30 April-1st May 2012, in Trieste, Italy. More details are available in the link above.

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The ISR hosted the "AMISR in Africa" Workshop at BC, March 1-3, 2012.

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The first International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) summer school was held in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia during 28 October – 4 November, 2010.  

The ISR hosted the International Beacon Satellite Symposium in 2007.  The 2010 Beacon Satellite Symposium was held in Barcelona, Spain on June 7-11, 2010.

The ISR co-hosted the first Satellite Navigation Science and Technology Workshop for Africa at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy March 23 - April 9, 2009.   The 2010 Conference was held in Trieste, Italy April 6-24, 2010.