Events

Impact craters and fluvial processes on Mars

Speaker: Vijayan Siva, Physical Research Laboratory, India

Atmospheric processes affecting methane on Mars

Mars methane and sensitive measurements by TGO ExoMars

Speaker: Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR, Berlin

How did Mars' surface become uninhabitable ?

Speaker: Edwin Kite, University of Chicago 

The Mars Hydrogen Cycle: Precipitation, Escape, and Aurora

Speaker: Jasper Halekas, University of Iowa 

Titan in a Jar

Speaker: Tomce Runcevski, Southern Methodist University

Organics on Mars

Speaker:  Caroline Freissinet (CNRS/LATMOS), France

Sedimentary Deposits on Mars through the Eye of Rovers and Landers

Speaker:  Doug Ming, NASA Johnson Space Center

Planet Habitability of Exoplanets

Speaker: Abel Méndez, University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo

First results from Solar Orbiter on solar coronal mass ejections

Speaker:  Christian Möstl, Space Research Institute, Austria

Stellar Flares and Habitable(?) Worlds from TESS

Speaker: Dr. Maximilian N. Günther, MIT

Non-Boussinesq low-Prandtl number convection with a temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity

Speaker: Ambrish Pandey

The Dragonfly Mission to Titan

Speaker:  Ralph Lorenz, John Hopkins University, USA

Habitability on Mars: comparison with the early Earth

Speaker: Frances Westall,  CNRS-Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, Orleans, France

Can an Early Hot Mars Resolve the Faint Young Sun Paradox?

Speaker: Luju Ojha, Rutgers University, USA 

Influence of Stellar Superflares on the Atmospheric Chemistry of Tidal Locked Exoplanets

Speaker:  Howard Chen, Northwestern University, USA 

The Chiral Puzzle of Life

Speaker:  Noemie Globus, ELI Beamlines/Flatiron Institute

Thermal Evolution and Present-day State of the Interior of Mars and Venus

Speaker: Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR, Berlin

The Prospect for Life on Mars

Speaker:  Inge Loes ten Kate, Utrecht University

On the origin of evaporating metals at extrasolar gas giant systems: evaporating exomoons?

Speaker: Apurva Oza, University of Bern 

Homochirality: a prerequisite or consequence of life?

Speaker: Axel Brandenburg, Nordita

Indian Space Missions Under Consideration for the Coming Decade

Speaker: P. Sreekumar, ISRO Satellite Center

Monitoring Atmospheric Dust on Mars

Speaker: Luca Montabone, Space Science Institute

How Do Scientists Approach the Search for Life in the Solar System

Speaker: Maria Paz Zorzano, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (Madrid)

Discovering New Solar Physics Using Machine Learning

Speaker: Dattaraj Dhuri, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Orbiting close to a star: Investigating star-planet interactions

Speaker: Rim Fares, United Arab Emirates University

Mars: Perseverance, MEDA, and beyond

Speaker: Jose Manfredi, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain

On the Importance of Rarefied Gas Dynamics in Interpreting Atmospheric Observations

Speaker: O.J. Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Ground penetrating radar observations of the lunar farside and the Tianwen-1 mission

Speaker: Yi Xu, Macau University of Science and Technology

Exploring Mars' atmosphere with ExoMars and EMM

Speaker: Roland Young,  NSSTC, United Arab Emirates University

New perspectives for heliosphere and solar wind science and space weather forecasting

Speaker: Andre Galli, University of Bern

Contributions of helioseismology to space weather: a Martian perspective

Speakers: Laurent Gizon and Dan Yang, Max Planck Insitute for Solar System Research

Human exploration of Mars: challenges and opportunities

On some aspects of habitability mediated by stellar flares and space weather phenomena

Speaker: Manasvi Lingam, Florida Institute of Technology

A new model suite to determine the influence of cosmic rays on planetary chemistry

Speaker:  Konstantin Herbst, University of Kiel

Do superflares occur on the Sun?

Speaker:  Yuta Notsu, University of Colorado-Boulder

Mars: 2020 and Beyond

Speakers:   UAE Space Agency, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, Centro Astrobiologia, MENCA, Colorado University-Boulder, NYUAD

Space Weather at Mars: Past and Present

Speaker:  François Leblanc, LATMOS/CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris France

Cosmic rays and the solar system's atmospheres

Speaker: Guillaume Gronof, NASA Langley

Dimitra Atri.  "Exploring Mars with EMM, MAVEN and Curiosity." Emirates Mars Mission 5th Annual Workshop, Dubai, UAE, 27-28 February 2022

Dattaraj Dhuri. " Investigating proton auroras on Mars using deep learning." Emirates Mars Mission 5th Annual Workshop, Dubai, UAE, 27-28 February 2022.

Co-hosted Research Institute talk:  Space Exploration and Extraterrestrial Mining, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Lavon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering, Columbia University.   

Overview of Emirates Mars Mission: Khalid Badri and Sonal Jain, Emirates Mars Mission, MBRSC

EXPO 2020: World Majlis - Hope and Perseverance: Lessons from the Red Planet for Life on Earth

Speaker: Dimitra Atri, Research Scientist, Center for Space Science, NYUAD

Dimitra Atri. "Why explore Mars?." Emirates Natural History Group public lecture (virtual). Abu Dhabi, March 2021.

What To Do When the Sun Turns Violent in 2025?

Speaker:  K.R. Sreenivasan, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, University Professor and Eugene Kleiner Chair for Innovation, Dean Emeritus of NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU

Dimitra Atri. "Innovative projects at the NYUAD Center for Space Science." UAE Space Sector Innovations Workshop, UAE Space Agency, February 2021.

Dimitra Atri. "NYUAD’s preparation for the Emirates Mars Mission."  EMM Science Workshop (virtual). UAE Space Agency, Abu Dhabi, May 15 2020.

Dimitra Atri. "Martian radiation environment and risks to astronaut health."  Emirates Space Innovation Group (ESIG) Workshop #12 (virtual). UAE Space Agency, Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 2020.   

Research Conference
3 Talks given CSS members, including Key Note in Astronomy & Astrophysics by K.R. Sreenivasan.

Donald Kurtz - “Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution”. Seminar at NYUAD.

Future Directions in Heliophysics Workshop
18 talks given by international experts on heliophysics

Hiromoto Shibahashi - "Finding Unseen Binary Companions and Black Holes from Phase Modulation of Pulsating Stars with Space-Based Photometry". Seminar at NYUAD.

Laurent Gizon - “Seismology of the Sun”. Invited talk at Emirates Society for Geosciences. ADMA-OPCO Headquarters, Abu Dhabi.

Laurent Gizon - “Weather on the Sun“ CPCM Research Lecture, NYUAD

Katepalli Sreenivasan, Laurent Gizon and Shravan Hanasoge, Presentation at ADNOC Headquarters, Abu Dhabi

Laurent Gizon, "NYUAD’s contribution to FIRM", ADNOC R&D, Nation Towers, Abu Dhabi

Michael Bazot, NYUAD Physics group bi-monthly meeting: "Bayesian stars and some news from α Cen A"

Michael Bazot, NYUAD Math Day 2016 "Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms: a few astrophysical applications"

Takashi Sekii (NAOJ Tokyo), NYUAD Center for Space Science series, "Helioseismology: where do we stand?"

Othman Benomar, NYUAD Physics group bi-monthly meeting, "Asteroseismology of Solar-like stars: Rotation"

Shravan Hanasoge, NYUAD Center for Space Science Seminar Series, "Seismic determination of weak convective velocities in the Sun - and implications"

Laurent Gizon, NYUAD Center for Space Science Seminar Series, "Presentation of the NYUAD Center for Space Science"

Laurent Gizon and Shravan Hanasoge, "The NYUAD Center for Space Science: A Partner for Exploration Geophysics", The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi

Dimitra Atri. "Habitable worlds in the Solar system and beyond", Europlanet Science Congress 2022, Granada, Spain, September 19, 2022 (Invited)

Dimitra Atri. "Cosmic rays and habitability", The Golden Universe: Nuclear Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays in the Multimessenger Era, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, July 26, 2022 (Invited)

Dimitra Atri. "Exploring Mars with the Emirates Mars Mission", Ages of Mars workshop, Madrid, Spain, July 4, 2022 (Invited)

Dattaraj Dhuri. "Deep learning reconstruction of sunspot vector magnetic fields for forecasting solar storms." Machine Learning in Heliophysics Workshop, Boulder, United States, 21-25 March 2022. (virtual).

Dimitra Atri. "Planetary Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond," European Astrobiology Institute General Assembly, October 5, 2021.

Dimitra Atri. "Modeling the impact of stellar XUV radiation and energetic charged particles on atmospheric escape and planetary habitability." TESS Science Conference. MIT. August 5, 2021.  

K.R. Sreenivasan. "Convection in the Sun and laboratory experiments and numerical simulations." Tenth Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture (virtual), 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, March 2021.   

Dimitra Atri. "Stellar flares and planetary habitability: atmospheric escape and radiation dose enhancement."  Habitable Worlds 2021 (virtual). American Astronomical Society. February 2021.   

Dattaraj Dhuri. "Identifying Pre-emergence Magnetic Field Patterns Using Deep Learning."  Workshop (virtual) Talk at Astronomical Society of India 2021 Workshop on Recent Insights into Solar Active Region Dynamics.  February 18-23, 2021.

Dimitra Atri. "Habitable planets in the Solar System and beyond."  Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (virtual). Thiruvananthapuram, India, January 2021.   

Dimitra Atri. "Life beyond Earth:  What makes a planet habitable?" India Science Festival (virtual). Bengaluru, India, January 2021.  

Ambrish Pandey. "Temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity in turbulent convection in an extended domain." Contributed talk in virtual APS meeting.  November 24, 2020. The presented work was published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Rasha Al Shehhi. "Detection Exomoons using Convolution Neural networks." International Exomoon Discussion (virtual). November 2020.   

Dimitra Atri. "Exploring the possibility of life in the Martian subsurface."  Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2020 (virtual), UNSW Sydney, September 2020.   

Dimitra Atri. "Life in Astrophysical Context: Role of Ionizing Radiation." Astrobiology Society of Asia-Pacific Webinar (virtual). August 27, 2020.  

Dimitra Atri. "Non-thermal radiation and planetary habitability." Physical Research Laboratory (virtual). India, August 2020.   

Ambrish Pandey. "Thermal boundary layer structure in low-Prandtl-number turbulent convection." Virtual talk at Online Turbulence Seminar. July 29, 2020. The presented work was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Dimitra Atri. "Stellar Proton Events and Planetary Habitability." Exoplanets III Conference (virtual). Heidelberg, Germany, July 27, 2020.  

Rasha Al Shehhi. "Deep Regression for Imaging Solar Magnetograms using Pyramid Generative Adversarial Networks." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (virtual). June 2020.   

Dimitra Atri. "Space weather and exoplanetary habitability." BlueSciCon 2020 (virtual). Seattle, WA, May 8, 2020.   

Dimitra Atri. "Stellar Proton Events and Exoplanetary Habitability." EGU Meeting 2020 (virtual). Vienna, Austria. May 2020.

Othman Benomar - "Differential rotation of solar-like stars" - NAOJ Stellar seminar, Tokyo, Japan

Chris Hanson - "Supervised Neural Networks for Helioseismic Ring-Diagram Inversions" - 2018 SDO Science Workshop, Catalyzing Solar Connections, Thagaste, in Ghent, Belgium

Othman Benomar - "Rotation and asphericity of solar-like stars observed by Kepler" - NAOJ Workshop, Tokyo, Japan

Othman Benomar - "A (biased) perspective on solar-like pulsation of MS stars" - PHOST symposium, Banyuls-sur-mer, France

Martin Nielsen - "Activity and Rotation in Kepler Stars" Coolstars 20, Boston / Cambridge, USA

Othman Benomar - "Dependence to surface gravity and temperature of p modes asymmetry in Sun-like stars observed by Kepler ".  TASC4/KASC11 Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark

Martin Nielsen - "Toward Stellar Butterfly Diagrams ". TASC4/KASC11 Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark

Othman Benomar - "Spin-orbit of exoplanets constrained with asteroseismology". 10th RESCEU/Planet2 Symposium: Planet Formation around Snowline. University of Tokyo, Japan.

Othman Benomar - "Three questions about the ages of solar-type and low-mass stars". Session introductory talk at Ages^2 Symposium: taking stellar ages to the next power in Elba, Italy

Martin Nielsen - "Limits on radial differential rotation in Sun-like stars". Contributed talk at The PLATO Mission Conference at Warwick University UK, and Rocks & Stars at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany.

Othman Benomar - "Seismic measurements for main sequence stars and subgiants". Invited talk at The PLATO Mission Conference at  Warwick University UK

Othman Benomar - "Life and Science in the UAE". Visitor seminar at University of Sydney, Australia

Othman Benomar - "Asteroseismic measure of the latitudinal differential rotation". Contributed talk at TASC3KASC10 at Birmingham University, UK.

Othman Benomar -  "Precision and accuracy of Mass, Radius and Age inference from asteroseismology". Weekly RESCEU seminar at University of Tokyo, Japan.

Othman Benomar - "Asteroseismology of Solar-like stars". Weekly physics seminar at University of Tokyo, Japan.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Helioseismology Tools for Exploration Geophysics". Invited talk at ExxonMobil Workshop at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Dissipative Anomaly, Onsager’s Conjecture, and Intermittency". Invited talk at Workshop on Dissipation and Mixing, at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, January 19-23, 2017.

Laurent Gizon - "Modelling solar oscillations". Invited talk at Colloque Interfaces, INRIA Bordeaux, France.

Laurent Gizon - "Probing convection with SDO helioseismology". Contributed talk at Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium, ESO Garching, Germany.

Othman Benomar - "On the possibility of determining the rotation and asphericity of solar-like stars using asteroseismology". Invited talk at Research Center for Early Universe, Physics seminar series, University of Tokyo, Japan. The presentation included material from Campante et al. (2016), Gizon et al. (2016), and Benomar et al. (2017, in preparation).

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Solar Convection: Problems and Prospects". Invited talk at Colloquium at the Simons Foundation, New York.

Laurent Gizon - "Supergranulation, Revisited". Invited talk at Observing the Sun conference, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, August 26-28, 2016. The presentation includes material from Langfellner et al. (2016).

Laurent Gizon - "Helioseismology and the solar interior". Invited talk at 5th SOLARNET Summer School, Belfast, UK, August 25-30, 2016.

Laurent Gizon - "Kinetic helicity and anisotropic stresses of solar supergranulation". Invited talk at Workshop on Turbulence and Waves in Flows Dominated by Rotation: Lessons from Geophysics and Perspectives in Space Physics and Astrophysics, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA, August 15-19, 2016.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Solar Convection: Problems and Prospects". Invited talk at Workshop on Turbulence and Waves in Flows Dominated by Rotation: Lessons from Geophysics and Perspectives in Space Physics and Astrophysics, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA, August 15-19, 2016.

Laurent Gizon - "SpaceInn local helioseismology". Invited talk at Joint TASC 2 and KASC 9 Workshop - SPACEINN and HELAS 8 Conference, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira-Acores, Portugal, July 11-15, 2016.

Michael Bazot - "Small convective cores on the main sequence". Poster presentation at Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016, Joint TASC 2 and KASC 9 Workshop – SPACEINN and HELAS 8 Conference, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira-Acores, Portugal, 11-15 July 2016. The presentation included material from Bazot et al. (2016).

Othman Benomar - "Kepler observation of HD 176465, a binary system with overlapping pulsation frequencies". Poster presentation at Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016, Joint TASC 2 and KASC 9 Workshop – SPACEINN and HELAS 8 Conference, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira-Acores, Portugal, July 11-15, 2016. The presentation included material from White et al. (2016).

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Dissipative Anomaly, Onsager’s Conjecture, and Intermittency". Emmy Noether Lectures, Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University, Israel, June 20-21, 2016 invited.

Shravan Hanasoge - "Interpretation of Seismic Wave Measurements in the Solar Atmosphere". Invited talk at iBUKS workshop, Leuven, June 13-16, 2016.

Othman Benomar - "Asteroseismology of solar-like stars: Rotation, AM transport and spin-orbit angle", Invited talk at Research Center for Early Universe, Physics seminar series, University of Tokyo, Japan. The presentation included material from White et al. (2016) and Campante et al. (2016).

Laurent Gizon - "Measurements of solar convective flows in the near-surface layers". Invited talk at Dynamic Sun I conference, Varanasi, India, February 22-26, 2016.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Turbulent Convection as a Principal Paradigm in Fluid Mechanics". Plenary Lecture at Golden Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sharada University, New Delhi.

Michael Bazot - "Fitting stellar models", Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015.

Othman Benomar - "Measuring rotation with asteroseismology". Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015.

Laurent Gizon - "Oblateness of a slowly rotating star from asteroseismology". Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015.

Shravan Hanasoge - "Helioseismic Constraints on Convective Velocity Amplitudes in the Sun". Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015. Presentation of material from Hanasoge, Gizon & Sreenivasan (2015)

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Heat Flows from Colder to Hotter Objects: Multiphase Convection". Talk at DFD/APS meeting.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Turbulent Convection: How More Research Has Led to Fewer Answers". Invited talk at Stanford University Fluid Mechanics Seminar.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Convection in the Sun". Elsevier Distinguished Lecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Turbulent Convection: How More Research Has Led to Fewer Answers". Invited talk at Workshop on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Shravan Hanasoge - "The effect of near-surface convection on oscillation frequencies of stars". Contributed at International Astronomical Union, Hawaii, USA, August 6-13, 2015. Presentation of material from Bhattacharya et al. (2015).

Shravan Hanasoge - "Seismology of Convection in the Sun". Invited review talk at International Astronomical Union, Hawaii, USA, August 6-13, 2015. Presentation of material from Hanasoge, Gizon & Sreenivasan (2015).

Laurent Gizon - "Solving the forward problem of helioseismology in the frequency domain". Contributed talk at The 12th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (WAVES 2015), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, July 20-24, 2015. Presentation included material from Gizon et al. (2016).

Laurent Gizon - "Seismology of the Sun". Invited talk at Greifswalder Physikalisches Kolloquium, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany.

Laurent Gizon - "Perspectives in Helioseismology". Invited talk at NASA LWS Workshop on Solar Dynamo Frontiers: Helioseismology, 3D Modeling, and Data Assimilation, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 9-12, 2015.

Shravan Hanasoge - "Seismic Constraints on Large-Scale Convection in the Sun". Invited talk at Solar Dynamo Frontiers, Boulder, USA, June 9-12, 2015. Presentation of material from Hanasoge, Gizon & Sreenivasan (2015).

Laurent Gizon - "Seismology of the Sun and Stars". Keynote lecture at MPG Heads of Partner Group Meeting 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India, March 12-13, 2015.

Laurent Gizon - "Seismic diagnostics of rotation and magnetic activity". Invited talk at 2nd SOLARNET Meeting: Solar and stellar magnetic activity, Palermo, Italy, February 2-5, 2015.