Events

Upcoming Events

Overview of Emirates Mars Mission

Date: November 8, 2021
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Blue Hall, Arts Center

Speakers: Khalid Badri and Sonal Jain, Emirates Mars Mission, MBRSC

Space Exploration and Extraterrestrial Mining

Date: November 11, 2021
Time: 7:00pm
Speaker: Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia University

Webinars

In collaboration with the UAE Space Agency, the Center for Space Science at NYUAD, has organized a virtual seminar series focused on the theme of Space Weather and its interaction with Solar System planets — in particular, Earth and Mars. The launch of three Mars missions scheduled this summer makes it a very exciting time for Mars researchers.

The UAE’s Hope Orbiter, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, and China's Tianwen-1 mission, will together lead to major advancements in this field and contribute significantly to our understanding of Mars from 2021 and beyond. Space weather plays a key role in Martian atmospheric processes, and is also of tremendous importance to aviation and space sectors.

NYUAD and UAE Space Agency aim to bring together researchers in the field and engage with the scientific community at NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE institutions and our collaborators abroad.

Past Webinars

2021 Webinars

All webinars are recorded. Click on the title of the webinar to watch the recording.

June 15, 2021	Impact craters and fluvial processes on Mars Speaker: Vijayan Siva, Physical Research Laboratory, India
May 31, 2021	Atmospheric processes affecting methane on Mars Speaker: Lee Grenfell, DLR, German Aerospace Center, Berlin
May 24, 2021	Mars methane and sensitive measurements by TGO ExoMars Speaker: Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR, Berlin
May 17, 2021	Exploring the limits of life on Earth and some thoughts about their relevance to the search for life Speaker: Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Technical University Berlin
May 3, 2021	How did Mars' surface become uninhabitable ? Speaker: Edwin Kite, University of Chicago
April 26, 2021	The Mars Hydrogen Cycle: Precipitation, Escape, and Aurora Speaker: Jasper Halekas, University of Iowa
April 19, 2021	Titan in a Jar Speaker: Tomce Runcevski, Southern Methodist University
April 5, 2021	Organics on Mars Speaker: Caroline Freissinet (CNRS/LATMOS), France
March 29, 2021	Sedimentary Deposits on Mars through the Eye of Rovers and Landers Speaker: Doug Ming, NASA Johnson Space Center
March 22, 2021	Planet Habitability of Exoplanets Speaker: Abel Méndez, University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
March 15, 2021	First results from Solar Orbiter on solar coronal mass ejections Speaker: Christian Möstl, Space Research Institute, Austria
March 8, 2021	Stellar Flares and Habitable(?) Worlds from TESS Speaker: Dr. Maximilian N. Günther, MIT
March 1, 2021	Non-Boussinesq low-Prandtl number convection with a temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity Speaker: Ambrish Pandey
February 22, 2021	The Dragonfly Mission to Titan Speaker: Ralph Lorenz, John Hopkins University, USA
February 15, 2021	Habitability on Mars: comparison with the early Earth Speaker: Frances Westall, CNRS-Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, Orleans, France
February 8, 2021	Can an Early Hot Mars Resolve the Faint Young Sun Paradox? Speaker: Luju Ojha, Rutgers University, USA
February 1, 2021	Influence of Stellar Superflares on the Atmospheric Chemistry of Tidal Locked Exoplanets Speaker: Howard Chen, Northwestern University, USA
January 25, 2021	The Chiral Puzzle of Life Speaker: Noemie Globus, ELI Beamlines/Flatiron Institute
January 18, 2021	Thermal Evolution and Present-day State of the Interior of Mars and Venus Speaker: Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR, Berlin

2020 Webinars

All webinars are recorded. Click on the title of the webinar to watch the recording.

December 15, 2020	The Prospect for Life on Mars Speaker: Inge Loes ten Kate, Utrecht University
December 8, 2020	On the origin of evaporating metals at extrasolar gas giant systems: evaporating exomoons? Speaker: Apurva Oza, University of Bern
November 24, 2020	Homochirality: a prerequisite or consequence of life? Speaker: Axel Brandenburg, Nordita
November 17, 2020	Indian Space Missions Under Consideration for the Coming Decade Speaker: P. Sreekumar, ISRO Satellite Center
November 10, 2020	Monitoring Atmospheric Dust on Mars Speaker: Luca Montabone, Space Science Institute
November 3, 2020	How Do Scientists Approach the Search for Life in the Solar System Speaker: Maria Paz Zorzano, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (Madrid)
October 27, 2020	Discovering New Solar Physics Using Machine Learning Speaker: Dattaraj Dhuri, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
October 20, 2020	Orbiting close to a star: Investigating star-planet interactions Speaker: Rim Fares, United Arab Emirates University
October 13, 2020	Mars: Perseverance, MEDA, and beyond Speaker: Jose Manfredi, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
October 6, 2020	On the Importance of Rarefied Gas Dynamics in Interpreting Atmospheric Observations Speaker: O.J. Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
September 15, 2020	Ground penetrating radar observations of the lunar farside and the Tianwen-1 mission Speaker: Yi Xu, Macau University of Science and Technology
September 8, 2020	Exploring Mars' atmosphere with ExoMars and EMM Speaker: Roland Young, NSSTC, United Arab Emirates University
September 1, 2020	New perspectives for heliosphere and solar wind science and space weather forecasting Speaker: Andre Galli, University of Bern
August 25, 2020	Contributions of helioseismology to space weather: a Martian perspective Speakers: Laurent Gizon and Dan Yang, Max Planck Insitute for Solar System Research
August 18, 2020	Human exploration of Mars: challenges and opportunities
August 11, 2020	On some aspects of habitability mediated by stellar flares and space weather phenomena Speaker: Manasvi Lingam, Florida Institute of Technology
August 4, 2020	A new model suite to determine the influence of cosmic rays on planetary chemistry Speaker: Konstantin Herbst, University of Kiel
July 28, 2020	Do superflares occur on the Sun? Speaker: Yuta Notsu, University of Colorado-Boulder
July 21, 2020	Mars: 2020 and Beyond Speakers: UAE Space Agency, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, Centro Astrobiologia, MENCA, Colorado University-Boulder, NYUAD
July 7, 2020	Space Weather at Mars: Past and Present Speaker: François Leblanc, LATMOS/CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris France
June 30, 2020	Cosmic rays and the solar system's atmospheres Speaker: Guillaume Gronof, NASA Langley

Local Seminars

February 23, 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

October 21, 2021

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

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

2018 Seminars

November 6, 2018	Research Conference 3 Talks given CSS members, including Key Note in Astronomy & Astrophysics by K.R. Sreenivasan.
March 1, 2018	Donald Kurtz - “Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution”. Seminar at NYUAD.
Jan 16 to Jan 19, 2018	Future Directions in Heliophysics Workshop 18 talks given by international experts on heliophysics

2017 Seminars

July 22, 2017	Hiromoto Shibahashi - "Finding Unseen Binary Companions and Black Holes from Phase Modulation of Pulsating Stars with Space-Based Photometry". Seminar at NYUAD.
April 11, 2017	Laurent Gizon - “Seismology of the Sun”. Invited talk at Emirates Society for Geosciences. ADMA-OPCO Headquarters, Abu Dhabi.
April 10, 2017	Laurent Gizon - “Weather on the Sun“ CPCM Research Lecture, NYUAD

October 6, 2016	Katepalli Sreenivasan, Laurent Gizon and Shravan Hanasoge, Presentation at ADNOC Headquarters, Abu Dhabi
April 18, 2016	Laurent Gizon, "NYUAD’s contribution to FIRM", ADNOC R&D, Nation Towers, Abu Dhabi
March 17, 2016	Michael Bazot, NYUAD Physics group bi-monthly meeting: "Bayesian stars and some news from α Cen A"
March 12, 2016	Michael Bazot, NYUAD Math Day 2016 "Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms: a few astrophysical applications"
March 9, 2016	Takashi Sekii (NAOJ Tokyo), NYUAD Center for Space Science series, "Helioseismology: where do we stand?"
February 25, 2016	Othman Benomar, NYUAD Physics group bi-monthly meeting, "Asteroseismology of Solar-like stars: Rotation"
February 17, 2016	Shravan Hanasoge, NYUAD Center for Space Science Seminar Series, "Seismic determination of weak convective velocities in the Sun - and implications"

December 16, 2015	Laurent Gizon, NYUAD Center for Space Science Seminar Series, "Presentation of the NYUAD Center for Space Science"
January 13, 2015	Laurent Gizon and Shravan Hanasoge, "The NYUAD Center for Space Science: A Partner for Exploration Geophysics", The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi

International Talks

2018 Talks

November 9, 2018	Othman Benomar - "Differential rotation of solar-like stars" - NAOJ Stellar seminar, Tokyo, Japan
November 2, 2018	Chris Hanson - "Supervised Neural Networks for Helioseismic Ring-Diagram Inversions" - 2018 SDO Science Workshop, Catalyzing Solar Connections, Thagaste, in Ghent, Belgium
October 24, 2018	Othman Benomar - "Rotation and asphericity of solar-like stars observed by Kepler" - NAOJ Workshop, Tokyo, Japan
September 3, 2018	Othman Benomar - "A (biased) perspective on solar-like pulsation of MS stars" - PHOST symposium, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
August 2, 2018	Martin Nielsen - "Activity and Rotation in Kepler Stars" Coolstars 20, Boston / Cambridge, USA
July 11, 2018	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
July 10, 2018	Martin Nielsen - "Toward Stellar Butterfly Diagrams ". TASC4/KASC11 Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark

2017 Talks

November 28, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Spin-orbit of exoplanets constrained with asteroseismology". 10th RESCEU/Planet2 Symposium: Planet Formation around Snowline. University of Tokyo, Japan.
September 19, 2017	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
September 14, 2017	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.
September 5, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Seismic measurements for main sequence stars and subgiants". Invited talk at The PLATO Mission Conference at Warwick University UK
August 21, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Life and Science in the UAE". Visitor seminar at University of Sydney, Australia
July 18, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Asteroseismic measure of the latitudinal differential rotation". Contributed talk at TASC3KASC10 at Birmingham University, UK.
June 19, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Precision and accuracy of Mass, Radius and Age inference from asteroseismology". Weekly RESCEU seminar at University of Tokyo, Japan.
June 6, 2017	Othman Benomar - "Asteroseismology of Solar-like stars". Weekly physics seminar at University of Tokyo, Japan.
February 2, 2017	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Helioseismology Tools for Exploration Geophysics". Invited talk at ExxonMobil Workshop at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
January 19, 2017	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.

November 10, 2016	Laurent Gizon - "Modelling solar oscillations". Invited talk at Colloque Interfaces, INRIA Bordeaux, France.
November 3, 2016	Laurent Gizon - "Probing convection with SDO helioseismology". Contributed talk at Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium, ESO Garching, Germany.
November 2, 2016	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).
October 26, 2016	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Solar Convection: Problems and Prospects". Invited talk at Colloquium at the Simons Foundation, New York.
August 26, 2016	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).
August 25, 2016	Laurent Gizon - "Helioseismology and the solar interior". Invited talk at 5th SOLARNET Summer School, Belfast, UK, August 25-30, 2016.
August 15, 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.
August 15, 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.
July 11, 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.
July 11, 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).
July 11, 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).
June 20, 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.
June 13, 2016	Shravan Hanasoge - "Interpretation of Seismic Wave Measurements in the Solar Atmosphere". Invited talk at iBUKS workshop, Leuven, June 13-16, 2016.
April 13, 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).
February 22, 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.
January 28, 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.

December 7, 2015	Michael Bazot - "Fitting stellar models", Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015.
December 7, 2015	Othman Benomar - "Measuring rotation with asteroseismology". Contributed talk at Advances in Seismology: a Dialogue Across Disciplines, TIFR Mumbai, 7-11 December 2015.
December 7, 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.
December 7, 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)
November 22, 2015	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Heat Flows from Colder to Hotter Objects: Multiphase Convection". Talk at DFD/APS meeting.
November 10, 2015	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Turbulent Convection: How More Research Has Led to Fewer Answers". Invited talk at Stanford University Fluid Mechanics Seminar.
October 21, 2015	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Convection in the Sun". Elsevier Distinguished Lecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
August 7, 2015	Katepalli Sreenivasan - "Turbulent Convection: How More Research Has Led to Fewer Answers". Invited talk at Workshop on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
August 6, 2015	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).
August 6, 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).
July 20, 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.
June 9, 2015	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.
June 9, 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.