[IGPP Everyone] Meeting times with Dr. Shahab Fatemi tomorrow, and grad/researcher luncheon invitation

[Emmanuel V. Masongsong]

Sorry for the extra email, but I forgot to mention that we will be taking Dr. Fatemi to lunch tomorrow, please meet at Slichter 2712 at 11:50am or the Faculty Center at noon. 

He still has open slots in the morning 10-12, and 1-3 if you would like to meet with him. Please contact me to reserve a time slot. 

Thanks! 

-Emmanuel 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Emmanuel V. Masongsong" <emasongsong at zimbra.igpp.ucla.edu> 
To: "Emmanuel V. Masongsong" <emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu> 
Cc: "EPSS Everyone" <everyone at epss.ucla.edu>, everyone at igpp.ucla.edu 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:31:11 PM 
Subject: Tomorrow: Space Physics Seminar, Friday Jan. 16th: Modeling plasma interactions with airless bodies: the Moon, Europa, Callisto, and Rhea (S. Fatemi, UCB SSL) 

If you would like to meet with Dr. Fatemi on Friday, please contact Emmanuel at emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu. 



SPACE PHYSICS SEMINAR 

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, PLANETARY, AND SPACE SCIENCES 

DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 

(EPSS M288A, AOS M275A ) 







Shahab Fatemi 


UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory 





Modeling plasma interactions with airless bodies: the Moon, Europa, Callisto, and Rhea 








Abstract: 


We describe recent developments of our hybrid model of plasma, where the ions are kinetic macro-particles and electrons are charge neutralizing fluid. Our model is a three-dimensional self-consistent plasma solver and it runs in parallel using message passing interface (MPI) for communication between processors. The new model developments enable us to include non-uniform conductivity, external magnetic field (both dipolar and non-dipolar), and multi-species ionospheric plasma to our model. We have applied this model to study the solar wind plasma interaction with the Earth's moon, and compared our simulation results with observations. We show that the model results are in great agreement with observations and they have extensively improved our knowledge about the interaction with the Moon and moon-like objects. Finally we briefly explain how this model can help us to understand physics of the interaction with other objects like Mars, Mercury, Europa, Callisto, and Rhea, and we present some of our preliminary results for each of these objects. 




Friday, January 16th, 2015 

Room 6704 Geology 

3:30 - 5:00 PM 



Refreshments served after the seminar in Room 6850. 



In-Charge 
V. Angelopoulos 





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igpp.ucla.edu/pipermail/everyone/attachments/20150115/0826f276/attachment-0001.html>