Lectures, talks and posters

Here you will find lectures, talks and posters I have given. Note that some of these talks may contain movies that may not work in the supplied format.

2024

• The Temperature and Density of a Solar Flare Kernel Measured from Extreme-ultraviolet Lines of O IV [pptx, pdf]
  Contributed talk at Hinode-17/IRIS-15/SPHERE-3 meeting, Bozeman, MT, Jul 2024
• Updated Reference Wavelengths for Si VII and Mg VII Lines in the 272-281 Å Range [pptx, pdf]
  Contributed talk at AAS/LAD meeting, Madison, WI, Jun 2024
• CHIANTI and Solar-C [key, pdf]
  Solar-C Science meeting, Nagoya, Japan, Mar 2024
• Connecting Solar Wind Structures to their Source Regions in the Solar Atmosphere [key, pdf]
  GSFC Science Director's Seminar, Feb 2024
• Transition Region Spectroscopy with the Hinode/EIS Instrument [pptx, pdf]
  Seminar presented at Cambridge University and Northumbria University, Jan-Feb 2024

2023

• Scattered Light in the Hinode/EIS and SDO/AIA Instruments Measured from the 2012 Venus Transit [pdf]
  Contributed talk at AAS Solar Physics Division meeting, Minneapolis, Aug 2023
• Applications of Atomic Data to Studies of the Sun [pptx, pdf]
  Invited talk at ASOS-14 International Colloquium, Paris, France, Jul 2023

2022

• An Analysis of Spikes in Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) Data [key, pptx, pdf]
  Contributed talk at TESS, Seattle, WA, Aug 2022
• More than meets the eye: using ultraviolet spectra to study the Sun's corona [key, pdf, ppt]
  Talk to GSFC Interns, Jun 2022
• Scattered light in coronal holes and the impact on remote-sensing FIP-bias measurements [key, pdf]
  Invited online talk to the Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Origins and Connection Science Working Group, Apr 2022
• CHIANTI: An Atomic Database and Software Package for Astrophysical UV Spectroscopy [pdf]
  Poster for the Ultraviolet Science at Goddard Symposium, Greenbelt, MD, Apr 2022

2021

• Connecting Parker Solar Probe to the corona using Hinode/EIS data and WSA [key, m4v]
  Contributed talk at the Hinode-14/IRIS-11 Workshop (online meeting), Oct 2021
• Talk and poster at the Heliophysics 2050 Workshop (online meeting)
  
• Coronal Spectroscopy and Modeling [key, m4v]
  Invited talk at "Advances in Observations and Modelling of Solar Magnetism and Variability", 50th anniversary meeting for Indian Institute for Astrophysics (virtual meeting), Mar 2021
  

2019

• Connecting the corona to the solar wind [key, pptx, pdf]
  Seminar at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, Nov 2019
  
• Seminars and tutorials given at Catania University, Italy, June 2019
  
• Talks at 2019 American Astronomical Society meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2019
  
• Future prospects for solar EUV and soft X-ray solar spectroscopy missions [key,pdf]
  Invited talk at 18th RHESSI Workshop, Minneapolis, May 2019
  
• Seeing the sources of the solar wind with EIS: abundance and velocity measurements [key, pdf]
  Talk at SunDC meeting, NASA-GSFC, May 2019
  
• The Sun: Our Own Backyard Plasma Laboratory [pptx, pdf]
  Invited talk at IAU Symposium 350 "Laboratory Astrophysics: from observations to interpretation", Cambridge, UK, Apr 2019
• Future prospects for solar EUV and soft X-ray solar spectroscopy missions [key, pdf]
  Seminar at Northumbria University, UK, Apr 2019
  

2018

• Invited talk at AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC, Dec 2018
  

2017

• Reconnection in the low atmosphere: UV bursts [key, pptx, pdf]
  Contributed talk at SunDC meeting, NASA-Goddard, Jul 2017
  
• UV bursts in active regions - new insights into magnetic reconnection
  Contributed talk at Joint Hinode-11/IRIS-8 Science Meeting, Seattle, May 2017
  
• EUV spectroscopy: connecting the corona to the heliosphere
  Invited talk at 7th Solar Orbiter Workshop, Granada, Spain, Apr 2017
  
• Burst categorization [pdf]
  Presented at ISSI International Team meeting "Solar UV Bursts - a new insight to magnetic reconnection", ISSI, Bern, Switzerland, Mar 2017
  
• What are the new results from IRIS, and can models explain them? [key, pdf]
  Presented at ISSI International Team meeting "Diagnosing heating mechanisms in solar flares through spectroscopic observations of flare ribbons", ISSI, Bern, Switzerland, Jan 2017
  

2016

• The CHIANTI database [pdf]
  Presented at the High Energy Astrophysical Model Comparison Workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Aug 2016
  
• The CHIANTI atomic database: applications for astrophysics [pptx, pdf]
  Seminar to Stellar and Extragalactic Astronomy group, NASA-GSFC, May 2016
  
• What IRIS is telling us about chromospheric evaporation [key, pdf]
  Talk at SunDC meeting, NASA-GSFC, May 2016
  

2015

• The CHIANTI atomic database: an overview of data, software and applications [pptx,pdf]
  Invited talk, IAEA Technical Meeting on Technical Aspects of Atomic and Molecular Data Processing and Exchange, IAEA, Vienna, Nov 2015
  
• The CHIANTI database - enabling Heliophysics science for 20 years [key, pdf]
  Heliophysics Director's Seminar, NASA-GSFC, Oct 2015
  
• Time evolution of the chromospheric heating and evaporation process [pptx,pdf]
  Contributed talk at RHESSI 14 Workshop, Newark, NJ, Aug 2015
• Coronal loop diagnostics - developments and limitations [pptx,pdf]
  Invited talk at Loops VII Workshop, Cambridge, UK, Jul 2015
  

2014

• Invited talk at AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2014
  
• Talks at AAS meeting, Boston, MA, Jun 2014
  
• Coronal jets: advances in observations and theory [pptx, pdf]
  Seminar given at LMSAL, Palo Alto, CA, Mar 2014
  

2013

• An overview of the spectroscopic determination of abundances in the solar atmosphere [pdf]
  Invited talk at the SHINE 2013 Workshop session "Abundances in the solar atmosphere and in the solar wind", Buford, Georgia, Jun 2013
  
• The CHIANTI atomic database for spectroscopic diagnostics of astrophysical plasmas [pdf]
  Seminar given at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Feb 2013
  

2012

• The CHIANTI atomic database: new improvements for solar physics applications [pdf]
  Poster presented at ICAMDATA 2012, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Oct 2012.
  
• Doing science with IRIS - experience learned from Hinode/EIS [pdf]
  Poster presented at the SDO/IRIS/Hinode workshop, Monterey, CA, Mar 2012
  

2011

• Plasma flows in active region fan loops [pdf]
  Poster presented at the 5th Hinode Science Meeting, Boston, MA, Oct. 2011
  
• Flares observed by Hinode & SDO during Feb 2011 [pdf]
  Poster presented at the AAS/SPD division meeting, Las Cruces, NM, Jun. 2011
  

2009

• EIS capability and opportunities for collaboration [pdf]
  Talk presented at the Hinode/XRT team meeting, Boston, MA, Jun. 2009
• Improved atomic models for EUV imaging instruments [pdf]
  Poster presented at the AAS/SPD division meeting, Boulder, CO, Jun. 2009
• Line identifications with EIS and CHIANTI [pdf]
  Talk presented at the Hinode/EIS team meeting, Boston, MA, Mar. 2009

2008

• Active region diagnostics with EIS [pdf]
  Talk presented to the active region loops working group at 'Solar Activity during the Onset of Solar Cycle 24', Napa, CA, Dec. 2008
• Density measurements at the base of the solar wind [pdf]
  Talk presented at the 2nd Hinode Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Sep. 2008

2007

• Atomic data: its role in interpreting data [pdf]
  Lecture presented at the STFC Introductory Course on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Armagh, UK, Sep. 2007

2006

• Science with the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer for Solar Orbiter [pdf]
  Talk at the 2nd Solar Orbiter Workshop, Athens, Greece, Oct. 2006
  

2005

• Atomic Data Needs for Astrophysics [pdf]
  Invited talk at Iron Project Meeting, Queen's University Belfast, Jun. 2005

2004

• Radiation Processes in the Solar Corona [pdf]
  Lecture presented at the EU Summer School 'Analysis Techniques in Turbulent Plasmas', Copanello, Calabria, Italy, Sep. 2004
• AG Draconis - A High Density Plasma Laboratory [pdf]
  Presentation summarising results for the symbiotic star AG Draconis

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