Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
September 11	Jenna Samra	High-Altitude Instrumentation for Infrared Observations of the Solar Corona	Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
September 18	Adam Bahlous-Boldi	Deployable Diffractive Optical Elements for Small Satellite Lidar Missions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
September 25	Paul Bierden	Advancing Adaptive Optics with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Deformable Mirrors	Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC)
October 2	Marianna Felici	Ionospheric Plasma Outflow at Saturn	Boston University
October 9	Ajay Gill	A study of galaxy clusters and their environments from the cosmic microwave background from the ground and weak lensing from suborbital missions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
October 16	Giorgio Picanco	Plasma Bubbles in the Earth's Ionosphere: Theory and Observations	UMass Lowell (UML) / Space Science Lab
October 23	Mei-Yun Lin	Metals from the Moon? A Study of Lunar Metallic Ions in the Magnetosphere	UML / Electrical Engineering
October 30	Kim, Saeyoung	Biomanufacturing in Space	UML / Chemical Engineering
November 6	Sarah Heine	REDSoX: Mission design and development for a sounding rocket-borne soft X-ray polarimeter	MIT / Kavli
November 13	Brian Fleming	Integral-field Spectroscopy for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (With Rockets!)	University of Colorado
November 21	To be announced.
December 4	Niloufar Nowrouzi	Ionospheric O ion Outflow During Geomagnetic Storms	Boston University
December 11	Enrique Rojas Villalba	To be announced.	MIT / Haystack

For the Fall 2025 semester, seminars will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursdays via Zoom, unless otherwise noted.

Email: Lynne_Schaufenbil@uml.edu for the Zoom link.

To see seminars we've held previously, please visit our Past Seminars page.