May Monthly Meeting: Living In the Golden Age of Solar Physics by Maria D. Kazachenko

Location: Zoom + In-Person at First Evangelical Lutheran Church (803 3rd Ave, Longmont, CO 80501)

Summary

Space weather is largely caused by the activity of our Sun. Invisible yet powerful magnetic fields, created within the Sun, determine when and where the next solar eruption will happen. Large solar storms can put our technological society at risk. In this talk, CU Boulder and National Solar Observatory professor, Maria Kazachenko will discuss how advances in solar telescopes allow scientists to understand the Sun in a lot more detail than ever before. 

About the Speaker

Maria Kazachenko is an assistant professor at Astrophysical & Planetary Science Department (APS) Department at University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Solar Observatory (NSO). Before that, she spent seven years at Space Sciences Lab (SSL) at UC Berkeley, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a research scientist. Since 2011, she has been part of the Coronal Global Evolutionary Model Team, a collaboration between scientists at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Lockheed Martin etc.