Colloquia are normally on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in the 4th-floor conference
room, except as indicated below in bold text.
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For questions or suggestions for speakers, please contact
the SwRI colloquium organizers:
Raluca Rufu, 303-226-0879 or raluca(at)boulder.swri.edu
Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
Sierra Ferguson, sierra.ferguson(at)swri.org
Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Lena Heffern, lena.heffern(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu
To be added to the SwRI Boulder Colloquia email list, please contact Kelsi Singer, ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
| Tue Sep 26, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Natalie Wolfenbarger | Stanford University | Brine, salt, and everything ice: Ingredients for interpreting future radar observations of Europa | |
| Thu Sep 28, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Erica Jawin | Smithsonian Air and Space Museum | The evolution of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Global geology and predictions for the OSIRIS-REx sample | |
| Abstract: | Near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu is the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return mission and has a complex history, including the ancient origins of its “parent body” which was catastrophically disrupted. Bennu, a rubble pile asteroid formed from fragments of this destroyed parent body, shows diverse geology including an ancient equatorial bulge, diverse boulders, variable craters, and a virtually strengthless surface. In this talk I will describe Bennu’s global geology as investigated by the OSIRIS-REx mission, discuss a recent investigation into Bennu’s boulder diversity by integrating albedo, morphology, and surface roughness, and present several predictions for the returned sample, which is scheduled to arrive on Sunday, September 24. | ||||
| Tue Oct 17, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Kathrine Bermingham | Rutgers University | TBD | |
| Tue Oct 31, 2023
In CR4 + virtual | 11:00 am | Vishaal Singh | Columbia University/ Lamont Doherty | TBD | |
| Tue Dec 5, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Edwin Bergin | University of Michigan | TBD | |