Other Presentations

Including seminars, colloquia, guest lectures, and other kinds of informal presenations. Talks and posters at scientific meetings are here. This list, in reverse chronological order, is by no means comprehensive.

• Cranmer, S. R., ``MHD Turbulence in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind,'' April 7, 2008, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ITC (Institute for Theory and Computation) Turbulence Meeting.

• Cranmer, S. R., ``Turbulence-driven Polar Winds from T Tauri Stars Energized by Magnetospheric Accretion,'' January 28, 2008, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division Seminar. [the powerpoint file of the talk is available]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Plasma Unbound: New Insights into Heating the Solar Corona and Accelerating the Solar Wind,'' October 19, 2007, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Plasma Unbound: New Insights into Heating the Solar Corona and Accelerating the Solar Wind,'' October 18, 2007, Colloquium, University of California Berkeley, Astronomy Department.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Origin and Heating of the Solar Wind,'' June 11-13, 2007, two hour-long lectures for the 2007 NSO/UA Solar Physics Summer School in Sunspot, New Mexico. [Presentations, movies, and various handouts are available.]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Turbulence and wave dissipation in the chromosphere, corona, and solar wind,'' July 11, 2006, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Alfven Waves from Photosphere to Heliosphere: Past, Present and Future,'' July 1, 2006, Hollweg Symposium, Durham, NH.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Leaky Stars: Pulsations, Waves, and Turbulence in Stellar Winds across the H-R Diagram,'' March 9, 2006, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Colloquium. [abstract and RealPlayer video of presentation . . . see also the powerpoint file of this talk]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Exploring the Solar Wind with Ultraviolet Light,'' 18 January 2006, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, DS-3 Science Lecture Series. [Talk viewgraphs, in Adobe PDF format, are also available.]

• Cranmer, S. R., van Ballegooijen, A. A., and the UVCS/SOHO Team, ``Alfvenic Turbulence in the Fast Solar Wind: from Cradle to Grave,'' 10 May 2005, seminar presented at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley. [Talk viewgraphs, in Adobe PDF format, are also available.]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``New Analytic Solutions to Classic Problems in Solar and Stellar Physics,'' 18 October 2004, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Kohl, J. L., and Cranmer, S. R. ``Scientific Computing in the UVCS Group,'' 14 April 2004, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, presentation for visit of Dennis Shaw (Smithsonian Chief Information Officer).

• Cranmer, S. R. ``SOHO Observations of Ion Heating and MHD Turbulence in the Solar Corona,'' 19 March 2004, Bartol Research Institute, Fluids and Plasmas Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``SOHO Observations of Ion Heating and MHD Turbulence in the Solar Corona,'' 20 November 2003, General Seminar, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Exploring the Solar Wind with Ultraviolet Light,'' 19 November 2003, Special Space Science Lecture, Southern University (Dept. of Physics and Timbuktu Academy), Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• van Ballegooijen, A. A. and Cranmer, S. R. ``UVCS Observations of Ion Heating in the Solar Corona,'' review talk at NSF Physics Frontier Center Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, September 8-10, 2003. [Talk viewgraphs, in Adobe PDF format, are also available.]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``The Sun and the Solar Wind,'' 3 April 2003, Overview talk on SAO solar physics research to visiting undergraduate study group from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``The Solar Corona: A Plasma Physics Proving Ground,'' 21 October 2002, Colloquium, University of Iowa, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``The UVCS/SOHO and ASCE Missions,'' 8 October 2002, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, presentation for visit of Dr. David Evans (Smithsonian Institution Under Secretary for Science).

• Cranmer, S. R. ``A Possible Source of Angular Momentum for Keplerian Decretion Disks around Be Stars,'' 13 May 2002, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Next Generation Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Extended Solar Corona: Plasma Diagnostics and Physical Processes,'' 2 June 2001, presentation to the National Research Council CSSP Solar and Heliospheric Panel, Boston, Massachusetts. [Talk viewgraphs, in Adobe PDF format, are also available.]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``A Unified Formation Scenario for Plumes and Jets in the Solar Corona,'' 12 March 2001, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in the Solar Corona,'' 6 November 2000, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar. [Talk viewgraphs, in Adobe PDF format, are also available.]

• Cranmer, S. R. ``History and Development of the Solar Wind Idea,'' 5 April 2000, Harvard Astronomy-259 guest lecture.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Kinetic Theory in the Solar Corona: Wave Dissipation and Distorted Velocity Distributions,'' 18 November 1999, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``New Insights into Solar Plasma Physics from SOHO,'' 11 March 1999, Bartol Research Institute, invited Thursday seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``What are we Learning from UVCS/SOHO Spectroscopy about Alfven Wave Generation in the Solar Corona,'' 8 February 1999, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``SOHO and the Solar Wind,'' 15 April 1998, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Theory Group Wednesday Lunch Talk.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Acceleration and Heating of the Fast Solar Wind: From UVCS/SOHO Diagnostics to Kinetic Theory,'' 9 March 1998, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. and Kohl, J. L. ``The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer,'' 1 December 1997, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, presentation for one-day visit of Smithsonian Institution Secretary I. Michael Heyman and former Senator Howard Baker.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Winds, Disks, and Spiral Streams around Be Stars,'' 24 March 1997, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar and Stellar Physics Division Seminar.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Winds and Disks around Early-Type Stars,'' 22 April 1996, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, High-Energy Lunch Talk.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``Physics and Astronomy on the World Wide Web,'' October 1995, Bartol Research Institute, NASA Space/Physics Day multimedia presentation.

• Cranmer, S. R. ``What are Stellar Winds?'' September 1995, University of Delaware, Graduate Student Brown-Bag Informal Talk Series (BITS).

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