Program Schedule

 

* Indicates Invited Speaker

 

Day 1: Monday, June 5

Session 1A: Lunar Dust and Plasma Environment: Plasma

9:00 - 9:20 Conference Organizers Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:20 - 10:00 Andrew Poppe * The Moon’s Plasma Environment in 2023: Compelling Science with Much More to Come! slides
10:00 - 10:25 Rhyan Sawyer Hall Physics Above the Lunar Surface and Implications for Magnetic Reconnection slides
10:25 - 10:45 - break -
10:45 - 11:10 Paul Szabo What Can We Learn From Solar Wind Backscattering Off Planetary Surfaces? slides
11:10 - 11:35 Lucas Liuzzo Unrestricted Solar Energetic Particle Access to the Moon While Within the Terrestrial Magnetotail slides
11:35 - 12:00 Heidi Haviland
[Charles Swenson]
SelenITA Science Rationale: A Dual Lunar CubeSat Mission to Characterize the Near-Surface Electromagnetic Plasma Environment slides

 

Session 1B: Lunar Dust and Plasma Environment: Dust

1:30 - 2:10 Paul Hayne * Dust and Volatile Environment of the Moon slides
2:10 - 2:35 Xu Wang Electrostatic Dust Transport and its Instrumentation on the Lunar Surface slides
2:35 - 2:55 - break -
2:55 - 3:35 Angel Abbud-Madrid * In-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon slides
3:35 - 4:00 Cesare Grava Effects of Realistic Surface Temperature Variations and Orography on the Structure of the Lunar Exosphere slides
4:00 - 4:25 JR Dennison Electron Yield Measurements of Bulk Lunar Simulants slides
4:25 - 4:50 Trinesh Sana Non-Monotonic Potential Structures Within Lunar Photoelectron Sheath slides
 
5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session

 

 

Day 2: Tuesday, June 6

Session 2A: Dust Hazards and Mitigation for Lunar Exploration

9:00 - 9:20 Conference Organizers Opening Remarks and LSIC Update slides
9:20 - 10:00 Kristen John* Dust Characterization Needs for Dust Mitigation slides
10:00 - 10:25 Cecily Sunday DSMC Simulations of Dust Entrainment in Lunar Lander Plumes slides
10:25 - 10:45 - break -
10:45 - 11:10 Benjamin Farr Electron-Beam Lunar Dust Mitigation (ELDM) Technology slides
11:10 - 11:35 Ron Creel Dust, Dust, Everywhere: What Are We Going To Do? slides

 

11:35 - 1:30 Lunch and Visit to IMPACT Dust Accelerator (3400 Marine St., Boulder)

 

Session 2B: Cosmic, Asteroid, and Cometary Dust

1:30 - 2:10 Pierre Henri * Cometary Dust and Plasma slides
2:10 - 2:35 Sean Hsu Fine-grained Regolith Loss on Sub-km Asteroids slides
2:35 - 3:00 Roy Christoffersen Hypervelocity Dust Impact in Olivine: FIB/TEM Characterization and Comparison of Experimental and Natural Microcraters slides
3:00 - 3:20 - break -
3:20 - 4:00 Dani DellaGiustina * Osiris-Rex and Asteroid Dust slides
4:00 - 4:25 Alex Doner
[Mihaly Horanyi]
Low Velocity Dust Impacts on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Films slides
4:25 - 4:50 Elena Opp Laboratory Investigation of Spectral Variation due to Electrostatic Dust Transport and Regolith Size-Sorting on Airless Bodies slides
4:50 - 5:20 Conference organizers Discussion of Icarus Special Issue