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     COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
AND THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, & COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES
                            (CSI 898-Sec 001)
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The Human Impacts of Space Weather -What might the current cycle bring?

                          Sten Odenwald
       Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt. Maryland 

Once again we are climbing up to the maximum of the sunspot cycle in 2013, and
the sun has predictably taken-on a stormy countenance. Each time this happens,
history shows us that our technology is vulnerable to a variety of
not-so-pleasant ills including power blackouts, satellite damage, radio
interference, and yes, prognostications about the End of the World. In this
informal talk, I would like to review what has happened before, and what we
might reasonably expect in the coming decade while our sun goes about its
usual business of being a magnetically-active star.

                          April 30, 2012
                               4:30 pm
                    Room 301, Research I, Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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